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The rapid development of social networks has woven themselves into people's daily life and become indispensable platforms with superior commercial and scientific values. Both companies and governments have discovered the potential effectiveness of employing social network users for information diffusion. Rather than only selecting a group of users who are interested in target topic, it is more beneficial...
A Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) is a popular way for universities to deliver quality course content to a global audience. Furthermore, a MOOC specialization offers a series of related such courses with a capstone component. Typical software engineering capstone projects in campus courses involve teamwork and creating software. Within such a context, students experience the software development...
This paper reports the initial result of a qualitative research on how to support customisation of SaaS (Software as a Service). The research follows the grounded theory method, and investigates the expectation of consultants who are specialized in customising enterprise software systems. The resulting theory contributes to the understanding of how customisation on SaaS differs from the traditional...
This paper presents a three-year participant observation in which the author acted as CTO of a software startup, spanning more than 9,000 hours of direct experience. The author's emails and diary reflections were analyzed and synthesized into a set of nine claims about software engineering work. These claims help shape software engineering research, practice, and education by provoking new questions...
The efforts of fraudsters to think up new ways of committing fraud, and of law enforcers to detect and prosecute those fraud, often feel like a long-running competition. Yet all too often, law enforcement is accused of falling far behind the fraudsters, especially in situations where the responsibility for detecting frauds falls on non-specialists in security or on the general public.
Programming is taught in India using English as the medium of instruction to students whose native language is not English. This places a high cognitive load on students who learn programming for the first time and who are not very proficient in English. Our study aims at finding out what the students feel if their native language is used along with English for teaching programming. As a part of our...
With the data universe expanding to uncontrollable limits, we are losing control of our personal information. From online purchases to movie streaming, we are giving vendors more and more information, such that our privacy is at stake. Hackers and third-parties can gain access to this information, putting us at risk to a number of attacks. The current model where every online vendor has personal information,...
Iran is a country that is located on one of the biggest faults in the world, which is stretched from Italy to China. It is a strong reason for disastrous incidents to happen in this area. Among all 33 natural disasters that happen consecutively in different parts of the country, earthquake is the most perilous one. Many fundamental facilities and vital urban plants, e.g. electricity, have encountered...
The new concept of omni-channel has inspired researchers to develop a model of consumer confusion to increase purchase intention. Previous studies were tested that the omni-channel integration quality can improve customer satisfaction. As a novelty, this study introduced omni-channel integration as a moderating variable that influence consumer confusion to the intention of purchase. This paper constituted...
Detecting social communities in large social networks provides an effective way to analyze the social media users' behaviors and activities. It has drawn extensive attention from both academia and industry. One essential aspect of communities in social networks is outer influence which is the capability to spread internal information of communities to external users. Detecting the communities of high...
Researchers often discuss marketing strategies against the backdrop of big data, or use big data in tourism marketing. Limited is known about how a destination should use social media for tourism marketing at big data age. The paper is trying to do a tentative exploration for it by taking the WeChat tourism marketing of Dehong Dai and Jingpo autonomous prefecture for the national day golden week in...
Since the deceleration of the markets of infrastructures in developed economies occurred, the growing demand for infrastructure development in semi-developed countries has become more outstanding. Semi-developed countries such as Thailand aims to become a developed country. However, it is stuck in 'semi-developed country trap'. To break through this, Thai people need local industries with high-added...
This paper proposes a constraint-free model and a budget-constrained model to determine the optimal air travel policy in terms of the seat upgrading. The approach strikes a balance between cost-saving and the boosted productivity by upgrading the employees to higher classes. We specify a benefit function based on the Hensher Equation's core idea and leverage economics assumptions of the marginal productivity...
Using the CityPulse framework we developed a proof of concept application for Braşov public transportation company. The application provides route recommendations and incident notifications for the citizens who travel by bus. This is achieved by processing in real-time the data streams about bus arrivals in stations and the incidents reported by citizens. The proof of concept application was presented...
Typosquatting means the act of purposefully registering a domain name that is a mistype of a popular domain name. Though the concept of typosquatting ages back to 15 years, it is still a new concept in a developing country like Bangladesh, where the Internet users are growing drastically. This paper aims at analysing the typosquatting scenario of popular domains of Bangladesh. Domains are checked...
Although good results for automatic text classification can be achieved with the use of bag-of-words representation, this model is not suitable for all classification problems and richer text representations can be required. In this paper, we proposed two text representation models based on semantic role labels and analyzed them in text classification scenarios. We also evaluated the combination of...
Hirda, a tropical fruit is one of the primary sources of income in many tribal villages of Pune district. Hirda is collected by the women from the villages in large scale to sell in the local market. This is a study of supply chain of Hirda. Based on the study some recommendations are given to create better supply chain and help tribal people to get a higher share of the profit. The supply chain of...
The amount of data that businesses collect and analyze has been rapidly increasing, which has triggered an increase in big data teams. With the growth of both the number and size of big data teams, specialized roles are starting to be defined. One such role is the data engineer, who focuses on ensuring that the data is easily available for advanced analytics. Via a case study, this paper explores...
This study investigates students' industrial training experience and explores the ways to possibly enhance students' training experience. The findings show that providing more related information to students will definitely help them in gaining better training experience.
We extend beyond healthiness assessment of banks using quantitative financial data by applying textual sentiment analysis. Looking at public annual reports for a large sample of U.S. banks in the 2000-2014 period, we identify 52 public bank holding companies that were associated with bank failures during the global financial crisis. Utilizing sentiment dictionaries designed for financial context,...
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