Cram schools are a huge business in Taiwan, with parents willing to pay thousands of dollars for what they consider an essential service for their children’s academic achievement, especially English cram schools. They are especially intense around inner-city schools. However, it is not easy...

This article will assess who are the users of public e-service are and what their traits include, and then will further discuss what the perceived key factors that encourage people to use the public e-service. Lastly, what are the main factors to sustain the user to use the public e-service will...

The objective of this research is to study tool wear condition monitoring in tapping process on CNC machining center machine by using fuzzy logic, to determine the status of cutting tool and the suitable time of changing tool before the tool failure or damage on work piece. The input data that...

Purpose: Virtual product development teams are geographically dispersed and cross-functional, but yet they work on highly interdependent tasks by communicating electronically in work groups. This among other issues presents new challenges for the management of knowledge transfer. Based on...

In knowledge-based economy, continuous innovation is the key to sustainable competitive advantage. Innovation can strengthen the sustainable growth and productivity of a country and increase national productivity as well in the global market through creation of new ideas and opportunities....

Material Requirement Planning (MRP) is the tool often used in operation management by production planner - plan the material procurement by type, required timeframe and quantity. The tool helps production planner to calculate the material requirement accurately and timely. However, material...

A smart city applies information and communication technologies (ICTs) to planning, designing, building, and operating city infrastructures in order to improve life quality and economy. It covers many aspects in a city such as utility, public transportation, education, healthcare, entertainment,...

Purpose: The purpose of the research is to examine the effect of a combination of training and training transfer factors on intentions to create new knowledge through stimulating creativity, experimentation and introduction of new products, services and processes in companies....

Over the past three decades, data quality/ information quality (DQ/ IQ) is emerging into a possible distinct discipline. As the research overlaps with other disciplines or research fields such as IS, Marketing, Computing Science, etc., it is important to identify the core characteristics of...

This paper aims at considering the possibility of the future scenario predictions of Japanese software industry through hybrid method. Thus, we try to preliminarily develop a new research framework by connecting the data obtained by large-scale fact-finding investigations, the statistical...