The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of linguistic inconsistency on performance and satisfaction on the Web. Three experiments were conducted, and the Interface Consistency Testing Questionnaire (Ozok and Salvendy 2001) was used in all three experiments to measure consistency levels. The three experiments using a total of 100 subjects evaluated the effects of direct manipu...

The traditional correctness criterion of serializability in databases is considered too restrictive especially when databases are used to model advanced applications. In general, two approaches are adopted to address this problem. The rst approach considers placing more structure on data objects to exploit type speciic properties while keeping serializability as the correctness criterion. The o...

An important problem in sentiment analysis are inconsistent words. We define an inconsistent word as a sentiment word whose dictionary polarity is reversed by the sentence context in which it occurs. We present a supervised machine learning approach to the problem of inconsistency classification, the problem of automatically distinguishing inconsistent from consistent sentiment words in context...

One of the long-term research goals in machine learning is how to build never-ending learners. The state-of-the-practice in the field of machine learning thus far is still dominated by the one-time learner paradigm: some learning algorithm is utilized on data sets to produce certain model or target function, and then the learner is put away and the model or function is put to work. Such a learn...

Purpose This study aims to understand the performance implications of when a business internationalizes. Many managers take internationalization for granted. Whether seeking broader customer base or cost reduction through cross-border outsourcing, overwhelming belief is that leads higher profits. Design/methodology/approach paper offers systematic review, content analysis and cross-tabulation 1...

We discuss further a recent space-time interpretation of the c = 1 matrix model which retains both sides of the inverted harmonic oscillator potential in the underlying free fermion theory and reproduces the physics of the discrete state moduli of two-dimensional string theory. We show that within this framework the linear tachyon background in flat space arises from the fermi vacuum. We argue ...