Recent advances in communication technologies have great impact on location determination systems. Location determination systems are deployed in almost every building, from hospitals where the location of patients and doctors or any medical equipment can be determined, or sending information to customers based on their location and capability, to organize the traffic and reducing congestion in...

In an era of global customization, dominating the majority market with a single product has become increasingly difficult and almost impossible for most companies. In contrast, they must provide various product varieties that attract diverse customers, particularly when acquiring distinct market segments. In practice, however, most companies cannot effectively reduce the gap between customer re...

Governments all around the world are widely investing on the implementation of e government to advance services to citizens and minimize costs. Governments can progress effectiveness of their operations and can carry their administrative operations efficiently with the help of ICT. Electronic government perceived to provide a way for governments to renovate their operational activities to serve...

In this paper the concept of an ad hoc agent environment as a way for users to interact with an ambient intelligent environment is introduced. Utilizing agents, users can interact on a level that best suits their needs and capabilities, leaving tedious chores to the agents. The user interacts with this environment as a whole, instead of interacting with individual applications on individual dev...

We examine the relation between analysts’ earnings forecasts and firms’ intangible assets, including technology-based intangibles, brand names, and recognized intangibles. We predict that high information complexity of intangible assets increases the difficulty for analysts to assimilate information and increases analysts’ forecast error of intangibles-intensive firms. We find a positive associ...