During the past decade, researchers from humanities, design, science and engineering, have been collectively working towards the realization of the Ambient Intelligence vision. This thematic issue records the evolution of the field and fosters scientific debate on research issues and reflection on the progress of Ambient Intelligence and its future.

Pakistan is an agrarian economy with a booming Islamic financial system, but the low share of Salam financing does not do justice to agricultural needs. This forces poor farmers resort usurious and non-institutional leading poverty trap. Literature has explored different dimensions lack facilities. The primary objective this study categorize pertaining under fulfilled needs derive restructuring...

Cloud Computing is being adopted by many companies because of its capacity to use computing and storage resources on a metered basis thereby reducing the investments in infrastructure. With all its benefits, cloud computing also brings along concerns about the security, privacy and jurisdiction because of its size, structure, and geographical dispersion. This paper tries to explore these concer...

According to the ‘mating intelligence’ theory by evolutionary psychologist Geoffrey Miller, human morality is a system of sexually selected traits which serve as costly signals to the other sex about one’s fitness and readiness to take care for possible offspring. Starting from the standard prediction of evolutionary psychology that sexual selection produces psychological sex differences in hum...

This paper presents the review work of Cloud Computing techniques in small and medium business organizations. The detail work of Trends and issues, Cloud computing: Challenges and future directions, Cloud Computing: Today and Tomorrow, Where are we at with Cloud Computing? A Descriptive Literature Review. Where are we at with Cloud Computing?, The Utility of Cloud Computing as a New Pricing – A...

This paper investigates the systemic nature of methodological individualism. According to widespread belief, the notion of autonomy of the actor that is defended by methodological individualism is mistaken because it is incompatible with the study of society in terms of its organized structure. We argue that this viewpoint must be rejected. In our opinion, it stems from confusion between ontolo...

This paper describes the design criteria and annotation guidelines of the Sinica Treebank. The three design criteria are: Maximal Resource Sharing, Minimal Structural Complexity, and Optimal Semantic Information. One of the important design decisions guided by these criteria is the encoding of thematic role information. We discuss the representational and methodological issues based on our desi...

the main purpose of this study is to identify the share of public sector accounting in accounting papers as well as its research areas. in addition, this study seeks to present more clear directions about the research opportunities of public sector accounting based on iran’s situation. in this study, research based journals are reviewed from 1992 to 2014. they are analyzed and categorized based...

This essay is concerned about how to evaluate positive theories on Latin American development. Its content is nested in a broader discussion on theoretical decay and theoretical progress by using Imre Lakatos’ approach of sophisticated falsificationism. The main argument states that theory driven research on Latin American development provides further evidence to the assumption that methodologi...