We propose an analytical model of multi-store shoppers buying items from their shopping lists; specifically, “common items” that are available at competing stores. Multi-store shoppers buy some common items at the first store they visit, others are deferred to a competing store. These buying decisions depend on the prices observed at the first store and uncertainty about savings if purchases ar...

The TAO coordination model combines logical concepts and concurrency mechanisms: a set of processes cooperate via a common, content addressable, shared state. Computation and communication are achieved through queries and updates of the common store, the basic statements in this paradigm. A query checks whether some information is or is not entailed by the store, and an update changes the conte...

recently, internet is widely used in our daily life, caused online customer growing rapidly, then the amount of online store rising quickly. therefore, it is an important issue for online stores to stand out from the crowd, even boost sales and profit. many enterprises had invested resource on online store, but great amount of stores were closedown. the major reason is operator spend many effor...

this study is a try to explore effects of buyer impulsivity and in-store environment factors on impulse buying in chain stores. path analyses technique was used for analyzing the model and structural equation model and t-value test for evaluating hypothesis. statistical society of this study is consumers of chain stores in tehran. by cochran method 384 people were selected as a sample.450 quest...

Mobility is one of the trends in 2014. According to the report of IDC (International Data Corporation), the worldwide shipments of tablets have exceeded PCs in 2013 Quarter 4, while smart phones has already exceeded other devices in unit shipments and market ratio. With this trend, many location-based services (LBS) have been proposed, for example, navigation, searching restaurants or gas stati...

objective: some data are available on the association between components of the insulin resistance syndrome and serum ferritin. insulin resistance is observed in patients with polycystic ovary syndrome (pcos) we hypothesize that body iron stores might be increased in these women. materials and methods: two hundred and six people (103 pcos patients and 103 healthy women who were matched for age)...