The focus of the paper is case and real-life problem-based (Ewell, 1997) learning with computer information system projects at California State University Stanislaus (CSUS). While teaching Systems Analysis & Design or supervising senior Information System Application Projects, one can easily spot students' difficulties in applying what they have learned in one course to a different course or a ...

The massive development of biodiversity-related information systems on the Internet has created much that appears exciting but chaotic, a diversity to match biodiversity itself. This richness and the arrays of new sources are counterbalanced by the maddening difficulty in knowing what is where, or of comparing like with like. But quietly, behind the first waves of exuberance, biologists and com...

a r t i c l e i n f o Marketing as a discipline in general, and industrial marketing in particular, has drawn upon a number of different theoretical perspectives from domains as diverse as organisational theory, systems analysis, economics, psychology, sociology and anthropology to further our understanding. However, to build this understanding and increase the relevance of marketing research, ...

While technology matures and becomes more productive, mobile devices can be affordable and, consequently, fully integrated in people’s lives. After their unexpected bloom and acceptance, Online Social Networks are now sources of valuable information. The authors therefore use them for tasks varying from direct marketing to forensic analysis. The authors have already seen Social Network Forensic...

The Institute for Certification of Computing Professionals Education Foundation (ICCP/EF) and the Center for Computing Education Research (CCER) have united to form a coalition of universities and colleges interested in information systems (IS) exit skills assessment. In 2003, the coalition successfully developed an outcome-based assessment exam reflecting the learning units (LUs) defined in th...

Analysing sentiment of tweets is important as it helps to determine the users’ opinion. Knowing people’s opinion is crucial for several purposes starting from gathering knowledge about customer base, e-governance, campaignings and many more. In this report, we aim to develop a system to detect the sentiment from tweets. We employ several linguistic features along with some other external source...

I consider an adverse selection model of ̄rm reputation. Each ̄rm is characterized by an exogenously given quality level, which is the ̄rm's private information and applies to any product it sells. Consumers observe the performance of the ̄rm's products, which is positively related to the ̄rm's quality level. The ̄rm's reputation is given by the consumers' posterior on the ̄rm's quality level given th...

This article discusses the information dimension of marketing from a technical, theoretical and behavioral perspective. It also comments the relationship between marketing and the library and information science (LIS). It is an exploratory and descriptive study and its qualitative approaches are carried out through classic documentary analysis. From the technical perspective, it addresses the p...

political marketing shares many characteristics in common with marketing in the business world. in business marketing , sellers dispatch goods, services, and communications[e.g.advertising] to the market and in return, money [consumer purchases], information [consumer research], and customer loyalty are received. in political campaigns, candidates dispatch promises , favors , policy preferences...

The ongoing trend towards open data embraced by the Semantic Web has started to produce a large number of data sources. These data sources are published using RDF vocabularies, and it is possible to navigate throughout the data due to their graph topology. This paper presents LinksB2N, an algorithm for discovering information overlaps in RDF data repositories and performing data integration wit...