The complexity and the intensity of crisis-related situations require the use of advanced distributed systems infrastructures. In order to develop such infrastructures, specific architectures need to be applied such as Component-based Modelling, Object-Oriented, Aspect-Oriented and...

This article aims to present a social media-based system that coordinates the responses of the authorities in a large crisis. The article performs extensive review of literature in order to identify decision making approaches in crisis situations and the different factors that affect these...

Purpose: While numerous studies have studied knowledge transfer (KT) and endeavored to address factors influencing KT, little effort has been made to integrate the findings of prior studies. This paper aims to classify the literature on KT through a detailed exploration of different...

Organizations continue to invest in marketing strategies through various social media platforms in order to enhance engagement. Building engagement is said to help companies to gain more profit and contribute to their social responsibility (Du et al. 2010). Users follow companies for access to...

Organizations seeking to improve user engagement continue to invest in fan pages on social media platforms anticipating that in a progressive global marketplace users will utilize these technologies, which will enhance organizational competitive advantages. With the steady growth of the number...

Knowledge management and data mining techniques have been widely used in many important applications in both scientific and business domains in recent years. The importance of forecasting has also been exposed in many practical zones. Considering that accurate forecasts are the base for correct...