Many AI researchers and cognitive scientists have argued that analogy is the core of cognition. The most influential work on computational modeling of analogy-making is Structure Mapping Theory (SMT) and its implementation in the Structure Mapping Engine (SME). A limitation of SME is the requirement for complex hand-coded representations. We introduce the Latent Relation Mapping Engine (LRME), ...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the extent to which traditional marketing theory and practice can be applied in smalland medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and consider how owner-managers perceive their own role in marketing within a small business setting. Design/methodology/approach – A qualitative exploratory approach using semi-structured in-depth interviews amongst owner-man...

There has been increasing recognition of the importance of the SME sector in recent years; indeed, the contribution made by SMEs to overall economic development has become widely recognized in many of the newly industrialized economies. In an effort to go beyond some of the present empirical works, this study uses a dataset on both developed and developing economies to examine the contribution ...

Recently, there have been intensive studies of margin-based learning for automatic speech recognition (ASR). It is our believe that by securing a margin from the decision boundaries to the training samples, a correct decision can still be made if the mismatches between testing and training samples are well within the tolerance region specified by the margin. This nice property should be effecti...

We report on a new experiment that tests for a violation of Lorentz invariance (LI), by searching for a dependence of atomic transition frequencies on the orientation of the spin of the involved states (Hughes-Drever type experiment). The atomic frequencies are measured using a laser cooled 133Cs atomic fountain clock, operating on a particular combination of Zeeman substates. We analyze the re...

Methyl and ethyl esters were prepared from camelina [Camelina sativa (L.) Crantz] oil by homogenous base-catalyzed transesterification for evaluation as biodiesel fuels. Camelina oil contained high percentages of linolenic (32.6 wt.%), linoleic (19.6 wt.%), and oleic (18.6 wt.%) acids. Consequently, camelina oil methyl and ethyl esters (CSME and CSEE) exhibited poor oxidative stabilities and hi...

This paper reports the findings of an exploratory empirical study that aims to primarily examine the instrumental role of relationship competency among SME entrepreneurs by utilising a comparative data from Australia and Malaysia. A sample of 20 SME entrepreneurs from Australia and Malaysia participated in this study. A series of interviews were conducted to probe into the behaviours that delin...

We report new results of a test of Lorentz invariance based on the comparison of a cryogenic sapphire microwave resonator and a hydrogen maser. The experimental results are shown together with an extensive analysis of systematic effects. Previously, this experiment has set the most stringent constraint on Kennedy-Thorndike type violations of Lorentz invariance. In this work we present new data ...

Added value for SME can be determine as knowledge, employees’ skills and abilities, social relation, know-how, and particularly effective investing in intellectual capital. The enterprises which invest in knowledge and systems of work are achieved competitive advantage, because of theirs workers’ readiness to learning and qualifying themselves and also thanks to effective information and commun...

SME firms have limited resources which imposes a constraint on their ability to successfully implement Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software. In this research we investigate problems faced by two subsidiaries of an SME trading firm in their move towards ERP. Our findings indicate that the nature of problems differ for the three different stages of ERP implementation life cycle(1) pre-impl...