There is a growing attention towards the application of Radio Frequency Identification (RFId) technology in the Fashion & Apparel supply chain. This paper describes a Lateral Trans-shipment replenishment policy enabled by item-level RFId tagging. In fact, in order to adopt a Lateral Transshipment policy, a firm should have an accurate visibility of both the inventory level in its warehouses and...

The convenience brought by the online store is more than a physical store, but the development of China's Internet store is also in its infancy, at present, there are a number of related thesis for the network which study the trust, but the result observed in the research is related to most of the trust before buying and e-commerce environment of trust, Therefore, the primary focus of this stud...

Even the more or less “canonical”, lower-level architecture of information systems needs to be revisited from time to time. Notions like persistence and transactions belong traditionally to the area of database management systems. There are, however, many applications, such as CAD, VLSI design or simulation, which need persistence and could take advantage of transactions, but require especially...

With the rapid growth of social media platforms, numerous group commerce websites, which exploit both the advantages of price discounts and experience value, have emerged. Moreover, the popularity of sophisticated mobile devices brings great commercial opportunities for local store to gain publicity. In this research, considering user preference, geographic convenience, and friends’ influence, ...

This research investigates the consequences for retailers and their stores of a new sustainable consumption trend—the purchase bulk products. It examines effects offering packaging-free products on three subdimensions perceived proximity (identity, process, relational) transactional loyalty (satisfaction–loyalty) relational (satisfaction–trust–loyalty). A total 1407 buyers consumers at convenie...

The vertical industry software market (for hotels, hospitals, convenience store chains, ...) is highly competitive. To better compete in this environment, Tecnoloǵıa Computacional Aplicada (TCA)—a mid size vertical market IS development company— decided four years ago to explore agent technologies as a key component for a new business strategy. As a result of this exercise TCA converted its leg...

Although occupational therapists try to help their wheelchair-bound clients reenter the community or maintain independence, many facilities' noncompliance with accessibility standards makes such planning difficult. In the present study, a survey was used to investigate the wheelchair accessibility of 20 grocery and convenience stores. The results of the survey indicated that types of stores wit...

In recent years, ubiquitous computing has been rapidly emerged in our lives and extensive studies have been conducted in a variety of areas related to smart devices, such as tablets, smartphones, smart TVs, smart refrigerators, and smart media devices, as a measure for realizing the ubiquitous computing. In particular, smartphones have significantly evolved from the traditional feature phones. ...

This research examines the larger-scale associations between obesity and food environments in metropolitan areas in the United States (US). The US Census County Business Patterns dataset for 2011 was used to construct various indices of food environments for selected metropolitan areas. The numbers of employees engaged in supermarkets, convenience stores, full service restaurants, fast food res...

Tiling problems provide for a very simple and transparent mechanism for encod ing machine computations This gives rise to rather simple master reductions showing various versions of the tiling problem complete for various complexity classes We in vestigate the potential for using these tiling problems in subsequent reductions showing hardness of the combinatorial problems that really matter We ...