© 2013 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinhei G. Y. Margulis Department of Applied Physics Stanford University Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials 476 Lomita Mall, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA M. G. Christoforo Department of Electrical Engineering Stanford University Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials 476 Lomita Mall, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA D. Lam Department of Physics Stanford Un...

A study was performed to investigate a domain for a mobile and social service, where a web of social trails is overlaid over a physical space. Using a method inspired by work of the city planner Kevin Lynch, 20 subjects were interviewed about their experiences, activities, movements and habits related to a specific shopping mall. Design implications for the service were drawn from subjects’ ske...

Abstract Research questions are central to mobile assisted language learning (MALL) projects and studies, yet they have received little attention date. Taking research as its focus, this paper offers some reflections on the complexity of broader field learning, different kinds research, salient themes challenges in MALL, it suggests directions for future. Since MALL is interdisciplinary, since ...

gation aid through the ocean of offers. A further strategic element will be the wnfidencethe customer exhibits towards the electronic mall. Confidence is a result . of how much the client can rely on the information presented by the electronic mall and how it manages erroneous or overdue deliveries. Along with CompuServe and CommerceNet electronic malls are beginning to establish themselves. Th...

In this paper we present a simulation prototype of the customers’ shopping behavior in a mall using a knowledge-based multiagent geosimulation approach. The shopping behavior in a shopping mall is performed in a geographic environment (a shopping mall) and is influenced by several shopper’s characteristics (internal factors) and factors which are related to the shopping mall (external or situat...

It is often observed that in order to serve the domestic market, foreign firms not only export but also control domestic firms through foreign direct investment (FDI). This paper examines the effects of tariffs, production subsidies, and foreign ownership regulation on prices, outputs, profits, and welfare when both exports and FDI coexist. Cross-border ownership on the basis of both financial ...