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  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
7,433 Views
13 Pages

MALDI-TOF MS Using a Custom-Made Database, Biomarker Assignment, or Mathematical Classifiers Does Not Differentiate Shigella spp. and Escherichia coli

  • Maaike J. C. van den Beld,
  • John W. A. Rossen,
  • Noah Evers,
  • Mirjam A. M. D. Kooistra-Smid and
  • Frans A. G. Reubsaet

Shigella spp. and E. coli are closely related and cannot be distinguished using matrix-assisted laser desorption-ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) with commercially available databases. Here, three alternative approaches usin...

(This article belongs to the Section Medical Microbiology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,838 Views
21 Pages

The Approach of SMEs to Using the Customer Databases and CRM: Empirical Study in the Slovak Republic

  • Lenka Ližbetinová,
  • Peter Štarchoň,
  • Dagmar Weberová,
  • Eva Nedeliaková and
  • Martina Juříková

26 December 2019

Sustainability of (small and medium-sized enterprises) SMEs in a globalized economy depends on several factors. According to available studies, effective Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is one of the factors affecting the competitiveness of SM...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2,290 Views
6 Pages

3 September 2024

Companies need to decrease service failures through service recovery and by managing customers’ emotions, which is important. Customer databases are vital to understand needs and service innovation. Utilizing data, companies can identify pain p...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of 2024 IEEE 4th International Conference on Electronic Communications, Internet of Things and Big Data)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
30 Views
9 Pages

5 November 2026

Generative artificial intelligence-based chatbot systems are increasingly used to support information provision and customer service processes; however, their reliability strongly depends on the underlying architecture and the availability of domain-...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The Sustainable Mobility and Transportation Symposium 2026)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,267 Views
21 Pages

Customized Knowledge Discovery in Databases methodology for the Control of Assembly Systems

  • Edoardo Storti,
  • Laura Cattaneo,
  • Adalberto Polenghi and
  • Luca Fumagalli

2 October 2018

The advent of Industry 4.0 has brought to extremely powerful data collection possibilities. Despite this, the potential contained in databases is often partially exploited, especially focusing on the manufacturing field. There are several root causes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
11,431 Views
11 Pages

A Database-driven Decision Support System: Customized Mortality Prediction

  • Leo Anthony Celi,
  • Sean Galvin,
  • Guido Davidzon,
  • Joon Lee and ,
  • Daniel Scott and
  • Roger Mark
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

27 September 2012

We hypothesize that local customized modeling will provide more accurate mortality prediction than the current standard approach using existing scoring systems. Mortality prediction models were developed for two subsets of patients in Multi-parameter...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Untold Stories about Personalized Medicine: If You Thought Personalized Medicine Is for Others to Worry about, Think Again)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,700 Views
16 Pages

31 August 2023

The field of mitochondrial genomics has advanced rapidly and has revolutionized disciplines such as molecular anthropology, population genetics, and medical genetics/oncogenetics. However, mtDNA next-generation sequencing (NGS) analysis for matriline...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Insights in Translational Bioinformatics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,161 Views
15 Pages

22 December 2022

Monkeypox has been a neglected, zoonotic tropical disease for over 50 years. Since the 2022 global outbreak, hundreds of human clinical samples have been subjected to next-generation sequencing (NGS) worldwide with raw data deposited in public reposi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Monkeypox Virus (Mpox))
  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
9,533 Views
18 Pages

17 April 2019

Creating an effective marketing strategy according to current trends is a key process needed to achieve sustainable growth that can result in attracting a great number of existing as well as potential customers. Moreover, an enterprise’s succes...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,996 Views
15 Pages

Automated vehicles, predicted to be fully electric in future, are expected to reduce road fatalities and road traffic emissions. The lane departure warning system, an important feature of automated vehicles, utilize lane detection and tracking algori...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advance in Intelligent Vehicle)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,550 Views
21 Pages

Utilization of Free Trade Agreements to Minimize Costs and Carbon Emissions in the Global Supply Chain for Sustainable Logistics

  • Yuki Kinoshita,
  • Takaki Nagao,
  • Hiromasa Ijuin,
  • Keisuke Nagasawa and ,
  • Tetsuo Yamada and
  • Surendra M. Gupta
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Background: Since global warming is a crucial worldwide issue, carbon tax has been introduced in the global supply chain as an environmental regulation for the reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Costs, GHG emissions, and carbon tax prices d...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Current State and Future of International Logistics Networks—The Role of Digitalization and Sustainability in a Globalized World)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,095 Views
23 Pages

Beyond Standard Losses: Redefining Text-to-SQL with Task-Specific Optimization

  • Iker Azurmendi,
  • Ekaitz Zulueta,
  • Gustavo García,
  • Nekane Uriarte-Arrazola and
  • Jose Manuel Lopez-Guede

20 July 2025

In recent years, large language models (LLMs) have shown an impressive ability in translating text to SQL queries. However, in real-world applications, standard loss functions frequently fail to capture the complexity of queries adequately. Therefore...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,132 Views
28 Pages

29 April 2026

This work explores the key capabilities of emerging sensing technologies in the context of Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) of civil infrastructures, aiming to contribute to research on integrated and intelligent systems for more accessible and eff...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Novel Sensors for Structural Health Monitoring: 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,939 Views
18 Pages

13 August 2021

Next-generation sequencing (NGS) has actualized the human papillomavirus (HPV) virome profiling for in-depth investigation of viral evolution and pathogenesis. However, viral computational analysis remains a bottleneck due to semantic discrepancies b...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue HPV Molecular Diagnostics: Laboratory, Research, and Clinical Aspects)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
13,053 Views
16 Pages

A Tool for Sheep Product Quality: Custom Microarrays from Public Databases

  • Silvia Bongiorni,
  • Giovanni Chillemi,
  • Gianluca Prosperini,
  • Susana Bueno and ,
  • Alessio Valentini and
  • Lorraine Pariset
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

4 December 2009

Milk and dairy products are an essential food and an economic resource in many countries. Milk component synthesis and secretion by the mammary gland involve expression of a large number of genes whose nutritional regulation remains poorly defined. T...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Foodomics 2009)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,193 Views
14 Pages

12 July 2023

DNA barcoding approaches provide powerful tools for characterizing fungal diversity. However, DNA barcoding is limited by poor representation of species-level diversity in fungal sequence databases. Can the development of custom, regionally focused D...

(This article belongs to the Section Fungal Evolution, Biodiversity and Systematics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
8,027 Views
24 Pages

Recency, Frequency, Monetary Value, Clustering, and Internal and External Indices for Customer Segmentation from Retail Data

  • Henrique José Wilbert,
  • Aurélio Faustino Hoppe,
  • Andreza Sartori,
  • Stefano Frizzo Stefenon and
  • Luís Augusto Silva

22 August 2023

While there are several ways to identify customer behaviors, few extract this value from information already in a database, much less extract relevant characteristics. This paper presents the development of a prototype using the recency, frequency, a...

(This article belongs to the Section Evolutionary Algorithms and Machine Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,698 Views
14 Pages

Customer centricity requires having customers at the core of the corporate organizational process. Yet, relationship marketing scholarships have not developed a clear understanding of how corporate culture, leadership, and identity may allow the esta...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,460 Views
22 Pages

An Information Management Model for Addressing Residents’ Complaints through Artificial Intelligence Techniques

  • Jordana Bazzan,
  • Márcia Elisa Echeveste,
  • Carlos Torres Formoso,
  • Bernardo Altenbernd and
  • Márcia Helena Barbian

Construction companies usually record customer complaints as unstructured texts, resulting in unsuitable information to understand defect occurrences. Moreover, complaint databases are often manually classified, which is time-consuming and error-pron...

(This article belongs to the Topic Advances in Intelligent Construction, Operation and Maintenance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
8,472 Views
16 Pages

Customer response models have gained popularity due to their ability to significantly improve the likelihood of targeting the customers most likely to buy a product or a service. These models are built using databases of previous customers’ buy...

(This article belongs to the Collection Utilizing Models for e-Business Decision-Making: From Data to Wisdom)
  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
8,048 Views
19 Pages

Large Scale Product Recommendation of Supermarket Ware Based on Customer Behaviour Analysis

  • Andreas Kanavos,
  • Stavros Anastasios Iakovou,
  • Spyros Sioutas and
  • Vassilis Tampakas

In this manuscript, we present a prediction model based on the behaviour of each customer using data mining techniques. The proposed model utilizes a supermarket database and an additional database from Amazon, both containing information about custo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
8,092 Views
18 Pages

20 October 2020

Sentiment analysis is becoming an essential tool for analyzing the contents of online customer reviews. This analysis involves identifying the necessary labels to determine whether a comment is positive, negative, or neutral, and the intensity with w...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Online Reputation and Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,302 Views
18 Pages

23 May 2023

Electric vehicles (EVs) have become popular in the last decade because of their advantages compared to conventional vehicles. The market offers dozens of EV models in a large range of prices, performances, and specifications. This paper presents an e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
8,311 Views
16 Pages

Structured data on customer feedback is becoming more costly and timely to collect and organize. On the other hand, unstructured opinionated data, e.g., in the form of free-text comments, is proliferating and available on public websites, such as soc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Big Data and Cognitive Computing: Feature Papers 2020)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,502 Views
16 Pages

Aliarcobacter butzleri from Water Poultry: Insights into Antimicrobial Resistance, Virulence and Heavy Metal Resistance

  • Eva Müller,
  • Mostafa Y. Abdel-Glil,
  • Helmut Hotzel,
  • Ingrid Hänel and
  • Herbert Tomaso

21 September 2020

Aliarcobacter butzleri is the most prevalent Aliarcobacter species and has been isolated from a wide variety of sources. This species is an emerging foodborne and zoonotic pathogen because the bacteria can be transmitted by contaminated food or water...

(This article belongs to the Section Microbial Genetics and Genomics)
  • Review
  • Open Access
24 Citations
5,110 Views
14 Pages

Customized Root-Analogue Implants: A Review on Outcomes from Clinical Trials and Case Reports

  • Telma Dantas,
  • Sara Madeira,
  • Michael Gasik,
  • Paula Vaz and
  • Filipe Silva

29 April 2021

(1) It is estimated that 10% of the world’s population will need a dental implant in their lifetime. Despite all the advances in the comprehension of dental implant designs, materials and techniques, traditional implants still have many limitations....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Translational Research on Dental Materials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
1,473 Views
13 Pages

Customer Behavior Analysis Using Rough Set Approach

  • Prabha Dhandayudam and
  • Ilango Krishnamurthi

The customer relationship management (CRM) is a business methodology used to build long term profitable customers by analyzing customer needs and behaviors. The customer behavior is analyzed by choosing important attributes in the customer database....

  • Review
  • Open Access
39 Citations
12,607 Views
12 Pages

Genomic Databases for Crop Improvement

  • Kaitao Lai,
  • Michał T. Lorenc and
  • David Edwards

20 March 2012

Genomics is playing an increasing role in plant breeding and this is accelerating with the rapid advances in genome technology. Translating the vast abundance of data being produced by genome technologies requires the development of custom bioinforma...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Impact of Genomics Technologies on Crop Breeding Strategies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,954 Views
21 Pages

VICO-DR: A Collaborative Virtual Dressing Room for Image Consulting

  • Gilda Manfredi,
  • Gabriele Gilio,
  • Vincenzo Baldi,
  • Hiba Youssef and
  • Ugo Erra

In recent years, extended reality has increasingly been used to enhance the shopping experience for customers. In particular, some virtual dressing room applications have begun to develop, as they allow customers to try on digital clothes and see how...

(This article belongs to the Section Mixed, Augmented and Virtual Reality)
  • Article
  • Open Access
70 Citations
25,220 Views
16 Pages

Determinants of Customer Satisfaction and Loyalty in Vietnamese Life-Insurance Setting

  • Ha Thu Nguyen,
  • Hoang Nguyen,
  • Nhan Duc Nguyen and
  • Anh Chi Phan

11 April 2018

Sustainable services are often regarded as sustainable strategies and operations producing goods and services that satisfy customer needs and significantly improve social and environmental performance. To be sustainable, service providers must satisf...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Review
  • Open Access
54 Citations
22,010 Views
30 Pages

How Do Mobile Wallets Improve Sustainability in Payment Services? A Comprehensive Literature Review

  • Egemen Hopalı,
  • Özalp Vayvay,
  • Zeynep Tuğçe Kalender,
  • Deniz Turhan and
  • Ceyda Aysuna

9 December 2022

Easy access to the Internet, smartphones, and mobile-based banking change customer shopping intentions. As a crucial component of financial technology (Fintech), mobile wallets enable customers to shop via smartphones. Mobile wallets present a cashle...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,856 Views
16 Pages

Investigation of Low-Frequency Data Significance in Electric Vehicle Drivetrain Durability Development

  • Mingfei Li,
  • Fabian Kai-Dietrich Noering,
  • Yekta Öngün,
  • Michael Appelt and
  • Roman Henze

The digitalization of the automotive industry presents significant potential for technical advantages, such as the online collection of customer driving data. These data can be used for customer-oriented development to improve the durability of compo...

(This article belongs to the Topic Advanced Electric Vehicle Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
3,847 Views
17 Pages

An Enhanced Spectral Clustering Algorithm with S-Distance

  • Krishna Kumar Sharma,
  • Ayan Seal,
  • Enrique Herrera-Viedma and
  • Ondrej Krejcar

2 April 2021

Calculating and monitoring customer churn metrics is important for companies to retain customers and earn more profit in business. In this study, a churn prediction framework is developed by modified spectral clustering (SC). However, the similarity...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computational Intelligence and Soft Computing: Recent Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
7,287 Views
15 Pages

11 June 2020

To manage their competitive goals, e-tourism service companies, in direct and in indirect channels respectively, need to know the antecedents of customer loyalty. Customer loyalty, generated by satisfaction in its various forms, is the cornerstone of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Influencing Factors of Traveler Loyalty for Destination, Company, and Brand)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4,158 Views
24 Pages

1 June 2021

Wearable robots that assist paraplegia patients should be manufactured according to the shape of the individual wearer. With the development of advanced three-dimensional (3D) printing technologies, such customizations are becoming available. However...

(This article belongs to the Section Robotics and Automation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
942 Views
8 Pages

On the way to a completely electronic workflow, it is necessary to include customer signatures. Legislation in many countries treats electronic signatures similar to handwritten ones. Both are accepted for various purposes such as for finalization of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
46,250 Views
21 Pages

Factors of Customer Loyalty and Retention in the Digital Environment

  • Matheus de Sousa Pereira,
  • Beatriz Schmitt de Castro,
  • Brenda Alves Cordeiro,
  • Bruno Schmitt de Castro and ,
  • Maria Gabriela Mendonça Peixoto,
  • Eugenia Cornils Monteiro da Silva and
  • Marcelo Carneiro Gonçalves
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Customer loyalty and retention are crucial for digital platforms, yet systematic studies integrating technological innovation and loyalty strategies remain scarce. This study addresses this gap by conducting a bibliometric analysis of key factors inf...

(This article belongs to the Topic Interactive Marketing in the Digital Era)
  • Review
  • Open Access
23 Citations
18,833 Views
19 Pages

Challenges for Customs Risk Management Today: A Literature Review

  • Sandra Karklina-Admine,
  • Aldis Cevers,
  • Arturs Kovalenko and
  • Armands Auzins

Changes and uncertainty in the customs operating environment and the growth of trade and travel volumes have affected how customs administrations manage and approach their tasks. As a result of technological development, the role of customs in border...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Globalization and Economic Integration)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
7,329 Views
12 Pages

17 February 2017

Next generation sequencing and bioinformatic approaches are increasingly used to quantify microorganisms within populations by analysis of ‘meta-barcode’ data. This approach relies on comparison of amplicon sequences of ‘barcode’ regions from a popul...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,015 Views
13 Pages

Diffusion of Electronic Water Payment Innovations in Urban Ghana. Evidence from Tema Metropolis

  • Godfred Amankwaa,
  • Festus A. Asaaga,
  • Christian Fischer and
  • Patrick Awotwe

2 April 2020

Recent advances in mobile technologies, especially in the utility payment space, are having an increasingly profound impact on our daily lives and offer advantageous services in the utility sectors. This paper examines the prevalence and patterns of...

(This article belongs to the Section Water Resources Management, Policy and Governance)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,693 Views
6 Pages

Lots of Insurance companies have constructed databases for ad hoc query software in Taiwan that combines customer relationship management and marketing campaign management. An ad hoc query is a non-routine and specific query performed in real time to...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 3rd IEEE International Conference on Electronic Communications, Internet of Things and Big Data 2023)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,373 Views
21 Pages

Customer satisfaction is not just a significant factor but a cornerstone for smart cities and their organizations that offer services to people. It enhances the organization’s reputation and profitability and drastically raises the chances of r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,046 Views
23 Pages

Modeling and Applying Implicit Dormant Features for Recommendation via Clustering and Deep Factorization

  • Alpamis Kutlimuratov,
  • Akmalbek Bobomirzaevich Abdusalomov,
  • Rashid Oteniyazov,
  • Sanjar Mirzakhalilov and
  • Taeg Keun Whangbo

27 October 2022

E-commerce systems experience poor quality of performance when the number of records in the customer database increases due to the gradual growth of customers and products. Applying implicit hidden features into the recommender system (RS) plays an i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of Semantic Technologies in Sensors and Sensing Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
10,744 Views
31 Pages

4 August 2021

In the field of strategic marketing, the recency, frequency and monetary (RFM) variables model has been applied for years to determine how solid a database is in terms of spending and customer activity. Retailers almost never obtain data related to t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematics and Mathematical Physics Applied to Financial Markets)
  • Tutorial
  • Open Access
300 Citations
21,808 Views
28 Pages

FungiDB: An Integrated Bioinformatic Resource for Fungi and Oomycetes

  • Evelina Y. Basenko,
  • Jane A. Pulman,
  • Achchuthan Shanmugasundram,
  • Omar S. Harb and ,
  • Kathryn Crouch,
  • David Starns,
  • Susanne Warrenfeltz,
  • Cristina Aurrecoechea,
  • Christian J. Stoeckert and
  • Christiane Hertz-Fowler
  • + 7 authors+ 2 authors

20 March 2018

FungiDB (fungidb.org) is a free online resource for data mining and functional genomics analysis for fungal and oomycete species. FungiDB is part of the Eukaryotic Pathogen Genomics Database Resource (EuPathDB, eupathdb.org) platform that integrates...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Genomic Data in Pathogenic Fungi)
  • Review
  • Open Access
35 Citations
15,956 Views
36 Pages

29 July 2021

The main purpose of this paper is to provide a theoretically grounded discussion on big data mining for customer insights, as well as to identify and describe a research gap due to the shortcomings in the use of the temporal approach in big data anal...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Information System Analysis and Modeling (AISAM))
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,297 Views
21 Pages

An Investigation of Representative Customer Load Collectives in the Development of Electric Vehicle Drivetrain Durability

  • Mingfei Li,
  • Fabian Kai-Dietrich Noering,
  • Yekta Öngün,
  • Michael Appelt and
  • Roman Henze

To ensure the precise dimensioning and effective testing of drivetrain components, it is crucial to have a thorough understanding of customer requirements, with a particular emphasis on customer stress on these components. An accurate interpretation...

(This article belongs to the Topic Advanced Electric Vehicle Technology, 2nd Volume)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,856 Views
13 Pages

Coagulase-negative staphylococci (CNS) make up a diverse bacterial group, appearing in a myriad of ecosystems. To unravel the composition of staphylococcal communities in these microbial ecosystems, a reliable species-level identification is crucial....

(This article belongs to the Section Food Microbiology)
  • Review
  • Open Access
16 Citations
7,144 Views
19 Pages

The rise of computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacturing (CAD/CAM) and 3D printing technologies in orthodontics has revolutionized the development of customized labial and lingual bracket systems with a variety of materials, which offer pot...

(This article belongs to the Section Dental Biomaterials)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,869 Views
10 Pages

Construction of a Radar Cross-Section Database Using ADS-B Data from the OpenSky Network

  • Milan Rozel,
  • Nicolas Gonçalves,
  • Alec Reygrobellet and
  • Pierre Bruneel

15 December 2022

Building a labeled database usually requires extensive work when the labeling is not automated. This paper presents a methodology to build a labeled database of aircraft radar signature (specifically radar cross section) using the OpenSky Network dat...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 10th OpenSky Symposium)

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