Discovery Net is an application layer for providing gridbased knowledge discovery services. These services allow scientists to create and manage complex knowledge discovery workflows that integrate data and analysis routines provided as remote services. They also allow scientists to store, share and execute these workflows as well as publish them as new services. Discovery Net provides a higher...

Numerous services are being offered over the Internet and require identification of users as in face-to-face interactions. To simplify the authentication procedure and reduce the need to manage multiple credentials to access services, Electronic Identification (eID) schemes have been introduced. eID schemes commonly involve many service providers (SPs) which provide services, such as online sho...

Since the early 1990s, there has been a growing understanding that supply chain management should be built around information sharing and collaboration among supply chain partners. The emergence of RFID technology is expected to revolutionize many of the collaborative supply chain processes and to empower new collaboration scenarios, such as anti-counterfeiting, product recall and reverse logis...

The expansion of formal financial services is an ongoing phenomenon in low income countries. Nowadays, it is common that retail companies decide to open a commercial bank with branches within each of their multiple stores. The retail-store banks are characterized by their vast geographical expansion and because their products target low-income households. In this study, I take advantage of the ...

The purpose of this study is to see and understand consumer behavior in the food beverage business from literature side on store atmosphere which moderates influence quality service customer satisfaction at Atlas Coffee Bike Pekanbaru City. results showed that atmosphere, services affect Bike. In using operational method variables consisting exogenous endogenous where are Store Atmosphere (X1),...

Independent grocery shopping is a major challenge for many visually impaired (VI) individuals [1]. In 2006, we began our work on ShopTalk, a wearable system for independent blind supermarket shopping [2]. ShopTalk consisted of a small OQO computer, a wireless barcode reader, and ...

Cloud computing is one of the latest emerging innovations of the modern internet and technological landscape. With everyone from the White house to major online technological leaders like Amazon and Google using or offering cloud computing services it is truly presents itself as an exciting and innovative method to store and use data on the internet. In this paper, we discuss some of the most k...

ability to store and retrieve DECnet node information from a variety of directory services. It consists of the CDI library, which enables multiple directory access, and the CDI registration tool set, which creates and maintains node/addressing information in multiple directory services. CDI was developed for the DECnet/ OSI for OpenVMS operating system version 6.0 and for the DECnet/OSI for Dig...