January 17 ~ 18, 2026, Zurich, Switzerland
Christian Hitz1, Vaclav Pechtor2, Ali Cem Guler1, Joel Egli1, Artan Perkola, 1Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW), Switzerland, 2Prague University of Economics and Business, Czech Republic
SMEs differ fundamentally from large organisations when it comes to succession planning. If large companies are looking for suitable promotions, SMEs are looking for external buyers who are difficult to find. Cultural differences between the previous owner and the successor, as well as resistance from the workforce, can also jeopardize succession. Inheritance disputes in family businesses are also legendary. This study carried out a survey on a family business in the wine industry that can be described as a small business with a production of 100,000 bottles per year. We know from this company that succession planning is considered to have failed and there is no buyer for the winery. One possible discussed solution to this problem could be a so-called decentralized autonomous organization, which has been researched in the sector with the WineDAO project, an innovative concept that explores the potential of a decentralized wine economy. The topic has been investigated by conducting a survey among wine experts, but also possible investors of a winery. A survey with 91 participants revealed a solid initial interest, with experienced investors over 45 years of age showing a greater willingness to invest. The findings highlight the potential of WineDAO but also underscore the need for strategic planning and a well-defined business model.
Succession Planning, DAO, Blockchain, Corporate Governance.
Ying-Jie Jheng, Department of Education, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan
The gaming industry constitutes an important part of the global economic system but also brings problems to a society and people. While the past studies analyzed the positive and negative impacts of gambling, research focusing on the feelings and educational expectations of dealers, especially from the educational angle, is scarce. The study, using Macao as an example, is devoted to exploring Macao dealers’ (as parents’) feelings and educational expectations on their children. According to the research findings, Macao dealers feel that they were seduced by the “money” and “surround people” to be dealers, and then become “alienated human beings.” Being paralyzed between “money” and “pride”, as the psychological state of “ambivalence”, the most important educational expectation for their children is “never repeat their alienated life.” Based on the results, some educational implications are addressed. First, in order to support dealers to fulfill their role of parents, the government should provide them with more educational resources from other institutions. Regarding school teachers, it is necessary to elevate educational expectations for students and dispel the vicious cycle that “not performing well at school leads to becoming a casino dealer.”
Macao, Dealer, Ambivalence, Educational Expectation.
Ibironke Oluwakemi1, Lawal Bukola2, Olayinka-Phillips Cynthia3, Ojo Olumuyiwa4, Olusola Philip4, Adekanmbi Oluyemi4 , Idowu Olufunmi4 1Faculty of Education and Communication, University of Lincoln, United Kingdom 2Department of Psychology, University of Ibadan, Nigeria 3School of Management, Cardiff Metropolitan University, United Kingdom 4Department of Office and Information Management, Lead City University Ibadan, Nigeria
Equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) remain vital components to achieving sustainable innovative practices in the Nigerian higher education system. This study explored the lived experiences of the teaching staff in the Office Technology and Management (OTM) department who are currently undergoing doctoral degrees in a private university in Ibadan, Nigeria. A qualitative research approach through in-depth interviews and thematic analysis was adopted for the study. A purposive sampling was also employed to recruit OTM teaching staff in the polytechnics undergoing their PhD programme in a private university. Four broad themes emerged from the findings of the study: previous experience syndrome, professional striving, and organizational and personal barriers. The findings revealed that, by prioritizing inclusivity, institutions can empower PhD students to generate sustainable and innovative solutions for managing information and office environments. Recommendations for academic institutions include funding research competence and offering targeted mentorship programmes, which are very vital for driving sustainability.
Doctoral Journey, Office technology & management staff, Sustainability, Equality, Diversity & Inclusion.
Harshita Pendli1 and Nenavath Srinivas Naik2 1B.Tech, Department of Computer Science and Engineering (AI & DS), Indian Institute of Information Technology Design and Manufacturing (IIITDM), Kurnool, India 2Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Information Technology Design and Manufacturing (IIITDM), Kurnool, India
Accident risk prediction plays a crucial role in improving the safety and reliability of intelligent transportation systems. This paper presents an end-to-end multimodal framework that analyses the driver’s behaviour, surrounding weather, and road surface to estimate the overall level of driving risk. The system integrates three deep-learning modules: a MobileNetV3-Large model for detecting driver drowsiness, an EfficientNet-B0 model for recognising weather scenes, and a YOLOv8n detector for identifying road hazards such as cracks, potholes, and open manholes. Each model produces a confidence score that is combined through a weighted fusion strategy to obtain a single risk value. Based on this value, the situation is classified into three categories—low, medium, or high risk. To make the result more interpretable, the fused outputs are processed by a locally running large language model (Ollama Mistral 7B), which generates short, descriptive text alerts. These alerts are synchronised with pre-recorded driver, weather, and road clips using the MoviePy framework to produce an offline dashboard video that visually shows the risk level along with the explanation. The proposed design demonstrates how deep learning, fusion, and language reasoning can together deliver an explainable and practical accident-warning system.
Accident Risk Prediction, Deep Learning, Multimodal Fusion, YOLOv8n, MobileNetV3-Large, EfficientNet-B0, Large Language Model, Ollama Mistral 7B, MoviePy, Dashboard Visualisation.
Jorge Amílcar Vizcaíno, People and Change Consultant, BSc Psychology, Buenos Aires, Argentina
A crisis of meaning in the modern era is marked by constant change, existential anxiety, identity confusion, social isolation, and fragmentation of traditional cultural myths and life narratives. A situation that challenges the innate process of individuation towards self-realization, as Carl Jung defined. The present study introduces an innovative solution to support individuals navigating their lifelong journey: the Individuation Wave Analysis (IWA). Designed from scratch with DeepSeek AI, IWA is a transdisciplinary framework that operationalizes the integration of two distinct theoretical approaches: the Elliott Wave Principle (financial market analysis) and Jungian Archetypal Theory (depth psychology). Thus, IWA provides a hermeneutic methodology of a 5-3 waves model and their respective dominant archetype/shadow patterns. The empirical evidence is based on a set of historical and modern figures (Carl Jung, Warren Buffett, etc.), remarkably processed and demonstrated by DeepSeek AI. The benefits of the IWA framework in enabling individuals to make more conscious and meaningful forward-looking decisions in their lifelong individuation journey, the critical analysis of its limitations, potential criticisms of subjective bias, and required next steps for a research agenda and scientific validation are addressed.
Individuation, Elliott Wave Principle, Jungian Archetypal Theory, Psychological Education, Generative AI, DeepSeek AI.
Satish Wagle1, Saroj Baral2, Jorge Vargas3, and Khem Poudel2 1Computational and Data Science, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN, USA 2Department of Computer Science, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN, USA 3Department of Engineering Technology, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN, USA
Timely detection of anomalies is important in clinical data for identifying rare conditions, diagnostic errors, and healthcare efficiencies. This study proposed an unsupervised hybrid anomaly detection approach to combine clinical reports and chest X-rays using BioClinicalBERT and ResNet-18 embeddings. It integrates outlier filtering with Isolation Forest, applies a pruning step to retain the most anomalous candidates, and then performs local refinement using Local Outlier Factor. The pipeline was evaluated on 3,851 samples from the Open-I dataset. Model performance was explored with various outlier detection seeds, different pruned percentiles, and different LOF settings. The results indicated consistent and strong anomaly detection of outliers indices (121, 1632, 2265, 2673) that were identified as anomalies for most of the different configuration setting. The Jaccard similarity heatmap showed moderate to high overlap between results (scores between 0.4 and 0.8), and the t-SNE plots visually confirmed that different types of samples were well separated in space. IF-LOF modeling approach demonstrated evidence in capturing the multimodal physical patterns inherent in clinical data; images and medical text representations yet required no labelled data, and leveraged the benefits of global partitioning and local density-based refinement, complemented by globally semantic embeddings from BioClinicalBERT for reliable and valid anomaly detection in clinical practice.
Multimodal Anomaly Detection, Open-I Dataset, BioClinicalBERT, ResNet18, Unsupervised Learning, Isolation Forest, Local Outlier Factor, Pruning, t-SNE, Jaccard Similarity
Adiele Joshua Eze, Department of Computer Science and Informatics, Federal University Otuoke, Bayelsa State, Nigeria
Modern data mining systems face increasing demands for performance, scalability, and privacy preservation. As data volumes grow exponentially, platforms must evolve to support distributed architectures, real-time analytics, and secure processing. This paper presents a comprehensive study of current data mining platforms, evaluating their efficiency, scalability strategies, and privacy-preserving mechanisms. We propose a modular framework that integrates parallel processing, federated learning, and differential privacy to enhance system robustness. Experimental results on benchmark datasets demonstrate significant improvements in throughput and privacy compliance, offering a roadmap for next-generation data mining platforms.
Data Mining Platforms, Scalability, Efficiency, Privacy Preservation, Distributed Systems, Federated Learning, Differential Privacy, Big Data Analytics, Parallel Processing, and Secure Data Mining.
Audrey Han1 , Howard Lee2, 1 Walnut High School, 400 Pierre Rd, Walnut, CA 91789, 2California State University, Long Beach, 1250 Bellflower Blvd, Long Beach, CA 90840
Modern data mining systems face increasing demands for performance, scalability, and privacy preservation. As data volumes grow exponentially, platforms must evolve to support distributed architectures, real-time analytics, and secure processing. This paper presents a comprehensive study of current data mining platforms, evaluating their efficiency, scalability strategies, and privacy-preserving mechanisms. We propose a modular framework that integrates parallel processing, federated learning, and differential privacy to enhance system robustness. Experimental results on benchmark datasets demonstrate significant improvements in throughput and privacy compliance, offering a roadmap for next-generation data mining platforms.
Parkinso , Machine Learning, Python, Scikit-learn