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Enhancing e-commerce customer churn management with a profit- and AUC-focused prescriptive analytics approach
No full textThis study introduces a profit- and AUC-focused prescriptive analytics method (PAM) grounded in big data analytics capability, as supported by the dynamic capabilities theory, to manage customer churn in the e-commerce sector. This method accounts for the diversity in customer lifetime value and the associated costs of incentives to accurately evaluate the expected maximum profit (EMPB). PAM not only balances EMPB and AUC effectively but also prescribes optimal actions to align with various decision-makers' preferences, enhancing both business and predictive outcomes. Our experiments, validated by a real-world case study, demonstrate PAM's adaptability and superior performance in managing customer churn. Moreover, optimal action is explained by leveraging interpretable data science methods to provide clear insights into decision-making processes, further emphasizing its role as a big data analytics capability in a changing business environment
Fostering supply chain resilience for omni-channel retailers: A two-phase approach for supplier selection and demand allocation under disruption risks
Full text linkThis study aims to optimize supplier selection and demand allocation decisions for omni-channel (OC) retailers to achieve supply chain resilience under the potential disruption risks. A two-phase approach with resilience factors that covers three main sourcing issues (i.e., supplier evaluation, supplier selection, and demand allocation) is proposed to support the decision-making. In the first phase, we construct a five-dimensional evaluation framework for OC retailers to identify supplier preferences and a hybrid model that combines the best–worst method to determine the weights of the evaluation criteria and evidential reasoning to evaluate potential suppliers. In the second phase, the preferences obtained from multiple suppliers are integrated into a multi-objective mixed-integer linear programming model aiming to minimize expected cost and maximize total purchasing value and geographical segregation based on three key resilience strategies of multiple sourcing, geographic diversification, and local sourcing. The efficiency of the aforementioned resilience strategies as well as the solvability of the proposed model are then validated numerically using a real-world case study and various MOEAs. The outcomes could be used as a decision-making tool to assist OC retailers in the performance assessment and optimal demand allocation among the alternative suppliers by considering costs, purchase value, and resilience simultaneously
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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