The ability of farmers to acquire knowledge to make decisions is limited by the information quality and applicability. An inconsistency in information delivery and standards for the integration of information also limits the decision making process. Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD)...

Food safety is a core concern of the European Union in terms of the related legal provisions and of the importance that is given to it. While the food labeling system is already standardized to a large extent, there are areas that still need improvement. In this article, we will present the...

Information integration is considered a source of competitive advantage in the capital projects industry. While it has been broadly implemented, many organizations appear to have achieved only limited benefits from their efforts. This dissertation investigates the complementarity relationship...

Due to the change in attitudes and lifestyles, people expect to find new partners and friends via various ways now-a-days. Online dating networks create a network for people to meet each other and allow making contact with different objectives of developing a personal, romantic or sexual...

Using estimation of demand for the George Washington/Jefferson NationalForest as a case study, it is shown that in a stratified/clustered on-sitesample, latent heterogeneity needs to be accounted for twice: first to accountfor dispersion in the data caused by unobservability of the process that...

This study proposes one plausible procedure to address two methodological issues,which are common in micro- and macro- econometric analyses, for the full realization ofresearch potential brought by recently available high dimensional data. To address the issue ofhow to infer the causal structure...