the power supply of remote sites and applications at minimal cost and with low emissions is an important issue when discussing future energy concepts. this paper presents modeling and optimization of a photovoltaic (pv)/wind/diesel system with batteries storage for electrification to an off-grid remote area located in rafsanjan, iran. for this location, different hybrid systems are studied and ...

Traditional Newspapers have been struggling to find a new business model to economically survive in this new wave of digital social revolution. This study uses ontology of a multi-gated model to suggest that program designers use different kinds of most popular news cues to satisfy diverse citizens’ needs. Different concepts of citizens are discussed theoretically in exploring how a social sema...

The growing amount of low cost mobile devices over the last years allowed almost each person to be equipped with their personal device. This situation is leading researchers to investigate new possibilities to exploit the physical presence of several mobile devices for purposes like co-located collaborative activities. For example, today it is a common situation that a group of users tries to s...

This document gathers high-level users requirements and describes the system features. It provides a detailed explanation of the main functionalities of the system with a more emphasis on the stakeholders needs and wants. Indeed, the document goes through design constraints that may restrict various aspects of the design and implementation.

Becoming members of social networking websites is now one of the most popular on-line activities. Although the number of users has been growing exponentially in social network sites (SNS), some SNSs are facing a financial crisis and might be shut down in the near future. Therefore, understand users’ incentives to switch to another SNS has great influence on operators’ business performance. The ...