Customers are important intangible assets of a firm that should be valued and managed. Although researchers and practitioners have recently emphasized customer relationships and customer lifetime value, these concepts have had limited impact on the business and investment community for two main reasons: (a) they require extensive data and complex modeling, and (b) researchers have not shown a s...

Viewpoints concept could be considered one of the major concepts introduced in the software engineering domain in order to enhance the architectural organization of complex systems by separating its concerns. Despite his ultimate importance, this concept must be evolved and hierarchized in order to allow the jump of software architectures field from its current range of complexity coverage and ...

We propose a novel algorithm to synchronize video recording the same scene from different viewpoints. Our method relies on correlating space-time interest point distribution in time between videos. Space-time interest points represent events in video that have high variation in both space and time. These events are unique in time and may pronounce themselves in videos from different viewpoints....

Co-operative development of distributed software systems involves to address the multiple perspectives problem: many stakeholders with diverse domain knowledge and differing development strategies collaborate to construct heterogeneous development artifacts using different representation schemes. The ViewPoints framework has been developed for organizing multiple stakeholders, the development p...

A look at how industrial customers make purchase decisions. Understanding why and how customers make purchase decisions is vital to maximizing profitable sales, developing new products, growing companies and developing predic-tive sales models. Many sales managers and salespeople have prescribed rules of thumb or rubrics that detect and analyze " buying signals, " but these are rarely tested an...

Geographical Indications (GI) give goods made from local resources more legitimacy and create value additions for various products. Gems Jewelry are products that have contributed to Chanthaburi’s long-standing renown but not yet been recognized GI. The principles 1) investigate the entrepreneurial viewpoints regarding belief GI will increase of its products, 2) contrast views those toward use ...

The development of mechatronic products involves multiple stakeholders which have different viewpoints and therefore use different concepts, models and tools to deal with their concerns of interest. This paper argues that an increased emphasis needs to be placed on the relations between viewpoints to be able to deal with the evolving scope and requirements on mechatronic products. We study rela...

background: due to the intense competition that has dominated the world economy, providing additional services to customers and quality improvement are not considered as added value but as necessary and inevitable. therefore, higher education, and focusing on customers, particularly students, is the main pillar of progress and comprehensive development of each country. hence, the purpose of thi...