Despite the vital role of information in relational-oriented firms, there are limited studies on the impact of information quality on relationship marketing. To address this gap, this study develops a conceptual model to examine the impact of information quality on the successful implementation of relationship marketing by assessing the mediating role of salespeople's relational competency. The...

Diversity has been promoted in image retrieval results using clustering algorithms to tackle queries, which refer to multiple information needs, e.g., due to ambiguity. Despite the effective results of diversity-aware methods, the image wealth of large collections and the subjectivity of human perception bring the semantic gap problem. This paper presents multimodal fusion approaches aimed at r...

Nowadays, it lacks an open, standardized and dynamic interconnection of medical devices. All existing combinations of medical devices consist of isolated solutions with proprietary interfaces, as no common standards for networking and the exchange of data of medical devices exist. This situation leads to confusing operating rooms and inefficient operations. Thus, new strategies need to be devel...

Current trends indicate that information security is critical for today’s enterprises. As managers realise they cannot ignore the potential security risks, they tend to turn to the ISO/IEC 27001 standard, in order to implement an Information Security Management System (ISMS). While being adopted by large companies, ISMS are still considered as out of range by numerous smaller entities. To help ...

During the past decade, many enterprises have been re-directing their resources into critical business areas to keep up with economic and market changes. They have adopted electronic business (EB) systems, such as supply chain management, enterprise resource planning (ERP), and enterprise application integration (EAI), to ensure seamless integration with internal processes as well as suppliers ...

Digital technologies’ development and their ubiquity has significantly changed the way information is collected shared. These changes are also observed in ways that knowledge used to design implement Science, Technology, Innovation (STI) policies increasingly made accessible via digital platforms. Lacking, however, evaluation frameworks measure performance effectiveness of public systems for ST...