This paper presents and discusses the use of a software simulation tool for testing and validating a production decision support system. The developed simulator is specially designed for simulation of the entire newspaper production process. We propose methods for testing and validating a global production management system (GPMS), before implementing it in the production environment. Newspaper...

Research has indicated that although online interactive features are not used by the visitors of different web sites, such features might be appreciated by the visitors. This paper examines the use and appreciation of interactive features by visitors on Swedish newspaper web sites. Utilizing an online survey focusing on different traits and habits of newspaper web site visitors, the study prese...

A frequent motivation for annotating documents using ontologies is to allow more efficient search. For collections of newspaper articles, it is often difficult to find specific articles based on keywords or topics alone. This paper describes a system that uses a formalisation of the content of newspaper articles to answer complex queries. The data for this system is created using Relational Con...

This paper explores the effects that collusion can have in newspaper markets where firms compete for advertising as well as for readership. We compare three modes of competition: i) competition in the advertising and the reader market, ii) semi-collusion over advertising (with competition in the reader market), and iii) (full) collusion in both the advertising and the reader market. We find tha...

We extracted English expressions that appear in Japanese sentences in newspaper articles and on the Internet. The results obtained from the newspaper articles showed that the preposition “in” has been regularly used for more than ten years, and it is still regularly used now. The results obtained from the Internet articles showed there were many kinds of English expressions from various parts o...

This paper deals with the segmentation of grey-scale newspaper images into the distinct regions of text, picture and background. Feature vectors are obtained from the image by analysing localised textual characteristics and textual variation. Analysis is performed in a generic way making few contextual assumptions. The contrast, size, orientation and resolution of the image are accounted for by...

This paper presents several statistical methods for topic identification on two kinds of textual data: newspaper articles and e-mails. Five methods are tested on these two corpora: topic unigrams, cache model, TFIDF classifier, topic perplexity, and weighted model. Our work aims to study these methods by confronting them to very different data. This study is very fruitful for our research. Stat...

Aims and method To explore the portrayal of homicide-suicide in newspaper articles, particularly how mental illness was reported. We carried out a qualitative study in England and Wales (2006-2008). Data from newspaper articles obtained via the LexisNexis database were used to examine a consecutive series of 60 cases. Results A fascination with extreme violence, vulnerable victims and having so...

The paper presents a technique for visualization of corpus data consists of thousands of Japanese newspaper articles, and introduces several interesting trends discovered from the results. The technique first generates keyword-document matrices from the newspaper corpus, and respectively applies hierarchical clustering for rows and columns of the matrices. It then displays the two sets of clust...

This article presents the consumer view of an innovative m-service, that is, the e-newspaper, which is published for a mobile reading device equipped with an e-paper display. The research question of this article is: What are the implications of the consumer view of future m-service innovation on business models? In this article, we present empirical results from an online survey with 3,626 res...