This paper investigates an adaptation of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) to cattle monitoring application. The proposed solution facilitates a desired requirement of continuously assessing the condition of individual animal, aggregating and reporting these data to the farm manager. There are several existing approaches to animal monitoring, from using a store and forward mechanisms to employing...

The ease of Android applications repackaging and proliferation of application clones in Google Play and other markets call for new effective techniques to detect repackaged code and combat distribution of cloned applications. Today all existing techniques for repackaging detection are based on code similarity or feature (e.g., permission set) similarity evaluation. We propose a new approach to ...

The existing packed mail-based return mode in ecommerce has a considerable negative impact on the natural environment. In contrast, package-free accepts unpacked returns using points in-store and is more eco-friendly service. On basis of push–pull–mooring (PPM) framework, this study aims to identify key factors green communication that contribute consumers switching from mail services services....

With the prevalence of smartphones, app markets such as Apple App Store and Google Play has become the center stage in the mobile app ecosystem, with millions of apps developed by tens of thousands of app developers in each major market. This paper presents a study of the mobile app ecosystem from the perspective of app developers. Based on over one million Android apps and 320,000 developers f...

This paper presents research-in-progress. An extensive customer-centric data warehouse architecture should enable both complex analytical queries as well as standard reporting queries on customer data without performance restrictions for both requirements. This paper introduces a dichotomic approach, which brings together these contradicting tasks of a data warehouse. On the one hand, it elabor...

In recent years, column stores (or C-stores for short) have emerged as a novel approach to deal with read-mostly data warehousing applications. Experimental evidence suggests that, for certain types of queries, the new features of C-stores result in orders of magnitude improvement over traditional relational engines. At the same time, some C-store proponents argue that C-stores are fundamentall...

Retail stores are segmented using socioeconomic characteristics of the environmental variables both within and outside the store. trade area, and it is shown that the effects of store environment on store The internal retail environmental variables include retailers’ performance vary across segments. Store performance is measured by a micro-marketing strategies and the external retail environme...