Research on international joint ventures (IJV) reveals difficulties in managing cross-cultural teams. Our research aims to understand how cultural differences between Japanese and American firms in IJV projects effect team performance through computational experimentation. We focus on and characterize culturallydriven normative systems as a central role of cultural differences, composed of two ...

The lexical richness and its ease of access to large volumes of information converts the Web 2.0 into an important resource for Natural Language Processing. Nevertheless, the frequent presence of non-normative linguistic phenomena that can make any automatic processing challenging. In this paper is described the participation in the Text Normalisation Workshop at the SEPLN conference (Tweet-nor...

We investigated the psychometric properties of the random number generation (RNG) task in four studies using a mixed sample of young adults (n = 306), middle-aged adults (n = 40), and patients diagnosed with schizophrenia (n = 26). Data in study 1 were best accounted for by a three-factor solution representing inhibition of stereotypical schemas (seriation), output inhibition (repetition), and ...

    Dynamic model,   regional economy,   innovation.   This paper presents a normative balance mathematical model of regional economy that contains a lot of unspecified parameters which are not defined directly by the data of economic statistics. A method for estimation of the model parameters by application of parallel computations on multi-processors systems is presented. It is determined the...