BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Context
- information about a product made available on an Internet site that is seen as adding value for the consumer, for example, book reviews on a book site
Wiktionary Definition for: Context
- #the text in which a word appears and which determines its meaning or allows its meaning to be ascertained
- #the circumstances (background) or settings which determine, specify, or clarify the meaning of an event
- Ex:''In what '''context''' happened your attack on him? - We had a pretty tense relation at the time, and when he insulted me I snapped.''
Additional Resources
- Media Context and Advertising Effectiveness: The Role of Context Appreciation and Context-Ad Similarity
- Humorous, warm and rational television and print advertisements are tested in similar television and print contexts. The impact of ad style/context style congruency and context appreciation on the attitude towards the ad and on recall was studied. Results showed that low involvement individuals perceived ads embedded in a congruent context...
- White papers 2002-12-01
- Context-Based Media Adaptation in Pervasive Computing
- In Pervasive Computing applications, computer embedded devices are used to perform control tasks and access the Internet or other information sources. They contain rich media data, which are not suitable for those pervasive devices with limited capabilities. Context -based media adaptation is mainly concerned with selecting different qualities of single...
- White papers 2001-05-31
- Build Context, Not Just Content
- Why, in spite of providing ever-better service and quality, do we see customers suddenly change their demands, and often their loyalty? An answer is that customers will move to suppliers who offer context in addition to content. The Internet has been called the world's largest copy machine and turns content...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Group Decision Making: A Context-Oriented View
- In this paper, the author analyses a case study, introduction of Information Technology in a newspaper firm, in the light of context. The complexity of information streams inside and outside of the firm gives a complex aspect to the change introduced in this firm. He identifies several types of contexts...
- White papers 2004-06-07
- Scan-Optics, Inc. Awarded Patent for Context-Edit
- MANCHESTER, CT--BUSINESS WIRE--Jan. 13, 1999--Scan-Optics, Inc. (NASDAQ National Market: SOCR), a leader in high volume document imaging systems, today announced that it has been assigned a patent from the U.S. Patent Office for its Context-Edit product. Context-Edit, developed for use with the Series 9000 neural recognition engine, is a process...
- Research articles 1999-01-13
- Gene Gable Joins the IDG World Expo Team to Launch Context
- Business Editors/High-Tech Writers Context FRAMINGHAM, Mass.--BUSINESS WIRE--June 2, 2004 New Suite of Creative Events Will Address the Challenges of Data-Driven Marketing, Design Automation and Server-Based Publishing IDG World Expo and publishing industry veteran Gene Gable today announced the launch of ContextTM, a series of...
- Research articles 2004-06-02
- Context Products Selected by International Billing Association to Meet Members' Needs
- BURR RIDGE, Ill.--BUSINESS WIRE--Oct. 3, 1997--Context Software Systems Inc. announced today that the International Billing Association Inc. has selected Context's Claims Editor Professional CodeLink and Physician Fee Report products for use by its members. "It is a privilege to have our core products selected by the nation's...
- Research articles 1997-10-03
- World Quality Consulting: Developing A Context
- In providing quality consulting advice to a specific company in a specific country, one must develop a context by combining the necessary dimension and the appropriate definitions to generate a working model. This model, in turn, becomes a foundation for the effective application of quality science and strategies. It is...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Social Capital by Design: Structures, Strategies, and Institutional Context
- The article examines social entrepreneurship from a structural perspective, distinguishing between two structures of social capital and their associated entrepreneurial strategies: structural holes and the 'disunion' strategy versus social cohesiveness and the 'union' strategy. These two strategies represent alternative ways social entrepreneurs access and mobilize the resources inherent in the...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- How Should An Institutional Real Estate Investor Proceed In the Context Of Today's Market Environment?
- The focus of this article is to find solution to a question addressed in this, as how should an institutional real estate Investor proceed in the context of today's market environment? In the context of trying to understand where we are and why, it would appear that the key factor...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Toward Automatic Context-Based Attribute Assignment for Semantic File Systems
- Semantic file systems enable users to search for files based on attributes rather than just pre-assigned names. This paper develops and evaluates several new approaches to automatically generating file attributes based on context, complementing existing approaches based on content analysis. Based on this study of ten systems over four months,...
- White papers 2004-06-01
- Information Integration for Counter Terrorism Activities: The Requirement for Context Mediation
- Although there are many private and public databases that contain information potentially relevant to counterterrorism programs, they lack the necessary context definitions (i.e., metadata) and access tools to enable interoperation with other databases and the extraction of meaningful and timely information. This paper presents examples of these problems and a...
- White papers 2003-11-01
- The Landscape of Management: Creating the Context for Understanding Social Complexity
- This paper seeks to establish a model in which complexity can be positioned in the context of other management disciplines, in such a way as to effectively communicate to executives in industry and their equivalents in government the importance of applying complexity thinking. It also seeks to differentiate what is...
- White papers 2005-07-29
- Context and Mentoring: Examining Formal and Informal Relationships in High Tech Firms and K-12 Schools
- Mentoring relationships have been increasingly used as a means for leadership development across a range of contexts. However, it is unclear whether mentoring and its outcomes are a function of the type of mentoring provided within an organization's context. To begin to address this issue, the study presented in this...
- White papers
- Conflict Resolution Method Utilizing Context History for Context-Aware Applications*
- This paper proposes Conflict Manager to resolve conflicts for context-aware applications in smart home environments. Conflicts arise when multiple users access an application or when various applications share limited resources to provide services. In order to resolve conflicts among users, the Conflict Manager assigns priority to each user so that...
- White papers 2005-04-21
- Using Context-Awareness And Web-Services To Enhance Construction Collaboration
- The information intensive nature of construction projects requires project team members to have on-demand access to project information. However, existing mobile communication deployments in the construction industry rely on static modes of information delivery and do not take into account the worker's changing context and dynamic project conditions. This often...
- White papers 2006-02-20
- HP Jointly Sponsors 14th Annual Echo in Context Teleconference; Longest-Running Telemedicine Educational Event Broadcasting to More Than 7,500 Worldwide
- PALO ALTO, Calif.--BW HealthWire--Feb. 7, 1999--Hewlett-Packard Company, along with Duke University Medical Center, today is sponsoring the 14th Annual Echo in Context Teleconference. The Echo in Context program is the longest-running and most-watched recurring telemedicine educational event in the world. This year's feature, "Clinical Impact: New Solutions to the Oldest...
- Research articles 1999-02-08
- IN THE CONTEXT OF THE INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICAL FORUM AN AGREEMENT ABOUT ORGANIZATION OF NISSAN CARS' INDUSTRIAL ASSEMBLAGE IN RUSSIA HAS BEEN SIGNED
- A&G Information Services 06-19-2006 IN THE CONTEXT OF THE INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICAL FORUM AN AGREEMENT ABOUT ORGANIZATION OF NISSAN CARS' INDUSTRIAL ASSEMBLAGE IN RUSSIA HAS BEEN SIGNED ST.PETERSBURG, RUSSIA, Jun 19, 2006 (A&G Ne A&G Information Services 06-19-2006...
- Research articles 2006-06-19
- IN THE CONTEXT OF THE INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICAL FORUM AN AGREEMENT ABOUT ORGANIZATION OF NISSAN CARS' INDUSTRIAL ASSEMBLAGE IN RUSSIA HAS BEEN SIGNED
- A&G Information Services 06-20-2006 IN THE CONTEXT OF THE INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICAL FORUM AN AGREEMENT ABOUT ORGANIZATION OF NISSAN CARS' INDUSTRIAL ASSEMBLAGE IN RUSSIA HAS BEEN SIGNED ST.PETERSBURG, RUSSIA, Jun 20, 2006 (A&G Ne A&G Information Services 06-20-2006...
- Research articles 2006-06-20
- RWD Technologies Offers Context-Sensitive Help for SAP Portal Environment
- BALTIMORE -- RWD Technologies, Inc. RWD, a company that provides software, systems integration, and outsourced services to improve training and organizational performance across the enterprise, announced the release of an enhancement to RWD Info PakR, its documentation and simulation solution that offers context-sensitive help from any application. Now, in addition...
- Research articles 2004-11-16
