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More and more people express their personal views and opinions to an event through micro-blog at the same time they also convey their emotions. The micro-blog can reflect the relationship between the event and people's interests, the degree of influence. The emotional complexity of a text is to measure the variety of people's emotional response in a text. In this paper the text is the whole micro-blog,...
The role of computer and information literacy in the contemporary digital society is as important as language proficiency. This is widely exemplified in the graduate requirements in many tertiary institutions: students must pass the compulsory IT subject(s), often as a mandatory General Education (GE) course, before graduation irrespective of majors. Challenges arise to the computer science faculty...
One of the most significant characteristic features of digital histological images is changing of the form of microobjects (cells) of the same class. The requirement to corresponding points is the stability of their position on the contour, i.e. invariance of their position during rotation, translation. The proposed algorithm of determining the corresponding points on the basis of the central moments...
Modeling Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) processes of a Data Warehousing System has always been a challenge. The heterogeneity of the sources, the quality of the data obtained and the conciliation process are some of the issues that must be addressed in the design phase of this critical component. Commercial ETL tools often provide proprietary diagrammatic components and modeling languages that are not...
According to research literature, Service blueprints suffer from weaknesses that include difficulty in representing all information using only flowchart-style diagrams and ambiguous traditional notation. Accordingly, a service blueprint itself is not sufficient as a base for designing practical service, and service design processes have been proposed based on an extended service blueprint representation,...
For the least connections algorithm currently used cannot solve the problem of inaccurately reflecting the load capacity of servers caused by the situation that the difference of resources consumed by different requests is very big, this paper designs a new algorithm named UCM algorithm. It means use the unused rate of the CPU and Memory as the actor to calculate the weight of the server, and introduces...
Text Summarization is a method of reducing the original text document into a short description. This short version retains the meaning and information content of the original text document. It is a difficult task for human beings to generate the summary for very large documents manually. The linguistic and statistical features of sentence can be used to find the importance of sentences. The Latent...
This paper describes the pedagogy of how the 7-week course on computer fundamentals is introduced and taught to a class of 700 first year undergraduate students from the schools of business and computing. The computer fundamentals course itself covers theoretical topics such as the hardware and software of computers, information systems and programming basics as well as practical topics such as using...
It is very difficult for students who do not have a business career or experience to understand business models or structures. In addition, business models from the student viewpoint remain largely within a model-based understanding, and students do not have practical opportunities to create an image of business uncertainty. Our goal is to provide an experimental learning environment beyond the level...
Information technology has irrevocably transformed businesses, education, healthcare, banking, government, and many other key sectors. It is impacting nearly every aspect of human activities in practically all fields redefining the way we live, communicate, socialize, collaborate, and transact. It also continues to leap ahead offering new capabilities and extending its utility. Adoption of IT in practice,...
The tax change from business tax to Value Added Tax in transportation enterprise in 2013, which is undoubtedly a good opportunity for the future of transportation enterprise's development, but this requires transportation enterprise must be accurately calculating transportation cost. From 10 road long-distance bus terminals in Beijing and Luoyang, we found that transportation cost was not accounted...
Recent developments such as the introduction of new mobile banking and mobile payment services represent both an opportunity and a challenge for banks. While there is great potential to increase revenue by providing new services to customers, this goes together with the need to improve the understanding of customer data through deeper analysis, and to react quickly to changes in customer demands....
Learning to use distributed business systems requires expensive and sustained training efforts. An approach to nurture local users to become mentors for colleagues has been developed as an alternative to training courses. A user level plus a mentor level distance learning course were evaluated amongst users of a health information system in Malawi. The user level course was adequate for users with...
Web based computing technology and services has proliferated exponentially and seen mammoth growth in the way people interact with systems across the globe since last decade. Nowadays user community has turned into contributor community and interactive social web platforms have made them empowered for global content creation and consumption. This content exploding is continued and ever increasing...
Gamification is the incorporation of game mechanics into a non-gaming environment such as business, health and education. In 2013 the author taught an Internet based semester module on Information Technology. The participants in that module were in full-time employment and often also had family commitments. During that semester nearly 80% of the homework was returned late. In 2014 the author taught...
The design of class in the different layer is one of the most important works in software development based on three-tier architecture, however, the methods of component are the core of class and the characters of the function (component method) in different layer are different so to find out these characters and to form the design strategy of component method called function in this paper is very...
The requirement to perform complicated statistic analysis of big data by institutions of engineering, scientific research, health care, commerce, banking and computer research is immense. However, the limitations of the widely used current desktop software like R, excel, minitab and spss gives a researcher limitation to deal with big data. The big data analytic tools like IBM Big Insight, Revolution...
This paper presents a synthesis of the group support systems literature (GSS) with a focus on adaptive structuration theory (AST) and media richness theory (MRT). We analyze 23 papers that use either of these theories in constructing or empirically testing hypotheses and fit these works to a framework for conceptualizing group decision support systems as proposed by Peters [1]. We find that MRT is...
On-line support forums are a common method for businesses to provide product support for customers. In addition to trouble-shooting and how-to guides, on-line forums also serve the important purpose of allowing customers to interact and discuss the business's products. These interaction are an important factor in influencing customer opinions, and subsequently the adoption and use of products and...
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