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All manuscripts must be prepared in English and are subject to a rigorous and fair peer-review process. Accepted papers will appear online within 3 weeks followed by printed in hard copy. The journal publishes the highest quality, original papers included but not limited to the fields:
Guorui JIANG, Hai QING, Tiyun HUANG
During the process of personalized recommendation, some items evaluated by users are performed by accident, in other words, they have little correlation with users’ real preferences. These irrelevant items are equal to noise data, and often interfere with the…
Changping HU, Xianjun QI
The option is viewed as an important tool of setting price in accordance with objective benefits and actual effectiveness of information commodities, as ensures that the holder of the option right acquires more benefits in the favorable market and reduces los…
Abu Saleh Md. Sohel-Uz-Zaman, Umana Anjalin
The term ‘knowledge’ is getting increased importance as the economy is becoming progressively knowledge intensive. Contemporary view of innovation management is acknowledging knowledge as the most effective source of innovation. Success of the business depend…
Panagiotis Petrakis, Konstantinos Eleftheriou
In this paper, we attempt to find a “channel” through which Greek economy can exhibit a relative “resistance” in a credit crunch. For this purpose, we specify an error correction model so as to test the relationship between corporate bank loans and commercial…
Junmin SHI, Ai-Chih CHANG
This paper investigates the revenue and duration of a well-known hybrid oral auction (English auction and Dutch auction) that is extensively adopted in practice, for instance the Christie’s. Unlike sealed bid auction, oral auction is featured by its complexit…
Xiyu LIU, Xinjiang XIE, Wenping WANG
Projection clustering is an important cluster problem. Although there are extensive studies with proposed algorithms and applications, one of the basic computing architectures is that they are all at the level of data objects. The purpose of this paper is to…
Wellington Didibhuku Thwala, Mpendulo Mvubu
The paper explores the problems facing Small and Medium Size Contractors in Swaziland. The construction sector in Swaziland is not only a significant source of direct employment but also a sector which contributes, through its wide range of projects and opera…
Shuangfei LI, Shou CHEN
The study investigates the transmission of pricing information between Hong Kong Stock Exchange and New York Stock Exchange. Using the opening and closing stock prices of these two markets from Jan. 2003 to Apr. 2007 with the method of Seemingly Unrelated Reg…
Henk Koerten, Marcel Veenswijk
This paper examines narratives relating to the development of National Geo Information Infrastructures (NGII) in ethnographic research on a Dutch NGII project which was monitored throughout its course. We used an approach which focuses on narratives concernin…
Shanliang LI, Chunhua WANG, Daoli ZHU
In the supply chain by the composition of the supplier and the retailer, the supplier offers products to the retailer for sales while the retailer affects the sales outcome by his effort which is divided into two dimensions. One is for the short-term sales ta…
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All manuscripts must be prepared in English and are subject to a rigorous and fair peer-review process. Accepted papers will appear online within 3 weeks followed by printed in hard copy. The journal publishes the highest quality, original papers included but not limited to the fields: All articles are open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence, with authors retaining copyright.
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At least two independent reviewers evaluate the manuscript under single-blind review. Where revisions are required, authors respond point by point.
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Manuscripts must be original and not under consideration elsewhere. Submit in Microsoft Word or LaTeX with figures at 300 dpi minimum. Structure research articles as Abstract, Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, and References.
Use the journal's numbered (Vancouver) reference style. Cite sources consecutively in the order they appear, and ensure every reference is complete and retrievable.
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