Web users’ behavioural patterns of tourism information search: From online to offline

This paper presents a conceptual framework of Web users’ engagement in tourism information search for a comprehensive understanding of their integrated online and offline search behaviour. The information search experiences are characterised as a process constituting some common elements: prior knowledge and searching experiences, online searching strategies, processing and recording information, barriers to online searching, reasons for ending an online search, summarising information, exchanging information and searching for more information through other sources. Such behaviour goes beyond the scope of information searching and captures the other activities, including information processing, utilising and disseminating. The grounded theory research method is employed as an inductive investigative process in which the authors construct the framework by systematically collecting and analysing data. The aim of this research method is to build a theory. The data sets consist of both semi-structured in-depth interviews with subjects and their field observations based on online searching. A theoretical model incorporating 10 propositions is proposed for future testing.     

The effect of shopping goals and in-store mobile device use on purchase outcomes in brick-and-mortar stores

The present study examines the effect of using a mobile device on search and evaluation by a shopper in a brick-and-mortar store. A conceptual model that proposes inter-relationships between shopping goals, the amount and type of in-store mobile device use, and purchase outcomes is developed. Data from a national quota sample of 1034 mobile shoppers is used to test hypotheses derived from the proposed model. The findings provide several new insights into the impact of in-store mobile device use on the consumer decision journey in a brick-and-mortar store. Depending upon the shopping goals of the consumer, the use of a mobile device by shoppers in a brick-and-mortar store can either decrease or increase search, lead to more deferred purchases or in-store-now purchases, and more online or physical store purchases. The study is among the first to model the pathway to purchase for mobile device assisted shoppers in brick-and-mortar stores.     

Search reduction in hierarchical distributed problem solving

Knoblock and Korf have determined that abstraction can reduce search at a single agent from exponential to linear complexity (Knoblock 1991; Korf 1987). We extend their results by showing how concurrent problem solving among multiple agents using abstraction can further reduce search to logarithmic complexity. We empirically validate our formal analysis by showing that it correctly predicts performance for the Towers of Hanoi problem (which meets all of the assumptions of the analysis). Furthermore, a powerful form of abstraction for large multiagent systems is to group agents into teams, and teams of agents into larger teams, to form an organizational pyramid. We apply our analysis to such an organization of agents and demonstrate the results in a delivery task domain. Our predictions about abstraction's benefits can also be met in this more realistic domain, even though assumptions made in our analysis are violated. Our analytical results thus hold the promise for explaining in general terms many experimental observations made in specific distributed AI systems, and we demonstrate this ability with examples from prior research.This research has been sponsored, in part, by the National Science Foundation under grants IRI-9015423 and IRI-9010645, by the University of Michigan Rackham Graduate School, and by a Bell Northern Research Postgraduate Award.     

基于信息检索与搜索引擎数据挖掘方法探究

本文主要分析了信息检索与搜索引擎相关问题,首先给出了信息检索的基本原理,重点探讨了信息检索与信息存储的之间的关系问题,同时给出了信息检索的效率以及检索系统的评价体系,分析了人工检索和计算机检索的不同与联系。     

旅游业发展对贵州“走后工业化道路”的影响

处在工业化初期的贵州省,要实现国民经济的跳跃式发展,可以根据李嘉图和亚当.斯密"相对有利条件论",通过"走后工业化之路"发挥后发优势中的自然优势来实现这一目标。但是,后发优势是一种"潜在优势",要将其变为"现实优势"需要一定的条件,就是要在第三产业发展中找到一个支撑点。本文通过归纳分析认为,作为综合性服务行业的旅游,是贵州省发展第三产业的支撑点,对推动贵州经济"走后工业化"道路有极其重要的影响。     

Hub location problems in transportation networks

In this paper we propose a 4-index formulation for the uncapacitated multiple allocation hub location problem tailored for urban transport and liner shipping network design. This formulation is very tight and most of the tractable instances for MIP solvers are optimally solvable at the root node. While the existing state-of-the-art MIP solvers fail to solve even small size instances of problem, our accelerated and efficient primal (Benders) decomposition solves larger ones. In addition, a very efficient greedy heuristic, proven to be capable of obtaining high quality solutions, is proposed. We also introduce fixed cost values for Australian Post (AP) dataset.     

Impact of star and movie buzz on motion picture distribution and box office revenue

This study contributes to research on the impact that consumer buzz has on movie distribution and box office success by examining the impact of buzz generated about the individual stars and about the movie itself. The results indicate that movie buzz is instrumental in boosting box office revenue throughout the theatrical release, not just in the later run, as has been suggested in previous studies. Star buzz can enhance box office receipts during the opening week and can contribute to the public's anticipation of the movie pre-release. However, early buzz can have a negative impact on revenue during subsequent weeks if the movie fails to resonate with the audiences. Model simulations reveal that, even for poorly received films, the overall impact of star buzz is positive because the initial revenue boost normally outweighs the later decline. Thus, this study empirically demonstrates the positive impact of star buzz on revenue, which helps shed light on the long-standing debate regarding the importance of star participation in the success of a movie.     

从百度文库搜索引擎侵权事件引发的法律思考——兼论网络侵权的规制

针对百度文库侵权案例的辨析,本文对百度搜索引擎ISP在实质性非侵权用途、共同侵权、避风港原则等方面进行认定。从而提出对我国在网络侵权方面应加强完善间接侵权规则、界定网络服务主体的性质、适当加大网络服务提供商的责任以及制定《网络侵权责任法》的规制建议。通过本文的研究,寻求搜索引擎行为在法律规制过程中所追求的价值目标。     

盲分离技术识别发动机的噪声源

以柴油机为研究对象,对盲分离技术识别发动机噪声源进行了研究.用测得的混叠信号,盲分离技术能分离出各个噪声源,从而识别出噪声源.对比其他办法,该办法测试简单、测试仪器少、试验环境的条件要求低.用试验验证了新办法识别噪声源的有效性.     

语音识别技术在军用话务台中的应用模拟系统研究

介绍了在军用人工话务台系统中实现语音电话簿的基本框架结构,并详细描述了采用微软语音识别技术实现军用电话号码语音识别的详细流程,最后从识别率方面对该识别系统进行测试和分析,实验表明,该语音电话簿系统是稳定和实用的,在一定程度上减轻了话务员的训练和工作强度。