Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to propose an approach for predicting the movements of Chinese medicinal material price indexes using news based on text mining. Design/methodology/approach: A research framework and three major methods, namely, domain dictionary construction, market...

Purpose: In seaport industries, vessel arrival delay is inevitable because of numerous factors, e.g. weather, delay due to the previous stop, etc. The period of delay can be as short at 15 min of as long as a few days. This causes disruption to the planned sea operation operations, and more...