Partially Distributed Teams (PDTs) are increasingly utilized as a means for inter-organizational collaboration. In a PDT, members within a subteam are collocated and communicate face-to-face and electronically, but communication between two or more geographically separated subteams occurs primarily through electronic media. A PDT has characteristics and issues unique to its hybrid structure, su...

This study develops a hybrid ensemble-variational approach for solving data assimilation problems. The method, called TR-4D-EnKF, is based on a trust region framework and consists of three computational steps. First an ensemble of model runs is propagated forward in time and snapshots of the state are stored. Next, a sequence of basis vectors is built and a lowdimensional representation of the ...

the purpose of this research is to identify factors and components that affect a trust-based cooperation in the automobile supply chain and their impact on the performance of the supply chain companies. this paper includes 2 parts. in the first part, by studying the research history and literature and interviewing academic and industrial scholars and experts, four hidden variables of trust-base...

in the present study, a number of iranian it professionals and electronic commerce managers are surveyed in order to investigate their viewpoints about the level of importance for determinant factors affecting the generation of trust among the internet consumers. to accomplish this, a model, which is adopted from the existing models in the e-trust literature, is offered to represent the crucial...

Cloud computing is a recent and significant development in the domain of network applications with a new information technology perspective. This study attempts to develop a hybrid model to predict motivators influencing the adoption of cloud computing services by information technology (IT) professionals. The research proposes a new model by extending the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) with...

a parallel hybrid system of hmm and gmm modeling techniques was implemented and used in a telephony speaker verification and identification system. spectral subtraction and weighted projection measure were used to render this system more robust against additional noise. cepstral mean subtraction method was also applied for the compensation of convolution noise due to transmission channel degrad...

One of the crucial factors affecting success of e-banking services is customer’s trust. Acquiring customer trust depends on different variables that an e-banking struggles to control. This research aims to explain and clarify the inter-relationships and the interaction effects among customer’s online trust and other relevant factors such as satisfaction and loyalty in e-banking. We developed a ...

Community mesh networks have emerged rapidly in every metropolis around the world, however many of the security methods applied are counter-intuitive and usually disrupt the autonomous characteristics of the mesh nodes. In SOMA we present a structured Peer-to-Peer solution providing authentication service based on a scalable, self-organized and fully distributed Web-of-Trust. Our proposal is a ...

Wireless mesh networks are multi hop wireless networks with high performance requirements. To enhance the performance, a large number of routing protocols have been proposed focussing on various link properties.The metrics designed to capture various link properties make an important assumption that nodes cooperate in network operations. On the other hand, the nodes are spread over larger area ...