Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractAN ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVE AND POLICY IMPLICATION FOR SOCIAL ENTERPRISEYoon-Doo Kim, Seok Yoon, Heon-Goo KimThis study looked at the current status of Korean social enterprises and their problems and suggested governmental policy implications for enhancing the competitiveness of social enterprises. As the study methods, the current status of social enterprises was analyzed and performance of social enterprise support was examined and then policy implications for promoting the social enterprises were analyzed. First, the direction … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 11, Issue 3 · 7 Jan 2014 · 7,409 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractAssessing the Impact of Total Quality Management Practices and Quality Culture with Competitiveness of Saudi ContractorsRushami Zien Yusoff, Rabiul Islam, Faihan AlotaibiTotal quality management practices in construction industries can be described as the processes or that aligns the business performance strategy to the business processes in the hopes of achieving customer satisfaction and product and services quality. Quality culture conditions are strongly linked with project outcomes and hence, initiatives undertaken should be incorporated to the organizational cultural changes. The aim of … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 10, Issue 6 · 30 Jun 2013 · 7,714 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractPrivacy Preserved Collaborative Secure Multiparty Data MiningM. Balamurugan, J. Bhuvana, S. Chenthur PandianProblem statement: In the current modern business environment, its success is defined by collaboration, team efforts and partnership, rather than lonely spectacular individual efforts in isolation. So the collaboration becomes especially important because of the mutual benefit it brings. Sometimes, such collaboration even occurs among competitors, or among companies that have conflict of interests, but the collaborators are aware that … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 8, Issue 6 · 16 Mar 2012 · 7,164 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractSmall Business Critical Success/Failure Factors In Developing Economies: Some Evidences From BotswanaZelealem T. Temtime, J. PansiriAlthough the discovery of diamond has propelled Botswana from one of the poorest countries in 1966 to its current economic status as a middle-income country, the country still faces the problems of economic diversification, employment creation, income generation and distribution and poverty alleviation. Governmental and non- Governmental organizations have put many efforts on the development of small and medium Enterprises … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 1, Issue 1 · 31 Mar 2004 · 9,324 accessesView PDFCite
Review ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractAnt Colony Optimization Approaches in Wireless Sensor Network: Performance EvaluationHusna Jamal Abdul Nasir, Ku Ruhana Ku-Mahamud, Eiji KamiokaWireless Sensor Network (WSN) has been widely implemented in large sectors such as military, habitat, business, industrial, health and environment. WSN is part of a distributed system where elements such as routing, load balancing, energy efficiency, node localization, time synchronization, data aggregation and security need to be addressed to improve its efficiency, robustness, extendibility, applicability and reliability. Despite multiple approaches … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 13, Issue 6 · 24 Jun 2017 · 8,540 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractFROM DATA MINING AND KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY TO BIG DATA ANALYTICS AND KNOWLEDGE EXTRACTION FOR APPLICATIONS IN SCIENCESubana Shanmuganathan"Data mining" for "knowledge discovery in databases" and associated computational operations first introduced in the mid-1990 s can no longer cope with the analytical issues relating to the so-called "big data". The recent buzzword big data refers to large volumes of diverse, dynamic, complex, longitudinal and/or distributed data generated from instruments, sensors, Internet transactions, email, video, click streams, noisy, structured/unstructured … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 10, Issue 12 · 20 Jan 2015 · 8,743 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractA Review Note of KMICe 2010: Knowledge Management Initiatives to Improve Organization PerformanceWan Hussain Wan IshakProblem statement: Knowledge Management (KM) has been a practice in many organizations to improve its performance towards reaching the organization goals. Realizing its importance, University Utara Malaysia has organized a series of KM conference called KMICe that focus on the recent and novel research findings related to KM. This special issue covers articles that were presented at KMICe 2010. Conclusion: … …American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Vol. 3, Issue 1 · 31 Mar 2011 · 8,122 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractPerformance Analysis of Data Mining Tools Cumulating with a Proposed Data Mining MiddlewareL. E. Hen, S. P. LeeData mining has becoming increasingly popular in helping to reveal important knowledge from the organization's databases and has led to the emergence of a variety of data mining tools to help in decision making. Present study described a test bed to investigate five major data mining tools, namely IBM intelligent miner, SPSS Clementine, SAS enterprise miner, oracle data miner and … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 4, Issue 10 · 31 Oct 2008 · 6,604 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractProfitability Analysis of Small-Scale Beekeeping Firms by Using Life Cycle Costing (LCC) MethodologyAlfio Strano, Teodora Stillitano, Anna Irene De Luca et al.Increasingly, beekeeping sector attracts attention due to its potentialities linked to several aspects: Environmental benefits, commercial value and of promotion of rural development. Indeed, among the small-scale agro-food chains, beekeeping plays a significant role, especially in rural context, where the diversification of farms activities can be provide a relevant integration of income. However, frequently, apicultural activities are characterized by several … …American Journal of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Vol. 10, Issue 3 · 27 Jul 2015 · 8,374 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractMULTI-LEVEL PRIORITY-BASED SCHEDULING MODEL IN HETEROGENEOUS CLOUDSiti Fajar Jalal, Masnida HussinCloud has emerged into another enhancement that manipulates the diversity of resources in order to expand the ability of Cloud facility. Cloud is no longer being seen as one-type service provider. The advantages of the heterogeneous Cloud give great benefits to the users and have business potential in service market. To cope with the dynamic nature of heterogeneous Cloud, the … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 10, Issue 12 · 5 Jan 2015 · 7,970 accessesView PDFCite