ReGTime (Rent Gigaaops someTimes) is a software package for an envisioned \com-puting power market". It helps customers to search for providers who lease workstation clusters, it manages the leasing of disposable machines on provider's side and is responsible for granting access to rented systems and for compliance with established contracts. This paper concentrates on the experiences we have m...

Supply chain management refers to all the management functions related to the flow of materials from the company’s direct suppliers to its direct customers. In this paper, we will propose a generic supply chain management system, and describe how the system works in terms of information exchange, workflow coordination and flexible logistic route. We will introduce two data models, which are cal...

The rapid development of technology in today's world has had a major impact on store performance all areas business, both trading and service companies. In maintaining more advanced competitiveness, stores must continue to develop technology, another thing that needs be considered making the company is relationship with customers which also an important always maintain. To manage good relations...

recognizing the importance of the advertising in brand reinforcement and brand credibility, the authors conduct the present research for understanding the customers’ emotional responses toward the brand reinforcement and credibility and its effect on the perceived values and behavioral intentions. hypotheses were tested on data collected from 467 customers of mellat bank in semnan province in i...

Adjusting to the U.S. Quickly and Comfortably I. Explore Get familiar with your environment. Explore the campus and Ann Arbor on foot or by bus. ● U-M busses (blue busses) are free. Public busses (AATA) are free with your M-Card. ❍ U-M bus routes and schedules [1] ■ AATA bus routes and schedules [2] ■ You can sign up for a guided campus tour [3] or use the Campus Tour Map [4] to take a self-gui...

Objective Most of the experts in marketing consider the market (store) environment as an effective factor to attract customers which is used as a strategy to create a pleasant purchasing experience for the customers and influence the consumers’ behavior. Nowadays, hypermarkets pay more attention to the custormers’ comfort while purchasing and try to use a variety of strategies, nice background ...

This paper proposes a method to assess the cognitive state of a human embodied as an avatar inside a 3-dimensional virtual shop. In order to do so we analyze the trajectories of the avatar movements to classify them against the set of predefined prototypes. To perform the classification we use the trajectory comparison algorithm based on the combination of the Levenshtein Distance and the Eucli...

Soaring is a recreational activity and competitive sport where individuals fly un-powered aircrafts known as gliders. Soaring place selection process depends on a number of factors, resulting in a complex decision-making task. In this paper, we propose the use of the dmFSQL language for fuzzy queries as one of the techniques of Data Mining, which can be used to solve the problem of offering the...

a r t i c l e i n f o This study investigated the influence of the completeness of CRM relational information processes on customer-based relational performance and profit performance. In addition, interaction orientation and CRM readiness were adopted as moderators on the relationship between CRM relational information processes and customer-based performance. Both qualitative and quantitative...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Sleep disturbances are prevalent but often overlooked or underestimated. We suspected that sleep disorders might be particularly common among pharmacy customers, and that they could benefit from counselling. Therefore, we described the prevalence and severity of symptoms associated with sleep and wakefulness disorders among Swiss pharmacy customers, and estimated the ne...