6 research outputs found
Personalized Recommendation of PoIs to People with Autism
The suggestion of Points of Interest to people with Autism Spectrum Disorder
(ASD) challenges recommender systems research because these users' perception
of places is influenced by idiosyncratic sensory aversions which can mine their
experience by causing stress and anxiety. Therefore, managing individual
preferences is not enough to provide these people with suitable
recommendations. In order to address this issue, we propose a Top-N
recommendation model that combines the user's idiosyncratic aversions with
her/his preferences in a personalized way to suggest the most compatible and
likable Points of Interest for her/him. We are interested in finding a
user-specific balance of compatibility and interest within a recommendation
model that integrates heterogeneous evaluation criteria to appropriately take
these aspects into account. We tested our model on both ASD and "neurotypical"
people. The evaluation results show that, on both groups, our model outperforms
in accuracy and ranking capability the recommender systems based on item
compatibility, on user preferences, or which integrate these two aspects by
means of a uniform evaluation model
Knowledge and Management Models for Sustainable Growth
In the last years sustainability has become a topic of global concern and a key issue in the strategic agenda of both business organizations and public authorities and organisations.
Significant changes in business landscape, the emergence of new technology, including social media, the pressure of new social concerns, have called into question established conceptualizations of competitiveness, wealth creation and growth.
New and unaddressed set of issues regarding how private and public organisations manage and invest their resources to create sustainable value have brought to light. In particular the increasing focus on environmental and social themes has suggested new dimensions to be taken into account in the value creation dynamics, both at organisations and communities level.
For companies the need of integrating corporate social and environmental responsibility issues into strategy and daily business operations, pose profound challenges, which, in turn, involve numerous processes and complex decisions influenced by many stakeholders. Facing these challenges calls for the creation, use and exploitation of new knowledge as well as the development of proper management models, approaches and tools aimed to contribute to the development and realization of environmentally and socially sustainable business strategies and practices
Malaysian bilateral trade relations and economic growth
This paper examines the structure and trends of Malaysian bilateral exports and imports and then investigates
whether these bilateral exports and imports have caused Malaysian economic growth. Although the structure of
Malaysia’s trade has changed quite significantly over the last three decades, the direction of Malaysia’s trade
remains generally the same. Broadly, ASEAN, the EU, East Asia, the US and Japan continue to be the
Malaysia’s major trading partners. The Granger causality tests have shown that it is the bilateral imports that
have caused economic growth in Malaysia rather than the bilateral exports
Exchange rate misalignments in ASEAN-5 countries
The purpose of this paper is to estimate the exchange rate misalignments for Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines,
Singapore and Thailand before the currency crisis. By employing the sticky-price monetary exchange rate model
in the environment of vector error-correction, the results indicate that the Indonesia rupiah, Malaysian ringgit,
Philippines peso and Singapore dollar were overvalued before the currency crisis while Thai baht was
undervalued on the eve of the crisis. However, they suffered modest misalignment. Therefore, little evidence of
exchange misalignment is found to exist in 1997:2. In particular, Indonesia rupiah, Malaysia ringgit, Philippines
peso and Singapore dollar were only overvalued about 1 to 4 percent against US dollar while the Thai baht was
only 2 percent undervalued against US dollar