The Internet presents many possibilities by which small firms can better identify and exploit marketing opportunities. A prerequisite to successful on‐line firm‐customer interactions is the existence of a trusting bond between the network players. This research study examines the extent to...

A non-overlapping domain decomposition algorithm of Neumann–Neumann type for solving variational inequalities arising from the elliptic boundary value problems in two dimensions with unilateral boundary condition is presented. We suppose that boundary with inequality condition is...

We describe the capabilities of Lugares for obtaining the equations and graphs of plane loci. Lugares is a Windows program written in Prolog that offers a standard dynamic geometry environment and uses the symbolic capabilities of CoCoA, a computer algebra system specialized in Groebner basis...

A novel closed loop track based multi‐head robot has been developed to increase the material handing throughput. This robot allows waves of autonomous robot heads to move materials in to the working path by eliminating the traditional return path. Two distributed control architectures were...

The current availability of online direct marketing databases provides numerous opportunities for marketing professionals to improve their marketing strategies and tactics. This paper illustrates how online “mailing file” data, formerly known simply as “mailing lists”, can be used to...

The great number of relations that arise in production process, in exchange and many other activities, set us the task of analyzing and studying the characteristics of the relations between partners, phenomena, processes or activities with a view to rendering the activity efficient. Modeling...