A Model-Driven Approach for Solving the Software Component Allocation Problem
Published in: Algorithms
Dec 06, 2021
The underlying infrastructure paradigms behind the novel usage scenarios and services are becoming increasingly complex—from everyday life in smart cities to industrial environments. Both the number of devices involved and their heterogeneity make the allocation of software components quite challenging. Despite the enormous flexibility enabled by component-based software engineering, finding the optimal allocation of software artifacts to the pool of available devices and computation units coul...
Multi-agents collaboration in open system
Published in: International Arab Journal of Information Technology
Dec 01, 2021
Zina houhamdi
Belkacem Athamena
Share constrained resources, accomplish complex tasks and achieve shared or individual goals are examples requiring collaboration between agents in multi-agent systems. The collaboration necessitates an effective team composed of a set of agents that do not have conflicting goals and express their willingness to cooperate. In such a team, the complex task is split into simple tasks, and each agent performs its assigned task to contribute to the fulfilment of the complex task. Nevertheless, team...
Blockchain-Based Authentication in Internet of Vehicles: A Survey
Published in: Sensors
Nov 27, 2021
Judicial oversight as a form of governance in the face of administration arbitrariness in administrative decisions
Published in: Journal of Governance and RegulationOpen AccessVolume 10, Issue 4 Special issue, Pages 261 - 2712021
Oct 28, 2021
This research explains judicial control as a form of governance in the face of arbitrary administrative decisions — the UAE is an example (Zwart, 2016). The aim of the study is to demonstrate how judicial control can contribute to achieving good governance of the administrative decisions in the absence of the legislative provisions related to the causes of cancellation of an administrative decision. The data were sourced from relevant books, journals, official texts, and courts decisions. The d...
Assessing Service Quality and Customer Satisfaction Using online Reviews
Published in: The 17 Scientific Annual International Conference for Business
Oct 26, 2021
Kholoud AlQeisi
Shorouq F. Eletter
Prevailing communication technologies nowadays allow for consumers ex-changing and sharing views over many products and services and the prevalence of the online media furtherly accelerated e-WOM influence. E-MOW is considered valuable for customers, both existing and potential, to extract in-depth information about marketing offers in an objectively reduced effort or cost. Online reviews project major influence on consumer decisions; correspondingly customers lacking previous experience with a...
Corporate Governance and Financial Performance of Quoted Deposit Money Banks in Nigeria: An empirical investigation
Published in: African Journal of Business and Economic Research
Oct 21, 2021
This paper studied how firm governance affects the performance of quoted deposit money banks in Nigeria. The paper aimed to ascertain the effects of board size, board composition, and gender diversity after controlling for firm age and firm size on financial performance. The study was predicated on stewardship theory, agency theory, and resource dependency theory. Data was fetched from the financial statements of all quoted deposit money banks. The study utilized a panel regression method to ex...
Amicable Settlements for Civil and Commercial Disputes: A Comparative Study of Emirati and Egyptian Legislations
Published in: International Journal of Economics and Business Research (Scopus)
Oct 08, 2021
Firas Massadeh
Moustafa Kandeel
on-compulsory amicable dispute resolutions were examined by reviewing the legal nature and concept of mediation and conciliation within the legislations of the UAE and Egypt, in line with contemporary international legislations, such as that of France. We considered those civil and commercial law disputes which may be subject to amicable dispute resolution in pre-trial proceedings, including labour and family law matters and intellectual property rights. Within the latest legislative amended pr...