A model is developed that can estimate recreational welfare measures for access to and changes in quality attributes at long distance single-visited tourist sites with only on-site information available. By defining the good (a visit to the site) as indivisible in consumption welfare measures are derived by simply capturing or estimating the chokeprice(s). Stated and revealed methods suitable t...

Living in satisfying urban environments is important for an individual’s well-being. In order to create such environments, planners, designers, and policy makers need to understand the structures that cause residents to feel satisfied with their environments. This paper focuses on the perceived quality of urban residential environments: dwellings and neighborhoods. First, literature review w...

Identifying primary service attributes that generate customer satisfaction (CS) is critical to organizational success. The Kano model demonstrates an asymmetric relationship between attribute performance and CS. However, extant regression-based approaches for classifying Kano’s quality attributes have theoretical limitations, such as multicollinearity problems, resulting in spurious inferences....

Contextual processing is a new emerging field based on the notion that information surrounding an event lends new meaning to the interpretation of the event. Data mining is the process of looking for patterns of knowledge embedded in a data set. The process of mining data starts with the selection of a data set. This process is often imprecise in its methods as it is difficult to know if a data...

Much of the recent research on digital data repositories has focused on assessing either the trustworthiness of the repository or quantifying the frequency of data reuse. Satisfaction with the data reuse experience, however, has not been widely studied. Drawing from the information systems and information science literatures, we develop a model to examine the relationship between data quality a...

Trust and risk are often seen in proportion to each other; as such high trust may induce low risk and vise versa. However, recent research argues that trust and risk relationship is implicit rather than proportional. Considering that trust and risk are implicit, this paper proposes for the first time a novel approach to view trust and risk on a basis of a provenance data model (W3C PROV) applie...

In today’s scenario, extraction–transformation– loading (eTl) tools have become important pieces of software responsible for integrating heterogeneous information from several sources. The task of carrying out the eTl process is potentially a complex, hard and time consuming. Organisations now –a-days are concerned about vast qualities of data. The data quality is concerned with technical issue...

This position paper aims to trigger a technical discussion by proposing a conceptual architecture for big data streaming integrated with complex event processing (BiDCEP). BiDCEP expands the Lambda and Kappa (LK) architectures for big data streaming to fit the complex event processing (CEP) and event management domains of enterprise IT. BiDCEP links CEP components as defined in previous work of...

Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) is a common practice in organizations that need to have a model of how their business relates to the supporting IT-landscape in order to make informed decisions to enhance the enterprise architecture (EA). Creating and maintaining such an EA model is an expensive and time consuming but crucial task in today’s organizations. This has been recognised by bo...

tomato is a major fruit, as well as a major food science product. there is a need of determining the quality attributes of this fruit (nondestructively) due to the increasing demand of the in agro-industrially controlled areas. most of the commonly employed techniques are time consuming and involve a considerable degree of manual work. sample preparation, juice making, and laboratory tests ...