Research ArticleOpen accessIn the keywordsTourism Equilibrium Price TrendsMohammad Mohebi, Khalid Abdul RahimProblem statement: A review of the tourism history shows that tourism as an industry was virtually unknown in Malaysia until the late 1960s. Since then, it has developed and grown into a major industry, making an important contribution to the country's economy. By allocating substantial funds to the promotion of tourism and the provision of the necessary infrastructure, the government … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 9, Issue 4 · 7 Feb 2012 · 6,987 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the keywordsMeasuring the Resiliency of the Manhattan Points of Entry in the Face of Severe DisruptionMayada Omer, Ali Mostashari, Roshanak NilchianiProblem statement: Resilient infrastructure systems are able to continue to provide the expected service levels following disruptive events. Implementing resiliency in infrastructure systems requires knowledge of the current resiliency of the system and a methodology by which different resiliency strategies can be evaluated. In the transportation infrastructure in particular, disruptions cause delays, which will in turn incur substantial economic losses … …American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Vol. 4, Issue 1 · 15 Mar 2011 · 9,682 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the keywordsEvaluating the Readiness of Iranian Research Centers in Knowledge ManagementNasrin Dastranj Mamaghani, Reza Samizadeh, Fatemeh SaghafiProblem statement: Knowledge and its management are considered as a foundation for creating competitive advantages in organizations. Most of large companies have allocated plenty of resources to Knowledge Management (KM) because they believe Knowledge and its management is a foundation for creating competitive advantages in organizations. However, implementing knowledge management projects in an organization requires essential organizational changes. The main … …American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Vol. 3, Issue 1 · 31 Jan 2011 · 7,904 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the keywordsExplaining Local Growth-Management Policies: The Role of Public GoodsDonna Driscoll, Dennis Halcoussis, Anton D. LowenbergProblem statement: Local jurisdictions such as cities and counties enact a wide variety of growth-management regulations, such as zoning ordinances and growth-promoting incentives. Approach: Use a theory of local public goods to identify the conditions under which jurisdictions are most likely to implement growth-management regulations. Predictions of the theory regarding variation in pro-growth measures across jurisdictions were tested using data … …American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Vol. 2, Issue 1 · 31 Mar 2010 · 7,388 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the keywordsFiber Optic Sensors for Transportation Infrastructural Health MonitoringChin Chang, Rahul MehtaProblem statement: Monitoring the health of transportation infrastructures is currently reliant on transportation maintenance teams. Scheduled and periodic inspections on most of the infrastructures are performed by manual and visual operations, which are generally time consuming and costly procedures. The use of the fiber optic sensor technology makes it possible to realize continuous, real time and automatic health monitoring for … …American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Vol. 3, Issue 1 · 31 Mar 2010 · 8,342 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the keywordsEffects of Infrastructural Facilities on the Rental Values of Residential PropertyJulius Ajilowo Bayode Olujimi, Mustapha Oyewole BelloProblem statement: Real estate developers were consistently faced with the issue of making decisions on the types of property to invest their hard earned income or highly competitive secured mortgage funds, which were attached with high lending rates. One of the different sectors that are begging for such investment is residential property development. Approach: This study evaluated the effects of … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 5, Issue 4 · 31 Dec 2009 · 10,419 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the keywordsDigital Identities and the Promise of the Technology Trio: PKI, Smart Cards, and BiometricsA. M. Al-Khouri, J. BalThis article looks at one of the evolving crimes of the digital age; identity theft. It argues and explains that if three key technologies were implemented together namely biometrics, smart cards, and PKI, then they can deliver a robust and trusted identification and authentication infrastructure. The article concludes that such infrastructure may provide the foundation for e-government and e-commerce initiatives … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 3, Issue 6 · 30 Jun 2007 · 6,785 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the keywordsE-Commerce: Security and ApplicationsAs’ad Mahmoud Alnaser, Ahmed A.M. Sharadqeh, Hazem (Moh’d Said) Hatamleh et al.This study presents an investigation and comparing of all methods used in E-commerce security. Also it presents suggested methods to make e-commerce more secure. Applications of the E-commerce are demonstrated here. The efficiency of the security methods are measured and such efficiency increases as we combined more security methods with each other. A new method of security is suggested which … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 9, Issue 11 · 5 Sep 2012 · 7,300 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the keywordsA Holistic Approach to Security, Availability and Reliability in Fog ComputingAbdulrahman Alshehri, Hazzaa Alshareef, Samah Alhazmi et al.Abdulkareem, K. H., Mohammed, M. A., Gunasekaran, S. S., Al-Mhiqani, M. N., Mutlag, A. A., Mostafa, S. A., Ali, N. S., & Ibrahim, D. A. (2019). A Review of Fog Computing and Machine Learning: Concepts, Applications, Challenges, and Open Issues. IEEE Access, 7, 153123–153140. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2019.2947542 Alrawais, A., Alhothaily, A., Hu, C., & Cheng, X. (2017). Fog Computing for the Internet … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 20, Issue 6 · 20 Mar 2024 · 6,378 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the keywordsA Secured Blockchain-based Information-Centric NetworkAbdelrahman Sheham Abdellah, Sherif Saif, Hesham E. ElDeeb et al.In this study, we propose an Information-Centric Network (ICN) approach for the Internet as an alternative to the present host-centric architecture. The proposed approach solves present Internet challenges, where most Internet users nowadays are involved in seeking knowledge by searching through large amounts of data, independent of the data's physical locations and these users usually have requests that need prompt … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 18, Issue 4 · 17 Apr 2022 · 6,243 accessesView PDFCite