A reliable and efficient power supply for critical infrastructure customers is key to ensuring energy security. Critical requires local sources. Currently, performance requirements such sources have significantly increased. Apart from high efficiency, important include quick start-up time, small size, environmental friendliness, low noise, etc. These may be provided by fuel cells, which are con...

In spring 2002 two Finnish academics, two professors who were involved in research on e-business expressed their concern regarding the lack of customer orientation in the case of electronic insurance services available on the Internet. They raised a question: “How do insurance companies get electronic services closer to their customers?” This can be considered as the starting point for a discus...

The study examined the effect of electronic banking on customer satisfaction in selected deposit money banks Ogun state, Nigeria. 
 This adopted a descriptive survey research design. design is considered appropriate not only for methodological decision intends to undergo but also because it tailored towards studying sample from large population where inferences would be drawn about charact...

Increasing competition in the global marketplace demands products with better functionality, higher quality, lower cost, shorter delivery lead time, and increased environmental friendliness. Although advanced manufacturing technologies can partially address these challenges, advanced design technologies are considered critical, since most design and manufacturing properties of a product are inf...

In todays scenario, dynamic changes in the banking sector have brought competition winning and maintaining existing customers. Presently, banks realized importance of appealing to new customers is far more important than retaining banks, for same cause are emphasizing over customer satisfaction providing competitive services. A comparative analysis levels public private has given pathway magnif...

Adaptable design is a new design paradigm to create designs and products that can be easily changed to satisfy different requirements. Adaptable design aims at identifying the designs and products considering functionality, manufacturing efforts, customization, and environment friendliness. This research focuses on adaptable design considering product adaptability. In this work, product adaptab...

This paper presents a multi-agent framework designed to simulate synthetic humans that properly balance task oriented and social behaviors. The work presented in this paper focuses on the social library integrated in BDI agents to provide socially acceptable decisions. We propose the use of ontologies to define the social relations within an artificial society and the use of a market based mech...