This paper explores the advantage of loyalty program in the domain of business, while Starbucks
is chosen as a case study. It focuses mainly on the point system that provides a certain …

… Hiroyuki Iida 3 Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology zuolong 1 , xiongshuo
2 , iida … will be given the priority of room upgrade, welcome gift, and more surprises. With the …

The game of the Amazons is a fairly young member of the class of territory games. Since few
humans play the game, it is difficult to estimate the level of current programs. However, it is …

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Aim: To examine the feasibility and usefulness of a novel region-based pathway: the Regional
Referral Clinical Pathway for Home-Based Palliative Care. Method: This was a feasibility …

… In 1997 it was suggested to the Board of the ICCA that currently active chess programmers
should have an additional representative on the Board, an idea which we have welcomed …

The 23 rd Computer Olympiad was held November/December 2020. As a consequence of
the global pandemic, for the first time the competitions were fought online. This involved …

The 24 th Computer Olympiad was held online during August/September 2021. With 60
participants competing in 22 events, the event was a success. This raises the question as to …

… Compared to our first online Olympiad in 2020 (Iida et al., 2021a), the number of
competitions has dropped from 21 to 18, and the number of participating programs has …

… As discussed in the report on the previous three Olympiad reports (Iida et al., 2021a; Iida
et al., 2021b; Iida et al., 2022), increasing the participation rate is critical to the success of …