@inproceedings{lampo_attitude_2014, address = {Ancona, Italy}, title = {Attitude and perception towards green products in {Macao}: {An} exploratory study}, shorttitle = {Macao}, url = {https://www.researchgate.net/publication/264048865_Attitude_and_perception_towards_green_products_in_Macao_An_exploratory_study}, publisher = {Society for Global Business and Economic Development}, author = {Lampo, Alessandro and Leong, Sin U}, year = {2014}, } @inproceedings{wong_computer_2017, title = {Computer {Literacy} {Teaching} {Using} {Peer} {Learning} and {Under} the {Confucian} {Heritage} {Cultural} {Settings} of {Macao}, {China}}, isbn = {978-989-8533-71-5}, url = {https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED579300}, abstract = {University students in Macao are required to attend computer literacy courses to raise their basic skills levels and knowledge as part of their literacy foundation. Still, teachers frequently complain about the weak IT skills of many students, suggesting that most of them may not be benefiting sufficiently from their computer literacy courses. This research proposes an enhanced framework based on constructivist principles by using peer-tutoring to increase cost effectiveness and to improve student outcomes. Essential to this proposed model is the training of former course graduates as peer-instructors to achieve high quality learning results. At Instituto de Formação Turistica (IFT), a case study was used to evaluate its effectiveness using a qualitative analysis. In Macao, most students have a Confucian Heritage Cultural (CHC) background and the current findings demonstrate that students share more easily their learning difficulties within their group as their interpersonal relationships improve. It is suggested that since CHC cooperative learning is primarily based on bonds, students involved in this 'relationship-first, learning-second' type shared a larger amount of knowledge and social skills, a dual positive outcome. Moreover, English language is a major barrier for the understanding of the teacher’s message to Chinese students. Meanwhile, the negative Western concept of plagiarism is replaced, under the CHC, as the ‘face giving’ and it is directly based on the relationship intensity to 'help friends'. At last, peer-tutors play a key role in the student increase internal motivation regarding the joy of the learning process.}, language = {en}, booktitle = {International {Conference} {Educational} {Technologies}, 2017}, author = {Wong, Kelvin and Neves, Ana and Negreiros, João}, year = {2017}, pages = {8}, } @inproceedings{negreiros_contemplation_2015, address = {Cham}, series = {Advances in {Intelligent} {Systems} and {Computing}}, title = {Contemplation on {Today}’s {Digital} {Education}}, isbn = {978-3-319-16486-1}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-16486-1_120}, abstract = {This paper starts to address the affect and side-effects of social media on people’s live in a pure contemplation perspective. Social networks are revised and some issues regarding its impact on education was not forgotten such as the teacher role in the digital classroom, formal versus informal learning or Web 2.0 tools use. Since Moodle is the first Learning Management System whilst Facebook is the first social network in the world, a survey was accomplished with two independent classes of e-business students at University of Saint Joseph, Macao, China, on their attitudes toward both online services in a learning framework. In general, the results confirms to a certain extent others previous studies on the question of whether using Facebook as an educational tool is more effective than Moodle.}, language = {en}, booktitle = {New {Contributions} in {Information} {Systems} and {Technologies}}, publisher = {Springer International Publishing}, author = {Negreiros, João and de Fatima Oliveira, Maria}, editor = {Rocha, Alvaro and Correia, Ana Maria and Costanzo, Sandra and Reis, Luis Paulo}, year = {2015}, keywords = {Education, Facebook, Macao, Moodle, Social Networks}, pages = {1213--1220}, } @inproceedings{lampo_critical_2012, address = {Bangalore, India}, title = {Critical development of green marketing in the hotel industry: {Macao} case study}, url = {https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262098190_Critical_development_of_green_marketing_in_the_hotel_industry_Macao_case_study}, abstract = {This study analyzes the green marketing strategies with specific reference to the hotel industry. The concept of green marketing in this sector is crucial due to the growing expected importance of tourism in the future of global economy and its potential impact on social and economic development; this is true particularly in areas with relevant volumes of tourist arrivals. In this sense, we carried out an exploratory research in the hotel industry of the Special Administrative Region (SAR) of Macao in order to: highlight the primary motivations that underlie interventions geared towards the eco-sustainability of hotels, the services they offer and point out the problems, issues, and future prospects in the development of green marketing, as well as explore the role of eco-sustainable values in hotels’ online communication policies. In order to reach these aims a qualitative research was carried out with a semi-structured questionnaire (face-to-face interviews) to a group of hotels. The research was finished by an analysis of their websites, in order to verify possible references to the steps taken to protect the environment.}, publisher = {Society for Global Business and Economic Development}, author = {Lampo, Alessandro and Gregori, Gian Luca and Cardinali, Silvio and Temperini, Valerio}, month = jul, year = {2012}, } @inproceedings{lei_endogenous_2013, address = {Osaka, Japan}, title = {Endogenous fragmented technology and optimal offshoring in large civil aircraft production}, url = {https://www.researchgate.net/publication/369091812_Endogenous_fragmented_technology_and_optimal_offshoring_in_large_civil_aircraft_production}, abstract = {This paper is motivated by two observations in the large civil aircraft (LCA) industry. (1) Boeing and Airbus are significantly different in the degree of offshoring. (2) The degree of offshoring also changes among different aircraft models. To offer an explanation, this paper focuses on issues related to fragmentation. Existing literature has established the tie between fragmented technology and offshoring. However, it is assumed that production can be fragmented readily and at no cost; and only exogenous global economic factors have impact on the degree of fragmentation. This model distinguishes itself from others by incorporating endogeneity in fragmentation. A final-good firm can spend on R\&D specifically for its own fragmented technology. As a result, the final-good firm can optimally choose the portion of components to be offshored. A strategic trade policy model is used to show that the degree of offshoring depends on the firm's own cost of production, the host country's cost of production, the global state of technology as well as the government trade policies. In particular, export subsidy and subsidy on R\&D of fragmented technology are shown to be policy substitutes. Keywords: Fragmentation; Offshoring; Outsourcing; Aircraft; Export subsidy; R\&D subsidy; Boeing; Airbus JEL classification: F12; F13; F23; L13}, author = {Lei, Weng Chi}, month = jul, year = {2013}, } @inproceedings{pong_evaluating_2011, address = {Berlin, Heidelberg}, series = {Communications in {Computer} and {Information} {Science}}, title = {Evaluating an {Enterprise} {Content} {Management} for the {Macao} {Government} {Agency}}, isbn = {978-3-642-24355-4}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-642-24355-4_4}, abstract = {Information contained within documents is an essential ingredient of any office operation. A content management application (CMA) is an organization plan for the conception, use, retention, disposal and selective preservation of its data. Using an appropriate CMA framework can greatly help Macao Government agencies, for instance, that are increasingly using electronic means to create, exchange and store a major variety of records daily. By definition, a record is information, in whatever form, for government functions, activities, decisions and other important transactions. As expected, as the volume of electronic information increases, so does the complexity of managing electronic records. This project goal was to evaluate the software capabilities of the Alfresco© Enterprise Content Management (ECM) against a set of functional requirements, aimed by the Macao Government agency. Drawing on the results of this evaluation, the present analysis concludes that Alfresco© ECM is capable of supporting an entire agency needs related to the management of its records content.}, language = {en}, booktitle = {{ENTERprise} {Information} {Systems}}, publisher = {Springer}, author = {Pong, F. and Whitfield, R. and Negreiros, J.}, editor = {Cruz-Cunha, Maria Manuela and Varajão, João and Powell, Philip and Martinho, Ricardo}, year = {2011}, keywords = {Alfresco©, Enterprise Content Management, Macao Government, Open Source Software}, pages = {29--39}, } @inproceedings{li_fast_2018, title = {Fast {Cluster}-learning with {Prior} {Probability} from {Big} {Dataset}}, doi = {10.1109/ISCMI.2018.8703219}, abstract = {Association Rule Mining by Aprior method has been one of the popular data mining techniques for decades, where knowledge in the form of item-association rules is harvested from a dataset. The quality of item-association rules nevertheless depends on the concentration of frequent items from the input dataset. When the dataset becomes large, the items are scattered far apart. It is known from previous literature that clustering helps produce some data groups which are concentrated with frequent items. Among all the data clusters generated by a clustering algorithm, there must be one or more clusters which contain suitable and frequent items. In turn, the association rules that are mined from such clusters would be assured of better qualities in terms of high confidence than those mined from the whole dataset. However, it is not known in advance which cluster is the suitable one until all the clusters are tried by association rule mining. It is time consuming if they were to be tested by brute-force. In this paper, a statistical property called prior probability is investigated with respect to selecting the best out of many clusters by a clustering algorithm as a pre-processing step before association rule mining. Experiment results indicate that there is correlation between prior probability of the best cluster and the relatively high quality of association rules generated from that cluster. The results are significant as it is possible to know which cluster should be best used for association rule mining instead of testing them all out exhaustively.}, booktitle = {2018 5th {International} {Conference} on {Soft} {Computing} \& {Machine} {Intelligence} ({ISCMI})}, author = {Li, Tengyue and Fong, Simon and Lobo Marques, Joao Alexandre and Wong, Raymond K.}, month = nov, year = {2018}, note = {0 citations (Crossref) [2022-09-21] ISSN: 2640-0146}, keywords = {Association Rule Mining, Big Data, Clustering, Clustering algorithms, Data mining, Itemsets, Preprocessing, Prior Probability, Probabilistic logic, Probability distribution}, pages = {60--66}, } @inproceedings{lampo_macao_2011, address = {Singapore}, title = {Macao: {A} {Study} on the {Impact} of {Global}, {Regional} and {Local} {Forces}.}, shorttitle = {Macao}, url = {https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262098245_Macao_A_Study_on_the_Impact_of_Global_Regional_and_Local_Forces}, abstract = {Over the years Macao has been exposed to different cultures and has been influenced by various political and economic interests. The booming casino economy has ultimately transformed the city into the largest gambling hub in the world. In spite of the consensus about Macao's shiny future, there are factors (such as the large reliance on a single industry) and socio-economic problems (such as labor shortage, unequal income distribution, and inflationary pressure) that moderate the optimism. By making use of the Chatterjee and Nankervis' convergent and divergent process model for management, this paper examines how global, regional, and local forces have impacted the economic development process, form and type of organizations in Macao. The paper also suggests that the government implement a framework that develops and diversifies the economy but also takes into consideration the social needs of the community.}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 12th {Society} for {Global} {Business} \& {Economic} {Development} ({SGBED} 2011)}, publisher = {Signapore Management University}, author = {Lampo, Alessandro and Care, Leanda}, month = jul, year = {2011}, } @inproceedings{negreiros_microsoft_2019, title = {Microsoft {Power} {BI} {Desktop} for {Data} {Analytics}}, booktitle = {Proc. {Multidiscip}. {Acad}. {Conf}}, author = {NEGREIROS, J. Garrott Marques and MARQUES, JA Lobo}, year = {2019}, pages = {132}, }