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Background: Experiment-driven development with the help of real usage data helps to build software products and services that are of high value to their users. As more software companies use experimentation in their development practises, ethical concerns are increasingly important. Objective: There is a need for understanding the ethical issues companies must take into account when practising experimentation...
Social media serves as a unified platform for users to express their thoughts on subjects ranging from their daily lives to their opinion on consumer brands and products. These users wield an enormous influence in shaping the opinions of other consumers and influence brand perception, brand loyalty and brand advocacy. In this paper, we analyze the opinion of 19M Twitter users towards 62 popular industries,...
The proposed model is intended to assessment of company's operation effectiveness, which is an important factor at investment decisions making. There are compared indicators of the growth rate, profitability and risk for shares placed on various stock exchanges with an assessment of the intrinsic value and management efficiency of company. The information received is useful for investors and company...
Accurately predicting driving service orders in different regions is an essential task for service companies, in order to improve the service quality. In this paper, a specific ensemble multi-view prediction framework is proposed to address this task. It ensembles several different multi-view-based models with a weighted linear combination. Specifically, we have designed three specific multi-view-based...
In the context of competitive economy innovation is a key strategic imperative for any organization. Successful technological, marketing, and organizational innovations result in a sustainable competitive advantage and lead to better financial results. As it stands, the organizational innovation is considered to be a vehicle for technological and market development. It is, in turns, driven by the...
Word of epidemic is a very popular term in modern world which social media has affect almost all people along all over the world. Modern World's social networks are very sophisticated networks and learning information is very crucial for analyze user behaviors. Finding user's effect on other users/people is very interesting point in complex networks. Almost all related works only focus on finding...
The correlation between degradation-induced changes in two important indicators of mechanical properties, namely elongation at break (EAB) and indenter modulus (IM), is examined for flame-retardant ethylene propylene rubber (FR-EPR), silicone rubber (SiR), flame-retardant crosslinked polyethylene (FR-XLPE), and XLPE. The samples were degraded by heat or concurrently by heat and radiation. In the case...
Unit testing has been considered as having a key role in building high quality software, and therefore it has been widely used in practice. However, data on the relationship between unit testing and aspects of software quality remain scarce. A survey study with 235 survey responses from seven organizations was conducted in order to understand the correlation between practitioners' perception of code...
The study aims to review mediating effect of store image on social responsibility and customer trust on organic products. There are 361 customers of retails in West Java Province that is reviewed by Structural Equation Model approach. The finding is found that social responsibility is unable to improve customer trust directly for organic products. However, store image can mediate the correlation of...
IPO (Initial Public Offerings) pricing is a systematic and complicated task that directly determines whether the capital market is able to function in a healthy way. As China's stock market goes through ups and downs, China Securities Regulatory Commission generally adopts a positive strategy. Therefore, to weaken the policy factors, 48 cases of IPO companies dated from January 2014 to February 2014...
Stock market dynamics is of great importance to researchers from diverse fields. Network Analysis of stock data can play an important role in the study of stock market. In this paper, network based data mining of stock market is done to identify crucial players. Stock market network in United States created based on dynamics of stocks over one year captured as daily time series, is used for the analysis...
The Detrending Moving Average (DMA) algorithm can be implemented to estimate the Shannon entropy of a long-range correlated sequence which will be shown to be of particular relevance for its significance in finance. The entropy is written as the sum of two terms corresponding respectively to power-law (ordered) and exponentially (disordered) distributed blocks (clusters). Interestingly, the behaviour...
Because of the characteristics of the availability and practicability, mobile media technology had got a rapid development in the whole world. So, people now often use mobile devices through a mobile application (APP). Based on this, this study established a mobile application customer engagement model to carry on the investigation and research about mobile application of customers' recommendation...
Improving the efficiency of the production plants has always been focus of manufacturing industry. Recently the utilization of data analytics tool is dramatically increased since these methods bring new insights into already existing data. Nevertheless, manufacturing industry in general is still reluctant to make the data available to researcher due to privacy issues. One such example is the challenge...
Personalized recommendation aims to use the historical behavior of users to recommend new items that are likely to be of interest to them. Due to a tiny improvement of it can lead to a huge profits, lots of giant e-commerce companies, such as Amazon, Alibaba and eBay, have put their great effort on this field. In this paper, we formulate the problem of personalized recommendation as a tree based regression...
When performing a separation of test results, coping with enormous high-dimensional data sets is necessary but problematic. The input of high-dimensional data, in which not a few elements are irrelevant or less relevant than others, usually lead to inadequate results. It is therefore useful to consult methods, which classify the individual dimensions of the data volumes according to their relevance...
This paper makes an empirical test on the correlation between financial restatement and audit report lag (ARL) using data of non-financial listed companies in China during the period 2009–2012. The empirical results show that there is a significant positive correlation between financial restatement and ARL. The longer the ARL is, the more likely it is for the company to perform a financial restatement...
This paper investigates the M&A performance of coal listed companies in our country that experienced M&A from the years 2008 to 2012. The factor analysis method and comparative analysis method are employed and further the multiple regression analysis is used to identify the important factors for short-term M&A performance. The results show that the performance of coal companies in our...
This paper investigates the influence of internal control on executive pay-performance sensitivity in public welfare SOE and commercial SOE in China by empirical study. Finally, we find that the implementation of internal control can not improve executive pay-performance sensitivity in all kinds of SOE, which means the reform of state-owned enterprises in China can not be the same mode. We need to...
The main objective of this quantitative — relational work is to analyze the variation of the profitability according to the sources of financing of the Medium — sized Enterprises of Ecuador (MESE). In order to carry out this study, financial information of 168 companies of the province of Loja, obtained from the database of the Superintendence of Companies of Ecuador, is taken into account. As a period...
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