The art organisation today utilise marketing concepts and practices. Much of what is actually practiced is at best an inefficient form of marketing, and at worst an inappropriate way of securing visitor numbers, making profit from merchandising and encouraging repeat visits. The art organisation exhibits similar characteristics to the small and medium sized enterprise (SME). Contemporary resear...

In this work, we present polar code designs that offer a provably optimal solution for biometric identification and authentication systems under noisy enrollment certain sources observation channels. We consider discrete memoryless source symmetric It is shown the proposed achieve fundamental limits with privacy secrecy constraints. Depending on how secret keys are extracted whether leakage rat...

In today’s competitive business environment, more and more organizations move or extent their business online. Thus, there is an increasing need for organizations to build concrete online marketing strategies in order to engage with their customers. One basic step towards achieving the objectives related to online marketing is the segmentation of online customers, based on the customer data gat...

In an influence diagram (ID), value-of-information (VOI) is defined as the difference between the maximum expected utilities with and without knowing the outcome of an uncertainty variable prior to making a decision. It is widely used as a sensitivity analysis technique to rate the usefulness of various information sources, and to decide whether pieces of evidence are worth acquisition before a...

We study strategic capacity planning in the semiconductor industry. Working with a major US semiconductor manufacturer on the strategic configuration of their worldwide production capacities, we identify two unique characteristics of this problem as follows: (1) wafer demands and manufacturing capacity are both main sources of uncertainty, and (2) capacity planning must consider two distinct vi...

According to recent models of word production, when we name a picture, we first retrieve the meaning of the object, and then we independently retrieve the written or sound form of the word corresponding to the picture. In languages like French, in which words have a gender, theoretical models disagree with respect to the moment at which this information is retrieved. The lemma model (Levelt et ...

Current mobile business models for mobile commerce do not seem promising with regard to substantial revenue streams for mobile network operators as well as mobile service providers. Today’s settings require customers to “invest” into data transmission before being able to enter a mobile service, i.e. they are forced to pay for all data transmitted regardless whether this data is valuable conten...

The massive development of biodiversity related information systems over the WWW (World Wide Web) has created much excitement in recent years. These arrays of new data sources are counterbalanced by the difficulty in knowing their location and nature. However, biologists and computer scientists have started to pull together in a rising tide of coherence and organization to address this issue. T...