The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (EU-GDPR) has initiated a paradigm shift in data protection toward greater choice and sovereignty for individuals more accountability organizations. Its strict rules have inspired regulations other parts of the world. However, many organizations are facing difficulty complying with EU-GDPR: these new types cannot be addressed by an adaptat...

Project Summary Objectives of this research are to develop, implement, and test a methodology for building inductive databases, which extend conventional databases by integrating inductive inference capabilities. These capabilities allow a database to answer queries that require synthesizing plausible knowledge. Such knowledge is not directly or deductively obtainable from the database, but can...

In recent years, a growing number of B2B e-businesses are adopting inter-organizational information systems (IOS). IOS enable and facilitate sharing of IT resources and capabilities between two or more organizations. Scholars also agree that information technology (IT) recourses and capabilities are critical for delivering business value of IT. Although, extant literature has mainly focused on ...

With the growing recognition of the customer’s role in service creation and delivery, there is an increased impetus on building customer-centric organizations. Digital technologies play a key role in such organizations. Prior research studying digital business strategies has largely focused on building production-side competencies and there has been little focus on customer-side digital busines...

The goal of this work is to develop techniques that allow one or more robotic observers to operate with full autonomy while accomplishing the task of model building. The planning algorithm operates using certain simple but flexible models of the observer sensor and actuator abilities. We provide techniques that allow us to implement these sensor models on top of the capabilities of the actual (...

Local knowledge building is a crucial factor for upgrading small producers and improving their market competitiveness and livelihoods. The rise of global standards affecting food safety and environmental sustainability in agriculture sparks debates on the impact on smallholders in developing countries. This article presents a perspective on the links of international standards to knowledge and ...

LONG ABSTRACT: The present paper aims to study the incidence of malnutrition among the four southern states in India. It applies capability approach developed by A.K Sen. along with Nussbaum to assess the impact of malnutrition on child well-being. Well being is what people can do (capabilities) as opposed to what they actually do. Besides, we calculate BCI (Basic Capability Index) to compare t...

d: M.A. of Business Management. University of Isfahan . [email protected] e: Isfahan University of Medical Sciences , [email protected] Knowledge as one of the greatest factors in creating value and competitive advantage, has led organizations to show great tendency toward programs of knowledge management. Understanding the relationship between infrastructural capabilities and process c...