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Searching for “The Internet of Things” may render thousands of hits in academic databases but a challenge still remains: to let students envision as well as work with the concept in a practical way. Designing “Things for the Internet” will not only require skills in engineering and electronics but also some understanding of digital service design and business models. This paper reports on work in...
Internet of Things (IoT) seems to be a popular term nowadays, for business, society and teaching alike. Teaching students about such concepts and more importantly, making them aware of the many competency components (often called KSA — knowledge, skills, abilities) required in the development of IoT systems, services and products has been a major aim in the teaching design presented in this paper...
This discussion paper presents an initial blueprint and viability analysis for implementing a location-based service pilot in Guangzhou, China, using a Finnish company named Nokia as a specific case example. Although many technological, political, and economic issues still remain open, our initial findings were supportive of the viability of implementing the desired pilot.
The advent of globally distributed computing services and network access allows ‘big data’ on consumption to be used to model, explain and predict consumer behavior at resolutions that range from individual cities to whole countries. Given access to suitable infrastructure, the most significant challenge is to create conditions under which ‘Data Scientists’ may access and manipulate the required data...
The paper aims to discover the most promising digital networking business opportunities in today's Chinese market, and how those new opportunities relate to the collective social networking culture rooted in Chinese consumers and businesses. The paper analyzes the enormous digital business environment in China for e-commerce, digital marketing, consumer behavior, IT outsourcing, software development...
Sport event in China has the characters of both externality and public goods nature, which impacts the strategies of measuring the Gross Domestic Product of sport events. Referring to the common approach of GDP and based on the categorization of different statistic units, the objects of statistics can be measured in two schemes: one is to regard them all as non-market units; the other is to divide...
Group-buying is growing rapidly in emerging economies, where websites have rudimentary functions and cluttered interfaces. The authors review 11 major Chinese group-buying websites, using case studies to provide timely guidance to e-commerce practitioners and researchers.
The eighth in a series of articles providing basic information on legal issues facing people and businesses that operate in computing-related markets discusses some issues that can occur when doing business in the People's Republic of China. The featured Web extra is an audio podcast by Computing and the Law contributors Brian M. Gaff and Kenneth Choy, who discuss the practical steps to consider before...
Because grade evaluation is an essential teaching link to test and improve students' creation, and also it is an important means to instruct students to study actively and creatively, the reform of the methods of grade evaluation is a challenge to the traditional concepts and standards of talent evaluation. In this paper, first, many excellent operation methods, notions of evaluation and technical...
This study examines the impact of service innovation on business performance in service firms in China. Based on RBV and innovation theories, we construct an integrative model which links service innovation, service quality and business performance together. 277 valid samples were gathered through survey questionnaire in China's tourism sector and structural equation modeling (SEM) approach was employed...
Both qualitative and quantitative analysis have been adopted as research methods in this article, combined with approaches such as cluster and comparative analysis, to help conduct a study on the following indicators of China's inbound tourism market between 1995 and 2009: tourist sources distribution, age composition, travel motivation, consumption composition, travel destination etc. The study managed...
B2B e-commerce in Beijing as the capital of China developed quickly and ran above average level in the country. The features is particular, such as the rapid development of B2B e-commerce, ranks first of B2B and outsourcing service in small trade, the 6 categories service platform formatted of B2B. And B2B e-commerce has become a mainstay of Beijing. It has obvious development advantages and huge...
A mathematical model has been built based on an analysis of the cost-benefit of opening-up policy of developing country. Employing this model by economic data of China over the last thirty years, it proves that the benefit of opening-up policy of China economy is much larger than its cost, and its net benefit is growing more rapidly. On these bases, some suggestions have been proposed as to the opening-up...
This paper analyzes the change of economic values among Chinese people after reform and opening-up. It points out the economic values that people have excessive self-interest tendency and pursuing materials excessively risking breaking the bottom line of laws. The disadvantageous influences are also analyzed in the paper. It will lower people's economic welfare and feelings of happiness in the life...
This paper analyses the general characteristics of the floating population in Wuhan in hope that it could help us find some special laws concerning the floating population in Wuhan, to get a better understanding of the development law of the floating population in this city in a macroscopic view, to enable the government to play a more positive role in human resources distribution so as to boost the...
Based on the relevant literatures and theoretical analysis, this paper summaries the fundamental theories supporting for marine ecological compensation, including value theory of ecological environment, public goods theory, externality theory and sustainable development theory, and illustrates the necessity of applying marine ecological compensation into reclaiming land from sea. Then the paper discusses...
This paper outlines the trajectory of international planning and design practice in China, focusing on the post-reform era, and challenges and problems that manifested. It shows the initial focus on new concepts and material consideration of space in inviting international practice, and the recent local concerns of a more environmentally and culturally sensitive practice. The paper highlights the...
With the development of globalization and information technology, symbolic consumption of cities is rising in post-industrial society and cultural economy has become the driving force of urban form. So traditional business space is being changed to modern consumer space and creative space in the metropolis. The paper analyzes the reference values of symbolic economy and consumer space in post-industrial...
The purpose of this study is to investigate the feasibility of developing e-learning and to examine reasons for adopting or rejecting e-learning as an alternative way to conduct continuing education (CE) for middle school teachers (MSTs). This study reveals a middle feasibility of developing e-learning that coexists with other CE models (e.g. traditional instruction). Reasons analyses provide directions...
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