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Supporting the implementation of AI in business communication: the role of knowledge management

Journal of Knowledge Management, 2023
Purpose Although the use of artificial intelligence (AI) has been estimated to be up to 56% in the last decade, the adoption rate of AI for communication activities is still low. The lack of in-depth literature on the subject, and the limited sharing of
Lea Iaia, Chiara Nespoli, Francesca Vicentini, M. Pironti, Cinzia Genovino   +4 more
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Location of urban micro‐consolidation centers to reduce the social cost of last‐mile deliveries of cargo: A heuristic approach

Networks, 2021
Urban deliveries of goods have become a rising challenge due to the increase of online shopping in addition to the traditional business‐to‐business (B2B) dynamics.
Mario Arrieta-Prieto, Abdelrahman Ismael, Carlos Rivera-Gonzalez, John Mitchell   +3 more
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Consolidating strategies for innovative business models

Action Research, 2022
To help face an unknown future, including ecological and social crisis, the public requires similar opportunities as government in problem solving. Deliberative democracy can facilitate quick responses to complex problems in society, so too, in small and medium-sized enterprises with limited resources.
Shuhui Huang, Chun-Liang Chen
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A consolidated methodology for business process reengineering

International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology, 2003
Business process reengineering (BPR) advocates the redesign of business processes using enabling information systems (IS) to achieve dramatic improvement in business performance. The great interest in BPR has resulted in a rapid explosion of BPR models, methodologies, tools and techniques.
James Y. L. Thong, Chee-Sing Yap, Kin-Lee Seah   +2 more
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Bank consolidation and new business formation

Journal of Banking & Finance, 2007
As the trend of bank consolidation activities continues to grow in the U.S. and globally, the debate on the impact of such consolidation on small business credits and activities are still inconclusive. Building on the existing research (Berger, Saunders, Scalise and Udell (1998) and Black and Strahan (2002)), this paper investigates the effects of the ...
Bill B. Francis, Iftekhar Hasan, Haizhi Wang   +2 more
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An energy, performance efficient resource consolidation scheme for heterogeneous cloud datacenters

Journal of Network and Computer Applications, 2020
Datacenters are the principal electricity consumers for cloud computing that provide an IT backbone for today's business and economy. Numerous studies suggest that most of the servers, in the US datacenters, are idle or less-utilised, making it possible ...
A. Khan, Muhammad Zakarya, Rahim Khan, Izaz Ur Rahman, Mukhtaj Khan, Atta ur Rehman Khan   +5 more
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Business Process Consolidation Based on E-RPSTs

2014 IEEE World Congress on Services, 2014
This paper describes the concept of workflow merge and methods for merging business processes. We append effect annotations to activities of business process, use RPSTs divided the process graph to fragments then accumulate these effects according to these SESE fragments, detect exact clone and approximate clone between the two process models, finally ...
Ying Huang 0001, Keqing He 0002, Zaiwen Feng, Yiwang Huang   +3 more
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An Energy and Performance Aware Consolidation Technique for Containerized Datacenters

IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, 2019
Cloud datacenters have become a backbone for today’s business and economy, which are the fastest-growing electricity consumers, globally. Numerous studies suggest that $\sim$∼30% of the US datacenters are comatose and the others are grossly less-utilized,
A. Khan, Muhammad Zakarya, R. Buyya, Rahim Khan, Mukhtaj Khan, O. Rana   +5 more
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The Consolidation of Ukrainian Business Clans

Revue internationale d'intelligence économique, 2010
La consolidation des clans d’affaires ukrainiens. Les clans d’affaires ukrainiens constituent un systeme de gouvernance informel regissant les interactions entre la politique et les affaires. Ils sont « encastres » dans un complexe reseau de relations informelles permettant la conversion de capitaux. La particularite de l’Ukraine consiste en ce que ces
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Fiscal Consolidation and Public Debt

Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control
High public debt is urging policy makers to consider strategies to rebuild buffers and preserve debt sustainability. We focus on discretionary fiscal consolidation, defined as an increase in the ratio of primary balance (the difference between government
Sakai Ando, Prachi Mishra, Nikhil Patel, Adrian Peralta-Alva, Andrea Presbitero   +4 more
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