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Utilizing mobile applications in the area of industrial field service promises several benefits, especially improved process support due to a tight integration of mobile workers and tailored information support. In this paper, we describe four mobile service business patterns derived from two industrial case studies. The first case study deals with the seamless integration of service engineers, while...
Online reviews, as one kind of new marketing methods, are becoming increasingly important in influencing preferences and decision-making of consumers. In view of this, this paper conducts an empirical study on Dangdang Books, constructs a research framework on correlation between product sales and aspects of online reviews, and explores the correction through the panel data econometric model. Compared...
We present a protocol designed to solve several consecutive consensus instances in an asynchronous distributed system prone to crash failures and message omissions. The protocol follows the Paxos approach and integrates two different optimizations to reduce the latency of learning a decision value. This protocol is adaptive as it tries to obtain the best performance gain depending on the current context...
A writing genre can be thought of as the style in which the writer chooses to present textual content to the reader. We distinguish four main types of essay genres namely Narrative, Persuasive, Descriptive and Expository. An essay's writing genre can be identified by searching for salient features present within those genres using various Natural Language Processing tools such as Named Entity Recognition,...
The tremendous growth in the amount of available web services (WS) impulses many researchers on proposing recommender systems to help users discover services. Most of the proposed solutions analyzed query strings and web service descriptions to generate recommendations. However, text based recommendations approaches depend mainly on user's perspective, languages and notations which easily decrease...
Context aware computing attains environments monitoring by means of sensors in order to provide relevant information or services according to the identified context. Nowadays, ad hoc wireless sensor networks for medical purposes are playing an increasing role within healthcare. Specifically, Body Sensor Networks (BSN) and Wireless Sensor Network, are being designed for prophylactic and follow-up monitoring...
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