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Distributed computing, data availability and data analytics supporting for strategic decision making are the essential key requirements for success of any organization business. These features are the leading frontiers in the current business and in research which opens lot of expectations by the end users. This paper attempts a design methodology for distributing the current data warehouse features...
An enterprise resource planning (ERP) system is the backbone in an e-business framework and is a process-oriented business management paradigm. An implementation of an ERP system can achieve “real-time” and “integration”. The staffs with manipulation skills of an ERP system are thus demanded for enterprises. E-learning are increasingly widespread by using information and telecommunication technologies...
In order to assess an institute's mission and objectives, it is essential to have a framework for systematic collection, storage and analysis of course assessments for the students within the programs offered by the institute. This paper demonstrates such a framework and provides results from a Data Management System application to a KSA university as a case study.
As complex social issues cross national borders, engineers who can collaborate with people from different cultural background and disciplines are in demand to create innovative solutions. Japanese government is emphasizing cultivating global human resources through higher educational institutions to contribute to the global community with innovative solutions. Therefore, Kanazawa Technical College...
Evidence shows that price promotion can help small and medium-sized retailers to increase their sales and profits. However, retailers usually stop the promotion after a certain duration. This study tries to explain why retailers discontinue a price promotion. Our approach assumes that overall contributions of price promotion to retailers' profits decrease progressively with time after the promotion...
While fans of classical music were found to be underrepresented on social media and music streaming platforms, they constitute an important target group for music recommender systems. We therefore focus on this group of listeners and investigate a wide range of recommendation approaches and variants for the task of music artist recommendation. Within the group of classical music listeners, we further...
In this paper, we show how we can use Foursquare check-ins to understand the behavior of tourists that would be hard using traditional methods, such as surveys. For that, we analyze the behavior of tourists and residents in four popular cities around the world in four continents: London, New York, Rio de Janeiro, and Tokyo. We perform a spatio-temporal study of properties of the behavior of these...
Traditionally, direct weighting method is adopted in the calculation of price index in a region. Under the online shopping environment, there are significant differences in consumer spending in different E-commerce enterprises, because the business scope, the main commodities, and the target consumers vary a lot in different enterprises. If the direct weighting method is adopted, the price index of...
This paper presents an analysis of star ratings in consumer reviews in Yelp, an online social platform for sharing consumer reviews about local businesses. In particular, we analyze consumer reviews about food businesses. We analyze how well or poorly the star ratings (on a scale of one star to five stars) associated with these reviews tally with the sentiment derived from the textual portion of the...
With the dawn of the information age, knowledge discovery and exchange is increasing exponentially every day and a new paradigm in education has emerged which is the Massive open online courses or MOOCs. Our research aims at exploring the fundamentals that gives MOOCs an edge over the traditional courses and highlights the weakness of MOOCs over traditional courses. In our study we present a statistical...
This paper describes a rule-based sentiment analysis algorithm for polarity classification of financial news articles. The system utilizes a prior polarity lexicon to classify the financial news articles into positive or negative. Sentiment composition rules are used to determine the polarity of each sentence in the news article, while the Positivity/Negativity ratio (P/N ratio) is used to calculate...
Several developments, such as the success of cloudcomputing,show that not the ownership of IT resourcesbut their management is the foundation for sustainablecompetitive advantage [1]. According to [2], smartcompanies define how they (will) do business (using anoperating model) and design processes and infrastructurecritical to their current and future operations, using anenterprise architecture (EA).
Enterprises face the challenge of rapidly adapting to dynamic business environments. The traditional approach to process management is only partially appropriate to this new context, and calls for the advent of new, evolutionary business processes. This new approach attempts to address specific issues related to flexibility and adaptation such as design of easily adaptable processes, dynamic handling...
Various motivational designs have been introduced to improve learners' motivations in engaging with technology-mediated learning. This study presents an investigation of the impact of learning preferences on their motivations towards the attention, relevance, confidence, and satisfaction (ARCS) motivational design in an open learner model (OLM) environment. Data was collected from undergraduate students...
Frequently requirements are written in natural language which may cause communication problems-misunderstandings. Misunderstandings are sources of risk that can severely impact the whole software development project. Since patterns and templates are tools for improving the quality of requirements, the question arises whether they can be treated as risk guards. In the paper we propose a method based...
This paper presents strategy to classify tweets sentiment using Naive Bayes techniques based on trainers' perception into three categories; positive, negative or neutral. 50 tweets of ‘Malaysia’ and ‘Maybank’ keywords were selected from Twitter for perception training. In this study, there were 27 trainers participated. Each trainer was asked to classify the sentiment of 25 tweets of each keyword...
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,...
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