Although knowledge spillovers have long been considered a critical element for development of technology clusters by facilitating innovations, the relationship between characteristics of knowledge spillover network and regional cluster’s growth is ambiguous. Based on patent co-authorship data, we construct inventor networks for two geographical telecom clusters – New Jersey and Texas – and inve...

The rapid growing of information technology (IT) motivates and makes competitive advantages in health care industry. Nowadays, many hospitals try to build a successful customer relationship management (CRM) to recognize target and potential patients, increase patient loyalty and satisfaction and finally maximize their profitability. Many hospitals have large data warehouses containing customer ...

Advances in geographical information systems (GIS) and supporting data collection technology has resulted in the rapid collection of a huge amount of spatial data. However, known data mining techniques are unable to fully extract knowledge from high dimensional data in large spatial databases, while data analysis in typical knowledge discovery software is limited to non-spatial data. Therefore,...