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10
May
2011

Distinctive Feature Extraction for Fast and Reliable Classification in Complex Systems

Communications of the IBIMA
In this work, an approach for establishment of class membership in complex systems is reported.   The classification is based on adaptive recognition facilitating the discovery of pattern features that make them distinct from objects belonging to different classes. By viewing a pattern as a representation…
10
May
2011

Optimal Growth and Development of Companies through Knowledge Management Value Chain

Journal of Mobile Technologies, Knowledge and Society
The tools and techniques in Knowledge Management (KM) are powerful measures for enhancing the growth and development of the company if it is well directed. It may also if not handled appropriately reflect inefficiency in work sapping the energy of employees who may not see…
09
May
2011

Cloud Computing Development Strengthens Delegated Information Processing as the New Information-Communications Ecosystem

Journal of Cloud Computing
Information-communications systems, consisting of three core categories: information (content), communication mechanism (currently dominated by Internet), and services (data/information processing, content delivery, etc.) were changing over time from the distributed processing to the cloud computing. Current cloud computing development gives the basis for delegated information processing…
01
May
2011

The Relationship between Cultural Identity and Individual Knowledge Sharing Behavior

IBIMA Business Review
While study focusing on cultural identity has been vastly reported in the literature, not much is really known about the relationship between knowledge sharing behavior and cultural identity. Against this background, this study was undertaken to examine the relationship between knowledge sharing identity and the…
01
May
2011

Preservation of Geological Information Using a Repository System on Langkawi Geoparks

IBIMA Business Review
The development of a repository system is a valuable solution that can assure the preservation of geological information and would provide a more sustainable tool for future references. This research attempted to establish on how geological information could be modeled into various forms of digital…
30
Apr
2011

Electronic Business Maturity in Portuguese SME and Large Enterprises

Communications of the IBIMA
Since the introduction of computer technology into organizations in the 1960s, there have been numerous attempts to develop models of Information Systems/Information Technology (IS/IT) maturity. The maturity models are based on the premise that the planning process, development or adoption, use and management of IS/IT…
30
Apr
2011

Collaborative Business Applications: A New Methodological Approach

IBIMA Business Review
The introduction of the Enterprise 2.0 philosophy is to make the companies more flexible by improving the collaboration between the employees. The real application of this concept doesn’t concern about a simple adoption of a new technology but a more complex change that involves all…
14
Apr
2011

The Association between Training and Organizational Citizenship Behavior in the Digital World

Communications of the IBIMA
This research investigated the association between five training variables i.e. availability of training, support for training, motivation to learn, training environment and perceived benefits of training and organizational citizenship behaviour (OCB). OCB was made up of 5 components — altruism, conscientiousness, civic virtue, sportsmanship and…
12
Apr
2011

University Students’ Emotion State and Academic Performance: New Insights of Managing Complex Cognitive

Journal of e-Learning and Higher Education
A potentially important but relatively unexplored factor in explaining human capital accumulation during college is mental state (health) problems.Recent empirical findings reveal the impact of mental state, i.e. positive mood, on the performance of the students in processing information. This kind of mental state facilitates…
12
Apr
2011

Competitive Potential of Micro-sized IT Outsourcing Vendors in a Small State of the European Union: A Case of Malta

Journal of Outsourcing and Organizational Information Management
Information Technology (IT) outsourcing becomes an increasingly popular phenomenon among business practitioners who seek services and/or products of third party suppliers to meet their in-house IT needs. It offers a business opportunity for IT outsourcing vendors, which, from a competitive potential perspective, may be challenging…