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Service Composition is playing a pivotal role in diverse industries to approach more cost effective solutions in an efficient manner. Web service selection is playing a key role in the domain of the composition and it considers as the most important last informant of successful Automatic service composition. Since it is growing the web services in tremendous speed due to the innovation of cloud computing...
This article discusses the influence of customer relationship proneness in hairdresser's context. Data are collected using online survey. A conceptual model about customer relationship proneness, relational benefits, customer commitment and customer loyalty is proposed to explain the influence. Structural equation modelling is used to analyze the data. Empirical results show that customer relationship...
In this paper, we consider the effect of different order relations on the solutions of Multi-Objective Constraint Optimization Problems (MOCOP) with tradeoffs, where the tradeoffs are given in the form of elicited or observed preferences over alternatives. In MOCOP, alternatives are evaluated on a number of objectives (utility scales) and thus correspond to utility vectors, the set of optimal solutions...
Professional skills are critical for success in the multidisciplinary, intercultural, and cross-functional team interactions that characterize 21st century engineering careers. Despite consensus around the need for developing professional skills, engineering programs have been struggling to define, teach, and measure those skills. This paper describes the investigation of the functioning of a group-based...
This paper describes a mixed-initiative model of knowledge discovery capable of monitoring a dynamic environment, in which uncertain and unreliable messages can be reasoned over for recognizing human activities and predicting likely threats. The model represents “an argument assistant” helping an analyst in argument production by considering pro and contra arguments from uncertain transient information...
Recording the electrical activity of the heart over a period of time as detected using electrical sensors is referred to as Electrocardiography (ECG). ECG is recorded as a collection of signal waves that has repetitive patterns. These patterns are usually used in the complex diagnosis process through which ECG may indicate certain problems related to the heart or other parts of the body. Despite the...
Dataflow network is a concise well-understood and well-matching approach for building applications in Internet of Things (IoT) world, where a task of obtaining meaningful results in time strongly depends on efficiency of orchestration of dataflows. Processing units transform incoming signals into intermediate data suitable for further processing and analysis by using certain rules, which are further...
Due to the boom in trust research new Trust Frameworks are created within short time intervals providing specific solutions for different domains. But these frameworks miss a common understanding and shared description. Based on available categorizations and surveys we collected key components already identified within Trust Management and created a generally applicable meta-model, which aims at creating...
Research into engineering education can take different forms, ranging from large scale multi-institutional studies, to cross-institutional impact analysis, to individual teachers undertaking action research. It can often be challenging, requiring an understanding of not only how students learn but also an understanding of educational research methods. Many academics, when first embarking on research...
General purpose search engines provide users with lists of retrieved documents in response to their queries. The common structure of list elements includes the title of a document, its URL, and small snippet from the text. Snippets are evidence of occurrences of query's keywords in the document. The length of each snippet is just a couple of lines. They cannot play a role of summaries of retrieved...
In smart living spaces, a reliable context-aware application must adapt to the variable environment and should function to complete the user's requirements. Therefore, if a context-aware application is to achieve the user's requirements smoothly, it must understand the environment status according to trustworthy context information. However, the context information influenced by the environment status...
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