Net Value

Regional Clusters in a Global World: Production Relocation, Innovation, and Industrial Decline

“…The conversion of products from physical to digital (e.g., encyclopedias) is one example. 43 However, digitalization also influences process technologies. Digital processes add value to a range of products and they complement, convert or replace physical activities in a wide range of production processes.…”

“…As the share of the total value added leading up to the manufacture of a specific product has become increasingly digital, the importance of interlinking production activities through ownership and/or physical location becomes less obvious. 46 An important impact of digitalization relates to its capacity for storing, processing, and transmitting information. Explicit knowledge of manufacturing processes and techniques can be transferred and used across distances with little or no cost, allowing for de-localization of regional production activities 47 or for unbundling and distributing activities that previously were interrelated by economies of information.…”

A New Scheme on Privacy Preserving Association Rule Mining

“…For an item a i that does not appear in any frequent itemset (i.e., a i ∈ L k ), the divulgence of a i (i.e., a i ∈ R(t)) does not contribute to the mining of association rules. Due to survey results in [10], a person has a strong will to filter out such "unwanted" information (i.e., information not effective in data mining) before divulging private data in exchange of data mining results. We evaluate the level of privacy by the probability of an "unwanted" item to be included in the transformed transaction.…”

“…On-line survey is a typical example of this type of system, as the system can be modelled as one data miner (i.e., the survey collector and analyzer) and millions of data providers (i.e., the survey providers). Privacy is of particular concern in this type of system; in fact there has been wide media coverage of the public debate of protecting privacy in on-line surveys [10]. Both B2B and B2C have wide applications.…”

AN ARCHITECTURE OF e-BUTLER: A CONSUMER-CENTRIC ONLINE PERSONALIZATION SYSTEM

“…These types of systems are called infomediaries [HS99,GT01]. Priceline.com and Lending Tree constitute examples of infomediaries in the travel and money lending industries.…”