This book highlights the new urban–rural relationship that has emerged under the influence of e-commerce in China. In this regard, it presents case studies on the Suichang rural e-commerce model and Alibaba’s rural strategy, together with analyses of online service in China. Furthermore, by means of a brief review of the urban–rural relationship throughout China’s history, and of academ…
to Semantic Web Ontology Languages -- Rules and Ontologies in F-Logic -- Web and Semantic Web Query Languages: A Survey -- Evolution and Reactivity for the Web -- Personalization for the Semantic Web -- Attempto Controlled English: A Knowledge Representation Language Readable by Humans and Machines -- Rule Modeling and Markup -- Information Extraction for the Semantic Web -- Reuse in Semantic A…
Discrimination and Clustering -- Probability Models and Statistical Methods -- Pattern Recognition and Computational Learning -- Time Series Analysis -- Marketing, Retailing, and Marketing Research -- Finance, Capital Markets, and Risk Management -- Production, Logistics, and Controlling -- Medicine and Health Services.
Data Analysis -- Optimization in Symbolic Data Analysis: Dissimilarities, Class Centers, and Clustering -- An Efficient Branch and Bound Procedure for Restricted Principal Components Analysis -- A Tree Structured Classifier for Symbolic Class Description -- A Diversity Measure for Tree-Based Classifier Ensembles -- Repeated Confidence Intervals in Self-Organizing Studies -- Fuzzy and Crisp Maha…
(Semi-) Plenary Presentations -- Classification and Data Analysis: Classification; Data Analysis -- Applications -- Archaeology; Astronomy; Bio-Sciences; Electronic Data and Web; Finance and Insurance; Library Science and Linguistics; Macro-Economics; Marketing; Music Science; Quality Assurance -- Contest: Social Milieus in Dortmund.
Requirements Engineering: Setting the Context -- State-of-the-Art Surveys of Requirements Engineering Process Research -- Requirements Elicitation: A Survey of Techniques, Approaches, and Tools -- Specification of Requirements Models -- Requirements Prioritization -- Requirements Interdependencies: State of the Art and Future Challenges -- Impact Analysis -- Requirements Negotiation -- Quality …
e-Democracy: Improving Citizen Participation and Policy Making -- Using Weblogs to Support Local Democracy -- Web-Based Tools for Policy Evaluation -- Can Online Map-Based Applications Improve Citizen Participation? -- e-Democracy: Experiences from Different Countries -- Interactive Tools for e-Democracy: Examples from Switzerland -- “Public Budget Dialogue” – An Innovative Approach to E-…
Presentation of the PPR-Model -- The Activity and Customer Centric Approach -- The Domains and Directions of IT Impacts -- Digital Wheelbarrows in Local Government -- E-Government Objectives, Means, and Reach -- The Organizational Membrane Penetrated by Mobile Technologies -- E-Procurement: The Improvement of Supporting and Strategic Operations -- Instrumental Digital Customer Involvement -- Ev…
Past and Present of Information System Investment in the Banking Industry -- Past and Present of Information Systems in Banks -- Information System Strategy of Nationwide Banks -- Review of Information System Analyses -- Limit of Aggregate Level Analysis of Information System Investment -- Firm-Level Analysis of Information Systems Investment -- Positive Analyses of Information System Investmen…
Ontologies in E-Commerce -- Architecture of a Semantic XPath Processor. Application to Digital Rights Management -- Conceptual and Formal Ontology Model of e-Catalogs -- Automatic Ontology Mapping for Agent Communication in an e-Commerce Environment -- An Ontology-Based Two-Level Clustering for Supporting E-Commerce Agents’ Activities -- Process Modelling in E-Commerce -- Specifying Workflow …