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User experience design is all about making a product by understanding its users and enables user to use a product easily. UX design is part of current industry standards which can be started along with requirement phase. Undergraduate students build products in project courses. Such courses include Software Life Cycle phases like Requirement gathering/ analysis, Design, Implementation and Testing...
E-commerce plays a key role in business success nowadays. Therefore, the performance of E-commerce websites is critical. E-commerce websites generate a large amount of data that is often used for performance evaluation. Many website evaluation methods have been proposed, but the social media factor is usually not taken into consideration. In this paper, Twitter data is utilized for big data analytics...
This paper presents the electric planning process and requirements in Muscat Distribution Company (MEDC) and discusses how the planning can be enhanced by using best practices. Also, the paper describes the planning model used in MEDC. Planning challenges and constraints are discussed. These include high demand growth, design and technical constraints, technical and non-technical losses, security...
This research aims at developing a hybrid model for non-homogeneous group decision making in the supplier selection process to select a supplier that best satisfies the purchaser. The model uses the analytical hierarchy process (AHP) in determining the influence weightings of company function department (CFD), then the house of quality (HOQ), as an essential part of the quality function deployment...
This paper aims to extend current research in the area of on-line business-to-business clients preferences. A quantitative research in a form of transaction log analysis (TLA) performed by the authors allow to conclude that search log and shop basket logs are sources of viable information about business customers. Transaction log analysis allows to identify different customer groups, such as searchers...
In product development and planning, enterprises often adopt matrix chart for strategic study. For example, QFD for the quality control of product parts and their best combination of quality control analysis or image words for two-dimension image scale for product appearance analysis or product appealing, purchase intention for consumer's preference study. Furthermore, value evaluation by the weights...
In fall 2015, a senior capstone course (CIS 457 Senior Design Lab 1) of multidisciplinary groups from the majors of computer science, information systems, and software engineering aligned with a senior-level entrepreneurship class (ENTR 410 New Venture Creation) consisting of entrepreneurship majors and minors within the school of business to successfully form teams collaborating towards a common...
Several studies conducted in Morocco and other developing countries have shown that Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) fail to achieve business goals for reasons related principally to lack of entrepreneurship knowledge and poor financial management. Indeed, most managers do not have the required educational background and skills, precisely in accounting and cash flow management. To manage these...
Open innovation it is a new strategy under the companies going beyond the internal limits of their organization and where cooperation with external professionals and clients happens to have a key role on building and developing impact projects that promote organizations and social environment. Open Innovation with the combination of internal knowledge with external knowledge for the generation of...
Academics and industry experts are now advocating for going from large-centralized Cloud Computing (CC) infrastructures to smaller ones massively distributed at the edge of the network. Referred to as "fog/edge/local computing", such a dawning paradigm is attracting growing interest as it improves the whole services agility in addition to bringing computing resources closer to end-users...
Extracting the customers who share similar interests that are connected via set of relationships in Telecom social network is a challenging scenario. This paper addresses an efficient method of building multi-relational and heterogeneous social network for telecom customers and identifying social structures present in the telecommunication network. The telecom social network is constructed by considering...
Prior studies report organizations' increasing fiscal investments in social media marketing communications reflecting anticipated benefits for bottomline improvements. Yet, few studies have looked at the empirical link between messaging dimensions, brand equity, consumer engagement and associated purchase intentions. Through a four-week long, between-group longitudinal experiment, we assess the relationships...
The project management involves control through performance measurement. In order to do that, it is necessary to study the project from the point of view of multiple aspects. In the construction sector, there is a lack of suitable methods to assess the activities that must be performed for the fulfillment of a project. This article seeks to evaluate the critical path of a building site using SMARTS,...
This article describes how to build a property search behavior corpus derived from microblogging timelines, in which tweets related to property search are annotated. We applied microtask-based crowdsourcing to tweet data, and build a corpus which consists of timelines of specific users which are annotated with property search stages (e.g. gathering of property information, and property preview). As...
The trend of today's companies to reverse the threat of an increasing complexity, resulting from globalization effects, customer requests for individualization or shorter product life cycles, by a modular product architecture, can be observed more and more often. However, the concept of an alternative type of product structuring is novelty for many businesses. The risk of a recurring upsurge in complexity,...
Sustainable building construction has become essential in the construction industry with the aim of satisfying the present and future needs of construction stakeholders. Selection and procurement of appropriate materials that satisfies the principles of sustainability is paramount in construction. To this end, the traditional method of materials procurement has been found to be inefficient considering...
Information technology (IT) offshoring grows rapidly along with the availability of large number of highly capable IT vendors in developing countries. To be able to play a significant role in the global IT market through offshore IT outsurcing, it is necessary that vendors are capable in building a good relationship with their clients. In this study, we examine the critical processes for developing...
There is strongly increasing focus on Inventory of Operational Support Systems (OSS) in today's mobile telecom business, where mobile operators must address fast evolving requirements, technologies and standards. The main inventory dimensions to be covered in a mobile network could be split into three, which serves as a methodical approach to define the methodology for Inventory System solutions design...
In recent years, the widespread adoption of GPS enabled vehicles brings the Location Based Services new opportunities. It benefits many related fields such as urban planning, city traffic modeling, personalized recommendations and driving suggestions. The service providers can understand their users better by modeling the mobility pattern and provide more personalized services by predicting the destination...
In 1926, in an alliance between the Zagreb pencil factory Penkala and the English company Edison Bell, a gramophone and gramophone record factory, was founded in Zagreb, under the name Edison Bell Penkala. In 1927 experts from that factory undertook the first remote recording of a gramophone record in continental Europe, using a telephone line. This was the third recording in the world, after the...
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