Early applications of wilderness economic research demonstrated that the values of natural amenities and commodities produced from natural areas could be measured in commensurate terms. To the surprise of many, the economic values of wilderness protection often exceeded the potential commercial values that might result from resource extraction. Here, the concepts and tools used in the economic ...

Recent researches have seen an upsurge in the analysis of consumer reviews. Although, several dimensions have been explored, less is known on the temporal dynamics of events that happen over the lifecycle of online products. What are the dominant sales patterns? How are they affected by review count, rating, helpfulness and sentiment? How is trust characterized and what are its effects on sales...

Workflow management is a core component of modern enterprise information technology infrastructure that automates the execution of critical business processes. Since enterprise transformation typically introduces changes to the corresponding business processes, it is important for modern workflow management systems to provide effective support for seamless incorporation of these changes. In thi...

The focus of the blog distillation task is finding blogs with a principle, recurring interest in a specific topic. For this task, we considered a blog as a collection of postings and used resource selection approaches. Further, we investigated techniques that penalized general blogs and combined resource selection techniques. This combination demonstrated significant improvements over baselines.

Rural industrial development in Beijing suburban area has experienced a rapid growth since economic reforms. The spatial pattern of rural industrial development has been influenced by location factors that reflect market forces and government policies. Using GIS, this paper reveals an unbalanced spatial pattern of rural industrial development, and analyzes relationship between rural industrial ...

For superior decision making, the mining of interesting patterns and rules becomes one of the most indispensible tasks in today’s business environment. Although there have been many successful customer relationship management (CRM) applications based on sequential pattern mining techniques, they basically assume that the importance of each customer are the same. Many studies in CRM show that no...

As part of its expanding role, particularly as an agent of peace building, the United Nations (UN) actively participates in the implementation of measures to prevent and manage crisis/disaster situations. The purpose of such an approach is to empower the victims, protect the environment, rebuild communities, and create employment. However, real world crisis management situations are complex giv...

This paper presents a segmentation algorithm for 3D triangular mesh data. The proposed algorithm uses iterative merging of adjacent triangle pairs based on their orientations. The oversegmented regions are merged again in an iterative region merging process. Finally, the noisy boundaries of each region are refined. The boundaries of each region contain perceptually important geometric informati...

Does Forced Solidarity Hamper Investment in Small and Micro Enterprises? Sharing is a norm in many societies. We present a theoretical model on the trade-off between sharing and investment which we test on data from tailors in Burkina Faso. The empirical results support the idea that there are two behavioural patterns: entrepreneurs following an ‘insurance regime’ comply with sharing norms, are...

We describe the design of an MT system that employs transfer rules induced from parsed bitexts and present evaluation results. The system learns lexico-structural transfer rules using syntactic pattern matching, statistical co-occurrence and errordriven filtering. In an experiment with domainspecific Korean to English translation, the approach yielded substantial improvements over three baselin...