Empirical support for the assumption that cliques are major determinants of reputational influence derives largely from the frequent finding that organizations which claimed that their cliques’ connections are influential had an increased likelihood of becoming influential themselves. It is suggested that the strong and consistent connection in cliques is at least partially responsible for the ...

Research in the psycholinguistics literature has identified linguistic cues indicating when a message is more likely to be deceptive and we find that the textual comments in the reviews without prior transactions exhibit many of these characteristics. In contrast, these reviews are less likely to contain expressions describing the fit or feel of the items, which can generally only be assessed b...

In this paper we propose and study the problem of trajectorydriven influential billboard placement: given a set of billboards U (each associated with a location and a cost), a database of trajectories T and a budget L, the goal is to find a set of billboards within the budget so that the placed ad can influence the largest number of trajectories. One core challenge is that multiple billboards h...

The last two decades have seen considerable efforts directed towards making electronic health records interoperable through improvements in medical ontologies, terminologies and coding systems. Unfortunately, these efforts have been hampered by a number of influential ideas inherited from the work of Eugen Wüster, the father of terminology standardization and the founder of ISO TC 37. We here s...

According to previous studies of online consumer behaviour, three factors are the most influential on purchasing behavior brand, colour and position of the product on the screen. However, a simultaneous influence of these three factors on the consumer decision making process has not been investigated previously. In this particular work we aim to execute a comprehensive study of the influence of...

We present an optimization procedure that uses the Taguchi method to maximize the mean stiffness and workspace of a redundantly actuated parallel mechanism at the same time. The Taguchi method is used to separate the more influential and controllable variables from the less influential ones among kinematic parameters in workspace analysis and stiffness analysis. In the first stage of optimizati...