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Organizations need to announce activities (e. g meetings), run polls, give information, gather feedback about their business and make advertisements. With the improvements in IVR technology, fixed & mobile phones create a great opportunity to meet those needs. Mass-IVR System was designed with those facts and necessities as motive and it provides the ability to call millions of telecom subscribers,...
Users of mobile devices require ubiquitous Internet connectivity especially when located in urban areas. However, when using a city's underground metro system there are often situations where there is no signal coverage for a considerable time period. One large city facing this issue is London whose underground metro system includes a significant number of lines using deep level tunnels. To facilitate...
Smart spaces support development of advanced service-oriented applications that introduce intelligence into Internet of Things environments. Current development meets the performance challenge, since the intelligence is achieved by the cost of performance. In this paper, we experimentally study a representative application for smart spaces — the SmartRoom system. It assists humans in such collaborative...
e-Tourism covers a wide niche of the digital services market. The existing services, although being presented in the large amount in today's Internet, do not achieve high intelligence level. The user still needs to perform a lot of operations manually: to solve a given problem she/he finds and accesses appropriate Internet services or uses mobile applications. A lot of information fragments are linked...
Maintaining communication among the population, during and in the aftermath of disasters, is key to the success of both response and recovery efforts. Evidently, the telecommunications infrastructure most often fails in these situations and thus adhoc solutions ought to be devised. However, unlike customary adhoc solutions that focus on the traditional end-to-end communication paradigm, in emergency...
The growing demand for mobile content has increased the burden on cellular network providers. To this end, mobile content offloading approaches aim to offer a relief of overloaded cellular network infrastructures via local content exchanges between mobile devices. A core assumption of proposed approaches is the voluntary, honest, and altruistic participation of devices or their owners. This dependency...
Natural disasters have inflicted serious damage on humankind from time to time. Some of the most severe disasters in Japan and many other countries are said to be earthquakes, which frequently trigger secondary disasters such as tsunamis, landslides, and fire accidents. In fact, most casualties in an earthquake are not due to the earthquake itself but to such secondary disasters. Therefore, it is...
Under the new situation, the network with a unique open, virtual, interactive features, makes the students participate in the higher degree and pays more attention to the Ideological and Political Theory Course, it can also optimizes and enhances the teaching mode. In the teaching practice of the curriculum "the Outline of Chinese Modern and Contemporary History" in Guilin university of...
According to forecasts, by 2018 the number of mobile phone subscribers worldwide could cross the four billion barrier. Mauritius is also witnessing a major growth in mobile subscriptions and the total number of mobile subscriptions was 1,533,600 in 2013. Recently, there has been a growing concern with regards to the energy consumption of mobile phones which now amounts to a non-negligible figure given...
Very small island states face unique challenges, such as volatile economies increasingly vulnerable to climate change. They are used in this analysis because their populations rely on emerging technologies for their livelihoods, especially growing mobile phone usage. This paper investigates how growth in ICT usage may enable growth in per capita GDP in very small island states by analyzing the effects...
In the present mobile climate, both companies as well as their consumers are able to execute various processes at any time in any location using a myriad of wireless technologies. Organizational trends demonstrate that mobile devices are being utilized exponentially more to solve problems from the strategic planning level to the operational level through various departments. This propensity was recently...
IBM's Spoken Web Service enables illiterate and disadvantaged communities in the developing world to create and access VoiceSites over the phone. A pilot study was used to examine the adoption of this service by a community of farmers in rural Gujarat, India. Data analysis carried out using the principles of grounded theory helped us identify the factors responsible for the adoption of the service...
Despite the massive influx of mobile apps into the market, not everyone is "mobile literate." The steady growth of the mobile industry has highlighted the emerging need to advance mobile literacy. This study uses an individual level mobile app usage dataset to examine the potential of mobile platform-based social games as training tools for mobile literacy. We choose Anipang, a popular mobile...
Mobile Learning is gaining popularity especially in distance learning higher educational institutions. Latest technology used in mobiles leads to better delivery of educational resources to students. The major aim of this study is to assess students' readiness for m-learning through assessing four factors: available mobile phone features, cellular service availability and affordability, students'...
The rapid spread of location-based devices and cheap storage mechanisms, as well as fast development of Internet technology, allowed collection and distribution of huge amounts of user-generated data. These user generated data sometimes are known as georeferenced documents, they have their location information and time of posting embedded with them. These parameters help to retrieve the location information...
With the popularity of mobile Internet, smart phones and location-based services, Mobile Social Network in Proximity (MSNP) has attracted more and more attentions, for which trustworthy service discovery and its associated latency are two important issues. In this paper, after overviewing MSNP and trustworthiness for service discovery in MSNP, we discuss the major issues and potential solutions of...
The paper presents Semantic Concept Analysis (SCA) framework intended for automatic data-driven design of actionable ontology specifying mobile device user's personal interest's hierarchy together with dual structure reflecting the user's preferences over these interests. The framework integrates known technique for semi-automatic ontology design exploiting DBpedia and Wikipedia categories, on the...
Web caching has been used extensively to enhance web delivery to clients by minimizing the latency perceived by clients, reducing network bandwidth usage, reducing power consumption and improving the network quality of service. Caching performance can be improved by implementing an efficient replacement policy to be used for proper cache replacement. In mobile networks, the movement of users presents...
This paper focuses on the effects of topic on the Arabic language used in Facebook, Twitter, news sites, blogging sites, and mobile phone messaging. The results presented in this paper are based on a comprehensive study that was carried out using 8,538 text samples from these five forums. The sample topics are categorized into nine categories: political, social, economic, academic, religious, scientific,...
An enterprise resource planning (ERP) system is the backbone in an e-business framework and is a process-oriented business management paradigm. An implementation of an ERP system can achieve “real-time” and “integration”. The staffs with manipulation skills of an ERP system are thus demanded for enterprises. E-learning are increasingly widespread by using information and telecommunication technologies...
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