Many news organizations have recognized the potential of social media as a journalistic tool and have used social media marketing to attract online audiences. The aim of this study is to understand the implications of news organizations’ adoption of social media sites through (1) an...

This paper examines one of the most important marketing strategies by software producers on the Internet. That is whether to offer free samples and if so, whether to list the samples on shareware repositories. I show that firms with higher value products have a greater incentive to offer free...

Traditionally, the scholarly journal market operates so that research institutions are charged high prices and the wider public is often excluded altogether, while authors can usually publish for free and commercial publishers enjoy high profits. Two forms of open access regulation can mitigate...

Semantic web technologies are considered to be the next wave for web technologies related with rich internet web applications, content management, and document and information management. The most promising semantic web applications for business domain are considered to be the semantic web...

This paper treats with examples the practical use of Semantic Web technologies for describing business data. The main problems that the present paper addresses are related to identifying the main activities/ functions of an organization that can be represented with Semantic Web technologies. We...

This paper tries to discuss some findings in mathematical decision-making modeling models with applications in business processes. We start by presenting some technological implications and implementations of decision-making models. After this we discuss some implementations realized by us and...

This study attempts to identify some characteristics of the relationship between journalists and politicians. The methodology of the research is based on the analysis of responses to interviews in depth applied to a sample of 50 print and audiovisual journalists from Bucharest, Suceava, Pitesti,...

This paper presents actual limits of DSS and KBS in supporting business decisions processes. After a brief review of DSS and KBS limits we propose a solution that consist in information semantically integration with the use of ontology and inference engine in a contextualized web browser. We...

The present paper treats an important aspect which concerns semantic web databases. Our research motivation is given by the problems that semantic web databases raise for the quality characteristic. We try to identify which are the main criteria to take into consideration when building a...