While disclosures relating to various forms of Internet advertising are well established and follow specific formats, endorsement marketing disclosures are often open-ended in nature and written by individual publishers. Because such marketing often appears as part of publishers’ actual content, ensuring that it is adequately disclosed is critical so that end-users can identify it as such. In t...

In this paper, we introduce new performance indices to characterize the workspace of reconfigurable hyper-redundant robotic arms. These indices are then used to analyze the workspace of a type of hyper-redundant robotic arm using as modules lower mobility parallel platforms. The modules of the reconfigurable robotic arm are the three-legged translational universal–prismatic–universal (UPU) and ...

Network goods and platform-enabled marketplaces are a dominant part of industry and entrepreneurship today. Firms selling these products task selling agents to recruit network participants. This creates a novel agency problem, distinct from one encountered with traditional goods because of externalities created by network effects. We analyze this managerial problem within a principal-agent fram...

Online review platforms have become a basis for many consumers to make informed decisions. This type of platforms is rich in review messages and review contributors. For marketers, the platforms’ practical importance is its influence on business outcomes. In the individual level, however, little research has investigated the impacts of a platform on consumer decision-making process. In this res...

Innovation is a distributed process that involves the collective efforts and the interaction of heterogeneous organisations. Each of those actors is specialised in specific activities, technologies and knowledge and innovation is the result of the combination and integration of their activities. Coordination is a key determinant for the viability of distributed innovation in that it stimulates ...

As a new type of e-commerce, social commerce is an emerging marketing form in which business is conducted via social networking platforms. It is playing an increasingly important role in influencing consumers’ purchase intentions. Social commerce uses friendships on social networking platforms, such as Facebook and Twitter, as the vehicle for social sharing about products or sellers to induce i...

This paper introduces the concept of transshipment networks, a collection of strategically located transshipment platforms, for efficient and flexible last-mile delivery in congested urban areas. By implementing transshipment platforms, logistics operators can select the locations, light-freight vehicle types and operating schedules that best fit specific distribution strategies, and, simultane...

In this paper, we will introduce the JavaScript compiler for the SCP (Smart Cross Platform) to expand the SCP’s coverage. The SCP is the virtual machine based solution that supports various programming languages and platforms, and its aims are to support programming languages like ISO/IEC C++, Java and Objective C and smartphone platforms such as Android and iOS. By adding the new compiler to S...

In the context of the EC-funded ENGAGE project, and in collaboration with euroCRIS, a team at the engineering school Ecole Centrale Paris has performed a functional, technical and economic analysis of Open Governmental Data platforms in the world to determine the differentiating services to be promoted and the most promising business models for this type of platforms. As a result, a combination...

In the seismic risk assessment of structures, two main random variables are involved, namely the vulnerability of the structure and the seismic action. The aim of the study presented here is to analyze the seismic behavior of the jacket-type offshore platforms as an expensive and vital structure. Furthermore, the influence of the incidence angle of the seismic action is also investigated by usi...