Recent developments in international trade theory predict that increased globalization will be associated with increased locational concentration of economic activities, and hence increased specialisation of national and regional economies. Relative little empirical evidence exists on whether these predictions are correct, mainly as far as Central and Eastern Europe is concerned. This paper aim...

A coupon is an electronic data that represents the right to access a service provided by a service provider (e.g. gift certificates or movie tickets). Recently, a privacyprotecting multi-coupon system that allows a user to withdraw a predefined number of single coupons from the service provider has been proposed by Chen et al. at Financial Crypto 2005. In this system, every coupon has the same ...

Most sectors of industry, commerce, and government have reported variation in the performance payoff from electronic customer relationship management (e-CRM). In this paper we build on surprisingly sparse literature regarding the importance of managerial discretion to show that the heterogeneity of beliefs held by managers about e-CRM execution matter when explaining e-CRM success. Drawing on a...

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Managing services on the Internet is becoming more and more complex and time consuming for service providers since services are increasing both in number and complexity. Also the number of users per service is going up. A solution to this problem is to allow the service users themselves to partly manage the services they are using. This is called Customer Service Management, and it will both in...

In this paper, we present LIMSI participation to one of the pilot tasks of QA4MRE at CLEF 2012: Machine Reading of Biomedical Texts about Alzheimer. For this exercise, we adapted an existing question answering (QA) system, QALC, by searching answers in the reading document. This basic version was used for the evaluation and obtains 0.2, which was increased to 0.325 after basic corrections. We d...

Automatic temporal ordering of events described in discourse has been of great interest in recent years. Event orderings are conveyed in text via various linguistic mechanisms including the use of expressions such as “before”, “after” or “during” that explicitly assert a temporal relation – temporal signals. In this paper, we investigate the role of temporal signals in temporal relation extract...

Relation extraction is an important step in Ontology construction. This paper provides a method to extract relations among conceptions with AGROVOC.

In the empirical part of the study the main questions are: What are the opinions of managers about the commitment of the employees, and what are their opinions of their own management using concepts of internal marketing? Are they marketing oriented, customer relationship managers? Thinking of employees the main questions are: What are the contents of their commitment? What are the opinions of ...