Investigating Modern‐Day Talaria: Mobile Phones and the Mobility‐Impaired in Singapore

Revisiting the medical and social models of disability, this study adopted the integrated biopsychosocial approach to examine experiences of 25 mobility‐impaired respondents in Singapore with using mobile phones. We found that mobile phones provided respondents a greater degree of mobility, a sense of control, and opportunities to escape the stigma of disability, thus challenging the boundaries between the able‐bodied and the disabled. Mobile phone appropriation allowed the management of personal identities and social networks, leading to a sense of empowerment. However, mobile phone usage might act as a double‐edged sword for disabled people, creating mobile dependencies and a spatial narrowing of social connections. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.     

Knowledge transfer in IT offshoring relationships: the roles of social capital,efficacy and outcome expectations

Information technology (IT) development in global organisations relies heavily on the transfer of tacit and complex knowledge from onshore units to offshore subsidiaries. A central concern of such organisations is the development of social capital, which is known to facilitate the smooth transfer of knowledge. However, only a few studies in IS research have explicitly examined the role of social capital for knowledge transfer in an IT offshoring context. In this paper, we argue that such knowledge transfer mechanisms can be understood better by considering social capital in concert with knowledge senders' efficacy and outcome expectations, two of the potentially key motivational drivers of knowledge transfer. We develop our arguments through a qualitative case study of a large German multinational company. German IT developers in this firm provided in‐depth accounts of their experience with offshore colleagues in an Indian captive subsidiary unit. Drawing on our analysis, we develop a model that depicts the influence of social capital, efficacy and outcome expectations on onshore IT developers' ability and willingness to transfer knowledge to offshore colleagues. Through the model, we also explain how social capital, efficacy and outcome expectations are interrelated and generate three interlocked, self‐reinforcing circles of knowledge transfer success in IT offshoring relationships.     

智慧社保服务体系建设思考与实践

建立智慧型社会保障服务体系,是政府惠民工程的重要组成部分之一。以精确的人员基本信息库建设、经办业务下延、银行自助服务、网上自主经办等方面为依托,充分利用信息化手段打造一体化的社保经办体系,将业务经办突破时间、空间限制,构建完整的智慧社保服务体系。经信息系统上线近二年的实时运行,证明运用现代信息技术建立多层次、多渠道、差异化的服务体系,极大地提高了服务效率,产生了良好的社会效益。     

大数据系统和分析技术综述

首先根据处理形式的不同,介绍了不同形式数据的特征和各自的典型应用场景以及相应的代表性处理系统,总结了大数据处理系统的三大发展趋势;随后,对系统支撑下的大数据分析技术和应用(包括深度学习、知识计算、社会计算与可视化等)进行了简要综述,总结了各种技术在大数据分析理解过程中的关键作用;最后梳理了大数据处理和分析面临的数据复杂性、计算复杂性和系统复杂性挑战,并逐一提出了可能的应对之策.     

网络水军识别研究

网络水军识别关键技术已成为当前数据挖掘领域最为活跃的研究之一.如何挖掘海量用户信息中潜藏的网络水军特征与行为模式,从而发现网络水军,以维护良好的网络环境,保障合理的网络秩序,已成为一项十分具有挑战性的工作.对比传统与新型网络水军识别研究,从识别特征角度对近几年内网络水军识别研究进展进行综述,对其关键技术和效用评价进行了前沿概括、比较和分析,并对网络水军识别中有待深入研究的难点和发展趋势进行了展望.     

基于节点分割的社交网络属性隐私保护

现有研究表明,社交网络中用户的社交结构信息和非敏感属性信息均会增加用户隐私属性泄露的风险.针对当前社交网络隐私属性匿名算法中存在的缺乏合理模型、属性分布特征扰动大、忽视社交结构和非敏感属性对敏感属性分布的影响等弱点,提出一种基于节点分割的隐私属性匿名算法.该算法通过分割节点的属性连接和社交连接,提高了节点的匿名性,降低了用户隐私属性泄露的风险.此外,量化了社交结构信息对属性分布的影响,根据属性相关程度进行节点的属性分割,能够很好地保持属性分布特征,保证数据可用性.实验结果表明,该算法能够在保证数据可用性的同时,有效抵抗隐私属性泄露.     

在线用户兴趣多样性的实证研究

在线用户的群体兴趣对于分析在线社会网络以及个性化推荐至关重要。研究的目的是引入信息熵这一指标来准确度量用户兴趣的多样性。分别在电影网站MovieLens和音乐网站Last．FM数据上进行实证分析,即统计度相同的用户所选产品的信息熵值。MovieLens的结果表明,随着用户度的增加,熵值出现先上升后下降的趋势,即度小的用户和度大的用户的兴趣比较专一,而一般用户的兴趣较为多样;而Last．FM的结果表明,度小用户的兴趣非常多样,但随着用户听过的音乐数量越多,兴趣越明确。通过建立随机模型与实证结果进行比较,可以发现绝大多数用户在真实数据集上的兴趣的多样性比随机情况要大,可见用户的兴趣对用户行为模式的影响显著。     

基于用户-标签-项目语义挖掘的个性化音乐推荐

个性化推荐系统面临的难题是推荐的准确性、多样性以及新颖性,同时其数据集存在稀疏、信息缺失(如用户描述、项目属性以及明确的评分)等问题.协同标注中的标签包含丰富的个性化描述信息以及项目内容信息,因此可以用来帮助提供更好的推荐.算法以二部图节点结构相似与重启型随机游走为基础,分析音乐社交网络Last.fm中用户、项目、标签两两之间的联系,首先构建音乐间及标签间的相邻关系,初步得到音乐推荐列表和间接关联音乐集合,然后按所提算法融合结果,重新排序,得到最终推荐列表,从而实现个性化音乐推荐算法.实验表明,在该数据集上,所提方法能够满足用户对音乐的个性化需求.     

Retaining and attracting users in social networking services: An empirical investigation of cyber migration

Users are the most critical strategic resource of any online social networking service (SNS). This paper offers strategic recommendations for SNS providers based on an empirical study exploring why users switch from a primary SNS to others. We first identify important characteristics that combine to distinguish SNSs from conventional information systems, then develop a “cyber migration” research model that includes push, pull and mooring factors which influence user intention to switch from one SNS to another. Findings from a field survey of 180 users reveal four significant factors that promote switching: dissatisfaction with socialization support, dissatisfaction with entertainment value, continuity cost, and peer influence. Strategies grounded in these factors are suggested for SNS providers to better attract and retain users.