The Lonely Runner Conjecture, posed independently by Wills and by Cusick, states that for any set of runners running along the unit circle with constant different speeds and starting at the same point, there is a time where all of them are far enough from the origin. We study the correlation among the time that runners spend close to the origin. By means of these correlations, we improve a resu...

Nowadays, many companies collect Voice of the Customer (VOC) in order to understand more about customers and the way they think about the companies or products/services. Many collection methods are being used to capture those valuable resources. This paper introduces “VOC 3.0”, a new Voice of the Customer (VOC) collection method through customer co-creation. This new method is aiming to create ...

In this proposal, we describe the forthcoming TempEval-3 task which is currently in preparation for the SemEval-2013 evaluation exercise. The aim of TempEval is to advance research on temporal information processing. TempEval-3 follows on from previous TempEval events, incorporating: a three-part task structure covering event, temporal expression and temporal relation extraction; a larger datas...

Developing and maintaining marketing relationships have been widely examined in the literature. The impact of relationships on firm performance extends the understanding of previously defined key relationship marketing elements. Such an understanding spans the gap between relationship marketing theory and practice. We hypothesis that the relationship marketing attributes of communication, power...

In light of the growing relevance of customeroriented business strategies IT investments in the field of Customer Relationship Management have increased considerably. However, firms often could not realize sufficient returns on these IT investments. One major reason for this failure seems to be the lack of appropriate approaches to determine the economic impact of such investments ex ante. Ther...

A fundamental proposition in marketing strategy is that a market orientation is positively related to firm performance. However, the mechanisms of this relationship have yet to be explored in detail, especially in service industries where intangible assets are relatively more important. This paper addresses this issue by proposing a model that identifies important intermediate variables between...

Online customer relationship management (e-CRM) has gained tremendous popularity in the business world recently. This paper presents a framework for classifying entities in the healthcare field. It also describes planned work related to the investigation of critical success factors for some of the entity types.

We introduce two different kind of increasing bilabellings of trees, for which we provide enumeration formulæ. One of the bilabelled tree families considered is enumerated by the reduced tangent numbers and is in bijection with a tree family introduced by Poupard [11]. Both increasing bilabellings naturally lead to hook-length formulas for trees and forests; in particular, one construction give...

We consider the spectral stability of certain traveling wave solutions for the Boussinesq ‘abc’ system. More precisely, we consider the explicit sech(x) like solutions of the form (φ(x − wt), ψ(x − wt) = (φ, const.φ), exhibited by M. Chen, [7], [8] and we provide a complete rigorous characterization of the spectral stability in all cases for which a = c < 0, b > 0.