Contra the current trend of deregulation, mobile wireless markets in the OECD member states appear, until recently, to have been more or less concentrated. The study estimates the equations for market concentration, mobile prices, and profits using annual panel data from 24 OECD member states...

Logistics, Wireless Sensor Networks, Applications, Modeling. - Logistics has experienced a long time of developments and improvements based on the advanced vehicle technologies, transportation systems, traffic network extension and logistics processes. In the last decades, the complexity has...

Multimediale Informations- und Führungssysteme in Kultur und Freizeit spielen eine zunehmend wichtige Rolle für Besucher von Sehenswürdigkeiten und Ausstellungen. Derartige Systeme können als Weiterentwicklung von herkömmlichen Audioguides ihre Nutzer bei der Orientierung im...

In this paper we describe mobile virtual healthcare communities as a solution for meeting cancerpatients information and interaction needs1. After an introduction into the healthcare system and itspotential starting points for virtual communities we focus on cancer patients. We analyse...

This paper describes several techniques for accelerating a virtual try-on garment simulation on a mobile device (smartphone or tablet) using parallel computing on a multicore CPU, GPU computing or both depending on the mobile hardware. The system exploits a mass-spring cloth model with velocity...

Mobile and other PDA devices allow us to access the World Wide Web anytime and anywhere using fully functional mobile web browsers. This study utilizes the mobile web to deliver services to register students for courses at Fiji National University (FNU). Developing dynamic web based applications...