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The word engineering is used in various contexts and for a broad range of disciplines. But there is no common understanding for engineering disciplines. It is not clear which disciplines exist, the scope of disciplines is not defined, and there is no common naming conventions for engineering disciplines. This paper shall promote the common understanding of engineering by an investigation on the diversity...
We all know that the development of science and technology from the middle of the twentieth century has been closely associated with computers. For nearly half a century, computers have been present in the life of my family and have largely determined it. We were not just witnessing the formation of the computer epoch, but also we were active participants in the upcoming era of "second literacy".
This paper describes our attempt to extract various relations between super ordinate concepts from terabytes of Web corpus for human-like speculation of the meaning of unknown terms. In order to discover various conceptualized relations, we focus on Web-scale text corpora and introduce a simple string-matching method to process them. To derive relations between concepts, our method first extracts...
Individual opinions and experiences are published in Web as CGM (consumer generated media). A tourism blog which a tourist wrote his experience and impression in a certain area is very helpful information for other tourists. However, a user cannot obtain such precious information without knowing the relation of blog articles and concrete place-names. We paid our attention to the hierarchical structure...
Banks are two-sided markets when they supply payment platforms and make users interacting. The main characteristic of two-sided market is network externality, network externality determine the value of two-sided markets which is determined by users' number of both sides. A key question is the boundary or equilibrium of two-sided markets, if network externality works, the return of scale is increasing...
Based on our previous work, this paper discusses IT utilization by long-established Japanese companies and its effects. According to our interviews to some managers of such companies, IT systems have been actively introduced and have shown positive effects. For example, multiple numbers of longestablished Japanese-style confectionary companies in Kyoto such as Wakanaya and Fujikoma, a soba noodle...
Crowd funding has been embraced by entrepreneurs across the globe as an alternative to traditional sources of funding. However, it is not clear that ICT entrepreneurs in Sweden have embraced it as warmly, despite the potential benefits it offers. This paper explores this empirical puzzle in light of two complementary theoretical literatures: institutional entrepreneurship and technology affordances...
Studies about user participation on crowd sourcing platforms have revealed lists of different motivational factors. Reward and payment seems to be crucial at least on market places for creative ideas or workforce. However, past surveys or experiments mostly concentrated on one platform each with little theoretic background. The present exploratory study within the theoretic frame of motivation and...
Marketing is a managerial function and a set of procedures for generating, cooperating and providing value to clients and improving customer relationships to earn more profit for the organization. Operative marketing is about receiving messages from potential customers in some creative ways to affect their purchase decisions. This paper concentrates on the relationship between information technology...
Provides an abstract of the keynote presentation and a brief professional biography of the presenter. The complete presentation was not made available for publication as part of the conference proceedings.
To this day, active discussions and attempts were made to develop the IT foundation in order to ensure growth and advancement of the sports related industry and to ensure individual companies' marketability and enhancement. In particular, development of the system in the current super high network in Korea that enables effective linkage and sharing of sports related information, and the system's effective...
Internet company valuation has long been considered as a big challenge due to uncertainties. In this paper, a real option analysis framework is proposed to evaluate the value of Internet companies. The proposed framework consists of four steps: strategic analysis, uncertainty analysis, option identification and option analysis. Relative to traditional valuation methods, this proposed analysis framework...
The signals released by the online retailer can influence the consumers' trust in the retailer, and then, make an impact on consumer's purchase intention. This research will directly examine the effect of trust signals on online retailers' sales. The data are collected from Taobao (www.taobao.com), and contain 400 samples unit with product and four categories. With linear regression model, this research...
The stock discussion board is becoming an important public forum because of its fast speed, wide influence, large amount of information and high group pertinence. The bloom in the stock discussion board exerts a positive influence on the stock market. This paper sets the amount of posting on stock discussion board as a proxy of information flows. And after the empirical analysis of sample data, we...
Business Process Management (BPM) is an important tool for companies to cope with today's competitive market situation. One current mean to gain a competitive edge is through integrating social networks and software into BPM. But though knowledge and skills in this particular area are highly demanded by enterprises there is still a lack of sufficient teaching concepts. Universities typically only...
Blackboard network teaching platform provides teachers with convenient and handy tool modules to create, release, and manage online exams. It aims to reform the online examination methods. In this study, an exploration was made on medical information retrieval item bank based on blackboard network teaching platform. How to use the tool modules of blackboard network teaching platform to build item...
Along with the explosion of Internet user, Internet has been considered as the new channel for companies implementing their sales promotion activities. Consequently, this study seeks to offer insight into how popular online promotions (price-discount, coupon and free shipping) influence consumer's quality perception and purchase intentions. Moreover, brand awareness was expected to moderate the relationship...
Communities of developers have rapidly become global, encompassing multiple timezones and cultures alike. In previous work we investigated the possible shapes of communities for software development. In addition, we explored mechanisms to uncover communities emerging during development. However, we barely scratched the surface. We found that development communities yield properties of dynamic change...
Due to nature of insurance industry, the way it's represented and also the elegant application of this technology, insurance industry ought to choose a strategic approach to deal with internet. So it is necessary to determine the effects of internet on marketing mix of insurance services (as a strategy and a tool to conduct marketing projects plans including characteristic, tariffs, elation promotion,...
In recent decades with increasing of global economic competition, small and medium scale industrials (SMEs) have known as an economic growth engine and a tool for employment. Therefore, they have important role in growth and development of countries. In order that these firms can compete in the world and they use the advantages of information technology requires infrastructures which provides electronic...
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