E-Commerce

In the last few years, the issue of the location of logistics activities emerged in the literature, in Europe and in the United States, especially from the perspective of logistics spatial dynamics as logistics sprawl. These issues of spatial …

Sharing economy has become widespread globally as an innovative service business model. However, some of sharing economy’s socially irresponsible practices have led critics to challenge their legitimacy. Drawing upon legitimacy theory, this …

The research aimed at answering key questions regarding the use of ICTs among SMEs in their businesses with an analysis and consideration of the possible factors that enable ICTs to be valued, as drivers and the possible factors that deter them …

Based on existing measurement studies and data from Alibaba’s e-commerce platform, this paper constructs a spillover effect model of regional core cities and studies spatial spillover effect of electronic commerce information system in China’s …

In this paper we study face Presentation Attack Detection (PAD) against realistic 3D mask and high quality photo attacks in dynamic scenarios. We perform a comparison between a new pulse-based PAD approach based on a combination of a skin detector …

Handling large knowledge bases of information from different domains such as the World Wide Web is a complex problem addressed in the Resource Description Framework (RDF) by adding semantic meaning to the data itself. The amount of linked data has …

The goal of an assessment is to identify the problems or opportunities that can be addressed through an evaluation. This chapter introduces the 4C Framework of Innovation Assessment to carry out an evaluation of an organization’s level of …

Today’s nations are facing numerous challenges in transforming living environments in a way better-serving people’s demands of the future. The principal point in this transformation is reinventing cities as smart cities that combine their data …