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Big Data Challenges and Opportunities in Agriculture
No full textThis article reviews various aspects of research concerning the background and state-of-the-art of big data in agriculture. This article focuses on data generation, storage, analysis and visualization in big data. In every phase, technical challenges and the latest advancement are discussed, and these discussions aim to provide a comprehensive overview and complete picture of this exciting area. This survey is concluded with a discussion on the application of big data in precision agriculture and its future directions
Trust Decision Model and Trust Evaluation Model for Quality Web Service Identification in Web Service Lifecycle Using QSW Data Analysis
No full textIn secure web application development, the role of web services will not continue if it is not trustworthy. Retaining customers with applications is one of the major challenges if the services are not reliable and trustworthy. This article proposes a trust evaluation and decision model where the authors have defined indirect attribute, trust, calculated based on available direct attributes in quality web service (QWS) data sets. After getting training of such evaluation and decision strategies, developers and customers, both will use the knowledge and improve the QoS. This research provides web-based learning about web service quality which will be utilized for prediction, recommendation and the selection of trusted web services in the pool of web services available globally. In this research, the authors include designs to make decisions about the trustworthy web services based on classification, correlation, and curve fitting to improve trust in web service prediction. In order to empower the web services life cycle, they have developed a quality assessment model to incorporate a security and performance policy
Information Equity and Cultural Sharing: The Service for Migrant Workers in Hangzhou Public Library
No full textIt is very important to study public library services available to migrant workers, which have the potential to enrich public library services and promote social equity. After analyzing the present situation and characteristics of migrant workers in China, this article takes the services for migrant workers offered by Hangzhou Public Library as an example and explores the best ways to service migrant workers in public libraries, including how to further break down the obstacles to service, how to expand the mode of service, and how to make a greater effort to optimize the growth environment of migrant workers and promote their integration into urban cultural life in the future
Cloud-Based Access Control Framework for Effective Role Provisioning in Business Application
No full textIn the evolution of social networks and big data, secure information sharing is a crucial task. When information is shared between the user and the organization admin, security plays a key role in any business organization in terms of privacy. Though many fruitful solutions prevail to protect the data integrity and privacy, there is a huge space for novel data protection schemes where a large set of data are involved. In this article, the Cloud-Based Access Control (C-BAC) framework is proposed which can fit in any business organization application. In this C-BAC, Policy Enforcement Point (PEP) is used to avoid unwanted information sharing with the neighboring employee. C-BAC framework with RSA provides security, based on the number of employees with the data handled by the particular employee, better than the existing access control framework with asymmetric encryption standard (AES) and Rivest–Shamir–Adleman (RSA) in terms of individual information handling
The Utilization of Social Media by Small and Medium Food Vendors in Brunei Darussalam
No full textThis research examines the factors that contribute to the utilization of social media by the small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) operating in the food industry in Brunei Darussalam. It also investigates how social media provides opportunities to SMEs. This research was done using a quantitative method through primary research that was focused on small and medium-sized food vendors in Brunei Darussalam. Survey questions were distributed to food SMEs and vendors, who use social media to assist them in conducting their business, to serve as a guideline to understand how social media networks can lead to positive business outcomes and how understanding key factors may lead to optimizing product portfolios and to discover new opportunities for their business to expand. Based on the authors' research, cost effectiveness was found to influence social media usage among the small and medium food vendors in Brunei. Factors such as trust, interactivity and compatibility, however were not found to be the factors influencing the utilization of social media
A Sociotechnical Framework for Smart Urban Governance: Urban Technological Innovation and Urban Governance in the Realm of Smart Cities
No full textOver the past decade, the dominant entrepreneurial form of urban governance has seriously hindered the transformation of cities by neglecting the role of urban contexts in shaping governance structures and outcomes. To promote alternatives, this article presents a sociotechnical framework for smart urban governance. This framework explicitly examines the impacts of urban contexts on the sociotechnical interaction between urban technological innovation and urban governance in the realm of smart cities. Three real-world cases were used to demonstrate how the framework can be applied in different urban contexts. The results show that the alleged smartness in smart urban governance by no means implies the simple acceptance, adoption, and use of technology; instead, it needs to be conditionate. For successful smart urban governance, urban technological innovation should be effectively attuned to the wider urban actors and preexisting urban challenges (i.e., the urban governance process), with a special focus on the urban context
How Business Intelligence Can Help You to Better Understand Your Customers
No full textCompanies can incur heavy losses when customers do not return; therefore, they need to have a better understanding of their customers' behaviors in order to improve service and products. And nowadays, there are multiple resources of customers' data especially with web services, such as websites, chatbots, emails, social media, PoS, ERP, CRM, SCM, therefore, it becomes difficult to collect all this huge data altogether and analyze it manually This paper highlights the role of business intelligence in improving the relationship with the customers, and explores the techniques used to analyze customers' data in order to predict their demands and reach their satisfaction
Pricing Strategies of Multinationals for Global Markets – Considerations and Initiatives: Pricing Strategies for Global Markets
No full textMultinationals require analyzing a number of pricing considerations while competing in globally. Firms require setting different and appropriate prices of their products for each of the markets they operate in. The price of a product is an important criterion while formulating strategies for global markets as it determines to a large extent whether a product will get sold or not. Companies contend with a number of issues in pricing for global markets like geographical pricing, price escalation, transfer prices, dumping charges, pricing for emerging markets, and pricing for individuals at the bottom of the pyramid. There are several legal and ethical aspects in pricing for global markets. These include deceptive or illegal prices – deceptive reference pricing, loss leader pricing, and the bait and switch approach towards pricing; predatory pricing; price discrimination; and price fixing. Each of the issues is discussed in detail. The article focuses on how multinationals should handle and overcome them, establish their businesses in global markets, and generate substantial revenues and profits
The Nature and Role of User Beliefs Regarding a Website's Design Quality
No full textResearchers and practitioners have long been interested in identifying the criteria that users consider important in assessing whether a system is worth using. However, past research in this domain has not taken into account the characteristics of a system's design and their quality in a systematic and comprehensive manner, which is likely to have limited the development of actionable design guidelines. The article addresses this issue by suggesting a research model that links user beliefs—which have traditionally been used in IT acceptance and success research (i.e., information quality, system quality, usefulness, and ease of use)—to their beliefs regarding the quality of three categories of a system's design (i.e., visual quality, page layout quality, and navigation quality) and testing it in the context of organizational intranets. The analysis of data collected from 159 intranet website users in three organizations supported the model, suggesting that the three categories of design quality beliefs significantly influenced users' assessment of their system's information quality and system quality
Connecting Enterprise Architecture and Project Portfolio Management: A Review and a Model for IT Project Alignment
No full textEnterprise architecture (EA) and project portfolio management (PPM) are key areas when it comes to connecting enterprise strategy and information technology (IT) projects. Both management disciplines enhance business capabilities, integrate skilled resources, and govern affiliated processes and functions. A skillful comprehension of the links between these managerial areas is essential for effective IT planning. This article elaborates on the common grounds and structural attachment of EA and PPM, showing the substantiated relations between them and demonstrating their cohesiveness. From strategic planning to solution delivery, a conceptual model for IT project alignment integrates these IT management disciplines over two levels. EA ascertains the technical goals and constraints, whereas PPM determines the organizational goals and constraints. The results from both sides are combined to jointly propose, select, prioritize, and schedule IT projects. Roadmapping is a suitable approach to bring EA and PPM together