Growth of e-sales is the effect of global economic problems, technological progress, especially in information technology and consumers' tendency towards on-line shopping. The main aim of the article is to recognise the tendencies in e-sales in Poland and the factors blocking it, and the other...

E-commerce market continues to grow. It is so popular because more and more people are connected to the Internet. Nevertheless, not all online e-shops can be so proud of its conversion rates. The customers' satisfaction with the services of different types of e-shops are affected by many...

Operations of modern companies involve adjusting offered products and services to requirements and expectations of customers which are changing permanently. In order to keep up with expectations of consumers, they are engaged in production, promotion and consumption of co-produced goods or...

This article describes how with the rapid growth of cloud services in recent years, it is very difficult to choose the most suitable cloud services among those services that provide similar functionality. The quality of services (QoS) is considered the most significant factor for appropriate...

This article describes how the time taken to execute a query and return the results, increase exponentially as the data size increases, leading to more waiting times of the user. Hadoop with its distributed processing capability is considered as an efficient solution for processing such large...

This article describes how Cloud Computing is not just a buzzword but a shift from IT departments to the outsourcing vendors without impacting business efficiency. Some organizations are moving towards cloud computing but many have resistance to adopting cloud computing due to limitations in...

This article described how in the competitive deregulated electricity market forecasting has become one of the essential planning tool that assists the planners in preparing the power systems for future demands. The commercial success of the market players depends on their competitive bidding...

This article describes how basing on the future behavior of microgrid system, forecasting renewable energy power generation, load and real-time electricity price, a model predictive control (MPC) strategy is proposed in this article to optimize microgrid operations, while meeting the...

With the development of internet technologies and applications, video becomes the main source of online generated data. Real-time generated big data video on the internet have many challenges, which include broadcast, evaluation, storage, analysis, and transmission. For multimedia applications,...

Internet of Things (IoT) applications can offer a great potential of benefits to end users. We are moving towards an Internet of People, Things and Services (IoPTS) and a future world of ambient intelligence, where users can seamlessly interact with IoT devices and get information about the...