Chapter 1: Preliminaries -- Chapter 2: Makespan minimization for two-machine open shops -- Chapter 3: General open shop scheduling -- Chapter 4: Multiprocessor operations -- Chapter 5: Concurrent open shops -- Chapter 6: Open shop scheduling with simultaneity constraints -- Chapter 7:...

The present article aims to advance a comparative analysis among three countries - India, Romania and the United States - placing mobile devices, internet infrastructure and m-commerce at the core of the investigation. The scope of the study simultaneously covers the landscape and dynamics of...

Over the past five years, the use of mobile and wireless technology in public spaces of cities around the country has grown exponentially. There has been little analysis of the ways in which the use of the wireless Internet via WiFi may differ from that of the wireline Internet. This paper...