The United States retail payments industry is in the middle of a transition in regards to information security. A substantial number of data breaches have occurred over the last five years, despite substantial compliance with the industry standard, the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard. There will need to be a move to a higher level of security, and the major challenge is institution...

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Retail organizations works on thin margins and hence it is very imperative that they utilize information technology to achieve optimization on time and space in the entire retail supply chain in order to remain competitive. Web services is an emerging technology holding tremendous promise as a platform neutral, easy to implement mechanism to achieve information and business process integration ...

Over the past three decades vertical price transmission analysis has been the subject of considerable attention in applied agricultural conomics. It has been argued that the existence of asymmetric price transmission generates rents for marketing and processing agents. Retail prices allegedly move faster upwards than downwards in response to farm level pricemovements. This is an important issue...

Electronic commerce has enjoyed great success in the retail brokerage industry. Attracted by commission savings, consumers' use of on-line brokerage firms has grown. However, brokerage customers may have difficulty comparing total trading costs, which consist of both the commission the broker charges and the cost of executing a trade. This paper reports on an experiment to examine whether order...

This paper illustrates a framework for Information Technology (IT) service development that translates the Voice of the Customer (VOC) into Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) design requirements for the retail industry. Contributions of the work include the ability to evaluate SOA based applications in terms of the business value of the services they provide as well as the development of a fra...

Companies are moving from developing a single model for a problem (e.g., a regression model to predict general sales) to developing several models for sub-problems of the original problem (e.g., regression models to predict sales of each of its product categories). Given the similarity between the sub-problems, the process of model development should not be independent. Information should be sh...

Information technology is useful to automate business process involving considerable data transaction in the daily basis. Currently, companies have to tackle large data transaction which is difficult to be handled manually. It is very difficult for a person to manually extract useful information from a large data set despite of the fact that the information may be useful in decision-making proc...

Finally, the retailer can send the order to the supplier at the press of a button, with the order first being automatically converted and then transmitted to the supplier. All messages are sent in accordance with the UN/EDIFACT standard. The messages received by the distribution centre from all retailers are automatically checked for availability (ability to deliver) and, if the result is posit...

In this thesis, I aim to build an accurate fine-grained retail product recognition system for improving customer in-store shopping experience. To achieve high accuracy, I developed a two-phase visual recognition scheme to identify the viewed retail product by verifying different types of visual features. The proposed scheme is robust enough to distinguish visually similar products in the tests....