This study aims to identify the factors that contribute to the building of a firm’s innovative capacity and to assess the way in which this contributes to our understanding of how much this contributes to improvements in the firm’s performance. A conceptual model is proposed consisting of five separate dimensions: the firm; the entrepreneur; the external business environment; the firm’s innovat...

While much work has focused on the creation of norm aware agents, much less has been concerned with aiding a system designers in understanding the effects of norms on a system. However, since norms are generally pre-determined by designers, providing such support can be critical in enabling norm refinement for more effective or efficient system regulation. In this paper, we address just this pr...

It is argued that timely adaptation of one’s broadly-defined business concept has more to do with entrepreneurial success than having the right concept from the start or being in the right place at the right time. A conceptual model is proposed in which the need for adaptation is linked to three characteristics of the business itself: the level of ambiguity surrounding the venture, the level of...

The case is simple: there is no compelling theoretical argument against a cosmological constant and ΛCDM is the only CDM model that is consistent with all present observations. ΛCDM has two noteworthy features: it can be falsified in the near future (the prediction q0 ∼ − 1 2 is an especially good test), and, if correct, it has important implications for fundamental physics.

This paper presents a flexible querying system of fuzzy RDF annotations which consists in translating fuzzy RDF annotations into fuzzy conceptual graphs and using an “approximate”-projection operation in order to compare fuzzy query graphs with fuzzy annotation graphs. The fuzzy sets in the query graphs having a semantic of preferences are compared with the fuzzy sets in the annotation graphs h...

The translations of public signs distributed inside and outside Iraqi cities are random low quality. These contribute to reframing the conceptual image as well communities inhabiting them. Moreover, quality these translated seems underestimate gradual development translation a profession an academic field in this country. Conversely, it is unsatisfactory continue producing and, more importantly...

Background: Conceptual review is a creative research method for generating new knowledge in the context of a vague and complex concept that helps to explain and clarify the concept, its components and its relation to related concepts. This study aimed to explain the methodology of conceptual review in the health system. Methods: Articles related to the conceptual research method were searched ...

This paper presents a Conceptual Graph (CG) framework to the Generation of Referring Expressions (GRE). Employing Conceptual Graphs as the underlying formalism allows a rigorous, semantically rich, approach to GRE. A number of advantages over existing work are discussed. The new framework is also used to revisit existing complexity results in a fully rigorous way, showing that the expressive po...

The goal of conceptual clustering is to build a set of embedded classes, which cluster objects based on their similarities. Knowledge organization aims at generating the set of most specific classes: the Generalization Space. It has applications in the field of data mining, knowledge indexation or knowledge acquisition. Efficient algorithms have been proposed for data described in <attribute, v...

ions for Knowledge Organization of Relational Descriptions Isabelle Bournaud, Mélanie Courtine, Jean-Daniel Zucker 1 LRI, Université Paris-Sud, Av. du Général de Gaulle, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France [email protected] 2 LIP6 – Pole IA, Université Paris VI, 4 place Jussieu, 75252 Paris Cedex, France {Melanie.Courtine, Jean-Daniel.Zucker}@lip6.fr Abstract. The goal of conceptual clustering is ...