Basic concept of managing knowledge is not a new one, even though knowledge management is a new discipline it has emerged only recently and, given its newness is still developing its theoretical home. Knowledge management has always been conducted in one way or another, e.g. apprenticeships, colleagues chatting or a parent handing over her/his business to the offspring. E-learning is one of the...

This study examines the effects of formal structure on the performance of new ventures in the emergent Internet sector during the years 1996–2001. Burns and Stalker (1961) argued that in dynamic economic sectors, firms with organic structures are more effective than those with more mechanistic structures. We suggest this proposition does not hold for new ventures in turbulent, emergent economic...

Cloud computing is a double-edged sword from the privacy and security standpoints. Despite its potential to provide a low cost security, organizations may increase risks by storing sensitive data in the cloud. In this paper, we analyze how the cloud’s characteristics such as newness, nature of the architecture, and attractiveness and vulnerability as a cybercrime target are tightly linked to pr...

The Online Romance Scam is a relatively new form of fraud that became apparent in about 2008. In this crime, criminals pretend to initiate a relationship through online dating sites then defraud their victims of large sums of money. This paper presents some descriptive statistics about knowledge and victimization of the online dating romance scam in Great Britain. Our study found that despite i...

This year the CLASSY team participated in the update summary task and made four submissions to summarization evaluation (AESOP). Our AESOP submissions used combinations of ROUGE scores along with an update (or newness) score. We also use these new metrics, which we call Nouveau ROUGE, to help train our system and evaluate new ideas on computing update summaries. CLASSY (Clustering, Linguistics,...

P l atelet-rich plasma (PRP) has been a breakthrough in the stimulation and acceleration of bone and soft tissue healing. It represents a relatively new biotechnology that is part of the growing interest in tissue engineering and cellular therapy today. Because of its newness, there is a potential for misunderstanding, misuse, and application of what the practitioner may incorrectly think is PR...

Entrepreneurs face a wide variety of uncertainties in managing new or small businesses. Uncertainty can potentially magnify the liability of newness faced by younger businesses, as well as the challenges that smaller businesses face in having adequate resources to maintain performance. Here we present a model of environmental uncertainty tied to industry, geographic and macro-level effects. We ...

As a new discipline, primarily driven by technology, telemedicine is still searching for a coherent research framework. The number of papers submitted for this year’s minitrack has significantly increased from last year. However, the quality of submitted work has yet to be improved. Data gathered for submitted papers oftentimes remain unclear and inconclusive. Technology surveyed in some papers...

This paper presents a User-Oriented MultiDocument Update Summarization system based on a maximization-minimization approach. Our system relies on two main concepts. The first one is the cross summaries sentence redundancy removal which tempt to limit the redundancy of information between the update summary and the previous ones. The second concept is the newness of information detection in a cl...