A unique commercial operation in China that delivers express parcels within the storage compartments (belly-holds) of highway passenger coaches is introduced. A new delivery mode, called 'direct + transfer' delivery, is proposed. On the basis of this mode, a model to optimize the delivery path...

In this paper, the authors propose an effective scheme for association rule mining of personal hobbies in social networks. By introducing the connection and clipping techniques, the authors are able to ignore unrelated items in the process of finding frequent itemsets, resulting in more accurate...

Purpose: A vast amount of complex data is being generated in the business environment, which enables support for decision-making through information processing and insight generation. The purpose of this study is to propose a process model for data-driven decision-making which provides an...

Land is not only a basic factor of production and an important space carrier, but also a key tool to control the development of urban economy. While the phenomenon of land participation in regulation exists generally in China, the theory of supporting regulation and the effect of regulation are...

This paper is an empirical investigation of the relative importance of aggregate disturbances and sectoral shifts in the explanation of unemployment cycles in Canada. Two contributions are made in this paper. First, the identification of these two shocks is accomplished by the mean and the...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the dynamics of the spot freight rate in the Liquid Petroleum Gas (LPG) shipping market. The spot freight rate process is nonparametrically specified so that the model allows for maximal flexibility in fitting the data. The model is estimated using...