Understanding in which contexts professionals come to trust their gut is critical both for human relations as well as for human-computer interaction. A prominent viewpoint promotes a deliberate trust development approach for professionals in all industries and at all levels of organizations...

This study aims to investigate the role of a recommendation system (RS) in personalizing the guest journey in the hospitality industry and its impact on decision making, particularly the exposure effect. The study has two main objectives: (a) to quantify the additional value of using a RS based...

This paper investigates the use of large language models (LLMs) for moderating online discussions, with a focus on identifying user intent in various types of content. It centers on natural language processing (NLP) techniques to detect toxic language, derailment in discussions, and problematic...

This study compares the estimation errors of several present value discounting conventions (end-of-year, mid-year, and the more recently proposed harmonic mean convention) for a uniform distribution of intra-period cash flow - continuous and discrete. Our results show that the mid-year...

This study presents a comprehensive study on the potential and efficacy of decomposition-based multi-objective symbiotic organism search (MOSOS/D) algorithm for truss structure optimization. The investigation is carried out on five benchmark truss structures, e.g., 37-bar, 60-bar, 72-bar,...

This study proposes a novel loss function for neural network models that explores the topological structure of stock realized volatility (RV) data by adding Wasserstein Distance (WD). The study shows that the proposed loss statistically significantly improves the forecast accuracy of neural...

There has been a steady increase in gesture-based applications interacting with various electronic devices. Characters and numerals are written in the air using air-writing applications. Due to the lack of stroke information and a reference point on the writing plane in the 3D space, the...

Infrastructural projects based on public-private partnership (PPP) schemes usually struggle with large amounts of resources. Given such projects' relatively long lifetime, it is expected to encounter a wide range of risks when executing them. This implies that increasing productivity based on...

Vaccine boosters have been recommended to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. A mathematical model with three vaccine doses and susceptibility is formulated. The model is calibrated using the cumulative number of hospitalized cases from Alberta, Canada....

Urban transport system development often involves a central decision-making process by local government representatives or transport company managers. It is imperative to align these decisions with public preferences to ensure public acceptance and long-term sustainability. This study introduces...