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In the current consumer-centric economy, consumers increasingly desire the opportunity to design their own products in order to express more effectively their self-image. Mass customization, based on efficient and flexible modulization designs, has provided individualized products to satisfy this desire. This work presents an experiment employed to demonstrate that customer participation leads ...

he findings and directives issued by the President’s Commission (2002) regarding the development of a system that is consumer and family driven have led many states and their partners to increase their efforts to involve consumers along a continuum of core activities for justice-involved consumers. Jail diversion and prison reentry programs have been at the forefront in integrating consumers in...

This paper describes the polarity classification system designed for participation in SemEval2016 Task 5 ABSA. The aim is to determine the sentiment polarity expressed towards certain aspect within a consumer review. Our system is based on supervised learning using Support Vector Machine (SVM). We use standard features for basic classification model. On top this, we include rules to check prece...

Patient participation in healthcare is a neglected area of interest in the rather extensive amount of research on immigrant so-called Selma patients in Swedish health care as well as worldwide. The aim is to explore the phenomenon "patient participation" in the context of the Swedish health care from the perspective of immigrants non-fluent in Swedish. A phenomenological lifeworld approach was ...