Diffusion models have been used traditionally in marketing for capturing the lifecycle dynamics of a new product, for forecasting the demand for a new product, and as a decision aid in making pre-launch, launch and post-launch strategic choices. Since their entrance into marketing, diffusion models have become increasingly complex. This complexity has been driven by the need to enhance the fore...

Definitive testing of concurrency scenarios Execution sequence of multithreaded programs inherently nondeterministic Program behavior in different executions need not be the same Context switches, event ordering and synchronization are main reasons Mismatch between programming model and debugging model Capability to record, analyze and playback particular execution sequences Software pattern ne...

relational marketing (rm) is one of the recent concepts in marketing field and aims to increase relationship between industry and consumers to introducing their needs and create maximum value for consumers and firms by offering products and concepts according to their needs. as hospitality industry is one of the most competitive industries and its success is hardly depends on competitive advant...

in spite rapid and increasing growth of international tourism industry and its importance in economy countries in the world (globe), unfortunately iran could not yet benefited from the economic advantages of this section and could not yet obtained a considerable share from its foreign currency. regarding the important role of the tourism in the world trade, and earning of about 10 percent (10%)...

This paper presents an agent-based mediator-centric architecture for holonic manufacturing systems, which integrates an enterprise's activities such as design, planning, scheduling, simulation, execution and marketing services with its partners' activities into a distributed intelligent open environment.

Decision analysis (DA) and the rich set of tools devel­ oped by researchers in decision making under uncertainty show great potential to penetrate the technological content of the products and services delivered by firms in a variety of industries as well as the business processes used to deliver those products and services to market. In this paper I describe work in progress at Sun Microsystem...