Showing papers in "Procedia Computer Science in 2011"

TL;DR: Online interpersonal influence or electronic word of mouth (eWOM) is described because it plays a significant role in consumer purchase decisions.

TL;DR: This paper presents an innovative approach to measure the lean performance of manufacturing systems by using fuzzy membership functions that enables a systematic measurement of lean performance by producing a final integrated unit-less score.

TL;DR: Customer lifetime value (CLV) is used to customer segmentation of a health and beauty company and is calculated based on weighted RFM method for each segment, which can be used to explain marketing and sales strategies by the company.

TL;DR: The findings of this study in employee’s population accept the main and secondary hypotheses and show that enablers were significantly related to knowledge management processes.

TL;DR: A data envelopment analysis (DEA) model for jointly evaluating the relative teaching and research efficiencies of universities was presented and its use and implications in university performance measurement were described.

TL;DR: The fundamental problem is that what strategies should be adopted so that education systems in developing countries do not only follow developed countries but grow and progress base on their own needs in the path of progress.

TL;DR: This paper proposes a new and simple method for performing analog arithmetic operations which in this scheme, signals are represented and stored through a memristance of the newly found circuit element, i.e. memristor, instead of voltage or current.

TL;DR: In this study, the traffic data in Iran is analyzed by Data Mining techniques such as Logistic Regression, Classification and Regression Trees and the impact of such factors were investigated.

TL;DR: The evidence generated in the present study suggests that e-commerce operators should pay more attention on the product sourcing, and cooperate with the delivery supplier to provide a higher delivery quality such as correct order, on time, and safety package.

TL;DR: This study provides a framework for estimating customer future value based on adapted weighted RFM analysis which is a CLV calculating model, for each segment of customer in retail banking scope.

TL;DR: The automatic vehicle license plate recognition system based on artificial neural networks is presented and digitized characters were classified by using feed forward back propagated multi layered perceptron neural networks.

TL;DR: This paper shows that rich mobile applications can be achieved through the convergence of mobile and cloud computing, and proposes μCloud framework which models a rich mobile application as a graph of components distributed onto mobile devices and the cloud.

TL;DR: Although they have their own disadvantages, psychophysiological measures provide a promising way of user understanding to areas that seek “a sixth sense” for user psychological changes like HCI by focusing on studies related to human cognitive states.

TL;DR: A survey of research on teamwork productivity and effectiveness base on rewards, leadership, training, goals, wage, size, motivation, measurement and information technology is provided.

TL;DR: This work shows how usage monitoring can be performed in a distributed fashion for an expressive set of policies in the specific scenario where promised usage is specified as metric temporal logic policies, and these policies can be verified against the database usage logs.

TL;DR: The chief executives in risk management in organizations will be introduced and appropriate methods of selection for advantageous security controls will be described, and the keys to a successful risk management program in the IT system will be noted.

TL;DR: Factors affecting the success of IT projects such as the need to redesign jobs, more attention to personality characteristics of individuals in the process of recruitment, role of education in development of Information Technology projects and... have been considered.

TL;DR: The scheme using a distributed multi-agent building evacuation simulator (DBES) in the context of evacuation scenarios of a multi-storey offce building in the presence of a fire that is spreading is evaluated.

TL;DR: The result of the study showed that there was a statistically significant difference at the level of P in the quality of students’ reading comprehension in an Iranian academic setting.

TL;DR: A classification of barriers to e-learning is outlined, which needs more cooperation of related factors like curriculum developers, teachers, parent’s students, social authorities, technological specialist and also preparing virtual and actual interaction among children and teachers and society.

TL;DR: This review article outlines the basic concepts of knowledge management in higher education (HE) institutes, and gives a summing up of previous scientific works to ensure providing an effective and efficient understanding of it for an ever-changing environment.

TL;DR: An approach based on data mining techniques is discussed in this paper to extract important entities from police narrative reports which are written in plain text and the clustering results will be used in order to perform crime matching process.

TL;DR: This paper presents a method for Offline Verification of signatures using a set of simple shape based geometric features that are Area, Center of gravity, Eccentricity, Kurtosis and Skewness, and results are discussed in the thesis.

TL;DR: The role of value engineering in the process of project implementation is examined and the expression of different techniques used in value engineering with different phases of expression during the life of IT projects is proposed.

TL;DR: The aim of this study is to do a research on the effects of e-learning and sub-categories such as internet; Web-based English learning and computer-assisted language learning(CALL) on language learning.

TL;DR: The results indicated that there is a meaningful relationship (about 99%) between different kinds of organizational culture and six dimensions of knowledge management.

TL;DR: A three-stage stock market prediction system is introduced and the results of the network simulation show that the suggested model outperforms traditional models for forecasting stock market prices.

TL;DR: An improved approach for Intrusion Detection System (IDS) based on combining data mining and expert system is presented and implemented in WEKA, and a taxonomy of the detection principle as well as certain WEKA aspects of the intrusion detection system such as open-source data mining is presented.

TL;DR: An energy management system based on wireless sensor networks and an intelligent home gateway that enables users to save energy by monitoring and controlling home appliances through web and mobile devices is proposed.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated factors related to instructors' satisfaction in e-learning systems and developed a basic model called "E-Learning Success Model for Instructors' Satisfaction" which is related to social, intellectual and technical interactions of instructors in whole elearning system.