{"title":"Managerial Ability and Dividend Payout Policy during Global Financial Crisis: Evidence from Emerging Market of China","authors":"Xiao Ming, Bushra Sarwar, R. Naheed","doi":"10.1145/3312662.3312683","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3312662.3312683","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we examine the impact of pre-crisis managerial ability (MA) on firms' dividend policy during period of global financial crisis. By using data for 1640 non-financial listed firms of China, we document a strong positive relation between pre-crisis MA, dividend initiation decision (Di), and a negative relation between pre-crisis MA and dividend termination decision (Dt), that remains robust in the presence of corporate governance and CEO level control variables. We also analyze the impact of MA on dividend payout decisions (Dt, Di) by varying the construction of sample firms in two different ways, and find that relationship between MA and dividend payout decisions (Dt, Di) are 1) more prevalent for financially unconstrained firms and firms with strong balance sheet, 2) more pronounced under high marketized groups as compare to low marketized groups. Further, study confirms that di(dt) decision during crisis period increases(decreases) firm value. This study further employs propensity score matching (PSM) method to control possible endogeneity, and produce similar results.","PeriodicalId":372587,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Management Engineering, Software Engineering and Service Sciences","volume":"131 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121626625","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Hazber, Ruixuan Li, Bing Li, Yuqi Zhao, Khaled M. Alalayah
{"title":"A Survey: Transformation for Integrating Relational Database with Semantic Web","authors":"M. Hazber, Ruixuan Li, Bing Li, Yuqi Zhao, Khaled M. Alalayah","doi":"10.1145/3312662.3312692","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3312662.3312692","url":null,"abstract":"An early vision in Computer Science was focused on Artificial Intelligence (AI) to produce intelligent systems capable of reasoning on huge amounts of data. Since the huge amount of data on the web are still formed and stored in relational databases (RDBs), such data cannot be used directly via the Semantic Web. Therefore, semantic integration of relational data sources into the Semantic Web is not a trivial task and has been addressed by developing approaches and tools for transformation RDB to ontology. The aim of this survey is to present the existing approaches contributed for integrating RDBs into Semantic Web in order to bridge the gap between RDB model and ontology model and to boost the current Web, by discussing the benefits and drawbacks of these approaches as well as to compare between them in specific terms.","PeriodicalId":372587,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Management Engineering, Software Engineering and Service Sciences","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114782723","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Brand Promotion of Confucius Institute in China from the Perspective of Cultural Recipients","authors":"K. Usmanova, Daoping Wang, Amjad Younas","doi":"10.1145/3312662.3312703","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3312662.3312703","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, rapid promotion of China's economy attracts more and more interest and attention of the world. Rising boom of learning Chinese in today's world mainly depends on Chinese language promotion organizations' strategy. To fill the knowledge gap and to achieve the purpose of cultural diplomacy through brand promotion, in this paper we study the globalization trend of Chinese language and culture promotion by Confucius Institute (CI), analyze CI as China's first worldwide Brand of cultural and educational exchanges. Cultural recipients were used as a sample - foreign students studied on Confucius Institute Scholarship Program in China. The findings confirmed awareness and brand identity of CI through the subjective evaluations and support by its \"consumers\". It is suggested to make innovations in cultural promotion and teaching contents for promoting the brand awareness.","PeriodicalId":372587,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Management Engineering, Software Engineering and Service Sciences","volume":"2011 33","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120846347","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Study on Cooperation Evolution of Stakeholders in Service Ecosystem","authors":"Hao Wang, Juhong Chen, N. Jiang","doi":"10.1145/3312662.3312666","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3312662.3312666","url":null,"abstract":"The proposing of Service Ecosystem make the study of Servitization into novel domain considering the cooperation between the actors and the profits allocation. In this paper, we divide actors in Service Ecosystem into Product provider(manufactures) and Service provider(Complemented enterprise). Then, a two player cooperation model based on the Evolutionary Game Theory has been developed to analyze the evolutionary law of the cooperation. We analyze the cooperation equilibrium state and discuss the impact of profits allocation on cooperation by simulation. Through the analysis and simulation, we find the result that the evolutionary equilibrium state of the cooperation has the initial value sensitivity considering the power structure and loss aversion.","PeriodicalId":372587,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Management Engineering, Software Engineering and Service Sciences","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128910663","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Secure Social Model Based on IRBAC Mobile","authors":"Lin Cao, Liang Xiao, Yiming Xiao","doi":"10.1145/3312662.3312674","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3312662.3312674","url":null,"abstract":"The mobile agent completes the task through independent data software modules, with strong independence, autonomy and flexibility. However, mobile agents are still subject to some impact restrictions that are primarily related to security issues caused by mobility. To improve the security of the mobile agent community platform, this article provides an Interest Role_Base Access Control(IRBAC) based model to ensure security and privacy in complex social organizations. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to solve the platform hosted security problems caused by mobile agents, especially those caused by unauthorized access attacks. Combined with the RBAC model, a personalized model IRBAC is proposed, which determines its own role according to the user's interest, and a secure and flexible role delegation model. Finally, we conducted a practical case study to evaluate our method to demonstrating its validity, reliability, and safety.","PeriodicalId":372587,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Management Engineering, Software Engineering and Service Sciences","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122957542","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Research on Communication between S7-314 PLC and Atlas-MK5 Based on PROFIBUS Protocol","authors":"Shang Song Li, Wei Li, Kang-Kang Zhang","doi":"10.1145/3312662.3312687","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3312662.3312687","url":null,"abstract":"This paper introduces the characteristics of PROFIBUS Protocol including data transmission structure and communication sequence. The system uses Siemens S7-314PLC as the main controller and uses PROFIBUS -DP as an industrial field-bus as the monitoring and field device layer data communication. The Atlas-MK5 communication module, and instruction list language (Instruction List) program designs is introduced and complete communication connection and data acquisition with air compressor equipment are completed during control and analysis process. The application results show that the PROFIBUS communication of the S7-314 PLC Master station is accurate and reliable[1].","PeriodicalId":372587,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Management Engineering, Software Engineering and Service Sciences","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129851801","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Prediction of Mobile App Session Time","authors":"Zhen Liao, Jingling Zhao, Yan Li","doi":"10.1145/3312662.3312695","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3312662.3312695","url":null,"abstract":"With the rapid development of the mobile terminal applications, the research of mobile app advertising pricing model has attracted more attention than ever. Many researches draw a conclusion that the more advertisement exposure time, the more benefits they will get from the mobile applications. However, the current advertisement auction is priced and sold before actual viewing. In other words, the existing advertising pricing model doesn't involve the influence factor of the advertisement exposure time. Understanding the application usage patterns can help the advertisers to adjust the engagement of their ads. Therefore, this paper adopts a prediction model of the mobile application session time that combines the Back Propagation Neural Network and Genetic Algorithm. Finally, based on the experimental results and performance analysis, the error is in the acceptable scope.","PeriodicalId":372587,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Management Engineering, Software Engineering and Service Sciences","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116432036","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Paper Form Image Recognition Based on SSIM","authors":"C. Zhong, Tianxiang Zhou, Ke Wang","doi":"10.1145/3312662.3312704","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3312662.3312704","url":null,"abstract":"This paper introduces a method of filling information recognition for scanned image of paper form. The cross point coordinates are extracted by Strip-like corrosion and expansion of the binary images. The form image base frame is constructed using a rectangular fit based on the Hough transform. Using the image pan, rotate, and scale algorithms, the template form image base frame to the scanned form image base frame can be matched. The filling grid area is determined based on the structural similarity algorithm (SSIM) and the filling information is thus obtained. The experimental results show that this method can accurately, quickly and efficiently read the batch paper form filling information digitally, and has strong robustness.","PeriodicalId":372587,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Management Engineering, Software Engineering and Service Sciences","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127998416","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chinese One Belt-One Road Scholarship Initiative and its Impact on Sustainable Development of the Education Industry","authors":"M. D. S. Alam, Daoping Wang, Kalsoom Rafique","doi":"10.1145/3312662.3312672","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3312662.3312672","url":null,"abstract":"This paper strives to unveil the impact of the Chinese's One Belt-One Road (OBOR) scholarships initiative to ward sustainable development within the educational industry of China. The study used a quantitative research method to explore the impact of OBOR on sustainable development of the education industry (ESD) and long-life learning (LLL) of the international students. The data were collected through random distribution of the questionnaires among two hundred and twenty three (n=223) international students studying under OBOR scholarships program in Beijing. To generate the outcome and to test the proposed hypotheses, correlations and regression analysis tools were utilized using SPSS package. The results indicated the positive associations between the OBOR initiative and ESD and LLL. It is concluded that OBOR is an excellent project by the Chinese government which supports education across the border which further assist achieving universal sustainable development in education and LLL of the international students by enriching and empowering their educational attitude.","PeriodicalId":372587,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Management Engineering, Software Engineering and Service Sciences","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130772388","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Muhammad Shahid Mehmood, Jian Zhang, A. Waheed, Amjad Younas, Sher Zaman Khan
{"title":"Impact of Entrepreneurial Leadership on Employee's Innovative Behavior: Mediating role of Psychological Empowerment","authors":"Muhammad Shahid Mehmood, Jian Zhang, A. Waheed, Amjad Younas, Sher Zaman Khan","doi":"10.1145/3312662.3312701","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3312662.3312701","url":null,"abstract":"This study explores the impact of entrepreneurial leadership (EL) toward employees' innovative behavior (IB) along with the mediating role of psychological empowerment (PE). The data were collected using a random distribution of the surveys among 301 managers and employees within small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Pakistan. The integrated model developed to highlight the direct and indirect relationship between EL and IB with intervening influence of PE. The questionnaire was divided into two sections such as managerial level and employee's level. Structure equation modeling analysis technique is majorly employed to calculate the proposed relationships by means of descriptive statistics, discriminate validity, and Pearson's correlation analysis techniques. The findings revealed that EL has a direct impact on IB and an indirect impact on IB through PE, respectively. Furthermore, this study promotes insightful information regarding IB of employees, EL, and PE relationships. Based on such findings, theoretical and managerial implications are reported.","PeriodicalId":372587,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Management Engineering, Software Engineering and Service Sciences","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127689831","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}