The Web and Grid services frameworks provide a promising infrastructure for cross-organizational use of online services. The use of services in large-scale and cross-organizational environments requires the negotiation of agreements that define these services. Buying at a fine granularity just when a need arises is only feasible if the costs of establishing new agreements are low. Today, negoti...

In folk song research, string methods have been widely used to retrieve highly similar tunes or to perform tune family classification. In this study, we investigate how various string methods perform on a fundamentally different classification task, which is to classify folk tunes into genres, the genres being the dance types of the tunes. A new data set Dance-9 is therefore introduced. The dif...

This paper reports on an approach to the analysis of form (layout and formatting) during genre recognition recorded using eye tracking. The researchers focused on eight different types of e-mail, such as calls for papers, newsletters and spam, which were chosen to represent different genres. The study involved the collection of oculographic behaviour data based on the scanpath duration and scan...

sometimes, while investigating familiar and common genres of persian literature, some unfamiliar genres appear. these genres were used mostly in some earlier periods. one of these genres is sarâpâ. by investigating historical and geographical backgrounds of this genre the reasons for its popularity, especially in the period of the indian style, are revealed. this article tries to introduce sarâ...

We investigate the association between musical chords and lyrics by analysing a large dataset of user-contributed guitar tablatures. Motivated by the idea that the emotional content of chords is reflected in the words used in corresponding lyrics, we analyse associations between lyrics and chord categories. We also examine the usage patterns of chords and lyrics in different musical genres, his...

The potential value of alternative genres in IS research is the core question that drives this panel discussion. The term “Alternative Genres” refers to unconventional forms of thinking, doing, and communicating scholarship and practice. It relates to innovation with respect to epistemological perspectives, research methods, semantic framing, literary styles, and media of expression. Overall, t...

In contrast, the second, theoretical integration, as the name implies, refers to efforts aimed at synthesizing the underlying theories of different approaches (Saltzman & Norcross, 1990). Here, the focus is more theoretical than pragmatic. The best aspects of different approaches are combined into a superordinate theory that hopefully, ‘leads to new directions for practice and research ’ (p. 12...