As a response to an overall high and persistent unemployment rate during the 1990s and the beginning of the new millennium, the German Federal Employment Agency underwent several reforms. One of the most important reforms, the reform of the organisational structure of the Federal Employment Agency, comprised an adjustment of the business model and a reorganisation of placement processes. From 2...

This paper focuses on the problem of dealing with privacy obligations in enterprises. Privacy obligations dictate expected behaviours, tasks and constraints that must be satisfied when handling personal and confidential data. This includes being compliant with data retention policies and satisfying constraints dictated by customers’ opt-in and opt-out choices. It is important for enterprises to...

Shallow hand-dug wells are commonly used to supplement partial or intermittent piped water coverage in many urban informal settlements in sub-Saharan Africa. Such wells are often microbially contaminated. This study aimed to quantify the amount of such groundwater consumed, identify the socioeconomic profile of well owners and consumers, and patterns of domestic water usage in informal settleme...

Customers’ attitude toward online shopping is the key to the survival and profitability of Internet retailers in the intensely competitive market. Aiming to automatically discover knowledge for predicting customers’ attitude toward Internet retailers in relative to traditional retailers, we examine two classification approaches, decision trees and neuro-fuzzy systems, which are capable of gener...

The modern economy and the future wealth and prosperity of industry and commerce rely increasingly on the exchange of data and information , in electronic form, between business partners. The speed and reliability of the information exchanged coupled with the spread in the distributed use and application of IT are increasingly affecting the competitiveness of businesses and international trade....

Purpose The unprecedented growth in the volume, variety and velocity with which data is generated collected over last decade has led to spread of big phenomenon. Organizations have become increasingly involved collection analysis improve their performance. Whereas focus thus far mainly been on from customers, topic how collect also those who are not yet customers overlooked. A growing means int...

Advances in electronic banking technology have created novel ways of handling daily banking affairs, especially via the online banking channel. The acceptance of online banking services has been rapid in many parts of the world. In the leading e-banking countries the number of ebanking contracts has exceeded 50 percent. This study investigates into online banking acceptance in the light of the ...

the telecommunications industry plays an important role in providing ict services to a wide range of customers. in addition to individual customers, corporate customers also are user of these services and have an important role to make return on investment for telecom companies (telcos). therefore, this group of customers should not be ignored by any reason. this is where the telecom companies ...

This paper explores the potential of distributed ledger technology (DLT) to improve fault-tolerant grid operations by leveraging its core features as an immutable, decentralized ledger, a distributed, consensus-based agreement process, and state-replication engine. Distribution power systems deliver electricity millions customers; however, they are susceptible various threats that can result in...