Real-time statistics on smart meter consumption data must preserve consumer privacy and tolerate smart meter failures. Existing protocols for this private distributed aggregation model suffer from various drawbacks that disqualify them for application in the smart energy grid. Either they are not fault-tolerant or if they are, then they require bidirectional communication or their accuracy decr...

Patients often have difficulty in understanding medical concepts and vocabulary in their Discharge Summaries. We explore automatic hyper-linking to online resources for difficult terms as a means of making the content more comprehensible for patients. We use the Consumer Health Vocabulary (CHV) as a resource for scoring the difficulty of terms and to provide the most consumerfriendly synonyms. ...

The “big idea” with knowledge management is that in a fast-moving and increasingly competitive world, a firm’s only enduring source of advantage is its knowledge – the knowledge of its individual employees, and the knowledge that gets built into its structures and systems. Consulting companies and R&D organisations have known this for years, but increasingly even “old economy” firms in oil, ste...

Mitigating consumer health risks and reducing food wastage has stimulated research into mechanisms for improving consumers’ food safety knowledge and food management practice. Many studies report success, but differences in methodology and in the type and range of foods and consumers involved has made comparison and transferability of results challenging. While most studies advocate for the imp...

Our research investigates the competitive ramifications of individual marketing and information management in today’s information-intensive marketing environments. The specific managerial issues we address are as follows. First, what kinds of incentive environments do competing firms face when they can only target individual customers imperfectly? Second, does the improvement in an industry’s t...

background: moving toward progress in every country starts from universities. intellectual capital is a very strong theory that all knowledge-based organizations can utilize to improve their efficacy and productivity.  the purpose of this research was to evaluate the structural equation modeling of knowledge conversion process upon intellectual capital components in public universities of isfah...