Collaboration between people who are not co-located still poses many problems. In this demo, we show how to create an immersive virtual office, where people can meet each other. Different novel technologies are combined in order to reach this goal. People can collaborate by using a multitouch interface to exchange ideas. Moreover, free-viewpoint video allows people to have eye-gaze corrected fa...

Globalization can be viewed as the integration of inputs and outputs into global markets, sharing of information and knowledge, and promulgation of rules governing such integration. World Trade Organization, International Monetary Fund, and World Bank play a vital role in the process of economic globalization. The positive and negative affects of globalization and the groups that resist and sup...

The realism in participant representation involves two elements: believable appearance and realistic movements. This becomes even more important in multiuser networked virtual environments (NVE), as participants' representation is used for communication. A NVE can be defined as a single environment which is shared by multiple participants connected from a different host. The local program of th...

Trust is significant for e-commerce and has received increasing attention in e-commerce, multiagent systems, and artificial intelligence (AI). However, little attention has been given to the theoretical foundation and intelligent techniques for trust in e-commerce from either a logical or intelligent systems viewpoint. This paper will fill this gap by examining knowledge-based trust, inference-...

Cooperation is one the most important issues in multiagent systems. There is a trade-off between the centralized control and the distributed one from the performance viewpoint of cooperation. This paper proposes a method to emerge cooperative behaviors via environmental dynamics caused by multi robots in a hostile environment without any planning for cooperation. Each robot has its own policy t...

in today's globalization, an effective integration of production and distribution plans into a unified framework is crucial for attaining competitive advantage. this paper addresses an integrated multi-product and multi-time period production/distribution planning problem for a two-echelon supply chain subject to the real-world variables and constraints. it is assumed that all transportations a...

This paper examines the impact of globalization on income inequality in a panel of 78 developed and developing countries over 2002–2015. Moreover, the indirect effect of financial development in the link between globalization and income inequality is also analyzed by incorporating the interaction term between globalization and financial development. The empirical evidence based on the first-dif...

globalization is a multi-dimensional process of economic, political, cultural, and ideological change. it has had a mixed impact on women’s rights. on the one hand, it has led to increasing violations of women’s economic, political, and cultural rights in large measure due to the withering away of the welfare-developmental state, the feminization of poverty, the expansion of religious fundament...