Past studies in the IT outsourcing area have examined the management of IT outsourcing relationships from a variety of perspectives. The present paper extends this line of research. In this study, we take a multi-theoretic perspective to explore factors that determine the duration of continuing IT outsourcing relationships between vendor and client firms. Five ex-ante and two expost factors tha...

Gradual dependencies of the form the more A, the more B offer valuable information that linguistically express relationships between variations of the attributes. Several formalisations and automatic extraction algorithms have been proposed recently. In this paper, we first present an overview of these methods. We then propose an algorithm that combines the principles of several existing approa...

To evaluate the reading performance of children, human assessment is usually involved, where a teacher or tutor has to take time to individually estimate the performance in terms of fluency (speed, accuracy and expression). Automatic estimation of reading ability can be an important alternative or complement to the usual methods, and can improve other applications such as elearning. Techniques ...

The environmental temperature plays an important role in the growing crops. How to make use of computer technology to realize automatic control ambient temperature of greenhouse is a hot issue in the intelligent agriculture. The control of environmental temperature in modern greenhouses is collected and analyzed by monitoring system of greenhouse environment based on Labview software and wirele...

Résumé. L’analyse formelle de concepts (AFC, Ganter et Wille (1999)) est une méthode pertinente d’extraction de connaissances à partir de données complexes d’expression de gènes (Blachon et al. (2007), Motameny et al. (2008)). Dans ce papier, nous proposons d’extraire des groupes de gènes partageant un comportement similaire montrant des changements “significatifs” à travers divers environnemen...

Technical reports from the Automatic Control group in Linkk oping are available by anonymous ftp at the address ftp.control.isy.liu.se. This report is contained in the compressed postscript le 2051.ps.Z.