business all around the world uses different approaches to know their customers, segment them and formulate suitable strategies for them. one of these approaches is calculating the value of each customer for the company. in this paper by calculating customer lifetime value (clv) for individual customers of an online toy store named alakdolak, three customer segments are extracted. the level of ...

e-commerce has made life simple and innovative of individuals and groups consumer behavior in online shopping is different from the physical market where he has access to see the product. the purpose of the research was to study the consumer behavior in online shopping of electronics especially in iran. primary data was collected through the questionnaire survey and by emails from personal cont...

the debate over the contribution of the internet to democracy is farfrom settled. some point to the empowering effects of online discussionand fund raising on recent electoral campaigns in the us to argue thatthe internet will restore the public sphere. others claim that the internetis just a virtual mall, a final extension of global capitalism into everycorner of our lives. this paper argues f...

present article focuses on service failure and recovery in the online shops in iran. the article investigates interaction between service failure and online shops readiness for service recovery and resulting impact on customer reaction. the data was collected by an e-questionnaire from 615 iranian online shoppers. the findings suggest, although many online shops are severely breaching few funda...

during the past few years, there has been an increasing recognition that internet is playing a significant role in the synthesis, the distribution and the consumption of novel psychoactive substances (nps).the aim of this study was to assess the online availability of nps in persian language websites.the google search engine was used to carry out an accurate qualitative assessment of informatio...

background: one of the essential and inevitable principles in improving the education quality, particularly in universities, is the continuous assessment of students’ educational progress at different education levels. the  role of advisors and consulting tutors at universities are considered as one of the important interventions of the ministry of health for the purpose of guiding students&apo...

multiple people detection and tracking is a challenging task in real-world crowded scenes. in this paper, we have presented an online multiple people tracking-by-detection approach with a single camera. we have detected objects with deformable part models and a visual background extractor. in the tracking phase we have used a combination of support vector machine (svm) person-specific classifie...

we consider online scheduling of jobs with speci c release time on m identical machines. each job has a weight and a size; the goal is maximizing total weight of completed jobs. at release time of a job it must immediately be scheduled on a machine or it will be rejected. it is also allowed during execution of a job to preempt it; however, it will be lost and only weight of completed jobs contr...

user-generated medical messages on internet contain extensive information related to adverse drug reactions (adrs) and are known as valuable resources for post-marketing drug surveillance. the aim of this study was to find an effective method to identify messages related to adrs automatically from online user reviews.we conducted experiments on online user reviews using different feature set an...

abstract rhetorical structure is helpful in improving how the writers maintain cohesion in their writings. this study examines how the iraqi writers maintain cohesion in the text by analyzing the various rhetorical moves in azzaman, an online iraqi newspaper. to this purpose, twelve opinion articles from azzaman iraqi newspaper, published from january 2013 to june 2013 were analyzed. the findin...