In recent years, privacy-preserving data mining has been studied extensively, due to the wide increase of sensitive information on the internet. A number of algorithms and procedures have been designed, some of which are yet to be implemented, but a few of them are actually employed in the form...

Design management in the UK has developed significantly since the early 1990s, with design managers now operating across both design consultancies and within businesses. These organizations operate in a dynamic global environment; as such it is necessary to respond to changes, especially in the...

Electronic commerce communities are considered to be communities that provide opportunities for the sellers on the one hand and include threats for the purchasers on the other hand. One of the ways to reduce such threats in these open communities is to use transaction-based reputations. These...

Decision tree induction is a widely used technique for learning from data which first emerged in the 1980s. In recent years, several authors have noted that in practice, accuracy alone is not adequate, and it has become increasingly important to take into consideration the cost of misclassifying...

This paper provides an exploratory case study within an SME that is currently selecting a service management solution (SMS) to enhance the existing SAP Business One systems. We examine existing business processes, legacy systems, potential solutions, and vendors with the aim of establishing the...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine how the design of characteristics and use of practices incorporated in customer relationship management information systems (CRM-IS) impact on the expression and realisation of moral agency within organisations. Design/methodology/approach – The...

Credit scoring has become an increasingly important area for financial institutions. Self Organizing Maps (SOM) and Support Vector Machine(SVM) are two techniques of data mining which are being used in different applications of businesses. In this paper, descriptive variables in literatures and...

Purpose – This paper seeks to analyse the process of packaged software selection in a small organization, focussing particularly on the role of IT consultants as intermediaries in the process. Design/methodology/approach – This is based upon a longitudinal, qualitative field study concerning...

With a dramatic economic growth rate of 10% per year, China, as one of the Big Emerging Markets, has drawn increasing attention from both academia and industry. Its market potential and growth rate is believed to be the top attraction for global investment. In many sectors, the increasing number...

This conceptual paper aims to contribute to our understanding of the FLOSS innovation and how it is shaped by and also shapes various perceptions on and practices of hacker culture. Unlike existing literature that usually normalises, radicalises, marginalises or criminalises hacker culture, I...