{"title":"Chapter 2 The Spirit of Silk Road: The Impact of Medieval Chinese–Arab Relations on the Contemporary Bilateral Sino–Arab Relations","authors":"Tarek Ladjal, T. Brahimi","doi":"10.1108/978-1-78756-679-820191002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78756-679-820191002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":405711,"journal":{"name":"The New Silk Road Leads through the Arab Peninsula: Mast ering Global Business and Inovation","volume":"101 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117274022","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":"Chapter 9 An Overview of Artificial Intelligence Research and Development in China","authors":"Xujian Zhao, Hui Zhang, Chunming Yang, Bo Li","doi":"10.1108/978-1-78756-679-820191009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78756-679-820191009","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract \u0000In recent years, a great number of top conferences and workshops on artificial intelligence (AI) were held in China, showing Chinese AI plays an important role in the world. Meanwhile, Chinese government announced an ambitious scheme, “New Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Plan,” for the country to become a world leader in AI technologies by 2030. The AI research in China has covered various aspects, ranging from chips to algorithms. This chapter attempts to give an overview of the recent advances of AI research and development in China, as well as some perspectives on the future development of AI in China.","PeriodicalId":405711,"journal":{"name":"The New Silk Road Leads through the Arab Peninsula: Mast ering Global Business and Inovation","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133636016","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}
Xin Wei, Yuxin Wei, Peng Chen, Cencen Fan, Heng Luo, Qianqian Zhao, Ying Kong, Anna Visvizi, Miltiadis Demetrios Lytras, W. Alhalabi, Xi Zhang
{"title":"Chapter 7 The Analysis of “Online Silk Road” from the Perspective of Big Data","authors":"Xin Wei, Yuxin Wei, Peng Chen, Cencen Fan, Heng Luo, Qianqian Zhao, Ying Kong, Anna Visvizi, Miltiadis Demetrios Lytras, W. Alhalabi, Xi Zhang","doi":"10.1108/978-1-78756-679-820191007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78756-679-820191007","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract \u0000In 2013, Chinese president Xi Jinping proposed the concept of “One Belt and One Road” economic cooperation. “The Belt and Road Initiative (B&R)” is the short of “The Silk Road Economic Belt” and the “21st-century Maritime Silk Road,” which has got a series of remarkable achievements and worldwide attentions in past five years such as Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, China–Pakistan Economic Corridor, B&R Forum for International Cooperation, etc. Especially, cross-border EC has greatly strengthened the trade links between countries along the way, which is a rare chance for Chinese Export-oriented Cross-border EC’s rapid growth. Thus, the authors take DHgate.com as a typical example to do a big data analysis. This chapter analyzes vast data from 2013 to 2017 about seven kinds of commodities including Fashion accessories, Jewelry, Sports & Outdoors, Security & Surveillances, Car accessories, Watches, and Hair & Styling by using data mining related software and algorithms. The authors do some monthly sale charts and find a few counter-intuitive but useful conclusions such as by taking association analysis, the study shows that sports products and jewelry products have strong association rules. In addition, for potential products (such as Fashion accessories and Jewelry), although their sales have a certain shock, the overall selling line keep rising. It is possible to put forward some practical suggestions for Chinese Export-oriented Cross-border EC that actively respond to the One Belt One Road Initiative based on these analysis results.","PeriodicalId":405711,"journal":{"name":"The New Silk Road Leads through the Arab Peninsula: Mast ering Global Business and Inovation","volume":"24 26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128464509","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. Chrysanthakopoulou, Anna Visvizi, Miltiadis Demetrios Lytras, W. Alhalabi, Xi Zhang
{"title":"Chapter 4 Dispute Resolution along the Belt and Road Initiative","authors":"M. Chrysanthakopoulou, Anna Visvizi, Miltiadis Demetrios Lytras, W. Alhalabi, Xi Zhang","doi":"10.1108/978-1-78756-679-820191003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78756-679-820191003","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract \u0000The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is endeavor of paramount importance that is likely to redefine socio-economic relations in countries and regions concerned. The debate on BRI’s relevance, scope, and potential has only begun, and it remains uncertain how exactly it will unfold. In this context, questions pertinent to regulatory frameworks in the context of which BRI initiatives are implemented belong to the most complex and the most interesting ones. Due to BRI’s novelty and open-endedness, all matters pertaining to its implementation are of exploratory nature; especially the legal aspects of its implementation. This aim of this chapter is to provide insightful answers to legal questions regarding BRI and dispute resolution via the examination of the current legal status of BRI, as well as explore how trust and cultural awareness can contribute to the avoidance of business-related disputes.","PeriodicalId":405711,"journal":{"name":"The New Silk Road Leads through the Arab Peninsula: Mast ering Global Business and Inovation","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132029453","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}
Mehedi Masud, A. Siddiqui, Eman H. Alkhammash, Anna Visvizi, Miltiadis Demetrios Lytras, W. Alhalabi, Xi Zhang
{"title":"Chapter 6 Building ICT Knowledge Capacity for Female Entrepreneurship for Sustainable Socio-economic Growth in the Middle East","authors":"Mehedi Masud, A. Siddiqui, Eman H. Alkhammash, Anna Visvizi, Miltiadis Demetrios Lytras, W. Alhalabi, Xi Zhang","doi":"10.1108/978-1-78756-679-820191006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78756-679-820191006","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract \u0000The aim of this chapter is to highlight the importance of information and communication technology (ICT) knowledge (ICT-K) for female in socio-economic development in Middle East countries. Currently, men play major roles in the development of Middle East countries without heed being paid to women. The role for women is normally reserved to the home and child caring. Men continue to dominate power structures, education, finance, and travel. Overall levels of women’s ICT entrepreneurship are among the lowest in the Middle East although more women are studying ICT programs in the universities. Even statistics on the number of women entrepreneurs and women’s economic participation are often unavailable or incomplete in this region. Mainly, women’s entrepreneurship and economic participation are relatively limited due to gender-specific barriers to business creation and development, including cultural norms, civil law, or barriers in the business environment. This chapter investigates the challenges and constraints faced, and the support and opportunities available for these female entrepreneurs in ICT. This chapter also presents research on the growing phenomenon of female entrepreneurship in Middle East and suggests a number of ways in which institutions of state and trade – which often act as barriers to women practically running a business – could be overcome.","PeriodicalId":405711,"journal":{"name":"The New Silk Road Leads through the Arab Peninsula: Mast ering Global Business and Inovation","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134122197","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":"Chapter 13 Cluster Analysis and Overseas Warehouse Assignment of Chinese Smartphones under “The Belt and Road” Initiative","authors":"Shunqi Hou, Xiaoyu Wang, Jing-feng Xiao, Yurui Zhang, Feiyang Cheng","doi":"10.1108/978-1-78756-679-820191013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78756-679-820191013","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract \u0000The new Silk Road provides cross-border-e-commerce firms with an opportunity to widen their markets. Under this circumstance, the preference recognition of countries and inventory allocation among overseas warehouses both become critical issues to solve. Three Chinese smartphone brands, including HTC, Huawei, and MI, are selected in this chapter for their relatively enormous sales. DHgate and AliExpress websites are chosen as platforms to analyze the sales for data availability. This chapter first depicts key features of the sales and then, based on which, divide countries into several groups according to their preference for phones by cluster analysis. Then, based on the results of cluster analysis, this chapter further models the inventory assignment among the seven major overseas warehouses that were built by AliExpress in 2015. The results show that the HTC seems to be pursuing the “high value with high price” strategy, while the other two companies seem to be pursuing a hybrid strategy of “low-price” strategy and “high value with low price” strategy. This chapter also provides an assignment pattern of inventory among the overseas warehouses based on the real data of sales and costs.","PeriodicalId":405711,"journal":{"name":"The New Silk Road Leads through the Arab Peninsula: Mast ering Global Business and Inovation","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123522354","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}
Anna Visvizi, Miltiadis Demetrios Lytras, W. Alhalabi, Xi Zhang
{"title":"Chapter 1 The Belt and Road Initiative: Strategy, Collaboration, Innovation","authors":"Anna Visvizi, Miltiadis Demetrios Lytras, W. Alhalabi, Xi Zhang","doi":"10.1108/978-1-78756-679-820191001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78756-679-820191001","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract \u0000In as much as it is contested, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is also unexplored, underdiscussed, and, as a result, misunderstood. Frequently viewed through the lens of international relations and global economy, the diverse dimensions of collaboration, including business and research-industry clusters, that BRI enhances, tend to be excluded from the analysis. In a similar manner, the role of the Arab Peninsula in the grand strategy underpinning BRI and its implementation is rarely discussed. BRI is a forward-oriented initiative, an attempt to reap benefits of developments and circumstances that are only nascent. This bears two potent implications. First, as China attempts to influence the context in which it operates, it is subject to change itself; the Chinese business sector evolution attests to that. Second, some of China’s not so obvious partners of today, including those in the Arab Peninsula, are about to turn into key interlocutors of tomorrow. BRI taps into opportunities thus created. This chapter elaborates on these issues and, against this backdrop, outlines how the remaining chapters included in this volume add to this discussion.","PeriodicalId":405711,"journal":{"name":"The New Silk Road Leads through the Arab Peninsula: Mast ering Global Business and Inovation","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121774205","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}
Jingjing Wang, Zhiqiang Li, Huanhuan Feng, Yuanjing Guo, Zheng Liang, Luyao Wang, X. Wan, Yalin Wang, Anna Visvizi, Miltiadis Demetrios Lytras, W. Alhalabi, Xi Zhang
{"title":"Chapter 14 A Research on the Development Trend of Knowledge Payment Based on Zhihu","authors":"Jingjing Wang, Zhiqiang Li, Huanhuan Feng, Yuanjing Guo, Zheng Liang, Luyao Wang, X. Wan, Yalin Wang, Anna Visvizi, Miltiadis Demetrios Lytras, W. Alhalabi, Xi Zhang","doi":"10.1108/978-1-78756-679-820191014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78756-679-820191014","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract \u0000Recently, sharing economy is gradually accepted by people, and it has expanded from life to knowledge. It is important to encourage people to produce high quality content in knowledge sharing area, and knowledge payment is one of the most effective ways to achieve it. Therefore, the knowledge payment has been regarded as a huge business opportunity, and it is of great meaning to study the development trend and feasibility of knowledge payment. This chapter, through big data methods, analyzes the business model of Zhihu (a Chinese platform of knowledge sharing) after it introduced knowledge payment projects, such as Zhihu Live and Pay Consultation. According to data of Zhihu users’ Q&A, concerned fields and others, this chapter tries to outline its user profile to find out the target groups of different topics, the proper form of knowledge payment and the hot topics of Zhihu Live. Through the analysis of knowledge graph, this chapter finds that Zhihu Live is expected to be the mainstream knowledge payment form in the future, and the most potential topics are mainly focused on science, law, and business. Meanwhile, it establishes a pricing model for Zhihu Live, and provides suggestions for the development of knowledge payment.","PeriodicalId":405711,"journal":{"name":"The New Silk Road Leads through the Arab Peninsula: Mast ering Global Business and Inovation","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126146695","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}
Krzysztof Kozlowski, Anna Visvizi, Miltiadis Demetrios Lytras, W. Alhalabi, Xi Zhang
{"title":"Chapter 3 The Past, the Present, and the Future of the New Silk Road: China as a Leader or a Free-Rider in International Relations","authors":"Krzysztof Kozlowski, Anna Visvizi, Miltiadis Demetrios Lytras, W. Alhalabi, Xi Zhang","doi":"10.1108/978-1-78756-679-820191016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78756-679-820191016","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract \u0000The New Silk Road Diplomacy in the Nineties, the Belt and Road Initiative today, and the Digital Silk Road of the future signal growing Chinese ambitions in international relations. The bold plans and visions may turn into fundaments of future Chinese domination in World affairs. However, the ways they are to be achieved indicate, that the Chinese policy-making did not adapt yet to new reality of being a leader rather than a free-rider taking advantage of other Powers’ international involvement. The goal of the chapter is to point to the limitations of PRC ambitions. Qualitatively new international reality requires qualitatively new approaches. China, if it does not realize that, despite being one of the biggest surprises in terms of dynamics of development in twentieth century, may become one of the biggest disappointments in twenty-first century. The World seems to accept the fact of growing PRC role in international dimensions. The question is, is China ready for this change not only in words but also in practice.","PeriodicalId":405711,"journal":{"name":"The New Silk Road Leads through the Arab Peninsula: Mast ering Global Business and Inovation","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115144420","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":"Chapter 10 Introduction to Chinese Knowledge Graphs and their Applications","authors":"Tianxing Wu, G. Qi, Cheng Li","doi":"10.1108/978-1-78756-679-820191010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78756-679-820191010","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract \u0000With the continuous development of intelligent technologies, knowledge graph, the backbone of artificial intelligence, has attracted much attention from both academic and industrial communities due to its powerful capability of knowledge representation and reasoning. Besides, knowledge graph has been widely applied in different kinds of applications, such as semantic search, question answering, knowledge management, and so on. In recent years, knowledge graph techniques in China are also developing rapidly and different Chinese knowledge graphs have been built to support various applications. Under the background of “One Belt One Road (OBOR)” initiative, cooperating with the countries along OBOR on studying knowledge graph techniques and applications will greatly promote the development of artificial intelligence. At the same time, the accumulated experience of China on developing knowledge graph is also a good reference. Thus, in this chapter, the authors mainly introduce the development of Chinese knowledge graphs and their applications. The authors first describe the background of OBOR, and then introduce the concept of knowledge graph and three typical Chinese knowledge graphs, including Zhishi.me, CN-DBpedia, and XLORE. Finally, the authors demonstrate several applications of Chinese knowledge graphs.","PeriodicalId":405711,"journal":{"name":"The New Silk Road Leads through the Arab Peninsula: Mast ering Global Business and Inovation","volume":"128 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128176978","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}