Open source software expectations in retail businesses of Igualada : an exploratory study

The emergence of open source software in the last years has become a common topic of study in different fields, from the most technical characteristics to the economical aspects. This paper examines the current status about the literature dealing with economics of open source and explores the uses, infrastructure and expectations of retail businesses and institutions of the town of Igualda about it. This qualitative case study finds out that the current equipment and level of uses of ICTs are low and that the current situation of the town stores is receptive to a potential introduction of open source software.

Alarma d'incendis, sistemes encastats

El projecte tracta de la realització d'una centraleta d'alarmes d'incendis basat en sistemes encastats amb un sistema operatiu TinyOs i programació amb NesC.

Transformació de dades pel comerç electrònic de Tous

Aquest projecte es tracta de la creació d'una aplicació que ens ajudarà a establir comunicació entre la web de comerç on-line de l'empresa “Joieria Tous”, que estarà administrat per “GSI Commerce” i el sistema informàtic de la nostra central logística. Observarem que el sistema actual és totalment propietari i fet a mida, llavors per poder tenir una comunicació amb les noves botigues on-line s'ha de crear una plataforma que transformi les dades d'entrada al sistema informàtic de la nostra empresa i les dades de sortida al sistema informàtic de la empresa externa que gestionarà el comerç on-line: “GSI Commerce”.

Art painting Data Collection

The classification of Art painting images is a computer vision applications that isgrowing considerably. The goal of this technology, is to classify an art paintingimage automatically, in terms of artistic style, technique used, or its author. For thispurpose, the image is analyzed extracting some visual features. Many articlesrelated with these problems have been issued, but in general the proposed solutionsare focused in a very specific field. In particular, algorithms are tested using imagesat different resolutions, acquired under different illumination conditions. Thatmakes complicate the performance comparison of the different methods. In thiscontext, it will be very interesting to construct a public art image database, in orderto compare all the existing algorithms under the same conditions. This paperpresents a large art image database, with their corresponding labels according to thefollowing characteristics: title, author, style and technique. Furthermore, a tool thatmanages this database have been developed, and it can be used to extract differentvisual features for any selected image. This data can be exported to a file in CSVformat, allowing researchers to analyze the data with other tools. During the datacollection, the tool stores the elapsed time in the calculation. Thus, this tool alsoallows to compare the efficiency, in computation time, of different mathematicalprocedures for extracting image data.

Fading models and metrics for contemporary wireless systems

The purpose of this paper is to examine (1) some of the models commonly used to represent fading,and (2) the information-theoretic metrics most commonly used to evaluate performance over those models. We raise the question of whether these models and metrics remain adequate in light of the advances that wireless systems haveundergone over the last two decades. Weaknesses are pointedout, and ideas on possible fixes are put forth.

Els Negocis ètnics : el nou petit comerç de la BCN cosmopolita?

T’has parat mai a pensar com és de rica la nostra ciutat culturalment parlant i com és de significativa la varietat de negocis que en ella hi ha?En els darrers anys molts d’aquest negocis han estat establerts per immigrants.L’estudi que us presentem a continuació és un anàlisi d’aquesta recent tipologia de comerç i de l’impacte que està tenint en la Barcelona actual.

Prácticas de embarque : Fortuny

En este trabajo pretendo exponer de manera resumida los principales trabajos que herealizado en el buque Fortuny de la naviera Trasmediterranea, actualmente AccionaTrasmediterranea.Este buque esta clasificado como súper ferry debido a las altas velocidades que alcanza.Es un buque que transporta carga rodada y pasaje, denominado Ro-Ro Pax. Suele estarubicado en el sector de Baleares.Es uno de los buques insignia de Trasmediterranea. Dispone de capacidad para 1.000 pasajeros, 1.800 metros lineales de carga y 330 vehículos. Además, tiene 172 metros de eslora, 26,2 metros de manga y cuentan con una potencia de 29.000 KW, lo que les permite alcanzar una velocidad de 23,5 nudos. Posee, además, estabilizadores de aletas y sistemas antiescora, para la corrección de la inclinación transversal en condiciones de viento y evitar asimetrías de peso. Construido en el astillero Izar en Puerto Real (Cádiz).

Timing of seasonal sales

We present a model of timing of seasonal sales where stores chooseseveral designs at the beginning of the season without knowingwich one, if any, will be fashionable. Fashionable designs have achance to fetch high prices in fashion markets while non-fashionableones must be sold in a discount market. In the beginning of theseason, stores charge high prices in the hope of capturing theirfashion market. As the end of the season approaches with goods stillon the shelves, stores adjust downward their expectations that theyare carrying a fashionable design, and may have sales to capture thediscount market. Having a greater number of designs induces a storeto put one of them on sales earlier to test the market. Moreover,price competition in the discount market induces stores to startsales earlier because of a greater perceived first-mover advantage incapturing the discount market. More competition, perhaps due todecreases in the cost of product innovation, makes sales occur evenearlier. These results are consistent with the observation that thetrend toward earlier sales since mid-1970's coincides with increasingproduct varieties in fashion good markets and increasing storecompetition.

Interfaz Siebel ‐ Intranet

Una empresa que da servicios de asistencia a usuarios para una entidad bancaria gestiona y registra las incidencias que los empleados u oficinas puedan tener mediante un software CRM. Los empleados del banco no tienen acceso a dicho software, con lo que necesitan alguna forma de poder llegar a cierta información. Este proyecto rellena dicho hueco, estableciendo una conexión extremo a extremo de forma segura y eficaz. Por medio de ficheros XML se envían las solicitudes y las respuestas desde la intranet del banco (mediante un formulario de registro de incidencias) hasta los sistemas CRM.