Rhymin’ to (Re)Discover One’s Africanité

Maybe it is time to rediscover bureaucracy?

The paper questions the fashionable ideas, that bureaucratic organization is an obsolescent, undesirable and non-viable form of administration, and that there is an inevitable and irreversible paradigmatic shift towards marketor network organization. In contrast, the paper argues that contemporary democracies are involved in another round in a perennial debate and ideological struggle over what...

Data Mining Using Machine Learning to Rediscover Intel’s Customers

Since the PoC, Intel sales and marketing teams have delivered communications to eight vertical industries across four geographies and in eight languages. When we tracked resellers in the engagement chain, we found that, in comparison with the rest of the sales pipeline, twice as many resellers advanced from leads to qualified leads. Their click-through rate for email newsletters is now three ti...

Using Web Page Titles to Rediscover Lost Web Pages

Titles are denoted by the TITLE element within a web page. We queried the title against the the Yahoo search engine to determine the page’s status (found, not found). We conducted several tests based on elements of the title. These tests were used to discern whether we could predict a pages status based on the title. Our results increase our ability to determine bad titles but not our ability t...

Willpower Rediscover Ing the Greatest Human Strength

An Evaluation of Link Neighborhood Lexical Signatures to Rediscover Missing Web Pages

For discovering the new URI of a missing web page, lexical signatures, which consist of a small number of words chosen to represent the “aboutness” of a page, have been previously proposed. However, prior methods relied on computing the lexical signature before the page was lost, or using cached or archived versions of the page to calculate a lexical signature. We demonstrate a system of constr...