This paper addresses the optimal path selection problem for economic corridors, which is a significant issue in field of geo-economics. The has utilized spatiotemporal characteristics geo-economics and identified development needs this to propose an improved ant colony optimization (ACO) strategy. proposed strategy focuses on enhancing heuristic function, functional area setting, pheromone upda...

This article explores the conventional relationship between caring, economics, and administrative practices that no longer serve patients, practitioners, or systems. A shift toward human caring values and an ethic of authentic healing relationships is required as systems now have to value human resources and life purposes, inner meanings, and processes for workers and patients alike, not just e...

Mark Blaug played a central role in the development of the field of the methodology of economics, alongside his theoretical work and contributions to the history of economic thought. The purpose, in this article, is to focus on his contributions to the topic of ‘formalism in economics’, in relation to his methodological commentaries on the Popperian and Lakatosian approaches to the philosophy o...

Inferring user’s location has emerged to be a critical and interesting issue in social media field. It is a challenging problem due to the sparse geo-enabled features in social media, for example, only less than 1% of tweets are geo-tagged. This paper proposes a location inferring model for microblog users who have not geo-tagged based on their tweets content and bilateral follow friends. An ap...

In this article, we present the GeoCorpora corpus building framework and software tools as well as a geo-annotated Twitter corpus built with these tools to foster research and development in the areas of microblog/Twitter geoparsing and geographic information retrieval. The developed framework employs crowdsourcing and geovisual analytics to support the construction of large corpora of text in ...

This article reviews the historical development of behavioral economics, with an emphasis on how it has become part of mainstream economics. First I describe the separation between economics and psychology as a historical background against which behavioral economics emerged. Then I introduce critiques of expected utility theory (EUT), and explain how behavioral decision research developed usin...

China’s overseas industrial parks contribute to political and economic cooperation, cultural exchange between home host countries. Current studies mainly discuss the effect of from perspective institutional difference, multi-scale coupling, as well key partnerships, while little attention has been paid comprehensive analysis parks. Based on a theoretical framework, this paper explores overall g...

Data security in a mobile context is a critical issue. Over the last few years a new category of location-based services, the Enterprise LBS (ELBS), has emerged focusing on the demands of mobility in organisations. These applications pose challenging requirements, including the need of selective access to ELBS based on the position of mobile users and spatially bounded organisational roles. To ...