Pub Date : 2018-08-05DOI: 10.22587/ajbas.2018.12.8.14
E. Pradeep, V. M. Shenbagaraman, P. Saravanan
In the current scenario, the customers are giving more importance on the purchase of any products. But when it comes to baby products, the customers or particularly parents are very much keen on the quality of the product, hygiene and safety of the products. Now the companies are also developing the products with the latest cutting edge concerning the safety of the product. The retailers are in India are trying to provide the best products to the customers. The customers will look into various factors very seriously when they are purchasing the baby products. They go with the word of mouth; they browse into the website, they see for the product reviews, consumer reports, etc. before purchasing the baby products. This research paper reveals the purchase intention of the baby products and the factors that really influence to purchase the products. The paper shows simulation modelling on the purchase intention of the baby products.
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This paper considers options for the UK Government’s intended White Paper on online harms and safety. The report, which was funded by Sky, suggests that legislation should establish a framework for oversight and accountability of online platforms’ handling of harmful and illegal content. Bunting identifies three goals of regulation: to clarify what consumers should expect from online platforms; ensure platforms’ handling of content is proportionate, accountable, fair and responsible; verify that particular platforms act proportionately to evidence of harm. Most ‘content regulation’ should be done by platforms themselves, as it is today, but the paper proposes that an oversight body – either industry-led or statutory - be established to assess their effectiveness and identify where more action is needed.
{"title":"Keeping Consumers Safe Online: Legislating for Platform Accountability for Online Content","authors":"M. Bunting","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3274556","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3274556","url":null,"abstract":"This paper considers options for the UK Government’s intended White Paper on online harms and safety. The report, which was funded by Sky, suggests that legislation should establish a framework for oversight and accountability of online platforms’ handling of harmful and illegal content. Bunting identifies three goals of regulation: to clarify what consumers should expect from online platforms; ensure platforms’ handling of content is proportionate, accountable, fair and responsible; verify that particular platforms act proportionately to evidence of harm. Most ‘content regulation’ should be done by platforms themselves, as it is today, but the paper proposes that an oversight body – either industry-led or statutory - be established to assess their effectiveness and identify where more action is needed.","PeriodicalId":406666,"journal":{"name":"Applied Computing eJournal","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129912000","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-06-01DOI: 10.5121/ijwmn.2018.10304
Vitaly Romanov, G. Succi
WLAN has lately been applied to the problem of mobility tracking and behavior analysis. To further the development of the studies in this direction the positioning system that can perform on the network side with minimal human participation is needed. One of the current limitations is the requirement on the number of reference signal available. Thus, methods that require fewer reference signals for positioning are needed. This paper provides the comparison of WLAN based positioning methods that can operate with a single AP.
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This paper considers the development of digital platforms, their economic role and the policy approach which should apply to them. Digital platforms are heterogeneous, so no flavour of ‘platform regulation’ is likely to be appropriate across all platforms, whilst horizontal laws apply to platform and other business models alike. However, a unifying theme in relation to platforms is that they provide market governance via codes of conduct and software code. Rather than thinking of law as something that should simply be imposed on the market, we should therefore search for an accommodation or balance between law and 'code', given that they both provide governance.
{"title":"Reconciling Private Market Governance and Law: A Policy Primer for Digital Platforms","authors":"Brian Williamson, M. Bunting","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3188937","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3188937","url":null,"abstract":"This paper considers the development of digital platforms, their economic role and the policy approach which should apply to them. Digital platforms are heterogeneous, so no flavour of ‘platform regulation’ is likely to be appropriate across all platforms, whilst horizontal laws apply to platform and other business models alike. However, a unifying theme in relation to platforms is that they provide market governance via codes of conduct and software code. Rather than thinking of law as something that should simply be imposed on the market, we should therefore search for an accommodation or balance between law and 'code', given that they both provide governance.","PeriodicalId":406666,"journal":{"name":"Applied Computing eJournal","volume":"99 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127103850","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-04-01DOI: 10.5121/IJWMN.2018.10203
Quang-Trung Hoang
In this paper, a distributed spatial modulation based cooperative diversity scheme for relay wireless networks is proposed. Where, the space-time block code is exploited to integrate with distributed spatial modulation. Therefore, the interested transmission scheme achieves high diversity gain. By using Monte-Carlo simulation based on computer, we showed that our proposed transmission scheme outperforms state-of-the-art cooperative relaying schemes in terms bit error rate (BER) performance.
{"title":"Distributed Spatial Modulation based Cooperative Diversity Scheme","authors":"Quang-Trung Hoang","doi":"10.5121/IJWMN.2018.10203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5121/IJWMN.2018.10203","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a distributed spatial modulation based cooperative diversity scheme for relay wireless networks is proposed. Where, the space-time block code is exploited to integrate with distributed spatial modulation. Therefore, the interested transmission scheme achieves high diversity gain. By using Monte-Carlo simulation based on computer, we showed that our proposed transmission scheme outperforms state-of-the-art cooperative relaying schemes in terms bit error rate (BER) performance.","PeriodicalId":406666,"journal":{"name":"Applied Computing eJournal","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132694195","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-01-01DOI: 10.33166/AETiC.2018.01.001
Mahdi H. Miraz, Maaruf Ali
Blockchain (BC), the technology behind the Bitcoin crypto-currency system, is considered to be both alluring and critical for ensuring enhanced security and (in some implementations, non-traceable) privacy for diverse applications in many other domains including in the Internet of Things (IoT) eco-system. Intensive research is currently being conducted in both academia and industry applying the Blockchain technology in multifarious applications. Proof-of-Work (PoW), a cryptographic puzzle, plays a vital role in ensuring BC security by maintaining a digital ledger of transactions, which is considered to be incorruptible. Furthermore, BC uses a changeable Public Key (PK) to record the users' identity, which provides an extra layer of privacy. Not only in cryptocurrency has the successful adoption of BC been implemented but also in multifaceted non-monetary systems such as in: distributed storage systems, proof-of-location, healthcare, decentralized voting and so forth. Recent research articles and projects/applications were surveyed to assess the implementation of BC for enhanced security, to identify associated challenges and to propose solutions for BC enabled enhanced security systems.
{"title":"Applications of Blockchain Technology Beyond Cryptocurrency","authors":"Mahdi H. Miraz, Maaruf Ali","doi":"10.33166/AETiC.2018.01.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33166/AETiC.2018.01.001","url":null,"abstract":"Blockchain (BC), the technology behind the Bitcoin crypto-currency system, is considered to be both alluring and critical for ensuring enhanced security and (in some implementations, non-traceable) privacy for diverse applications in many other domains including in the Internet of Things (IoT) eco-system. Intensive research is currently being conducted in both academia and industry applying the Blockchain technology in multifarious applications. Proof-of-Work (PoW), a cryptographic puzzle, plays a vital role in ensuring BC security by maintaining a digital ledger of transactions, which is considered to be incorruptible. Furthermore, BC uses a changeable Public Key (PK) to record the users' identity, which provides an extra layer of privacy. Not only in cryptocurrency has the successful adoption of BC been implemented but also in multifaceted non-monetary systems such as in: distributed storage systems, proof-of-location, healthcare, decentralized voting and so forth. Recent research articles and projects/applications were surveyed to assess the implementation of BC for enhanced security, to identify associated challenges and to propose solutions for BC enabled enhanced security systems.","PeriodicalId":406666,"journal":{"name":"Applied Computing eJournal","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130331570","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Schuster, Dominik Dellermann, Nikolaus Lipusch, T. Kohler
Digital technology is rapidly changing the organisation of work. On form of digital work is crowd work that is gaining increasing importance in the field of software development. However, only few platforms are able to sustainably create and capture value. We therefore provide an examination of how to design crowd work platforms by conducting a multiple case study in the software development industry.
{"title":"How to Design a Crowdwork Platform","authors":"J. Schuster, Dominik Dellermann, Nikolaus Lipusch, T. Kohler","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3245391","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3245391","url":null,"abstract":"Digital technology is rapidly changing the organisation of work. On form of digital work is crowd work that is gaining increasing importance in the field of software development. However, only few platforms are able to sustainably create and capture value. We therefore provide an examination of how to design crowd work platforms by conducting a multiple case study in the software development industry.","PeriodicalId":406666,"journal":{"name":"Applied Computing eJournal","volume":"94 1-2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116608789","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The rapid development of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) is an asset for e-learning. This is a new form of distance education that relies on the Internet and the Web. This new pedagogical approach promote that the learner is the protagonist of his/her own training and thereby put in range that he/she needs to complete his/her apprenticeship. These resources are made available on the platform by the trainers. Unfortunately, in the majority of e-learning platforms, the course is offered, regardless of the state of the learner (disability, level of education, age, etc ...). Many people thus excluded from e-learning. This somewhat mitigates e-learning possibilities. According to world statistics, 10% of the world population, about 650 million people, lives with disability. The promotion of employment for all, advocated by human rights, will dwell on this mode of learning to train all young people who for many reasons do not always have the opportunity to attend a campus training center. E-learning should also be available to disable persons such as blinds, deafs, mutes,… This work develops new interfaces that adapt according to knowledge of the learner to facilitate e-learning. The illiteracy rate is therefore reduce in its simplest form.
{"title":"E-Learning for All with Interface Incorporating Knowledge about User","authors":"Irene Tiako, Eliane Kouede, P. Tiako","doi":"10.5121/ACIJ.2016.7601","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5121/ACIJ.2016.7601","url":null,"abstract":"The rapid development of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) is an asset for e-learning. This is a new form of distance education that relies on the Internet and the Web. This new pedagogical approach promote that the learner is the protagonist of his/her own training and thereby put in range that he/she needs to complete his/her apprenticeship. These resources are made available on the platform by the trainers. Unfortunately, in the majority of e-learning platforms, the course is offered, regardless of the state of the learner (disability, level of education, age, etc ...). Many people thus excluded from e-learning. This somewhat mitigates e-learning possibilities. According to world statistics, 10% of the world population, about 650 million people, lives with disability. The promotion of employment for all, advocated by human rights, will dwell on this mode of learning to train all young people who for many reasons do not always have the opportunity to attend a campus training center. E-learning should also be available to disable persons such as blinds, deafs, mutes,… This work develops new interfaces that adapt according to knowledge of the learner to facilitate e-learning. The illiteracy rate is therefore reduce in its simplest form.","PeriodicalId":406666,"journal":{"name":"Applied Computing eJournal","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131543549","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chelsea Schelly, G. Anzalone, B. Wijnen, Joshua M. Pearce
Objective3-D printing technologies have the potential to improve both Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education and Career and Technical Education (CTE), as well as integrating these two educational emphases and providing opportunities for cross-curriculum engagement. The objective of this study is to investigate the potential of open-source (OS) technologies in an educational setting, given the combination of economic constraints affecting all educational environments and the ability of OS design to profoundly decrease the cost of technological tools and technological innovation. MethodsThis paper reports on a 3-day workshop augmented with online instructional and visual tools designed for middle school and high school level educators from a wide array of disciplines (including traditional science, math, and engineering as well as computer, shop, and art). Teachers (n=22) submitted applications to participate in the workshop, the workshop was observed for both evaluation and research, teachers participated in focus groups (n=2) during the workshop in order to discuss their interest in OS 3-D printing technology and its potential role in their classrooms, and teachers completed a voluntary post-workshop survey and responded to follow-up after printers were in the classroom for one year. ResultsDuring the workshop teachers built 3-D printers using OS technologies that they were then able to take back to their schools and into their classrooms. ConclusionThrough workshops augmented with online instructional and visual tools designed to provide facilitated yet self-directed engagement with a new, relatively unknown, and relatively complex technology, paired teacher teams were able to successfully build and use RepRap 3-D printers based on OS design in just three days. PracticeHere, we discuss both what the teachers learned and what we learned from the teachers regarding the potential for educators to construct OS 3-D printing technologies as a tool of empowering and transformative education. ImplicationsOpen-source 3-D printing technologies have the potential to improve education through a sense of empowerment resulting from active participation, as well as through cross-curriculum engagement. Display Omitted Open-source 3D printing provides a cost efficient means of STEM education.These technologies can also empower student-driven engaged learning.Report on workshop for science educators to build 3D printers for their classes.Teacher workshop augmented with online instructional and visual tools.Results indicate transformative potential of these technologies in the classroom.
{"title":"Open-Source 3-D Printing Technologies for Education: Bringing Additive Manufacturing to the Classroom","authors":"Chelsea Schelly, G. Anzalone, B. Wijnen, Joshua M. Pearce","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3331158","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3331158","url":null,"abstract":"Objective3-D printing technologies have the potential to improve both Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education and Career and Technical Education (CTE), as well as integrating these two educational emphases and providing opportunities for cross-curriculum engagement. The objective of this study is to investigate the potential of open-source (OS) technologies in an educational setting, given the combination of economic constraints affecting all educational environments and the ability of OS design to profoundly decrease the cost of technological tools and technological innovation. MethodsThis paper reports on a 3-day workshop augmented with online instructional and visual tools designed for middle school and high school level educators from a wide array of disciplines (including traditional science, math, and engineering as well as computer, shop, and art). Teachers (n=22) submitted applications to participate in the workshop, the workshop was observed for both evaluation and research, teachers participated in focus groups (n=2) during the workshop in order to discuss their interest in OS 3-D printing technology and its potential role in their classrooms, and teachers completed a voluntary post-workshop survey and responded to follow-up after printers were in the classroom for one year. ResultsDuring the workshop teachers built 3-D printers using OS technologies that they were then able to take back to their schools and into their classrooms. ConclusionThrough workshops augmented with online instructional and visual tools designed to provide facilitated yet self-directed engagement with a new, relatively unknown, and relatively complex technology, paired teacher teams were able to successfully build and use RepRap 3-D printers based on OS design in just three days. PracticeHere, we discuss both what the teachers learned and what we learned from the teachers regarding the potential for educators to construct OS 3-D printing technologies as a tool of empowering and transformative education. ImplicationsOpen-source 3-D printing technologies have the potential to improve education through a sense of empowerment resulting from active participation, as well as through cross-curriculum engagement. Display Omitted Open-source 3D printing provides a cost efficient means of STEM education.These technologies can also empower student-driven engaged learning.Report on workshop for science educators to build 3D printers for their classes.Teacher workshop augmented with online instructional and visual tools.Results indicate transformative potential of these technologies in the classroom.","PeriodicalId":406666,"journal":{"name":"Applied Computing eJournal","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134401431","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Md. Kowsher, M. J. Uddin, Mir Md. Moheuddin, Mahbuba Yesmin Turaba
Regression is a process to estimate the bond among variables. It is a statistical technique and is used as prediction with the curve fitting in machine learning, data science, economics, etc. Linear and Polynomial regression is widely used to fit a curve and forecasting result. In this exploration, we propose two new linear and non-linear regression techniques using the strategy of interpolation-extrapolation and bisection of numerical analysis. However, interpolation and extrapolation cannot be applied in regression because of over-fitting curve. In our paper, we have developed a technique to reduce the curve fitting that will enable the interpolation and extrapolation scheme to use in regression. Another procedure is to find out an equation of curve fitting in an optimal way using the Bisection Method. We also demonstrate the graphical presentations and comparison through all the occurring iterations.
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