Advances in location-acquisition and mobile communication technologies have empowered people to use location data with online social networks known as location-based social media. However, the technology is relatively new, and literature on the relevant factors determining location-based social media adoption and usage for the specific purpose of travel planning is sparse. Using the Unified The...

This paper discuses the social research and health care planning systems of South Asia. Also, the Author attempts to indicate the scope and nature of this work done in this territory to identity elements relevant to health care planning.

Policy instruments at least partly intended to promote mixed tenure include the Right to Buy, other low-cost home ownership schemes, aspects of estate and urban regeneration policy and the use of the planning system. While it might seen that 'tenure diversification' and 'mixed tenure' are euphemisms for breaking up social housing estates and reducing the total stock of social housing, the opera...

A major challenge for social event organizers (e.g., event planning and marketing companies, venues) is attracting the maximum number of participants, since it has great impact on the success of the event, and, consequently, the expected gains (e.g., revenue, artist/brand publicity). In this paper, we introduce the Social Event Scheduling (SES) problem, which schedules a set of social events co...

Planning is an almost ubiquitous activity, engaged in by individuals, organizations, communities, and nations. It is pursued for a variety of purposes in a variety of ways, depending on what is being planned, who is doing the planning, and what assumptions are being made about the context and constraints of planning. There has been relatively little conceptualizing and theorizing directly about...

Project success is an attractive idea but what factors lead to success remains an area of conjecture. In the project management literature the success has often been defined in terms of better control of timescales, budgets and resource planning. Yet these are impoverished terms for conceptualising success, which is both multi-dimensional and contextual. The study explores the perceptions of cr...

This paper considers the use of social learning networks to increase the productivity of IT consulting companies. We advocate that using a carefully designed social learning network can reduce the learning time for enterprise software developers and consultants. By viewing learning as a social act, a consulting company can increase its productivity. Increased productivity is based on hastening ...

The purpose of this paper is two-fold: to explore older people’s attitudes towards aging as a subjective aspect of quality of life (QOL), and to further examine whether leisure pursuits in later years are associated with QOL in a Chinese society (Taiwan). We will review recent evidence to show that in general Taiwanese older people possessed positive attitudes towards aging. This reveals that a...