Social media platforms generate huge profits from targeted advertising by collecting massive amounts of data from their users, usually referred to as data harvesting. While leveraging users' data may initially seem beneficial for users, practitioners have suggested that data harvesting causes...

Recently, some user-generated content (UGC) platforms have begun providing shopping features, aiming to generate additional commission-based revenue from in-app transactions. In particular, the platforms allow creators to produce shoppable content (wherein promoted products are tagged with...

Modern companies are beginning to see merit in real-time peer-based performance appraisal as its ability to capture continuous dialogue interactions and real-time feedback within the employee network becomes relevant in the context of current and innovative corporate performance management...

Despite numerous optimization techniques proposed to address inventory record inaccuracy (IRI), there continues to be a lack of empirical appreciation of IRI, nor do existing item-level inspection policies accommodate managerial needs for allocating inspection effort to groups of items. We...

With the increasing value of the industrial internet of things (IIoT), multiple leading manufacturers are eager to build IIoT-based platforms. Manufacturers have their choice of strategy. However, relevant research on this topic remains scarce. Hence, in this study, we investigate a...

With limited economic and physical resources, it is not feasible to continually expand transportation infrastructure to adequately support the rapid growth in its usage. This is especially true for traffic coordination systems where the expansion of road infrastructure has not been able to keep...

Recently, an agile software development technique called extreme programming has caught the attention of practitioners and researchers in the software industry. A core practice of extreme programming is pair programming, where two developers work on the same piece of code. We introduce the...