Recent research in Geographic Information Systems (GISs) has created the kind of systems capable of modeling a number of interesting real world phenomena. Some applications where GISs have made significant contribution include routing, scheduling, dispatching, transportation logistics, vehicle tracking, market research, construction Planning, facility management and resource distribution. However, there seems to exist little connection between GIS solutions and much related research being carried out in other disciplines. This thesis studies the advantages of integrating recent research in ...

“In the truth there is no news and in the news there is no truth”, a soviet-era political joke, still applies to the present times. This study will highlight all the communication forms and how they are used nowadays as a tool for propaganda especially in the digital world. When website traffic, clicks, and reach are at stake, information disorder in the form of misleading/fake information would be used as a tool to enhance data metrics across the digital world. This study tackles information disorder during all its phases: creation, production, communication, and the user experience through ...

The 80/20 rule says that 20% of the customers produce 80% of the sales; this rule indicates the existence of hidden sales potentials that must be revealed. Those hidden sales potentials can only be discovered by building acustomer profile. A smart customer profile finds the high potential targets, creates CRM strategies, and starts programs to sell the hidden targets. Shifting just a small percentage of the customers whom are not generating profit to the top group of customers generating profit adds significantly sales growth increase profits. Customer profile puts the full picture together to ...

Retail space planning is an accurate and complex process affecting the overall performance of a retail environment. Such task, confronting large retailers consisting of huge malls and hypermarkets, appears infinite in the absence of a complete automated process, starting from the store plan generation, passing by the optimal product assortment and finishing with the product-to-shelf allocation problem. Moreover, the ever-changing factors affecting the retail space planning process, such as merchandising rules, competitive strategies and consumer behavior require continuous follow-up and optimization ...

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems are vital for managing any modern-day business. These systems aim to facilitate an organization's work by automating and integrating all business information and processes. However, ERP systems suffer from many problems that may cause an implementation failure. Many of these problems are related to usability, which is affected by the complexity of user interfaces (Uls). Usability can be defined in terms of an end-user's efficiency, effectiveness, and satisfactions. A study was conducted in this thesis to inquire about the usability problems that ...

Quantum Computers, the next wave of computing, and an emerging field in computer science have brought numerous advancements to problem solving and a quantum approach to programming a certain machine. This thesis tackles three main areas in the approach to quantum computers. First, the thesis provides a state-of-the-art review to Quantum computers/ Second it proposes a timeline for the progress of the technology and highlights the importance of early action. Finally, it focuses on the implications of such advancements on the current standards of network security. Specifically, it proposes ...

Existing smart contract development languages are unique to their related block chain platforms. Thus, multiple versions of the same smart contract must be developed for different block chains. This thesis presents a model-driven approach to smart contract development with automatic code generation. This approach encompasses a new XML-based programming language to develop smart contracts and a code generator that transforms those contracts to a platform-specific programming language. The XML-based language was discussed, and all supported constructs were illustrated. The code generation tool ...

In this thesis digital image is introduced as an amount of data, which is produced when a 2-D light intensity function is sampled and quantized to create a digital image. Its principle objective is to define the segmentation process, in which we can partition an image into meaningful regions that correspond to part of, or the whole of objects within a scene. This is done by systematically dividing the whole image up into its constituent areas or regions. If the regions do not correspond directly to a physical object, or object surface, then they should correspond to some area of uniformity. Major ...

This thesis uses the link structure of the World Wide Web as a basis to create better search engines. It focuses on the HITS algorithm, which was the first algorithm to up the link topology. HITS is implemented with slight modifications and tested with variations of its input parameters. It is also used in order to discover emerging communities in cyberspace. Other related algorithms, which use the link structure of the web as an undirected graph are described and compared with HITS. Finally, an attempt to combine link-based with text-based analysis in order to create more accurate search methods ...

Software components enable practical reuse of software parts and amortization of investments over multiple applications. Software components are binary units of independent production, acquisition that are combined together to form a functioning system. Building solution by combining bought and made components improves quality and supports rapid development, leading to short time to market. For these reasons, component technology is expected by many to be the corner stone of software in the year to come. Even though component software is a very promising way of building applications, it is very ...