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Method And System For Electronically Generating Random Answers, Stephen O. Bozzone, Bonnie Bachman

Economics Faculty Research & Creative Works

The invention concerns a method (300) and system (110) for electronically generating random responses in a portable electronic device (110). The method includes the steps of detecting (316) motion of the portable electronic device, in response to the detecting step, generating (318) the random response and outputting (320) the random response to a user of the portable electronic device. The method can further include the steps of prompting (312) the user to ask a question and following a predetermined time period after prompting the user to ask the question, prompting (314) the user to shake the portable electronic device. The …

Kundenprozessorientierung Durch Service-Portale: Das Beispiel W@M Von Endress+Hauser, Marc A. Caesar, Christine Legner, Hubert Oesterle, Jean-Gyl Capt

Hubert Oesterle

No abstract provided.

Kundenprozessportale, Marc A. Caesar, Christine Legner, Hubert Oesterle

Hubert Oesterle

No abstract provided.

A Look At 20 Academic Libraries Technical Services Web Pages, Deana Groves

DLTS Faculty Publications

The 21st century technical services librarian has access to a plethora of electronic and online work tools from which to choose to complete daily tasks. An assessment of the Western Kentucky University Libraries 19 benchmark institutions shows a great disparity of online work tools made available through university libraries technical services departmental web sites. Four areas (technical services, cataloging, serials, and acquisitions) are discussed. Outcomes indicate that 1) few of these institutions list online work tools and 2) of those that do, there is very little overlap. This paper investigates this phenomenon of inconsistent technical services online work tools.

Resource-Based View Of Knowledge Management For Competitive Advantage, Leila A. Halawi, Jay E. Aronson, Richard V. Mccarthy

Publications

We are not only in a new millennium, but also in a new era: the knowledge era. Sustainable competitive advantage is dependent on building and exploiting core competencies. The resource-based view (RBV) of the firm defines a strategic asset as one that is rare, valuable, imperfectly imitiable and non-substitutable. Knowledge is seen as a strategic asset with the potential to be a source of competitive advantage for an organization. In this paper, we provide a model that examines how and why knowledge management (KM) can be sued to create competitive advantage from the RBV of the firm.

Applying System Dynamics To Confront Complex Decision Making In R&D Systems#11;#11;: A Knowledge Based Approach, Arash Golnam, Nader Ale Ebrahim

Nader Ale Ebrahim

Research and development has always played a strategically important role in the survival and the growth of technology-based firms. R&D is positively linked to company performance measures such as sales, productivity and shareholder returns and in addition to this, facing increased competition, as a result of globalization the viability of many established firms is based on the efficiency of their R&D activities. Similar to other business models, R&D systems are characterized by complex structure and dynamic behavior. It's often difficult to predict or trace the consequences of certain decisions due to the existence of delays, non-linearities and causal feedback inherent …

Applying System Dynamics To Confront Complex Decision Making In R&D Systems, Arash Golnam, Nader Ale Ebrahim

Nader Ale Ebrahim

Research and development has always played a strategically important role in the survival and the growth of technology-based firms. R&D is positively linked to company performance measures such as sales, productivity and shareholder returns and in addition to this, facing increased competition, as a result of globalization the viability of many established firms is based on the efficiency of their R&D activities. Similar to other business models, R&D systems are characterized by complex structure and dynamic behavior. It's often difficult to predict or trace the consequences of certain decisions due to the existence of delays, non-linearities and causal feedback inherent …

Created' Enclaves For Enterprise: An Empirical Study Of Singapore's Industrial Parks In Indonesia, Vietnam And China, Caroline Yeoh, Siang Yeung Wong

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

The dynamics of globalization have prompted governments to re-examine accustomed policies, and search for alternative strategies, in order to re-position their economies for the future. This paper explores the spatial context of state involvement in the new economics of competition, with the focus on Singapore's much publicized, and controversial, orchestration of its state enterprise network to encapsulate economic space for Singapore-based firms to expand into the Asian region. This strategic initiative is promulgated on the exportability of Singapore's æstate credibilityÆ, systemic and operational efficiencies, and technological competencies, to locations where these attributes are less certain. A logit model is applied …

Give Me That Online Religion (Book Review), Peter A. Maresco

WCBT Faculty Publications

Book review by Peter Maresco:

Brasher, Brenda E. Give Me That Online Religion. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2001. ISBN 9780787945794

Initial Interest Confusion: Standing At The Crossroads Of Trademark Law, Jennifer E. Rothman

All Faculty Scholarship

While the benchmark of trademark infringement traditionally has been a demonstration that consumers are likely to be confused by the use of a similar or identical trademark to identify the goods or services of another, a court-created doctrine called initial interest confusion allows liability for trademark infringement solely on the basis that a consumer might initially be interested, attracted, or distracted by a competitor's, or even a non-competitor's, product or service. Initial interest confusion is being used with increasing frequency, especially on the Internet, to shut down speech critical of trademark holders and their products and services, to prevent comparative …

Towards Semantic Service Request Of Web Service Composition, Qianhui Althea Liang, Jen-Yao Chung, Steven M. Miller

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

When meeting the challenges in automatic and semi-automatic Web service composition, capturing the user's service demand and preferences is as important as knowing what the services can do. This paper discusses the idea of semantic service requests for composite services, and presents a way to model the elements of a composite service request as user preferences and constraints. The model is based on an interactive and iterative strategy meant to obtain the exact requirements from potential service consumers. The markup vocabularies and associated inference mechanism of OWL-S are used as a means to bring semantics to service requests. Language constructs …

Antecedents, Consequences, And The Mediating Role Of Organizational Innovation: Empirical Generalizations, Leslie H. Vincent, Sundar G. Bharadwaj, Goutam N. Challagalla

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

This study uses emerging meta-analytic methods, in combination with structural equations methodology, to synthesize empirical studies and extend the understanding of relationships amongthe correlates (antecedents and/or outcomes) of innovation in organizations. this study draws upon a meta-analytic database of 155 independent samples from 108 studies from the period of 1970 through 2004. Specifically, the study examines the impact of 26 determinants and 3 performance outcomes of innovation with an overall sample size of 229,395. Organizational resources account for the majority of unique variance explained in predicting innovation generation. Overall findings indicate that innovation is significantly and positively related to superior …

Project Management Techniques In Context Of Product Development, Raman K. Attri

Raman K. Attri

A typical design manager or product development manager need to manage the product development as well as the project. This training slides provides the insight how these two processes are run hand-to-hand.

Research, Development, Production And Performance Of Heavy Duty Cng Fleets In Iran, Nader Ale Ebrahim, Maziar Rostamnezhad, Ali Momeni

Nader Ale Ebrahim

n recent years, along with the trend toward clean air and less dependency to imported oil products, there has been increasing willing to use substitute fuels in transport industry. Automobile industry is an exhaustive industry bringing development for any country. The industrial capabilities needed for development rest in this branch of industry. The Iranian automobile making companies move in line with this aim. But in recent decades, in addition to development of automobile industry, the pollution too has occupied the minds of the authorities of these companies. Some measures, investments, researches, and exhaustive studies related to the pollution problem have …

Implementation And Analysis Of Cmmi's Configuration Management Process Area; Applicable To "Defined" Level - 3, Ahmad Luqman

International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies

Enterprise Resource Planner (ERP) is a strategically important tool as integrated business application for long-term success in an increasingly competitive global market. This system requires the integration of data and business processes across the whole enterprise. In order to develop a good quality product there is a need of applying proper model. It becomes more costly in terms of training, appraisals, and improvement activities while applying multiple models that are not integrated within and across an organization. Where as Capability Maturity Model Integration is a set of integrated models that successfully addresses multiple disciplines and has integrated training support. Objective …

Opems: Online Peer-To-Peer Expertise Matching System, Sharifullah Khan, S.M. Nabeel

International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies

Internet is a vital source to disseminate and share information to the masses. This has made information available in abundance on the Web. However, finding relevant information is difficult if not impossible. This difficulty is bilateral between information providers and seekers in terms of information presentation and accessibility respectively. This paper proposed an online Peer-to-Peer Expertise Matching system. The approach provides a highly scalable and self-organizing system and helps individuals in presenting and accessing the information in a consistent format on the Web. This makes the sharing of information among the autonomous organizations successful.

Fuzzy Logic Control Of Coupled Liquid Tank System, Muhammad Abid

International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies

This paper presents a fuzzy control of coupled liquid tank system. The Coupled Liquid Tank system is developed at PIEAS. It has three liquid tanks coupled together. The liquid level in tank 2 is maintained using fuzzy logic. The results are compared with the PID control, mostly used in industries.

Poster Session A: Use Of Neural Networks In Multi-Sensor Fusion For Remote Sensing Applications, Engr. S. M. Haider Aejaz

International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies

Remote sensing encounters different types of objects with similar spectral signatures. Multi-sensors form the solution of the problem with spectral different parts of the spectrum and the resulting information is then processed using digital signal processing techniques. Artificial neural networks provide another method for processing this information. The research describes how neural networks may be used to classify objects on the basis of their spectral response to different frequencies.

Metaheuristic Applications And Their Solutions Quality, Dr. Zahid Hussain

International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies

Over the past few decades, a wide variety of classes of combinatorial problems (e.g. the assignment problem, the knapsack problem, the vehicle routing problem, etc.) have emerged - from such areas as management science, telecommunication, AI, VLSI design and many others. Many large combinatorial problems are NP-hard problems because of the combinatorial growth of their solution search space with the problem size. Such problems are commonly solved by some version of a prominent metaheuristic (e.g. Genetic Algorithms, Tabu Search, Simulated Annealing and etc.). These heuristics seek good but approximate solutions at a reasonable computational cost. These heuristics are of stochastic …

Real Time Object Tracking Using Bma, Zeeshan Hameed Khan, Muhammad Aurangzeb

International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies

This paper describes real time object tracking using block matching algorithm (BMA). Emphasis is made on the development of techniques for tracking a user-selected object through digital image sequences in multimedia systems. The ability to track objects in sequences is useful in situations where the motion of objects is important. It is also useful when a moving object is difficult to see and needs to be highlighted. A tracking tool is also of benefit to the developers of a multimedia system to automatically 'mark up' a moving object so a user of the system can select it and manipulate it.

Exploring The Possibility Of Implementing Telecommuting At University Utara Malaysia (Uum), Dr. Wan Rozaini Sheik Osman, Haitham Rashdan

International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies

Global technology has quickly progressed to provide more accessible business modes of communication. The image of the traditional workplace as a particular place to go to work is being replaced with employees working wherever they can be most efficient and productive, whether at home, on a plane, on the road, or a telework center. The availability of affordable technology has been one of the major contributors to the "any time, any place" telecommuting trend. The purpose of this study is to investigate the possibility of the implementation of teleworking at University Utara Malaysia (UUM), the suitable job selection criteria, the …

Modular Communication System, Stephen O. Bozzone, Bonnie Bachman, Ryan Nilsen

Economics Faculty Research & Creative Works

A modular communication system (10) can include an adaptable communication module (12) having a transceiver (13) coupled to a processor (14) and memory (20), and a first interface block (24) coupled to the processor, and a host device (30) having a power source (36), a user interface (34), and a second interface block (46). The host device can be among a plurality of host devices having different user interfaces and the processor is adaptable to control the different user interfaces when the first interface block recognizes the second interface block. The module can further include a DSP (16) and a …

Re-Engineering Economic Space: The Case Of Singapore's Transborder Industrialization 'Experiments' In Asia, Caroline Yeoh, Wilfred Pow Ngee How, Di Kun Goh

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

No abstract provided.

Kundenprozess - Treiber Der Veränderung In Organisation, Prozess Und Informationssystem, Hubert Oesterle

Hubert Oesterle

No abstract provided.

Electronic Distribution Effectiveness Amongst Small And Medium-Sized Enterprises In The Hotel Sector, Patrick Horan, Andrew Frew

Conference papers

This paper examines the factors that affect electonic distribution amongst SMEs in the hotel sector.

Overview Of Electronic Payment Systems In Nigeria: Strategic And Technical Issues., Margaret J. Hilili

Bullion

The objective of this paper is to provide an overview of electronic payment system as it currently exists in Nigeria, discuss the strategic and technical issues as well as the monetary policy implications of the system, with focus on the needs of consumers. The paper is structured into five sections. Following the introduction, section II discusses the motivation for electronic payment system. Section III presents an overview and development of electronic payment system in Nigeria. Section IV analyzes the various strategic and technical issues in electronic payment systems as well as the monetary policy implications, while section V highlights the …

Public Policy And Industrialization In Nigeria., A. J. Adam

Bullion

This paper is concerned with evaluation of government policies on industrial development in Nigeria with specific reference to the effects of public policy on Nigeria's industrialization. Following an introduction is section two which examines conceptual and theoretical issues. Section three is the review of public policy in Nigeria. Section four focuses on policy evaluation and comparative analysis of experience of other countries. Section five provides the concluding remarks and recommendations. The paper observes that government has a role to play in the industrialisation process by providing infrastructures; help overcome market failures; assist develop money and capital markets; make economic information, …

Mobile Und Ubiquitous Computing In Der Instandhaltung – Bewertung Der Anwendungsszenarien Bei Der Fraport Ag, Daniel Hanhart, Ralf Jinschek, Ulrich Kipper, Christine Legner, Hubert Oesterle

Hubert Oesterle

No abstract provided.

Implementing Collaborative Process Management – The Case Of Net-Tech, Florian Leser, Rainer Alt, Hubert Oesterle

Hubert Oesterle

No abstract provided.

Konzept Des Supply Chain Event Management Im Überblick, Hubert Oesterle

Hubert Oesterle

No abstract provided.