Online product recommendation agents are becoming increasingly available on websites to assist consumers with reducing information overload, provide advice in finding suitable products, and facilitate online consumer decision-making. Central of these services is consumer trust in the agents. In several recent studies, the trust construct has been successfully integrated into the Technology Adop...

This paper focuses on packet forwarding in ad hoc networks and proposes a new approach to improve performance of nodes communication. In particular, we present a lightweight mechanism for REliable and Efficient Forwarding (REEF), which mitigates the effects of adverse situations caused by cooperation misbehavior or network fault conditions. It exploits nodes local knowledge to estimates route r...

Abstract In this paper, we proposed a co-reference resolution method for texts in the Indonesian language. The objective of co-reference resolution is to identify equivalence between entities as well as between pronouns and entities that were recognized in a named entity recognition phase. We propose a method that uses association rules. The method combines several features, such as pronoun and...

Donor Agencies/Partners: • PA Consulting Group • Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association (JHTA) • Jamaica Manufacturers Association (JMA) • Government of Jamaica Ministry of Industry and Tourism • Government of Jamaica National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) • Jamaica Bureau of Standards • Tourism Product Development Company (TPDCo) • Government of Jamaica Human Employment and Resource Tr...

To my parents, Ana and Cornel, for their unconditional and unbreakable support iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to thank my family, especially my husband, who has never stopped believing in me, and has never complained being a mother and a father to our two children while I was working on my research. Without him I would have never become the person I am today. I am very grateful I had the cha...

For a class of fuzzy metric spaces (in the sense of George and Veeramani) with an H-type t-norm,  we present a method to construct a metric on a  fuzzy metric space. The induced metric space shares many important properties with the given fuzzy metric space.  Specifically, they generate the same topology, and have the same completeness. Our results can give the constructive proofs to some probl...

In this paper, we propose a new definition of intuitionistic fuzzyquasi-metric and pseudo-metric spaces based on intuitionistic fuzzy points. Weprove some properties of intuitionistic fuzzy quasi- metric and pseudo-metricspaces, and show that every intuitionistic fuzzy pseudo-metric space is intuitionisticfuzzy regular and intuitionistic fuzzy completely normal and henceintuitionistic fuzzy nor...

While student perceptions of the fairness and trustworthiness of educational institutions have been shown to relate to civic participation, this relationship has not been extended to issues of continued participation in the education system. Using data from the IEA Civic Education Study of 14-yearolds, measures of trust in schools and perceptions of educational inequality are examined in their ...

we prove that every r-quadratic metric of scalar flag curvature with a dimension greater than twois of constant flag curvature. then we show that generalized douglas-weyl metrics contain r-quadraticmetrics as a special case, but the class of r-quadratic metric is not closed under projective transformations