In a commercial website or portal, Web information fusion is usually from the following two approaches, one is to integrate the Web content, structure, and usage data for surfing behavior analysis; the other is to integrate Web usage data with traditional customer, product, and transaction data...

Web Intelligence (WI)-based portal techniques (e.g. the wisdom Web, data mining, multi-agent, and data/knowledge grids) will provide a new powerful platform for Brain Sciences. New understanding and discovery of the human intelligence models in Brain Sciences (e.g. cognitive science,...

When therapy using interferon medication for chronic hepatitis patients, various conceptual knowledge/rules will benefit for giving a treatment. The paper describes our work on cooperatively using various data mining agents including GDT-RS, learning with ordered information (LOI), and...

This paper will examine the policy actors and imperatives for regional innovation systems. The emphasis is on regional, rather than national systems, since regions have the competitive advantage in the global economic context of the borderless world (Acs 2002; Cooke et al, 2004; Ohmae, 1999; Sassen, 2006)....

The role of universities in supporting economic development has been explored in numerous studies emphasizing the mechanisms of technology transfer and knowl-edge spillover. However, in addition to these forms of intellectual capital, university scientists bring other resources into research...

With increasing pressure for higher wages and growing competition from other developing countries such as Vietnam and Mexico, China can no longer rely heavily on cheap labor supply as a competitive advantage to secure her position as the world’s largest manufacturing base. Other...

We measured gender differences in preferences for mate income ex-ante to interaction (“income attraction”) in a field experiment on one of China's largest online dating websites. To rule out unobserved factors correlated with income as the basis of attraction, we randomly assigned income...

Integrating and extending new growth theory and resource-based views, this paper provides a theoretical foundation for the catch-up hypothesis. It examines the role of technology gap, technological capability, and cultural proximity in local firms’ catch-up with MNEs. Hypotheses are developed...