The author systematically examines one of the important issues of information — establishing the market price. He introduces the concept of «search» — where a buyer wanting to get a better price, is forced to question sellers. The article deals with various aspects of finding the necessary information.

Economics of Information

Enclosed is a copy of the Board of Governors’ Semiannual Agenda of Regulations for the period August 1, 1980 through February 1, 1981. The Semiannual Agenda provides you with information on those regulatory matters that the Board now has under consideration or anticipates considering over the next six months, and is divided into three parts: (1) regulatory matters that the Board had considered during the previous six months on which final action has been taken; (2) regulatory matters that have been proposed for public comment and that require further Board consideration; and (3) regulatory matters that the Board may consider over the next six months.

Federal Reserve Bank of New Yorkの制定せる財務諸表様式について

Information privacy refers to the desire of individuals to control or have some influence over data about themselves. Advances in information technology have raised concerns about information privacy and its impacts, and have motivated Information Systems researchers to explore information privacy issues, including technical solutions to address these concerns. In this paper, we inform researchers about the current state of information privacy research in IS through a critical analysis of the IS literature that considers information privacy as a key construct. The review of the literature reveals that information privacy is a multilevel concept, but rarely studied as such. We also find that information privacy research has been heavily reliant on studentbased and USA-centric samples, which results in findings of limited generalizability. Information privacy research focuses on explaining and predicting theoretical contributions, with few studies in journal articles focusing on design and action contributions. We recommend that future research should consider different levels of analysis as well as multilevel effects of information privacy. We illustrate this with a multilevel framework for information privacy concerns. We call for research on information privacy to use a broader diversity of sampling populations, and for more design and action information privacy research to be published in journal articles that can result in IT artifacts for protection or control of information privacy.

http://ftp.misq.org/skin/frontend/default/misq/pdf/appendices/2011/BelangerCrosslerAppendices.pdf

Privacy in the digital age: a review of information privacy research in information systems

Neural networks and fuzzy systems

目的 探讨CD25单抗在无血缘关系造血干细胞移植（UHSCT）中对干细胞植入和移植物抗宿主病（GVHD）的作用。方法 27例UHCST中，移植后1、4d给予CD25单抗1mg/kg。结果 27例中，除1例早期死亡外，26例患者造血全部重建。17例发生急性GVHD，其中Ⅱ度以上急性GVHD6例（23％）。复发3例，严重感染3例。26例可评价患者中，19例无病生存（73％）。结论 CD25单抗在UHSCT中对保证干细胞植入和预防GVHD有肯定的作用，白血病复发并不增加。此研究为UHCST和HLA不合的造血干细胞移植提供一个可选择的途径。

https://www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/management/faculty_staff/media/subbu_wan_tang_2007_jim_print.pdf

Giving an “e-human touch” to e-tailing: The moderating roles of static information quantity and consumption motive in the effectiveness of an anthropomorphic information agent

Section I: Perspectives on IT-Enabled Strategic Management Section II: Processes and Capabilities Section III: Technology and Tools Section IV: Inter-Organizational and Global Implications

IT-Enabled Strategic Management: Increasing Returns for the Organization

Deterministic global optimal FNN training algorithms

Increasing costs of direct marketing campaigns and declining response rates have motivated direct marketers to turn to more sophisticated techniques to model response behavior. Moreover, the data used for response modeling is imbalanced data. That is, non-respondents greatly outnumber respondents in direct marketing. This paper intends to compare bagging with boosting algorithms to check how well these methods perform when class imbalance problem occurs in bank directing marketing data.

Ensemble methods in bank direct marketing

Particle swarm optimization (PSO) is a recently developed optimization method that has attracted interest of researchers in various areas. PSO has been shown to be effective in solving a variety of complex optimization problems. With properly chosen parameters, PSO can converge to local optima. However, conventional PSO does not have global convergence. Empirical evidences indicate that the PSO algorithm may fail to reach global optimal solutions for complex problems. We propose to combine the branch-and-bound framework with the particle swarm optimization algorithm. With this integrated approach, convergence to global optimal solutions is theoretically guaranteed. We have developed and implemented the BB-PSO algorithm that combines the efficiency of PSO and effectiveness of the branch-and-bound method. The BB-PSO method was tested with a set of standard benchmark optimization problems. Experimental results confirm that BB-PSO is effective in finding global optimal solutions to problems that may cause difficulties for the PSO algorithm.

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Zaiyong Tang

Papers

Giving an “e-human touch” to e-tailing: The moderating roles of static information quantity and consumption motive in the effectiveness of an anthropomorphic information agent

IT-Enabled Strategic Management: Increasing Returns for the Organization

Deterministic global optimal FNN training algorithms

Ensemble methods in bank direct marketing

Globally Convergent Particle Swarm Optimization via Branch-and-Bound