Journal articles: 'Business Domain'

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Poels, Geert. "Understanding Business Domain Models." Journal of Database Management 22, no. 1 (January 2011): 69–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/jdm.2011010104.

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In this paper, the author investigates the effect on understanding of using business domain models that are constructed with Resource-Event-Agent (REA) modeling patterns. First, the author analyzes REA modeling structures to identify the enabling factors and the mechanisms by means of which users recognize these structures in a conceptual model and description of an information retrieval and interpretation task. Based on this understanding, the author hypothesizes positive effects on model understanding for situations where REA patterns can be recognized in both task and model. An experiment is then conducted to demonstrate a better understanding of models with REA patterns compared to information equivalent models without REA patterns. The results of this experiment indicate that REA patterns can be recognized with minimal prior patterns training and that the use of REA patterns leads to models that are easier to understand for novice model users.

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Poměnková, J., and R. Maršálek. " Time and frequency domain in the business cycle structure." Agricultural Economics (Zemědělská ekonomika) 58, No. 7 (July 23, 2012): 332–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.17221/113/2011-agricecon.

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 The presented paper deals with the identification of cyclical behaviour of business cycle from the time and frequency domain perspective. Herewith, methods for obtaining the growth business cycle are investigated – the first order difference, the unobserved component models, the regression curves and filtration using the Baxter-King, Christiano-Fitzgerald and Hodrick-Prescott filter. In the case of the time domain, the analysis identification of cycle lengths is based on the dating process of the growth business cycle. Thus, the right and left variant of the naive techniques and the Bry-Boschan algorithm are applied. In the case of the frequency domain, the analysis of the cyclical structure trough spectrum estimate via the periodogram and the autoregressive process are suggested. Results from both domain approaches are compared. On their bases, recommendations for the cyclical structure identification of the growth business cycle of the Czech Republic are formulated. In the time domain analysis, the evaluation of the unity results of detrending techniques from the identification turning point points of view is attached. The analyses are done on the quarterly data of the GDP, the total industry excluding construction, the gross capital formation in 1996–2008 and on the final consumption expenditure in 1995–2008.    

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Wiliński, Jarosław. "War Metaphors in Business: A Metaphostructional Analysis." Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies, no. 26/2 (September 11, 2017): 61–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.7311/0860-5734.26.2.05.

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This paper adopts the notion of metaphostruction (Wiliński 2015), the conceptual theory of metaphor (Kӧvecses 2002) and the corpus-based method geared specifically for investigating the interaction between target domains and the source domain lexemes that occur in them. The method, referred to as metaphostructional analysis (Wiliński 2015), is used to determine the degree of association between the target domain of business and the source domain lexemes derived from military terminology. The results of the metaphostructional analysis reveal that there are indeed war terms that demonstrate strong or loose associations with the target domain of business, and that these instantiate different metaphorical mappings.

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Hoppenbrouwers, S. J. B. A., A. I. Bleeker, and H. A. Proper. "Facing the Conceptual Complexities in Business Domain Modeling." Computing Letters 1, no. 2 (March 6, 2005): 59–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1574040054047577.

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This position paper focuses on business domain modeling as part of requirements engineering in software development projects. Domain modeling concerns obtaining and modeling the language (concepts, terminologies; ontologies) used by stakeholders to talk about a domain. Achieving conceptual clarity and consensus among stakeholders is an important yet often neglected part of requirements engineering. Domain modeling can play a key role in supporting it. This does, however, require a nuanced approach aspects of language and language change in domain modeling as well as ambition management concerning its goals. On top of the “classic” approach to modeling singular, stable domains, we distinguish aspects like incremental modeling, modeling of multiple terminologies within a domain, and domain evolution; we elaborate on the first two aspects.

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Hoppenbrouwers, S. J. B. A., A. I. Bleeker, and H. A. Proper. "Facing the Conceptual Complexities in Business Domain Modeling." Computing Letters 1, no. 3 (March 6, 2005): 107–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1574040054861258.

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This position paper focuses on business domain modeling as part of requirements engineering in software development projects. Domain modeling concerns obtaining and modeling the language (concepts, terminologies; ontologies) used by stakeholders to talk about a domain. Achieving conceptual clarity and consensus among stakeholders is an important yet often neglected part of requirements engineering. Domain modeling can play a key role in supporting it. This does, however, require a nuanced approach aspects of language and language change in domain modeling as well as ambition management concerning its goals. On top of the “classic” approach to modeling singular, stable domains, we distinguish aspects like incremental modeling, modeling of multiple terminologies within a domain, and domain evolution; we elaborate on the first two aspects.

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Hajiheydari, Nastaran, Mojtaba Talafidaryani, SeyedHossein Khabiri, and Masoud Salehi. "Business model analytics: technically review business model research domain." foresight 21, no. 6 (November 11, 2019): 654–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/fs-01-2019-0002.

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Purpose Although the business model field of study has been a focus of attention for both researchers and practitioners within the past two decades, it still suffers from concern about its identity. Accordingly, this paper aims to clarify the intellectual structure of business model through identifying the research clusters and their sub-clusters, the prominent relations and the dominant research trends. Design/methodology/approach This paper uses some common text mining methods including co-word analysis, burst analysis, timeline analysis and topic modeling to analyze and mine the title, abstract and keywords of 14,081 research documents related to the domain of business model. Findings The results revealed that the business model field of study consists of three main research areas including electronic business model, business model innovation and sustainable business model, each of which has some sub-areas and has been more evident in some particular industries. Additionally, from the time perspective, research issues in the domain of sustainable development are considered as the hot and emerging topics in this field. In addition, the results confirmed that information technology has been one of the most important drivers, influencing the appearance of different study topics in the various periods. Originality/value The contribution of this study is to quantitatively uncover the dominant knowledge structure and prominent research trends in the business model field of study, considering a broad range of scholarly publications and using some promising and reliable text mining techniques.

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Alonso, Igor Aguilar, José Carrillo Verdún, and Edmundo Tovar Caro. "Bridging the Gap between Technology and Business within Corporate Governance of Enterprise: Focus Areas of Special Attention in the Technology Domain." Advanced Materials Research 601 (December 2012): 584–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.601.584.

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This paper describes the importance of technology within the corporate governance of companies, representing two main domains in enterprise architecture: business architecture and IT architecture, helping to bridge the gap between the two main domains. IT Architecture is considered as a key domain in corporative governance, giving the adequate support to business architecture that helps to improve business. Due to evolution in markets of products and services, and technological changes, as well as the strong impact of technology on all areas of business, it is necessary to clearly distinguish the importance of the IT architecture domain, as well as focus attention on the different areas related in the technology domain.

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Berztiss, A. T. "Domain analysis for business software systems." Information Systems 24, no. 7 (November 1999): 555–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0306-4379(99)00032-0.

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Carlisle, Ysanne M., and David J. Manning. "The Domain of Professional Business Ethics." Organization 3, no. 3 (August 1996): 341–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/135050849633003.

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Wiedemann, Anna, and Heiko Gewald. "Examining Cross-Domain Alignment." International Journal of IT/Business Alignment and Governance 8, no. 1 (January 2017): 17–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijitbag.2017010102.

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Prior research hardly investigates how externally focused competitive strategies can be bridged with internal IT processes. We aim to explore the relationship between five archetypical IT management profiles (ITMP) and four business strategy archetypes linked with six IT business value domains. Considering prior literature, we propose that each ITMP delivers unique sources of value, thus, contributes to specific IT business value domains. Furthermore, we assume that each business strategy archetype requires contributions to these domains. To test our hypotheses, we conducted a matched-pair study within manufacturing firms. Our findings indicate that IT business value domains link competitive strategy and IT management approaches. For instance, IT functions that act as Project Coordinator of IT-based activities, manage relationships between vendors and business units were found to contribute to firm's external integration. We present evidence for the significance of aligning externally focused strategies with internal IT management approaches.

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Shirai, Miyuri. "Underdog effects: the role of consumption domain and retail crowding." Journal of Consumer Marketing 34, no. 5 (August 14, 2017): 384–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jcm-07-2016-1872.

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Purpose When communicating with consumers, firms frequently highlight their underdog status to evoke a favorable attitude. Previous research has confirmed consumer preference for underdogs over top dogs in various domains. However, very little research has been conducted on the business types and decision contexts in which underdog effects produce the most impact. This paper aims to investigate some of the unexplored boundary conditions of underdog effects and addresses two issues: consumption domain and retail crowding. Design/methodology/approach Two experiments with a 2 (biography: underdog or top dog) × 2 (consumption domain: hedonic or utilitarian) × 2 (retail crowding: adequately crowded or uncrowded) factorial between-subjects design were conducted to test hypotheses. The two experiments differ in the consumption domains and the approaches used to depict crowding conditions. Furthermore, the first experiment targeted college students and the second experiment targeted online consumer panels across various age groups. Findings Underdog effects were more easily evoked when the consumption domain was more hedonic than utilitarian. In addition, retail crowding was an informational cue for judging acceptance of underdog businesses and enhanced the evaluation when the retail environment was adequately crowded rather than uncrowded. This role of crowding was also evident for top-dog businesses when consumers perceived high risk in the businesses. Originality/value This is the first study to distinguish between hedonic and utilitarian consumption domains with underdog effects and to demonstrate a positive effect of crowding as an informational cue, indicating acceptance by other consumers.

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Patidar, Deepak, and Rajeev G. Vishwakarma. "Webometrics Rank Inspection: Proposed for Business Domain." International Journal of Computer Applications 77, no. 3 (September 18, 2013): 1–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.5120/13371-0973.

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Das, Dilip K. "China in the domain of international business." Human Systems Management 30, no. 1-2 (2011): 71–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/hsm-2011-0740.

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Bruton, Garry D., and Naiheng Sheng. "Moving Chinese-Focused Research Forward: Indigenous Theory and Family Business." Journal of Industrial Integration and Management 06, no. 01 (February 26, 2021): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s2424862221500019.

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Scholars tend to employ “universal” theories developed within the Western context, particularly the United States, when examining Chinese business phenomena. However, the applicability of such theories universally in the domain of family business in China is questionable. In order to address such Chinese context, we argue for the need to build indigenous theory. Specifically, we argue that three domains in family businesses in China represent such distinct differences from the West that such “universal” theories cannot explain them. We explore these three domains and, in turn, examine how to build indigenous theories in these scenarios. Specifically, we point out the need for abductive theory building to develop indigenous theory in China around the concerns of professionalization, harmony, and the role of government.

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Zettinig, Peter, and Zsuzsanna Vincze. "The domain of international business: Futures and future relevance of international business." Thunderbird International Business Review 53, no. 3 (April 14, 2011): 337–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/tie.20411.

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Sonbol, Riad, Ghaida Rebdawi, and Nada Ghneim. "Anaphora Resolution in Business Process Requirement Engineering." International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) 8, no. 3 (June 1, 2018): 1766. http://dx.doi.org/10.11591/ijece.v8i3.pp1766-1773.

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Anaphora resolution (AR) is one of the most important tasks in natural language processing which focuses on the problem of resolving what a pronoun, or a noun phrase refers to. Moreover, AR plays an essential role when dealing with business process textual description, either when trying to discover the process model from the text, or when validating an existing model. It helps these systems in discovering the core components in any process model (actors and objects).In this paper, we propose a domain specific AR system. The approach starts by automatically generating the concept map of the text, then the system uses this map to resolve references using the syntactic and semantic relations in the concept map. The approach outperforms the state-of-the art performance in the domain of business process texts with more than 73% accuracy. In addition, this approach could be easily adopted to resolve references in other domains.

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Gailly, Frederik, and Guido L. Geerts. "Ontology-Driven Business Rule Specification." Journal of Information Systems 27, no. 1 (February 1, 2013): 79–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.2308/isys-50428.

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ABSTRACT Discovering business rules is a complex task for which many approaches have been proposed including analysis, extraction from code, and data mining. In this paper, a novel approach is presented in which business rules for an enterprise model are generated based on the semantics of a domain ontology. Starting from an enterprise model for which the business rules need to be defined, the approach consists of four steps: (1) classification of the enterprise model in terms of the domain ontology (semantic annotation), (2) matching of the enterprise model constructs with ontology-based Enterprise Model Configurations (EMCs), (3) determination of Business Rule Patterns (BRPs) associated with the EMCs, and (4) use of the semantic annotations to instantiate the business rule patterns; that is, to specify the actual business rules. The success of this approach depends on two factors: (1) the existence of a semantically rich domain ontology, and (2) the strength of the knowledge base consisting of EMC-BRP associations. The focus of this paper is on defining and illustrating the new business rule discovery approach: Ontology-Driven Business Rule Specification (ODBRS). The domain of interest is enterprise systems, and an extended version of the Resource-Event-Agent Enterprise Ontology (REA-EO) is used as the domain ontology. A small set of EMC-BRP associations—i.e., an example knowledge base—is developed for illustration purposes. The new approach is demonstrated with an example.

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Truc, Tran Thi Thanh. "Source Domain “war” in American English business news discourse." Science & Technology Development Journal - Social Sciences & Humanities 4, no. 2 (June 29, 2020): First. http://dx.doi.org/10.32508/stdjssh.v4i2.556.

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Conceptual metaphor can be understood as the mapping between two conceptual domains whereas the linguistic metaphor is the linguistic expression of the mapping. Conceptual metaphor is the system of ideas mapped according to the perception of human being about life and expressed by linguistic metaphor. Conceptual metaphor with source domain WAR is one of the most common metaphors used in American English business news discourse. In conceptual metaphor model BUSINESS IS WAR, it can be found many words related to war such as ‘attack’, ‘withdraw’, ‘invade’, ‘besiege’, ‘fight’, ‘win’, ‘defense’, etc... which are used in business news discourse. Through the mapping of this metaphor model, companies can be seen as the military in a war; the businessmen correspond to the soldiers in a fight, and the battles are conceived as competitions on price and market share. This result is similar to the conclusion about conceptual metaphor of ARGUMENT IS WAR by Lakoff & Johnson, which mentions that the use of war metaphors to understand the source domain of ARGUMENT is not accidental. The authors argue that while there is no physical battle, there is a verbal battle and the structure of a debate (including attack, defense, counterattack, etc.) reflects this.

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Setiawan, Ito, Ranggi Praharaningtyas Aji, and Yuliawan Adi Wibowo. "Evaluasi Sistem Informasi Rumah Sakit Ananda Purwokerto Menggunakan Domain Edm Dan Apo Cobit 5." JTIM : Jurnal Teknologi Informasi dan Multimedia 1, no. 2 (August 30, 2019): 117–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.35746/jtim.v1i2.23.

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Governance and planning for aligning business strategies with strategies in managing Information systems (SI) is the main key in winning business competition in each organization. Ananda Purwokerto General Hospital as a business organization engaged in health cannot be separated from this, but the problem of governance and the lack of alignment between the current business strategy and the SI strategy make the Ananda General Hospital Purwokerto less in terms of service issues. For this reason, an evaluation of the existing SI governance is needed at Ananda Purwokerto General Hospital. COBIT 5 can be used to evaluate SI governance, because in COBIT 5 there are 5 domains consisting of 2 categories, namely the category of governance domain and management domain, for problems experienced by Ananda Purwokerto General Hospital can use the EDM and APO domains on COBIT 5. The results expected are in the form of measuring the level of governance implementation of SIR Ananda Purwokerto General Hospital in the EDM and APO domains, so that the best recommendations can be given based on the COBIT 5 framework.

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Čiukšys, Donatas, and Albertas Čaplinskas. "Ontology-based approach to reuse of business process knowledge." Informacijos mokslai 42, no. 43 (January 1, 2008): 168–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/im.2008.0.3424.

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The paper proposes an approach to reuse of business process knowledge based on domain engineering, knowledge engineering and ontology-based systems engineering. The main idea of the proposed approach is to separate business process ontology and application domain ontology, and reuse the process ontology in different application domains. A notion of generic business process is introduced and is defined as a family of similar business processes. The two life cycles activity oflocation of generic business process in application domain is discussed.Ontologijomis grindžiamas verslo procesų žinių pakartotinio naudojimo metodasDonatas Čiukšys, Albertas Čaplinskas SantraukaStraipsnyje pristatomas verslo procesų žinių pakartotinio naudojimo metodas, grindžiamas dalykinių sričių inžinerija, žinių inžinerija ir ontologijomis grindžiama sistemų inžinerija. Pagrindinė siūlomo metodo idėja yra atskirti verslo proceso ontologiją nuo dalykinės srities ontologijos ir pakartotinai panaudoti proceso ontologiją skirtingose dalykinėse srityse. Pasiūloma apibendrinto verslo proceso sąvoka, apibrėžiama kaip panašių verslo procesų šeima. Straipsnyje aptariama apibendrinto verslo proceso lokacija dalykinėje srityje, susidedanti iš dviejų gyvavimo ciklų. Pirmame cikle yra atliekama apibendrinto proceso inžinerija, antrame – konkretaus proceso inžinerija. Pastaroji susideda iš trijų žingsnių: proceso konfigūravimo, dalykinės sritiesesybių priskyrimo proceso vaidmenims ir valdymo srautų tarp proceso veiklų apibrėžimo.

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Huefner, Jonathan C., and H. Keith Hunt. "Broadening the Concept of Entrepreneurship: Comparing Business and Consumer Entrepreneurs." Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 18, no. 3 (April 1994): 61–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/104225879401800305.

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It is proposed that entrepreneurial behavior occurs in many domains of life, not Just in business. Examples of nonbusiness entrepreneurial behavior are provided. Domain-specific versions of the Entrepreneurial Attitude Scale (EAS) were used to predict entrepreneurs in business and consumer contexts. Stepwise discriminant analysis identified those items that significantly discriminated between business and consumer entrepreneur groups. Results support the concept of entrepreneurial consumer behavior. The four common elements across domains suggest that personal control and innovation were common elements of both business and consumer entrepreneurs.

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Zangenehpour, Sahar, Mir Ali Seyyedi, and Mehran Mohsenzadeh. "A New Framework for Mapping Business Domain Ontologies." International Journal of Computer Applications 55, no. 12 (October 20, 2012): 16–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.5120/8806-3042.

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Si-Said Cherfi, Samira, Sarah Ayad, and Isabelle Comyn-Wattiau. "Improving Business Process Model Quality Using Domain Ontologies." Journal on Data Semantics 2, no. 2-3 (June 2013): 75–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13740-013-0022-4.

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Chen, Chen, Changqing Dong, Jianjun Cai, and Xu Cheng. "Business Generator Model Based on Domain Driven Design." Journal of Physics: Conference Series 1168 (February 2019): 052028. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/1168/5/052028.

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Lagos, Nikolaos, Adrian Mos, and Mario Cortes-cornax. "Towards semantically-aided domain specific business process modeling." Data Technologies and Applications 52, no. 4 (September 4, 2018): 463–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/dta-01-2018-0007.

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Purpose Domain-specific process modeling has been proposed in the literature as a solution to several problems in business process management. The problems arise when using only the generic Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) standard for modeling. This language includes domain ambiguity and difficult long-term model evolution. Domain-specific modeling involves developing concept definitions, domain-specific processes and eventually industry-standard BPMN models. This entails a multi-layered modeling approach, where any of these artifacts can be modified by various stakeholders and changes done by one person may influence models used by others. There is therefore a need for tool support to keep track of changes done and their potential impacts. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach The authors use a multi-context systems-based approach to infer the impacts that changes may cause in the models; and alsothe authors incrementally map components of business process models to ontologies. Findings Advantages of the framework include: identifying conflicts/inconsistencies across different business modeling layers; expressing rich information on the relations between two layers; calculating the impact of changes taking place in one layer to the rest of the layers; and selecting incrementally the most appropriate semantic models on which the transformations can be based. Research limitations/implications The authors consider this work as one of the foundational bricks that will enable further advances toward the governance of multi-layer business process modeling systems. Extensive usability tests would enable to further confirm the findings of the paper. Practical implications The approach described here should improve the maintainability, reuse and clarity of business process models and in extension improve data governance in large organizations. The approaches described here should improve the maintainability, reuse and clarity of business process models. This can improve data governance in large organizations and for large collections of processes by aiding various stakeholders to understand problems with process evolutions, changes and inconsistencies with business goals. Originality/value This paper fulfills an identified gap to enabling semantically aided domain–specific process modeling.

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Crane, Andrew, and Dirk Matten. "Questioning the Domain of the Business Ethics Curriculum." Journal of Business Ethics 54, no. 4 (December 2004): 357–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10551-004-1825-x.

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Borodina, Daria Sergeevna. "English in aspecialized domain of swedish business communication." Политическая лингвистика, no. 3 (2018): 91–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.26170/pl18-03-12.

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Baba, Marietta L. "Anthropology and Business: Influence and Interests." Journal of Business Anthropology 1, no. 1 (May 16, 2012): 20. http://dx.doi.org/10.22439/jba.v1i1.3546.

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The premise of this article is that the expansive domain of business, as expressed in its market-transaction based, organizational, and institutional forms, has influenced the development or “making” of anthropology as a discipline and a profession for the better part of a century (i.e., since the 1920s). The influences were reciprocal, in that making anthropology played a role in forming the industrial order of the early 20th century and established precedents for the interaction of anthropology and the business domain that continues into the contemporary era. Anthropologists acknowledge that the time has come for our discipline to attend to business and its corporate forms and engage them as legitimate subjects of inquiry (Fisher and Downey 2006; Cefkin 2009; Welker et. al. 2011), and this suggests that it would be prudent to examine the ways in which business is focusing upon anthropology, and the potential implications of such attention. Throughout this article, the term “business” will refer to private firms as members of an institutional field, meaning “organizations that in the aggregate, constitute a recognized area of institutional life” (; i.e., the totality of relevant actors; Bourdieu 1971; DiMaggio and Powell 1983:148). Over time, this field has attracted prominent academic researchers (as will be discussed herein), who may become intellectual “suppliers” to businesses, and thus part of the field. Therefore, the term “business” may include any organization or individual that is part of the field, including academic suppliers (see also discussion section). To reflect the scope and complexity of the institutional field, the term “domain of business” may be used interchangeably with “business”.

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Wempe, Ben. "Contractarian Business Ethics: Credentials and Design Criteria." Organization Studies 29, no. 10 (October 2008): 1337–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0170840608093546.

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Contractarian business ethics (CBE) is in great vogue in the present study of corporate morality. Its stated ambition is to provide better practical guidance than the more general ethical theories of business ethics, such as Kantianism, pragmatism, utilitarianism, virtue ethics or the stakeholder model. But how good is this new trend in business ethics theorizing? This article aims to assess CBE's credentials as a social contract argument. For this purpose, it embarks on a comparative analysis of the use of the social contract model in two earlier domains: political authority and social justice. Building on this comparison, it then develops four criteria for any future CBE. To apply the social contract model properly to the domain of corporate morality, it should be: (1) self-disciplined, i.e. not aspire to results beyond what the contract model can realistically establish; (2) argumentative, i.e. provide principles that are demonstrative results of the contractarian method; (3) task-directed, i.e. it should be clear what the social contract thought-experiment is intended to model; and (4) domain-specific, i.e. the contractarian choice situation should be tailored to the defining problems of corporate morality.

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Guizzardi, Andrea, Alice Monti, and Ercolino Ranieri. "Rating hotel quality for corporate business travel departments." International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management 28, no. 12 (December 12, 2016): 2842–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijchm-07-2015-0357.

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Purpose The present study aims to suggest a new approach to hotel quality rating, specifically designed for the business travel segment, where the evaluation of surveyed consumers (business travelers) does not necessarily reflect the priority of customers (corporate travel departments [CTDs]). Design/methodology/approach Preliminarily, the authors defined key areas (domains), exploring what was done by quality certifiers recognized worldwide. Then, each domain quality was considered as a latent variable measured by a set of observable attributes (sub-domains) surveyed by a professional assessor. A continuous, fine-grained, composite indicator (CI) for quality was finally obtained by a weighted average of the domain (latent) quality measures. Weights were endogenously determined by data envelopment analysis. Findings The suggested CI shows both the existence of large quality disparities within the same star rating and a relevant bias in the internet reviews. A “soundproofed” room, a front desk open 24 h with sufficient staff and an adequate urban context are necessary features of any business hotel. Research limitations/implications Data came from a professional assessor’s database; therefore, the authors could only consider a three-domains measurement model. The database is mainly composed of three- and four-star hotels in Italy; nonetheless, these accommodations are the most widespread in the Italian corporation hotel programs, preserving the practical utility of the results. Originality/value This study provides a transparent (replicable) evaluation protocol that is of potential use in the most popular models for quality measurement; any assessor can use it to underline its impartiality to CTD and assessed hotels.

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Li, Lile, Quan Do, and Wei Liu. "Cross-Domain Recommendation via Coupled Factorization Machines." Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 33 (July 17, 2019): 9965–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v33i01.33019965.

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Data across many business domains can be represented by two or more coupled data sets. Correlations among these coupled datasets have been studied in the literature for making more accurate cross-domain recommender systems. However, in existing methods, cross-domain recommendations mostly assume the coupled mode of data sets share identical latent factors, which limits the discovery of potentially useful domain-specific properties of the original data. In this paper, we proposed a novel cross-domain recommendation method called Coupled Factorization Machine (CoFM) that addresses this limitation. Compared to existing models, our research is the first model that uses factorization machines to capture both common characteristics of coupled domains while simultaneously preserving the differences among them. Our experiments with real-world datasets confirm the advantages of our method in making across-domain recommendations.

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Sambhanthan, Arunasalam, and Vidyasagar Potdar. "Innovative Business Models for E-Learning Entrepreneurs." International Journal of E-Services and Mobile Applications 9, no. 2 (April 2017): 44–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijesma.2017040103.

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This paper reports a state of the art literature survey undertaken on innovative e-learning business models. A review of existing business models of e-learning providers is undertaken. Three business model classification approaches for e-learning businesses are adapted for the evaluation. The e-learning business models are classified into three main categories namely managerial classification, service oriented classification and economic classification. We have then classified the literature in this line and present a priori framework developed for evaluating the e-Learning business enterprises. The research concludes with a summary of classification approaches available in the existing e-learning business domain.

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MONSALVE, CARLOS, ALAIN ABRAN, and ALAIN APRIL. "MEASURING SOFTWARE FUNCTIONAL SIZE FROM BUSINESS PROCESS MODELS." International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering 21, no. 03 (May 2011): 311–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0218194011005359.

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ISO 14143-1 specifies that a functional size measurement (FSM) method must provide measurement procedures to quantify the functional user requirements (FURs) of software. Such quantitative information, functional size, is typically used, for instance, in software estimation. One of the international standards for FSM is the COSMIC FSM method — ISO 19761 — which was designed to be applied both to the business application (BA) software domain and to the real-time software domain. A recurrent problem in FSM is the availability and quality of the inputs required for measurement purposes; that is, well documented FURs. Business process (BP) models, as they are commonly used to gather requirements from the early stages of a project, could be a valuable source of information for FSM. In a previous article, the feasibility of such an approach for the BA domain was analyzed using the Qualigram BP modeling notation. This paper complements that work by: (1) analyzing the use of BPMN for FSM in the BA domain; (2) presenting notation-independent guidelines for the BA domain; and (3) analyzing the possibility of using BP models to perform FSM in the real-time domain. The measurement results obtained from BP models are compared with those of previous FSM case studies.

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Poels, Geert, Félix García, Francisco Ruiz, and Mario Piattini. "Architecting business process maps." Computer Science and Information Systems 17, no. 1 (2020): 117–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/csis181118018p.

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Process maps provide a high-level overview of an organization?s business processes. While used for many years in different shapes and forms, there is little shared understanding of the concept and its relationship to business process architecture. In this paper, we position the concept of process map within the domain of architecture description. By ?architecting? the concept of business process map, we identify and clarify diverging views of this concept as found in the literature and set requirements for describing process maps. A meta-model for a process mapping language is produced as a result. The proposed meta-model allows investigating the suitability of EA modelling languages as a basis for defining a domain-specific language for process mapping along with the creation of a better understanding of business process architecture in relation to enterprise architecture, which can be beneficial for both BPM and EA professionals.

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Fang, Hanqing “Chevy”, Keng L. Siau, Esra Memili, and Junsheng Dou. "Cognitive Antecedents of Family Business Bias in Investment Decisions: A Commentary on “Risky Decisions and the Family Firm Bias: An Experimental Study based on Prospect Theory”." Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 43, no. 2 (September 3, 2018): 409–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1042258718796073.

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Lude and Prügl explored “family business bias,” a cognitive tendency where the family nature of a firm can often reduce investors’ perceived risk in investments. As a result, investors would display lower risk-avoidance in the gain domain and reinforced risk-seeking in the loss domain. We expanded the authors’ work by introducing four cognitive factors (anchoring, representativeness, stereotype heuristic, and information availability) that can explain the underlying mechanisms behind the prevalence of “family business bias” and other cognitive misperceptions surrounding family businesses when it comes to investment decisions.

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Sidhu, Jatinder S., Edwin J. Nijssen, and Harry R. Commandeur. "Business Domain Definition Practice: Does it Affect Organisational Performance?" Long Range Planning 33, no. 3 (June 2000): 376–401. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0024-6301(00)00037-6.

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Frey, Kelly L. "Business Models and Pricing Issues in the Digital Domain." Journal of Library Administration 24, no. 4 (December 18, 1997): 27–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j111v24n04_04.

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Mendes-Moreira, H. M. C. L., and C. G. Davies. "Business domain knowledge libraries to support software maintenance activities." Journal of Software Maintenance: Research and Practice 5, no. 3 (1993): 165–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/smr.4360050305.

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Ghazal, Rubina, Ahmad Malik, Basit Raza, Nauman Qadeer, Nafees Qamar, and Sajal Bhatia. "Agent-Based Semantic Role Mining for Intelligent Access Control in Multi-Domain Collaborative Applications of Smart Cities." Sensors 21, no. 13 (June 22, 2021): 4253. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s21134253.

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Significance and popularity of Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) is inevitable; however, its application is highly challenging in multi-domain collaborative smart city environments. The reason is its limitations in adapting the dynamically changing information of users, tasks, access policies and resources in such applications. It also does not incorporate semantically meaningful business roles, which could have a diverse impact upon access decisions in such multi-domain collaborative business environments. We propose an Intelligent Role-based Access Control (I-RBAC) model that uses intelligent software agents for achieving intelligent access control in such highly dynamic multi-domain environments. The novelty of this model lies in using a core I-RBAC ontology that is developed using real-world semantic business roles as occupational roles provided by Standard Occupational Classification (SOC), USA. It contains around 1400 business roles, from nearly all domains, along with their detailed task descriptions as well as hierarchical relationships among them. The semantic role mining process is performed through intelligent agents that use word embedding and a bidirectional LSTM deep neural network for automated population of organizational ontology from its unstructured text policy and, subsequently, matching this ontology with core I-RBAC ontology to extract unified business roles. The experimentation was performed on a large number of collaboration case scenarios of five multi-domain organizations and promising results were obtained regarding the accuracy of automatically derived RDF triples (Subject, Predicate, Object) from organizational text policies as well as the accuracy of extracted semantically meaningful roles.

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Ali, Ben, and Samar Mouakket. "Integrating OLAP/SOLAP in E-Business Domains." Information Resources Management Journal 24, no. 3 (July 2011): 45–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/irmj.2011070104.

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E-business domains have been considered killer domains for different data analysis techniques. Most researchers have examined data mining (DM) techniques to analyze the databases behind E-business websites. DM has shown interesting results, but this technique presents some restrictions concerning the content of the database and the level of expertise of the users interpreting the results. In this paper, the authors show that successful and more sophisticated results can be obtained using other analysis techniques, such as Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) and Spatial OLAP (SOLAP). Thus, the authors propose a framework that fuses or integrates OLAP with SOLAP techniques in an E-business domain to perform easier and more user-friendly data analysis (non-spatial and spatial) and improve decision making. In addition, the authors apply the framework to an E-business website related to online job seekers in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The results can be used effectively by decision makers to make crucial decisions in the job market of the UAE.

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van de Wijngaert, Lidwien, Johan Versendaal, and René Matla. "Business IT Alignment and Technology Adoption; The Case of RFID in the Logistics Domain." Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research 3, no. 1 (April 1, 2008): 71–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jtaer3010008.

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Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is increasingly applied in the logistics domain. As with other emerging technologies it is complex whether, when and how an organization should invest in RFID. In this paper the decision to adopt RFID in the logistic domain is explored. The authors take a business/IT-alignment approach and investigate the relation between business/IT-alignment principles and preference for RFID applications. A comparison of thirteen organizations that operate one or more warehouses shows that managers and decision makers in companies are not necessarily in sync with the business/IT-alignment principle which implies to further mature in the areas/domains that are least developed. Organizations were more prone to invest in business/IT areas that are already well developed. We conclude that other factors influence decisions to apply this type of new technology. Yet, the framework offers the opportunity to analyze and prepare a technology decision; it provides insight in and arguments for possible RFID adoption.

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Hinich, Melvin J., and Philip Rothman. "FREQUENCY-DOMAIN TEST OF TIME REVERSIBILITY." Macroeconomic Dynamics 2, no. 1 (March 1998): 72–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s136510059800604x.

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We introduce a frequency-domain test of time reversibility, the REVERSE test. It is based on the bispectrum. We analytically establish the asymptotic distribution of the test and also explore its finite-sample properties through Monte-Carlo simulation. Following other researchers who demonstrated that the problem of business-cycle asymmetry can be stated as whether macroeconomic fluctuations are time irreversible, we use the REVERSE test as a frequency-domain test of business-cycle asymmetry. Our empirical results show that time irreversibility is the rule rather than the exception for a representative set of macroeconomic time series for five OECD countries.

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Moores, Ken. "Paradigms and Theory Building in the Domain of Business Families." Family Business Review 22, no. 2 (April 28, 2009): 167–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0894486509333372.

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This article argues the bona fides of the study of family business as a standalone discipline. Using a widely accepted evolutionary process for the development of scientific disciplines and an established theory-building methodology, the author introduces a theoretically robust explanation of the domain of business families. Established theories widely acknowledged as having relevance to business families are meshed with the universally accepted three-circle Venn diagram-based paradigm to illustrate both the stage of the discipline in theory building terms and an evolutionary path to further develop a theory of the business family domain.

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Akhtar, Faiza, Suleman Aziz Lodhi, and Safdar Shah Khan. "Permaculture approach: linking ecological sustainability to businesses strategies." Management of Environmental Quality: An International Journal 26, no. 6 (September 14, 2015): 795–809. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/meq-01-2015-0001.

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss the concept of ecological sustainability is attracting attention of global business community as neoclassical approach continues to fail in delivery. There is now an emerging need to explore new approaches towards balancing ecological and economic returns. The paper extends the philosophy of Permaculture into business domain and explores its compatibility to be integrated with strategic management perspectives. Design/methodology/approach – The study primarily conducts a review of Permaculture and Strategic Management domains and uncovers the compatibility between the two domains while arguing that the integration of Permaculture philosophy in business strategy would achieve sustainability. Findings – Permaculture philosophy is compatible with Strategic Management process for developing business strategies. It can incorporate ecological and social aspects for developing integrated strategy process for sustainability in organizations. Research limitations/implications – Focusing on financial and non-financial value addition contributed by organizations towards community would lead to long-term sustainability of the organization and the community which supports it. Originality/value – The study extends the emerging philosophy of Permaculture into the established domain of Strategic Management. Arguing that simultaneous equilibrium of capacities, resources and demands of stakeholders must be maintained for sustained economic success in business world.

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Anwar, Muhammad Naveed, and Elizabeth Daniel. "The Role of Entrepreneur-Venture Fit in Online Home-Based Entrepreneurship: A Systematic Literature Review." Journal of Enterprising Culture 24, no. 04 (December 2016): 419–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0218495816500151.

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Home-based businesses and their founders represent an important, but under-researched facet of entrepreneurship. Far from being small, hobby-businesses with little economic impact, home-based business make significant contribution to national economies in terms of both turnover and employment. Online home-based businesses have been recognised as an important and distinct sector of the home-based business domain, offering unique opportunity for innovation and business diversity. The paper presents a systematic literature review of extant research on online home-based entrepreneurs and their businesses. The findings of the review are structured and discussed using the theoretical lens of entrepreneur-venture fit. Use of this lens allows the study to bring coherence to previously fragmented extant studies, providing a basis for future research in this domain. The study also develops a novel model of entrepreneur-venture fit in the specific case of online home-based businesses. This allows us to suggest five positive interactions between entrepreneurial and venture characteristics. It also allows us to suggest a number of previously unidentified negative interactions, which may result in entrepreneurs becoming ‘locked-in’ and suffering multiple sources of stress.

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Asnina, Erika. "Use of Business Models within Model Driven Architecture." Scientific Journal of Riga Technical University. Computer Sciences 38, no. 38 (January 1, 2009): 119–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/v10143-009-0010-1.

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Use of Business Models within Model Driven Architecture Model Driven Architecture is a framework dedicated for development of large and complex computer systems. It states and implements the principle of architectural separation of concerns. This means that a system can be modeled from three different but related to each other viewpoints. The viewpoint discussed in this paper is a Computation Independent one. MDA specification states that a model that shows a system from this viewpoint is a business model. Taking into account transformations foreseen by MDA, it should be useful for automation of software development processes. This paper discusses an essence of the Computation Independent Model (CIM) and the place of business models in the computation independent modeling. This paper considers four types of business models, namely, SBVR, BPMN, use cases and Topological Functioning Model (TFM). Business persons use SBVR to define business vocabularies and business rules of the existing and planned domains, BPMN to define business processes of both existing and planned domains, and use cases to define business requirements to the planned domain. The TFM is used to define functionality of both existing and planned domains. This paper discusses their capabilities to be used as complete CIMs with formally defined conformity between planned and existing domains.

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Maroukian, Krikor, Charalampos Apostolopoulos, and George Tsaramirsis. "Extending model driven engineering aspects to business engineering domain: a model driven business engineering approach." International Journal of Information Technology 9, no. 1 (February 22, 2017): 49–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s41870-017-0009-8.

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Barmpounakis, Sokratis, Alexandros Kaloxylos, Aggelos Groumas, Lampros Katsikas, Vasileios Sarris, Konstantina Dimtsa, Fabiana Fournier, Eleni Antoniou, Nancy Alonistioti, and Sjaak Wolfert. "Management and control applications in Agriculture domain via a Future Internet Business-to-Business platform." Information Processing in Agriculture 2, no. 1 (May 2015): 51–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.inpa.2015.04.002.

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Oliveira, Milene Mendes de. "Conceptualizations of respect in business negotiations." Cultural Linguistic Contributions to World Englishes 4, no. 2 (December 14, 2017): 254–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ijolc.4.2.07oli.

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Abstract International business negotiations are prone to several difficulties, one of the most fundamental of which being differences in cultural conceptualizations (Sharifian 2011). In order to explore how Brazilians and Germans conceptualize respect in business negotiations, interviews in English with business negotiators were conducted and cultural conceptualizations analyzed. Following an ‘organic’ (Quinn 2005) and (mainly) qualitative approach to data, this paper presents: (a) the main conceptualizations found for both groups; (b) a cognitive-linguistic analysis of collocations of ‘respect’ found in the interviews; and (c) a preliminary sketch of group-level conceptualizations of respect in business negotiations for both groups. For Brazilians, the source domains location and vertical splitting were salient, which points to the relevance of hierarchy. For Germans, the source domain horizontal splitting and the sphere separation cultural schema were recurrent, which signals appreciation for the public-private sphere separation. These conceptual differences might have practical consequences in international negotiation scenarios.

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Kaur, AmanPreet, and Dr Dheerendra Singh. "ENLIGHTENING THE CLOUD COMPUTING DOMAIN." INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTERS & TECHNOLOGY 4, no. 2 (October 30, 2005): 470–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.24297/ijct.v4i2b2.3308.

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Cloud computing is an emerging model of â€œcomputing as utilityâ€ to provide convenient, on demand access to shared pool of resources. In this paper, this grooming technology is presented in terms of its basic characteristics, services provided, models, and why cloud computing is a widely accepted in business and software enterprises.

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