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Novel next-group recommendation approach based on sequential market basket information
A market basket is a set of items included in a retail assortment that a customer buys on a shop** trip. The purpose of market basket analysis is...
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The Determinants of Audit Committee Effectiveness: An Empirical Work on Turkish Financial Industry
The major aim of this empirical work is to examine Audit Committee Effectiveness (ACE) from the perspective of financial institutions listed at Borsa...
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ε Constrained differential evolution using halfspace partition for optimization problems
There are many efficient and effective constraint-handling mechanisms for constrained optimization problems. However, most of them evaluate all the...
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Impacts of COVID-19 on Emerging Tourist Destinations and Recovery Strategies in Ghana
The COVID-19 pandemic, characterised by systemic border closures, economic meltdowns and an overwhelmed global health sector, had a debilitating...
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Using Artificial Intelligence for the Specification of m-Health and e-Health Systems
Artificial intelligence (AI) techniques such as machine learning (ML) have wide application in medical informatics systems. In this chapter, we...
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Metaheuristic Algorithms
Metaheuristic algorithms are practically used to produce approximate solutions to large QUBO instances that cannot be solved exactly due to the high...
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Ghana
This chapter provides the first ever investigation of the role that CSR plays, if any, in the employer preferences of young job-seekers in Ghana. Our...
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A Study on the Usage of the BPMN Notation for Designing Process Collaboration, Choreography, and Conversation Models
Being widely accepted by industries and academia, Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) is the de facto standard for business process modeling....
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An innovative hybrid algorithm for bound-unconstrained optimization problems and applications
Particle swarm optimization (PSO) and differential evolution (DE) are two efficient meta-heuristic algorithms, achieving excellent performance in a...
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Context-Dependent DEA
In this chapter, the context-dependent DEA is discussed. Since a product can appear attractive in comparison with a contextual of less attractive or...
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An upgraded firefly algorithm with feasibility-based rules for constrained engineering optimization problems
The firefly algorithm (FA) has become one of the most prominent swarm intelligence methods due to its efficiency in solving a wide range of various...
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‘Pergumulan’ as the Starter and Sustainer of Servant Leadership: A Case of Academic Leadership in an Indonesian Private University
In the disruptive era, every organization is expected to cope with change. This includes the ones in the sector of higher education. Servant...
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“It takes a village” to support entrepreneurship: intersecting economic and community dynamics in small town entrepreneurial ecosystems
Despite the ubiquity of small towns, the forces sha** entrepreneurship in cities of limited size, reach, and scope are unexamined. To address the...
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A novel differential evolution algorithm for solving constrained engineering optimization problems
This paper introduces a novel differential evolution (DE) algorithm for solving constrained engineering optimization problems called (NDE). The key...
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Introduction to Spreadsheet Modeling and Metaheuristics
Models, as a simplified representation of reality, are used daily in an attempt to control or understand some aspects of a real system....
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Systematische Literaturanalyse zu VC-Verträgen
Die erste Forschungsfrage lautet: Was ist zum Thema VC-Vertragsgestaltung bisher geforscht worden und wie lassen sich die bisherigen Einflussfaktoren...
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Resources, experience, and perseverance in entrepreneurs’ perceived likelihood of success in an emerging economy
This paper introduces new results obtained from a statistical investigation into a 3071-observation data set collected from a Vietnamese nationwide...
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Maximizing the profit in customer’s order acceptance and scheduling problem with weighted tardiness penalty
The customer’s order acceptance and scheduling problem in a single machine environment has long been an appealing research subject. In this paper, a...
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Engineering design optimization using an improved local search based epsilon differential evolution algorithm
Many engineering problems can be categorized into constrained optimization problems (COPs). The engineering design optimization problem is very...
