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Business Opportunity: The Weak-Tie Roaming among Tribes

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Computational Collective Intelligence. Technologies and Applications (ICCCI 2012)

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In this study we assume that the opportunity is already exists in the world. Furthermore, the weak-tie strategy is used to recognize two or more useful tribes and compare what differences between tribes to find out useful infor-mation, such as business opportunity for creating innovative service. At last, this model is used to design new Bali service to evidences our model is useful.

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Hong, CF., Lin, MH., Yang, HF. (2012). Business Opportunity: The Weak-Tie Roaming among Tribes. In: Nguyen, NT., Hoang, K., Jȩdrzejowicz, P. (eds) Computational Collective Intelligence. Technologies and Applications. ICCCI 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7654. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34707-8_54

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