In this paper, Statistical Activity Cost Analysis (SACA) is used to identify the interaction of mutually dependent physical and financial aspects of a fixed asset-like system configuration. The novelty of the approach is, having established a rational description of the uncertainty inherent in both domains, the analysis of their interaction. Little research to date has investigated the duality ...

Network information system specification in virtual professional communities requires a legitimate user-driven approach. In such an approach, only specification changes are produced that are not only meaningful but also acceptable to all users. To do so, for each requested change, a relevant user group needs to be selected to work out the required knowledge definition changes. This paper descri...

Electronic government, so called e-government, has been broadly defined as the use of information and communication technology (ICT) to transform government by making it more accessible, effective, and accountable (infoDev & CDT, 2002). The Internet is indeed the most powerful and popular means of delivering e-government. Hence, Web sites have been employed as a platform for delivering a wide r...

The potentially attractive exploitation of Ambient Intelligence (AmI) seeks improving performance and quality of life of people inside workplaces (e.g., offices, manufacturing work centers, homes). To succeed at making the implementation of AmI fruitful it is important to understand and objectively quantify the logical relationship among the following relevant elements: AmI key enabling technol...

What does it tell us about the conceptual structures underlying language use that a language can use ”prick the law” but not ”sing the law” to mean ”break the law”? Some theorists have speculated about the existence of conceptual primitives, which permeate the meaning of all words in any language (Schank, 1975, Mandler, 2004). If this premise is correct, then these concepts could also be used t...

ly, conceptual mappings can be expressed as correspondence rules of the form:

One of the problems with existing clustering methods is that the interpretation of clusters may be difficult. Two different approaches have been used to solve this problem: conceptual clustering in machine learning and clustering visualization in statistics and graphics. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the benefits of combining clustering visualization and conceptual clustering to o...

The European Topic Centre on Air and Climate Change (ETC/ACC) is a consortium of European institutes under contract of the European Environmental Agency DISCLAIMER This ETC/ACC Technical Paper has not been subjected to European Environment Agency (EEA) member country review. It does not represent the formal views of the EEA.

The view that metaphor plays a fundamental structural role in organizing our conceptual systems, rather than serving a deviant rhetorical effect, is now generally accepted. Indeed, this idea drives many recent computational models (Weiner , 1984; Martin, 1990; Way, 1991;Veale & Keane, 1992a, 1992b). However, these analyses are based on the de-contextualised "contents" of the metaphor and ignore...

The purpose of this paper is to examine factors affecting consumers’ acceptance of mobile marketing in China. The author draw on technology acceptance and uses and gratifications theories to develop a conceptual model of antecedent factors and marketing-related and valuebased mobile activity related to the acceptance of mobile marketing practice. The conceptual model is tested using data collec...