This article explores possible solutions for improving Location Based Services (LBS). For the purpose of this paper context, user profile, previous choices and the choice profiles of similar users are aspects taken into consideration. A possible implementation of an LBS system, in the form of a...

<title>Abstract</title>Machine learning techniques have proven good performance in classification matters of all kinds: medical diagnosis, character recognition, credit default and fraud prediction, and also foreign exchange market prognosis. Customer segmentation in private banking sector is an important step...

In this paper is presented a possibility to reduce execution time involved in evaluating a financial option by means finite difference scheme, using a cyclic odd-even reduction technique on a coarse-grained parallel model.

Director is one of the most popular authoring software. As software for developing multimedia applications, Director is an object oriented programming environment. A very important issue to develop multimedia applications is the designing of their own classes. This paper presents the particular...

This paper presents a solution for using complex Win32API data structures and functions in Visual C# .NET applications. We built DLL (Dynamic Link Library) to manage the API functions and data structures and we used DLL modules in a C# application. This is an easier working way compared with the...

Nowadays, business interoperability is one of the key factors for assuring competitive advantage for the participant business partners. In order to implement business cooperation, scalable, distributed and portable collaborative systems have to be implemented. This article presents some of the...

A special place into assistive technologies is taken up by the speech recognition and speech synthesizer, which can be used by many different users, persons with visual, language or mobility disabilities. For many years soft developers have been concerned by speech recognition and text-to-speech...

The paper proposes a solution to generate template based multimedia components for instruction and learning available both for computer based applications and for mobile devices. The field of research is situated at the intersection of computer science, mobile tools and e-learning and is...

The new programming technologies allow for the creation of components which can be automatically or manually assembled to reach a new experience in knowledge understanding and mastering or in getting skills for a specific knowledge area. A Visual C# .NET implementation under development is...

The pricing of options is a very important problem encountered in financial domain. The famous Black-Scholes model provides explicit closed form solution for the values of certain (European style) call and put options. But for many other options, either there are no closed form solution, or if...