In this paper we present the Company Positioning System CPS, which enables the user to navigate interactively through a given economic environment and analyze companies, trends and patterns within that environment. We describe how the data is analyzed, the strengths and weaknesses of CPS and...

In spite of the continued importance of an innovation’s attributes to research methodologies, and the increasing tendency toward multidimensional conceptualizations, the lack of a theoretically derived and empirically developed classification of innovations, conceived in terms of these...

The aim of this study is to examine the underlying dimensions of self-stated attitudesand behaviour concerning everyday financial affairs, and classify individuals basedon those dimensions. A questionnaire was answered by 1282 respondents in the German-speaking part of Switzerland. The sample of...

Auf Basis verschiedener Annahmen zeigt der folgende Beitrag, daß die von Turowski vorgeschlagenen Objekte der Standardisierung nicht den spezifischen Belangen der Wiederauffindbarkeit von Fachkomponenten genügen. Aus diesem Grund werden die Turowski'schen Standardisierungsobjekte um das Objekt...

At cross docking terminals incoming deliveries of inbound trucks are unloaded,sorted, moved across the dock and nally loaded onto outboundtrucks, which immediately leave the terminal towards their next destinationin the distribution chain. Accordingly, a cross dock is a consolidationpoint in a...

Within the archaeology domain, datasets frequently refer to time periods using a variety of textual or numeric formats. Traditionally controlled vocabularies of time periods have used classification notation and the collocation of terms in the printed form to represent and convey tacit...

Unklarheiten über die Gründe für die Nutzung von archivierten Audiobeiträgen und die rechercheseitigen Bedürfnisse interner Kunden an den Bereich Dokumentation und Archive (D+A) von Schweizer Radio DRS (SR DRS) führen zur Erstellung eines Klassifikationsrasters, der auf der „Allgemeinen...

This paper describes articial neural networks which are based on the adaptiveresonance theory. The usage of these articial neural networks for classicationtasks is presented. The example uses is the classication of patient health fromthe results of general blood analysis.[...]

This article illustrates the commonly overlooked sample selection probleminherent in using rural classification methods that change over time due to populationchanges. Since fast growing rural areas grow out of their rural status, using recent ruraldefinitions excludes the most successful places...