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To date, there are few published articles relating to the taxonomy of smartphone users, thus leading to the lack of understanding of the specific factors on why different users continued to use smartphones in their daily activities and tasks, including distributed decision making. To address this issue and to fill the gap in the literature, we conducted an exploratory study to derive an empirically-based...
This paper reports on an ongoing design-driven action research effort using information systems to promote transparency in the European freight transport industry. The current lack of transparency is linked to a growth of unsustainable business practices. This can be countered by reducing information asymmetry. However, access to reliable information is hampered by the severely fragmented organizational...
Changes and innovations are needed in the area of instruction and control of employees to perform reliably and cost effective in order picking. The information must be easily accessible - communicated in a succinct way to overcome intellectual, socio-educational as well as language barriers. This case mainly focuses on conducting, research in the field of technical support by assistance systems for...
Growth in the interconnectivity of the internet and mobile technology has paved the way for augmented reality (AR) to be used in apparel, engaging consumers through extended garment features, such as promotion, entertainment and information delivery. However, for this to achieve social acceptance, consumers have to be informed of the emerging technology and persuaded of its benefits. Using a qualitative...
The Big Data minitrack features a number of papers addressing methods and techniques, issues and challenges, and organizational approaches to processing and managing Big Data within an organizational environment. This year three papers focus on the financial domain, one on competitive sports, one on mobile advertising, and one paper on a framework for Big Data coordination and governance. These papers...
The complexity of enterprise has increased along with advance in technology and increases in development speed. Branding concerns in both producer and customer for market feedback are the keys to running an efficient branded company. Therefore, this paper uses upon brand equity theory to propose a model from two different aspects (by producers and by customers) to view product/service branding behavior...
Provision of sufficient network capacity for the wireless data protocol is presently the biggest challenge in telecom industry; Discussions are underway to take advantage of hundreds of megahertz in an unlicensed spectrum. In late 2013, telecom companies were presented a proposal by the Third Generation Partnership Project to retool and deploy Long Term Evolution technologies in unlicensed bands....
The dynamics of the telecommunication industry is constantly moving and changing industrial structure along with the increases years, technological developments and regulatory changes. Through SCP (Structure-Conduct-Performance) paradigm approach, this research is aimed to comprehensively analyze both quantitative and qualitative data of the structure and performance of telecommunication industry...
Confronted with flerce competition, an increasing number of telecommunication companies in China realize that they can increase proflts by reducing the rate of customer churn rather than attracting the same number of new customers. Recently, the availability of big data has increased, which has stimulated the development of data mining techniques. Identifying methods by which to maximize proflts is...
Users often fail to find the right keywords to precisely describe their queries in the information seeking process. Techniques such as user intention predictions and personalized recommendations are designed to help the users figure out how to formalize their queries. In this work, we aim to help users identify their search targets using a new approach called Interactive User Intention Understanding...
There is strongly increasing focus on Inventory of Operational Support Systems (OSS) in today's mobile telecom business, where mobile operators must address fast evolving requirements, technologies and standards. The main inventory dimensions to be covered in a mobile network could be split into three, which serves as a methodical approach to define the methodology for Inventory System solutions design...
Nowadays, companies are usually strongly interested in discovering the latent social influences among their customers since the information is highly valuable to their marketing strategies. In this paper, we study how to model the influence probabilities among the customers of a telecommunication company by analyzing their call records and mobile web browsing histories. We first construct a directed...
Internet technology has changed many aspects in business these days, from new product and services development, to business process improvement such as online tender, mobile payment, online registration, and many others. As a result of those changes, companies need the right resources who understand on how to do business and compete in this new economy hence new competencies are hired. This research...
With the abundant on-board resources in smart vehicles, they have been considered major candidates for providing ubiquitous services. Processing and storage resources provided through on-board units along with a variety of sensing and communication capabilities can turn smart vehicles into potential computing engines that can be pooled to serve as powerful vehicular clouds (VCs). Computing tasks can...
The paper considers Machine to Machine (M2M) different access methods are analyses to determine their security aspects. Financial billing system structure consists of architecture, protocol stacks, and communication mechanism. M2M/IoT is widely used in vary industrials energy, transport, industrial communication control, public/private services management, e-health, water, oil and other industries...
The issues of sustainability have been acknowledged to be in the heart of the 21st century innovations and competitive business. In a rising extent companies need to report their activities and levels of sustainability. The motivation rises from external sources (e.g. regulators, stakeholders, media) but also from companies' internal goals and management actions. The importance of sustainability measurement...
This study attempts to invest evolution technological development and competitive situation of mobile telecommunication industry by the use of patent analysis from the perspective of dynamic competitive. The four-step framework of dynamic competitive theory proposed by Chen in 2008 is adapted to investigate dynamic evolution of eight firms in mobile telecommunication industry, i.e. Apple, Samsung,...
Since the 1980s, the telephone survey has become a primary form for gathering public opinion or market information. Polling can help understand the general population's opinions, consumers' behaviors or predict election results. Based on AAPOR, it became clear that most telephone surveys of the general population would require the combination of a sample reached via landline and one reached via cell...
Based on the combination of fuzzy rules and evidence theory, a fuzzy evidential reasoning system is applied to evaluate the bidding behaviors of the generating companies in the electricity market. In the proposed approach, evaluating factors are described using fuzzy belief structures with relative importance weights, and belief rules are used to describe the uncertainty of the rules. Relevant rules...
As the climate becomes increasingly volatile, global agriculture practices need to rely more on up-to date scientific knowledge to optimize agriculture practices. However, smallholder farmers, who provide 80% of the food supply in Asia and Africa are the most vulnerable, as access to information is most difficult for them. The connected crop solution for smallholder farmers provides personalized crop...
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