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Background: Online forums are instruments through which information or problems are shared and discussed, including expressions of interests and intentions. Objective: In this paper, we present ongoing work aimed at analyzing the content of forum posts of a hybrid open source company that offers both free and commercial licenses, in order to help its community manager gain improved understanding of...
Research has emerged over the past decade showing gender biases in software. Although a few methods and prototype systems have emerged to help address this issue, none have been reported to have an impact on the people who actually build software. In this paper, we summarize a few highlights from a year-long field study investigating how Gender HCI methods to address gender biases in software can...
IPO secondary offerings have been widely concerned by people. The purpose of this paper is to study the effect of IPO secondary offerings on IPO underpricing in China's capital market. The data about IPO secondary offerings and IPO underpricing in the Shanghai and Shenzhen A stock market listed companies from December 2013 to April 2016 are used for empirical analysis. The study finds that the IPO...
The use of chemical substances and their potential impacts on human health and the environment is a concern world-wide. This paper looks at substances and substance restrictions, why they are restricted, and how they affect the safe use and disposal of electrical, toy, and medical products.
Due to the exponential growth of internet using, the habits of internet users have changed. This generate huge amount of data. It becomes important to explore this mine of knowledge and take advance on concurrent. In context of digital marketing, the user's data is the enterprise assets to personalize the content of websites and establish contact and communication with customers through internet channels...
Promote the merger and reorganization of coal enterprises and improving coal industry concentration is currently the main development trend of coal enterprises in China. However, with the control problems are increasing. At present, the scholars often research and exploration of coal enterprise management-control model in subsidiary view. This article combines with CCNH case to analyze main problems...
While performing a routine unlock and energization on a medium-voltage motor starter, the job scope changed to involve troubleshooting the equipment to attempt to find the cause of apparent linkage binding. As the electrical worker began reassembling the starter and inserting the large doublebarrel fuses, he inadvertently pushed the racking assembly in, which caused the shutters to open and the stabs...
In order to continue survive in today's competitive business environment, the key to success for many manufacturing companies is productivity. In response to the external pressure of global competition, many firms were compelled to implement and focus on productivity improvement. Numerous quality management approaches and tools such as Toyota Production System (TPS), Total Productive Maintenance (TPM),...
Engineering-To-Order (ETO) companies have to respond to increasing demands to provide highly customized and complex products with high quality at competitive prices. In order to respond to those challenges ETO companies have started to implement product configuration systems (PCS) to increase efficiency of the specification processes. As a result to complex products and processes in ETO companies,...
The main objective of this research is to analyze information of customer contact made to a call center section of a telecommunication company in Thailand. Using role hierarchy mining approach (as process mining technique) enabled us to focus on the hierarchical perspectives of the collected event log with respect to the functional relationships amongst the originators (i.e., the administrators and...
The Demand-Driven MRP (DDMRP) is a recent method focusing on manufacturing and distribution flows that is supposed to manage uncertainties better than traditional Manufacturing Resources Planning (MRP). Nevertheless, this assertion has never been scientifically demonstrated. In this paper, a case study is investigated in order to objectively and quantitatively compare these two systems. A Discrete-Event...
In recent years, network lending platforms grow explosively. The number of network lending platforms is above 500, which has become a financing measure. Based on 20 network lending companies from www.wangdaizhijia.com, this paper constructs a clustering index system with nine indicators including returns, liquidity and popularity. And the investors can make rational choice when they know the level...
Co-innovation in the consumer sector has not attracted a great deal of academic attention. Some experiences and research have been published on this subject; some in relation to sports equipment or leisure goods. Researchers studying new concepts, such as creative consumers, have examined this aspect. Along these lines, living labs have presented another paradigm attempting to approach science and...
While dealing with BigData and with data streams in particular, it is a common practice to summarize or aggregate customers' transaction history to the periods of few months. Consequently, we shall compress the given huge volume of data, and shall transfer the data stream to the standard rectangular format, where columns represent secondary aggregated features and rows represent customers. This data-matrix...
Opinion shopping has attracted extensive researches in accounting. There have been the changes of auditors to achieve the improvement of audit opinion or opinion shopping in practice. Regulators are also highly concerned about audit opinion shopping. However, the results of empirical researches have not yielded a consistent conclusion. The conventional wisdom in the literature focused on the single...
In this paper we have proposed automated job recruiting process along with psychometric analysis. Here the focus has been given in automating the job applying and CV processing system. A social networking website for the job seekers and employers is proposed to develop which will forward CV to the desired company or organizations automatically by matching the required criteria instead of traditional...
Sales pipeline analysis is fundamental to proactive management of an enterprize's sales pipeline and critical for business success. In particular, win propensity prediction, which involves quantitatively estimating the likelihood that on-going sales opportunities will be won within a specified time window, is a fundamental building block for sales management and lays the foundation for many applications...
Good software engineers are essential to the creation of good software. However, most of what we know about software-engineering expertise are vague stereotypes, such as 'excellent communicators' and 'great teammates'. The lack of specificity in our understanding hinders researchers from reasoning about them, employers from identifying them, and young engineers from becoming them. Our understanding...
The idea of introducing decision support system in manufacturing is to enable companies work more economically by using their manufacturing skills, time, space, money, and other manufacturing influencing factors more efficiently and effectively. The challenges associated with decision-making in manufacturing are numerous and sometimes complicated, most especially when faced with large number of factors...
The well known methods and solutions of prelanding air field coatings frictional properties control are considered. Examples of primarily used in the world practice measurement techniques of adhesion coefficient of runway are discussed. Original method for efficiency improvement of prelanding air field coatings frictional properties control is presented.
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