During the last few years, researchers and developers had proposed various trials to put a standard conceptual design of ETL processes in data warehouse. These trials try to represent the main mapping activities at the conceptual level. Due to limitations of the previous trials, in this paper 1 We propose a model for conceptual design of ETL processes and we call it entity mapping diagram (EMD)...

Collaboration is a term commonly used to refer to a type of interorganizational relationship. However, in real business assessments, many collaborative relationships fail due to the lack of understanding of the factors influencing collaboration sustainability. For this reason, enterprises, prior to engage to a collaborative relationship, need to understand further which the main factors influen...

With the constant development of customer relationship management (CRM) theory and the maturity of business intelligence technology, the analysis-based CRM has become a hot topic in the academic field. Some enterprises have begun to put the analysis-based CRM to practice; however, there have been few successful applications because of the inadequate mastery of business intelligence technology a...

We propose CORE, a novel matrix factorization model that leverages contextual information for open relation extraction. Our model is based on factorization machines and integrates facts from various sources, such as knowledge bases or open information extractors, as well as the context in which these facts have been observed. We argue that integrating contextual information—such as metadata abo...

Open Relation Extraction (ORE) overcomes the limitations of traditional IE techniques, which train individual extractors for every single relation type. Systems such as ReVerb, PATTY, OLLIE, and Exemplar have attracted much attention on English ORE. However, few studies have been reported on ORE for languages beyond English. This paper presents a syntax-based Chinese (Zh) ORE system, ZORE, for ...

Relation extraction is the task of finding semantic relations between two entities from text. In this paper, we propose a novel feature-based Chinese relation extraction approach that explicitly defines and explores nine positional structures between two entities. We also suggest some correction and inference mechanisms based on relation hierarchy and co-reference information etc. The approach ...

This paper reports on a case study at a Dutch travel organization, named TravelCom. The study examines how TravelCom makes strategic use of information by means of their information strategy. In their information strategy, TravelCom decides how to realize InfoRent, i.e. economic rent as a result of solving or maintaining information imperfections in factor and product markets. TravelCom aims at...

Despite the rapid growth of customer relationship management (CRM) adoption in the global information technology (IT) market, CRM adoption in China has yet to realize a number of challenges during its inchoate stage. The reality of implementation challenges brings the impulsion of CRM adoption away with an early belief that this technology weapon will easily make great profits from a new-fashio...

This article will argue that, despite customer-centric intent, marketing theory remains trapped in a firm-centric paradigm. How this apparent contradiction has endured is discussed critically with reference to what we see as four influential marketing perspectives. These perspectives are the 4Ps marketing mix, market-based assets, relationship marketing, and customer equity. Apart from the 4Ps ...