Operating a company by means of breaking the business ethics will bring itself in trap, and even affect the society, so it is imperative under the situation to comprehensively enhance the level of the business ethics for enterprise. Some advices about how to construct the business ethics respectively from three views including enterprise, government and consumer were discussed, and the solution...

In this paper, we deal with an error model in distributed networks. For a target t, every node is assumed to give an advice, ie.to point to a neighbour that take closer to the destination. Any node giving a bad advice is called a liar . Starting from a situation without any liar, we study the impact of topology changes on the number of liars. More precisely, we establish a relationship between ...

Firstly, the paper reviews the study situation of trade gravity model at home and abroad, and points out that the trade gravity model is not widely applied in the industrial trade flow. Secondly, the paper takes the export of China’s textile industry as an example to put forward export trade gravity model, and analyzes the influence of trade protection upon export of our textiles and other infl...

Food communities in Twitter are growing every year, and food-related content permeates everyday conversations. Users meet on Twitter to share recipes, give cooking advices or simply inform others about what they are eating. While some of these food-related conversations are not associated with any special occurrence, many conversations take place instead during specific events. The detection of...

In this paper we describe a new approach to computer-based health promotion, based on a conversational model. We base our model on a collection of human-human email dialogues concerning healthy nutrition. Our system uses a database of tips and small pieces of advice, organised so that support for the advice, and arguments against the advice may be explored. The technical framework and initial e...

When humans face a broad spectrum of topics, where each topic consists of several options, they usually make a decision on each topic separately. Usually, a person will perform better by making a global decision, however, taking all consequences into account is extremely difficult. We present a novel computational method for advice-generation in an environment where people need to decide among ...

In this paper, we present a prototype that helps visualizing the relative importance of sentences extracted from medical texts using Embodied Conversational Agents (ECA). We propose to map rhetorical structures automatically recognized in the documents onto a set of communicative acts controlling the expression of an ECA. As a consequence, the ECA will dramatize a sentence to reflect its percei...

This is to certify that the thesis entitled " Aspects of Quintessence Matter-The Driver of the Late Time Acceleration of the Universe " , submitted by Sudipta Das who got her name registered on 23rd April, 2004 for the award of Ph.D (Sciences) degree of Jadavpur University, is absolutely based upon her own work under the supervision of Dr. Narayan Banerjee and that neither this thesis nor any p...

This article provides my recollection about how Prof. José Meseguer enlightened me to study security problems from the logic perspective. His lectures and advices are having a long term influence on my research career.