This chapter examines how product price, product complexity and product durability influence consumers’ comparison.shopping.process...Frequently.comparison.shopping.is.equated.only.to.price.comparisons.. However, comparison shopping is becoming far broader than finding the cheapest price over the Internet. Nowadays.a.vast.variety.of.products.are.sold.over.the.Internet...Some.are.relatively.simp...

The advent of the cloud era has yielded new ways of storing, accessing and managing data. Cloud storage services enable the storage of data in an inexpensive, secure, fast, reliable and highly scalable manner over the internet. Although giant providers such as Amazon and Google have made a great success of their services, many enterprises and scientists are still unable to make the transition i...

The paper presents a case study where the energy demand for a listed building constructed in 1900 is reduced. Many older buildings are listed and have restrictions that include the entire building or that include only its exterior. For the building presented, only its exterior facade is listed. The paper demonstrates measures for the improvement of the thermal insulation of the building with so...

"Reality has always been interpreted through the reports given by images" (Sontag 153). The computer has fast eclipsed manual drawing as the prime source of architectural representation in architectural schools. Studios are relinquishing drawing boards, and students spend long hours in dark computer laboratories, alienated from light and the awareness of passing time. While digital media have o...

An active pedestrian protection system is required to operate in realtime and produce an extremely low false alarm. To achieve these requirements, Broggi et al. detected critical areas using a laser scanner and found pedestrians only in these areas via a camera. However, using heterogeneous sensors requires complicated system architecture and laser scanners have drawbacks in terms of installabi...

gilan architecture, good examples of the coordination and integration with nature, the result of various factors, climatic, social, economic, cultural and ... has the greatest impact on the climate and nature is. it seems the area of architectural materials used to form the overall environment is affected. this architecture should be to identify the impact of climatic factors, construction of b...

the subject of geometry and proportions has been regarded as an issue which has a close relationship with architecture. since the entire universe, living beings and the human geometry can be seen clearly, that’s why our unconscious essence has accustomed to these proportions whereby reflection of this mentality can be seen in the architect’s hands and thought in the architecture. it can witness...

The goal of life-extending control is to achieve high performance of complex dynamical systems (e.g., aircraft, spacecraft, and energy-conversion systems) without overstraining the mechanical structures and the potential bene"t is an increase in the service life of critical components with no signi"cant loss of performance. This paper presents a two-tier architecture and a design methodology of...

Modern processor architectures are inexorably embracing both increasing levels of parallelism and heterogeneous processing elements. Both trends reflect the need to deliver both greater performance and better energy efficiency. However, both trends also present numerous challenges to programmers for which they are often unprepared. These architectural trends appear durable rather than ephemeral...

the critique of architecture has always followed architects and those involved in this field and is in fact quite indispensable from it. therefore before going around asking why it is so, it seems appropriate to ask ourselves the how. conceding to the fact that the ultimate goal in the critique of architecture is to discover a specific style with which to think about architecture, the main ques...