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Sustainable Social Systems: Innovative Service Implications in the Restaurant Business in the Post-COVID Era with Digital Transformation Strategies
Sustainability. 2023. Vol. 15. No. 19. Article 14539.
The COVID-19 pandemic led to changes in and modifications of the role of information and communication technologies in the digitalization of service provision. This paper aims to identify and summarize these changes in business operations, in the context of strategic management in the restaurant industry, triggered by COVID-19. Based on in-depth interviews with 16 key experts in the restaurant industry (CEOs of chain restaurants), this paper clarifies and concretizes the rapidly transforming problem of identifying the main changes in the restaurant market during the pandemic. These depend on a restaurant’s adaptation level to the challenges that arose, using three dimensions (consumer demand, corporate strategy optimization, and the use of the company’s innovative potential). The analysis shows that chain restaurants, which have sufficient resources to solve the problem of staff turnover, develop technological solutions, and build a brand and customer loyalty, were more resistant to problems arising from the spread of the coronavirus infection than other companies in the catering industry. The presence of serious problems associated with consumer demand and the optimization of the format of the offered dishes and service had a significant impact on the relationship between the impact of the spread of the coronavirus infection and the inability to adapt to the new reality of doing business. The findings reveal that companies need to expand their digital capabilities and adapt their management strategy to the post-pandemic conditions to adapt to the post-COVID-19 period. This paper serves as a framework for understanding the role of digital transformation in sustainable business development.
Cham: Springer, 2026.
This open access set, LNAI 16688-16689, constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Joint Conference, IJCAR 2026, held in Lisbon, Portugal, during July 26–29, 2026.
The 41 full research papers and 8 short papers included in these two volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 112 submissions. The papers cover the following topical sections:
Part I: Theorem ...
Added: July 26, 2026
Slabolitskiy I. S., Экономический журнал Высшей школы экономики 2026 Т. 30 № 2 С. 215–244
This paper proposes a new approach for modeling and forecasting key indicators of Russia's foreign economic activity based on a block-based architecture of a Bayesian Vector Autoregression model with exogenous variables (BVARX). In conditions of high external uncertainty and the absence of publicly available data on the physical volumes of foreign trade since 2022, the ...
Added: July 24, 2026
Лобоцкий М. Ю., Komarov M. M., Zaramenskikh E., Бизнес-информатика 2026 Т. 20 № 2 С. 7–21
By early 2026, AI agents ceased to be experimental tools and began to be considered as a form of business process automation. Based on the analysis of in-depth interviews, an expert session, a quantitative survey of Russian companies, and sources reflecting Russian and foreign experience in the deployment of AI agents, a fivelevel maturity model ...
Added: July 24, 2026
Edward R. Rzaev, Aleksandr Y. Romanov, Andrey M. Sukhov, IEEE Access 2026
This work presents a hierarchy of strictly local fault-tolerant routing algorithms for 3D mesh networks-on-chip, culminating in an algorithm that combines a live-neighbor selection rule with a bounded single-hop rollback mechanism. The proposed algorithms operate exclusively on immediate neighbor information, maintain O(1) per hop complexity, and require no global topology knowledge, additional virtual channels, or ...
Added: July 23, 2026
Zhuravleva T., Afanasev K., Engelmann J. et al., / Series "SSRN Working Paper Series". 2026.
Extortionary ("harassment") bribery can persist even when widely condemned, consistent with a coordination problem sustained by beliefs about what others do and what others consider acceptable. We study whether a minimal institutional featurethe presence of a third-party monitor empowered to punish-shifts (i) normative expectations about extortion and compliance and (ii) empirical expectations about their prevalence. ...
Added: July 22, 2026
Pislyakov V., Вестник Томского государственного университета. Филология 2026 № 101 С. 175–192
This article examines the use of proverbs in academic texts—specifically, articles published in Russian research journals. For the experiment, ten proverbs were selected as the intersection of two fundamentally different paremiological surveys aimed at compiling lists of popular or common Russian proverbs. One of these surveys was conducted by the classic of paremiology, G.L. Permyakov, ...
Added: July 22, 2026
Korogod D., Shapeev A., Novikov I., Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 2026 Vol. 114 No. 2 Article 024104
We present two models with explicit long-range electrostatics in the form of Coulomb interactions. Both models include point charges depending on their local atomic environments, and the second model also conserves a total charge of an atomic system. We combine the proposed long-range models with the local moment tensor potential (MTP) and demonstrate that they ...
Added: July 22, 2026
Sozykin K., Rybin N., Chertkov A. et al., Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 2026 Vol. 113 No. 22 Article 224111
The global optimization of atomic clusters represents a fundamental challenge in computational chemistry and materials science due to the exponential growth of local minima with system size (i.e., the curse of dimensionality). We introduce a framework that overcomes this limitation by exploiting the low-rank structure of potential energy surfaces through tensor train (TT) decomposition. Our ...
Added: July 22, 2026
Veselitskaya N., Malekova D. K., European Journal of Futures Research 2026 Vol. 14 P. 1–13
Foresight methods are often treated as transferable tools whose selection depends mainly on the object of analysis, the time horizon or the available data. This article argues that such a view is incomplete because foresight methods are embedded in governance settings and perform different institutional functions across them. The article does not claim that the ...
Added: July 22, 2026
Shekova E., Коваленко Б. Б., Екатерининская А. А. et al., СПб.: Академия русского балета им. А.Я. Вагановой, 2026.
Сборник статей посвящен актуальным проблемам управления творческими коллективами, финансированию государственных балетных театров, особенностям современных проектов и бизнес-планированию в сфере хореографического искусства. ...
Added: July 21, 2026
Tyurkin M., Azamat A., Cham: Springer, 2025.
This chapter explores the role of tokenization in blockchain technologies. Tokenization is a key enabler of the smart circular economy and organizational sustainability. Tokenization involves converting assets or value into digital tokens on a blockchain. This process offers new opportunities to enhance resource efficiency, transparency, and accountability within circular economy initiatives. By leveraging blockchain’s immutable ...
Added: July 20, 2026
Lola I. S., Asoskov D., Зинина Т. С., ИСИЭЗ НИУ ВШЭ, 2026.
Центр конъюнктурных исследований Института статистических исследований и экономики знаний НИУ ВШЭ представляет результаты ежегодного специализированного конъюнктурного мониторинга деловой активности ИТ-отрасли, проведенного в 2025 году. Выборка – около 700 организаций ИТ-отрасли (виды экономической деятельности 62, 63 согласно ОКВЭД2) из 30 субъектов Российской Федерации.
Программа обследования запущена с 2010 г. и основана на международном опыте измерения деловых тенденций ...
Added: July 20, 2026
Заболотнева П. А., Шаркова А. В., Новоселова И. Ю. et al., М.: Издательско-торговая корпорация «Дашков и Ко», 2025.
This monograph presents the author's research findings on improving the effectiveness of entrepreneurial activity. The relevance of the monograph's topic stems from the practical demand for applied research in the field of entrepreneurship development among Russian enterprises operating in the face of new challenges.
The monograph is intended for a wide range of readers, including representatives ...
Added: July 20, 2026
Abankina I., Зиньковский К. В., Креативные индустрии 2025 Т. 1 № 1 С. 53–66
The article presents an analysis of the demand for higher education in various fields of study in the context of public policy, the study is based on data from the HSE research “Monitoring of reception quality” for 2018–2024. The article proves that higher education in the creative industries sector directly depends on the income level ...
Added: July 20, 2026
Abankina I., Зиньковский К. В., Журнал Новой экономической ассоциации 2025 Т. 3 № 68 С. 299–308
The article presents an analysis of the demand and supply in higher education in various fi elds in the context of public policy. By studying the demand from families for various higher education programs, three areas of public policy are identifi ed that directly affect the supply and demand in higher education. The fi rst ...
Added: July 20, 2026
Degterev D. A., Морозенская Е. В., Азия и Африка сегодня 2026 № 7 С. 73–77
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The International Scientific Conference “Strategies for Industrial Development of African Countries,” attended by representatives of the domestic and international (primarily African) academic community, as well as representatives of Russian government agencies and business circles, was held at the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences by the Center for Transition Economy Studies ...
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Авксентьева М. В., Ашихмин Я. И., Ашихмина О. В. et al., М.: ФГБУ "Издательство "Наука", 2023.
Предложены основные направления совершенствования планирования, организации и оплаты медицинской помощи, лекарственного обеспечения, информатизации и оценки технологий здравоохранения. Рекомендованы такие мероприятия, как конкретизация программы государственных гарантий бесплатного оказания гражданам медицинской помощи, создание системы общедоступного лекарственного обеспечения, использование клинико-статистических групп для оплаты медицинской помощи при ряде хронических неинфекционных заболеваний в амбулаторных условиях, формирование механизма привлечения соплатежей при ...
Added: July 16, 2026
Михайлов И. А., Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction 2026 Vol. 8 No. 1 Article 8
Whole-slide histology images (WSIs) can exceed 100 k × 100 k pixels, making direct pixel-level segmentation infeasible and requiring patch-level classification as a practical alternative for downstream WSI segmentation. However, most approaches either treat patches independently, ignoring spatial and biological context, or rely on deep graph models prone to oversmoothing and loss of local tissue ...
Added: July 16, 2026
Emelyanova O., Восток. Афро-азиатские общества: история и современность 2024 No. 1 P. 153–164
Food security in Japan has been under observation of analytics in both Japan and abroad as it is one of the key national security issues. Leading academic researchers of this issue in Japan include Suzuki N., Takeya T.,Yamamoto R. and Oguchi H. However, the main focus of their analysis is the social aspect. The English ...
Added: July 16, 2026
Васильчук М. С., Шаньков Ф. М., Chumakova M. et al., Psychology. Journal of the Higher School of Economics 2021 Vol. 18 No. 2 P. 247–258
The 2019 Coronavirus disease outbreak leads to negative psychological outcomes not only for healthcare workers and patients, but also for the general public. S. Hobfoll’s Conservation of Resources theory is one of the most applicable models for conceptualizing and evaluating natural and social catastrophes and their impact. A web-based screening has been conducted at the ...
Added: June 30, 2026
Levin J., Oprea T. I., Davidovich S. et al., Nature Biotechnology 2020 P. 1127–1131
The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed the way scientific and clinical results are shared and disseminated. According to a recent analysis, an average of 367 COVID-19 papers are being published every week, with a median time from submission to acceptance of just 6 days (compared with 84 days for non-COVID-19 content)1. These unprecedented peer review turnaround ...
Added: June 1, 2026
Салагай О. О., Сахарова Г. М., Антонов Н. С. et al., Общественное здоровье 2024 Т. 4 № 4 С. 4–15
Introduction. The study is devoted to the analysis of the dynamics of the tobacco and alcohol use prevalence among the adult population during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The purpose of the study: to analyze the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the prevalence of tobacco and nicotine-containing products consumption among the adult population of the Russian Federation, men and ...
Added: April 9, 2026
Салагай О. О., Сахарова Г. М., Антонов Н. С. et al., Общественное здоровье 2022 Т. 2 № 2 С. 29–39
The fight against the COVID‑19 pandemic has led to the implementation of unprecedented measures in countries, including self-isolation, which have had a significant impact on people’s behavior and could lead to a change in the consumption of tobacco and nicotine-containing products. This article provides an overview of studies evaluating smoking behavior change and its impact ...
Added: April 9, 2026
Islentyeva Anna, Scheffler T., Discourse and Communication 2024 Vol. 18 No. 2 P. 216–243
This paper represents a comparative study that explores the governmental vaccine advertising campaigns that were authorised by two English-speaking and two German-speaking countries – namely Australia, Britain, Austria and Germany – within the context of the global SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. The data set in question comprises 40 vaccination posters issued by each country’s respective government between ...
Added: March 9, 2026