Conventional hedonic valuations of environmental amenities and cultural ecosystem services (CES) expose two limitations. First, it does not provide a segmented estimate based on the value type, namely use and non-use values. Second, studies using linear hedonic regression cannot address...

The purpose of this paper is to provide a more current evaluation and update of web mining research and techniques available. Current advances in each of the three different types of web mining are reviewed in the categories of web content mining, web usage mining, and web structure mining. For...

Estimation of fuel (gasoline and diesel) consumption for vehicles in China under different long-term energy policy scenarios is presented here. The fuel economy of different vehicle types is subject to variation of government regulations; hence the fuel consumption of passenger cars (PCs), light...

Purpose – The quality and quantity of data are vital for the effectiveness of problem solving. Nowadays, big data analytics, which require managing an immense amount of data rapidly, has attracted more and more attention. It is a new research area in the field of information processing...

As manufacturing systems change from island of automation to enterprise‐wise integration, object‐oriented database and database management systems have many superior features to meet the new requirements. Based on the comparison with relational databases, this paper discusses the selections...

While managers and researchers agree that the fuzzy front end of new product development (NPD) is critical for project success, the meaning of the term “front‐end fuzziness” remains vague. It is often used broadly to refer to both the exogenous causes and the internal consequences of...

Reviews quality dimensions, perspectives and practices. An integrated framework is developed to analyze the relationships among quality dimensions, perspectives and practices. This framework incorporates two dimensions of the internal‐external focus and objective‐subjective measurement. It...