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Both small and large companies are facing tough competition in today’s rapidly changing environment. They should be able to adapt continuously to these changes and to exploit them as opportunities of development. Firms should then innovate in order to gain sustainable advantage, by proposing adequate products and services allowing them to increase market shares and sustain their growth. Disruptive technologies are thus adopted in order to conceive innovative products, to develop a new use of existing products/services or to optimize processes. In this article, we describe our theoretical framework and its main constructs. It presents the direct effect of information technology innovation on economic, social and environmental performance. Moreover, our proposed framework focuses on the intermediary role of organizational agility. In addition, the main findings of our quantitative study based on the analysis of survey data from 103 participants are highlighted. After verifying the validity and reliability of our questionnaire results, the framework’s hypotheses are tested using partial least squares path modeling method.
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Identification of a Better Laptop with Conflicting Criteria Using TOPSIS
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Multi Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) methods are useful for evaluating several complex factors of multiple selection problems. The Multi-Objective problems are an extension of Single-Objective problems. The goal of MCDM is to help the decision maker to make a choice among a finite number of alternatives or to sort or rank a finite set of alternatives in terms of multiple criteria. Among the MCDM methods, the most widely applied method is TOPSIS. It is applied for different kinds of MCDM problems. In laptop selection process, it is difficult to select better laptop because relatively all laptops are seems to be same. By applying the TOPSIS method to the alternatives it is simple to differentiate the laptops from one another. The better laptop has been selected using TOPSIS based on conflicting criteria such as warranty, size, battery life, specification and others. This methodology also has been evaluated by MCDM evaluation metrics such as Time and Space Complexity, Sensitivity Analysis, ranking reversal and relative closeness coefficient.
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Image Restoration Algorithm Research on Local Motion-blur
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In this paper, we aim at the restoration of local motion-blur. On the base of construction of basic model of local motion-blur, the formation mechanism of local motion-blur is analyzed, and a new restoration algorithm aimed at local motion-blur in a complex background is proposed. In the algorithm, the problem of restoration of blurred image with complex background is simplified. First, the blurred part is extracted from the complex background, and then it is pasted onto a bottom with monochromatic background. After restoration in the monochromatic background, the restored part is pasted back to the original complex background. All the operations can be completed in spatial domain. Because the restoration of blur image with monochromatic background is easier, so the algorithm proposed in this paper is simple, fast and effectual. It is an effective method of blur image restoration.
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An image represents millions of words which is depend on people interpretation. If image application considers for the marketing arena, then it represents to masses of peoples of different categories as per their requirements. The image-based marketing is an innovative and creative phenomenon which highly depends on geographical areas as well as on the interest of different placed habitat consumers. At recent times, the digital devices are widespread and it possesses by common peoples for completion of their daily miscellaneous needs and services. That is why, a new globe is opened for digital marketing, especially image-based marketing. Marketers jolt out traditional marketing strategies and adopt new marketing strategies to enhance productivity and sale. However, it is possible by application of a digital communication medium due to its effectiveness and efficiency. At recent times, the marketing paradigm has been shift very rapidly as per consumer mindset, for that, it is essential to switch into modern marketing technique keeping in mind of future firm prospect and its prosperity. Hence, in this research article, we discuss of how product sale grows by adopting digital marketing strategies, with that, we analyzed consumer behavior.
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Natural disasters cause economic instability, leading to severe financial hardships for affected communities. The rapid surge in essential goods prices during such events significantly burdens vulnerable populations, highlighting the critical need for timely policy interventions. While understanding public sentiment on economic distress is crucial for effective data-driven policy generation, research specifically analyzing public sentiment on price hikes in such contexts remains limited, often due to a lack of dedicated datasets. To address this, this paper first introduces a novel dataset of social media comments on price hikes related to the 2023 Turkey earthquake. Second, to support data-driven policy-making by quantifying public sentiment, we applied a range of AI models and identified transformer-based models like DistilBERT as particularly effective for sentiment classification. Furthermore, we employ Explainable AI techniques to enhance model trust, enabling policymakers to confidently use these insights to support disaster recovery and economic stabilization in affected regions.
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Impact of Modification Rate in Artificial Bee Colony for Engineering Design Problems
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Artificial Bee Colony (ABC), a recently proposed population based search heuristics which takes its inspiration from the intelligent foraging behavior of honey bees. In this study we have studied the impact of modification rate (MR) in basic ABC by gradually increasing it from 0.1 to 0.9. This impact is studied on four engineering design problems taken from literature. The simulated results show that it is beneficial to set the modification rate to a lower value.
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Impediments to Requirement Engineering in Distributed Team
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Due to the greater availability of skilled software engineers, organizations are increasingly adopting Global Software Development, at relatively lesser costs. Software process in such distributed teams have turned out to be progressively more viable for numerous reasons, due to better communication technologies and maturity level of software industry. However organizations adopting Global Software Development must take into consideration that it is not a risk-free action, as many failures related to it have been reported. There are a number of challenges when existing tools of globally distributed projects are adopted. Upon deep evaluation of requirement analysis during interactive phase, particular consideration must be given to the requirements of clients and distributed software provider teams which are globally dispersed. In this paper, we present realistic insights gathered from carrying out surveys from IT professionals and people working in the software industry. Moreover, extensive examination of the literature work previously done in this regard is also documented in our paper. The objective of our paper is to get a clear idea about the major factors and challenges faced by the team members of the globally distributed team. After identification of these key factors, based on the results of our survey, we have endeavored to present an analysis on how to overcome these challenges.
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Implementation and Performance Effect on Electronic Procurement and its Ship Management Companies
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Transportation industry in general and maritime transportation industry in particular are not exception in this regard. Customers, partners, agents, collaborators, shippers, port operators, suppliers and service agencies are involved in the ship transport industry supply chain, and one of the major requirements in such a supply chain in which all concerned parties are scattered all over the world, is the high speed transferring of data between them. In maritime transportation procurement process plays an essential role. In this study based on the literature review, seven most frequently mentioned factors found. These performance factors were: Cost, visibility of supply chain, cycle time, procurement control, inventory management and purchasing errors which were influenced by implementing E-Procurement. An attempt has been made in this research to find the performance effect of e-procurement implementation in ship management companies.
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This study aims to examine how to evaluate the activities undertaken in IDX. By building the system "business intelligence implementation to determine the evaluation of activities ". Where in this study also used the algorithm Naive Bayes in the process of data classification activities that have been done. The approach to the development of this software is through the study of libraries, data collection, system design, system implementation, Test systems and analysis. The tools used in the development of this software are Pentaho, PostgreSQL (as a data processing tool), Microsoft Excel (as a tool for creating training data), XAMPP (as a Web server tool) and the encoding used in this software development is the PHP CodeIgniter framework (as the backend), Highcharts (as Dashboard views) and DataTables (as table views). In this study, authors build software that is expected to help the Directorate of Development (RPE) in conducting evaluation activities in IDX. The analysis of the study uses variables from budget-realization data and activity categories as comparators to figure out the activity status. The study also used IDX activity data in 2018 to implement a built-in system. The results of this study show that the realization of the budget and category of this activity strongly affects the activities that will be evaluated or not evaluated. Activities in each of the IDX representative offices are also potentially to be evaluated, depending on the value of the budget specified in the training data set.
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Implementation of Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm in VHDL for Digital Circuits Optimization
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In order to accomplish the targets of specified levels for reducing the hardware requirements of digital systems, innovative techniques are required to be implemented either at the device level, architectural level or gate level designs. In this paper one of the evolutionary techniques i.e. Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm has been used to optimize digital circuits at the gate level on VHDL platform to draw an automatic, generalised and reliable technique to find optimum solutions with reduced gate count for the designing of digital systems.
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Agricultural price prediction in developing regions faces significant challenges from missing data in Internet of Things (IoT)-based environmental monitoring systems, particularly in tropical fruit cultivation where sensors frequently experience connectivity and operational failures. This study evaluates the impact of missing data imputation methods on agricultural price prediction model performance using environmental and market data from a commercial durian orchard in Chanthaburi Province, Thailand (2023-2024). Three imputation strategies—Linear Interpolation, Prophet, and Kalman Filter—were systematically compared across four machine learning algorithms (Regression Trees, Random Forest, XGBoost, and Artificial Neural Networks) using 10-fold cross-validation. The dataset comprised 182 observations with 28.02% missing environmental data and 68.13% missing price data, representing realistic constraints in developing agricultural economies. Results demonstrated that XGBoost consistently achieved superior performance across all imputation methods, with Kalman Filter combined with XGBoost showing the best testing performance (R² = 0.9767, MSE = 0.0013, MAE = 0.0287, MAPE = 1.49%). However, these results require careful interpretation given the limited sample size, high missingness, and potential temporal data leakage from random train-test splitting. Time series visualization revealed distinct characteristics: Linear Interpolation provided computational efficiency but oversimplified data complexity, Prophet captured seasonal patterns but introduced excessive noise, while Kalman Filter offered balanced performance preserving both smoothness and natural variability. Practical price prediction analysis showed substantial variations up to 35 Thai Baht per kilogram between imputation methods. The findings provide methodological evidence for imputation strategy selection in agricultural IoT systems with missing data, though validation with larger multi-site datasets is essential before operational deployment.
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Improving Fault-Tolerant Load Balancing Algorithms in Computational Grids
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Fault tolerant scheduling of many jobs in an environment with millions of unpredictable nodes is not an easy issue. To the best of our knowledge, no work in the literature has proposed a solution that combines the merits of active and passive replication schemes of fault tolerance with the advantages of performance-driven load balancing so as to make the most of the strong points of each. While extensive fault tolerant scheduling and load balancing methods have been presented for the sequential jobs, none have taken into account fault-tolerant load balancing that minimizes the job make-span, provides efficient network and node utilization, achieves a Ill-balanced load and high system flexibility even during the resource failures. Hence, in this article, I present an Adaptive Scheduling Algorithm namely ASA that overcomes these problems. With thorough simulations, I conclude that ASA allocates any number of jobs to a million nodes with relatively low overhead and high flexibility. Experimental results show that the performance of ASA is better than those of its counterparts.
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Increasing ERP Implementation Success Ratio by Focusing on Data Quality & User Participation
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ERP systems projects have been spread widely across many organizations in general and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in particular. Regrettably, failures were the results for most of the ERP implementations. As a result of that, critical failure and success factors (CFFs & CSFs) have been identified with the help of large number of researches. Accordingly, data quality and user participation were categorized as two of the most critical factors that threaten the success of the ERP projects. In order to raise the success percentage of such projects, a data cleansing methodology and some guidelines for user participation have been proposed.
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Indicator Automation with Power BI in the Innovation Sector of a Transformer Company
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The use of indicators is increasingly common, as they allow the visualization and analysis of useful data to assist in decision-making and planning. In this context, this article aimed to evaluate the process of automating indicators in the area of innovation in a multinational company located in Brazil, a transformer manufacturer. To this end, the themes of indicators and the application of Business Intelligence (BI) and process automation for project manager functions were conceptualized. The action research methodology developed automated indicators to facilitate decision-making and improve the productivity of the project team. These results also allowed for the improvement of visual and systemic management, by presenting all current projects and information on the occupancy rate of each team member, in addition to real-time control of whether goals are being achieved in the company. Thus, it was evident that centralizing data helps managers make more assertive decisions and the case reported can be replicated to other industrial sectors. In the academic sphere, the research also contributed to the evolution of the topic of project integration, automation and visual management of indicators using the Power BI tool.
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In the context of globalisation of the scientific space and the growing role of scientometric indicators, the Hirsch index (h-index) remains one of the key tools for assessing scientific performance. At the same time, the influence of individual factors on the h-index varies significantly across the stages of a scientist's academic career, necessitating their comparative analysis. The purpose of this work is to conduct a comparative study of the Hirsch index and the factors that influence its formation, considering both novice and experienced scientits anaccounting for The study employed descriptive statistics, visual analysis, time-series smoothing (Kendall's method, Pollard's method, exponential and median smoothing), correlation analysis (Pearson's coefficients), and the k-means clustering method. The study was conducted on two large datasets representing novice and experienced scientists. It was found that the average h-index of experienced scientists is 37.78, approximately 2.6 times that of beginner scientists (14.59). Correlation analysis revealed a weak or negative relationship between the h-index and self-citation, with the strongest correlation observed between the h-index and co-authorship (r = 0.68–0.80). Medium identified 6 clusters, including one that unites scientific leaders with extremely high H-index values. The study's results confirm that, in the early stages of a scientific career, geographical and institutional factors play a significant role. In contrast, for experienced scientists, the Hirsch index becomes more predictable and is determined by the quality of scientific publications, the level of citation, and practical cooperation within scientific teams.
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This study investigates the application of machine learning methods for the classification of fraudulent job postings in e-business platforms. Using the publicly available fake_job_postings.csv dataset, textual and categorical features of vacancies were processed and vectorised through TF-IDF, HashingVectorizer, and optimised TF-IDF. Eight machine learning algorithms were compared, including Logistic Regression, Random Forest, Gradient Boosting, Decision Tree, Multinomial Naive Bayes, Linear SVC, K-Nearest Neighbours, and XGBoost. The experiments demonstrate that XGBoost achieved the best performance (Accuracy = 0.990, Precision = 0.982, Recall = 0.998, F1 = 0.990) across all feature representations. Its superior results can be attributed to the ability of boosted ensembles to capture complex non-linear relationships in high-dimensional feature spaces while maintaining robustness against noise and class imbalance. However, it should be noted that the evaluation was performed on a single static dataset. While the high recall shows the model’s ability to reliably detect fraudulent ads in this context, questions remain about its generalisability. Fraud tactics evolve rapidly, and new job scams may significantly differ from patterns in the training data. This creates a potential risk of overfitting to dataset-specific features, which limits direct transfer to real-world scenarios without continuous retraining and monitoring. The practical contribution of the study is a reproducible framework that integrates text and categorical processing, vectorisation, hyperparameter optimisation, and comparative model benchmarking. Such a framework could be embedded into online job platforms to support automated filtering of suspicious ads. Still, its deployment requires additional measures: periodic retraining with updated data, integration with platform APIs, and the inclusion of explainability modules to ensure transparency and user trust. Overall, the research demonstrates that ensemble-based models, particularly XGBoost, offer strong potential for fraud detection in the e-business labour market. At the same time, further work is necessary to validate model robustness on unseen and evolving fraudulent job posting strategies, ensuring scalability and reliability in production environments.
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Information Technology for the Data Integration in Intelligent Systems of Business Analytics
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The purpose of the research is to develop mathematical models, solution methods and layouts of tools for problems solving of integrating information resources and creation of intelligent systems of business analytics based on effective models. These problems can be solved by automating the business processes execution and introducing artificial intelligence components into the business processes management systems. It can be said that the essence of the modern stage of the business processes modelling systems development is the transition from mainly manual (or with the use of auxiliary software) methods of business processes analysis to mainly automatic management of the business processes execution, construction of intelligent business processes networks in the interconnected conceptual models’ set form that encapsulate knowledge about the structure, the business processes features, system events, limitations and dependencies and are processed by machine. Decision-making powers are delegated to such information system in clearly defined (most often simple, routine) situations. So, in this way, it is possible to form the information resource of intelligent systems of business analytics as a single coherent set of data, suitable for use in solving a wide range of multifaceted problems. The integration approach of forming information resources has certain advantages over other approaches, in particular, regarding the information resources of intelligent systems of business analytics. The use of integration as a means of forming a set of consistent data has certain advantages, namely, it allows: combine data of different formats, content and origins in a single, consistent set; combine data without converting them to a single format, which is especially important when such conversion is difficult or impossible; creates virtual custom images of data that do not depend on their real appearance; creates opportunities to operate both real physical and virtual data in their combination; dynamically supplement, change and transform both the data itself and their descriptions; to provide uniform methods and technologies of perception and application of a large amount of various data.
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Innovative Privacy Preserving Strategies in Federal Learning
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Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across distributed clients without sharing raw data, but it remains vulnerable to privacy risks. This study introduces FL-ODP-DFT, a novel framework that integrates Optimal Differential Privacy (ODP) with Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) to enhance both model performance and privacy. By transforming local gradients into the frequency domain, the method reduces data size and adds a layer of encryption before transmission. Adaptive Gaussian Clipping (AGC) is employed to dynamically adjust clipping thresholds based on gradient distribution, further improving gradient handling. ODP then calibrates noise addition based on data sensitivity and privacy budgets, ensuring a balance between privacy and accuracy. Extensive experiments demonstrate that FL-ODP-DFT outperforms existing techniques in terms of accuracy, computational efficiency, convergence speed, and privacy protection, making it a robust and scalable solution for privacy-preserving FL.
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Insan AI: Integrated Artificial Intelligence Learning Platform
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The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in education presents significant challenges, such as gaps in educators' digital adaptability, ethical considerations, and inconsistent infrastructure. This study details the development and validation of the Insan AI Platform, an integrated learning solution designed to address these obstacles through adaptive AI tools for both teachers and students. The platform was developed using a user-centered prototyping methodology, drawing on comprehensive literature analysis, Focus Group Discussions with 26 educational stakeholders, and expert interviews. Key features include an AI Content Generator, a Virtual Tutor, and a Learning Analytics dashboard, all intended to facilitate personalized learning experiences and enhance teaching efficiency. User Acceptance Testing with 20 teachers demonstrated the platform's functional robustness, with perfect pass rates on all core features and a high usability score (SUS: 84.0). The platform architecture integrates multiple AI application programming interfaces (APIs) while maintaining responsive performance under varied network conditions. These findings indicate that the Insan AI Platform effectively meets user requirements and provides a strong foundation for broader educational implementation. Future development will focus on incorporating multilingual support and advanced learning analytics capabilities. According to a questionnaire completed by 26 users, there was a score increase of 22.42 after using the Insan AI platform. This indicates that the application has successfully met user requirements.
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Instructor’s Performance:A Proposed Model for Online Evaluation
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Currently due to high awareness and quality audits, the higher education institutions have made to keep a track on various performances of the institutions. One such most important activity that has to be analyzed and evaluated is Instructor’s classroom performance. As the students are the main stakeholders of the educational process, their concerns over the instructor, teaching pedagogies and methodologies, assessment techniques need to be collected and analyzed for achieving the institution’s goals and objectives. The students shall give their opinions related to the various performance indicators of instructor.In general, the higher education institutions use various techniques to evaluate instructor’s performance in the classroom from the students. The latest technological developments help in data collection using web technologies. Online system with required questionnaire and attributes will help the higher education institutions in easy data collection. Apart from that the students shall give their opinions without any fear from any place and at any time. In this paper, we have identified the major factors and users of an instructor online evaluation system. Also, we have proposed a model for such system with subsystem interface, entity relationship diagram and context diagram.
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