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Mobility as a Service takes the concept of XaaS to transportation: a MaaS provider shall merge transport options from different mobility providers, seamlessly handling the whole experience of traveling, from providing information, to travel planning, and payments handling. To effectively support the creation of a market of MaaS providers, we envision the creation of ICT infrastructures based on microservices,...
Context: Testing is one of the most important phases of software development. However, in industry this phase is usually compromised by the lack of planning and resources. Due to it, the adoption of a streamlined testing process can lead to the construction of software products with desirable quality levels. Objective: Presenting the results of a survey conducted to identify a set of key practices...
During the process of urbanization, the regional characteristics of rural areas have suffered unprecedented destruction. Protecting rural regional culture and building cultural villages is not only an important part of new rural construction, but also the developing orientation of urban and rural planning studies. This paper, by focusing on the elements of context and taking Shangqing Township in...
This paper aims to provide a systematic analysis and formal presentation of high-level scenarios for the future development of Cognitive Radio business ecosystem. It uses the Intuitive Logics as a methodology for constructing four equally probable scenarios in a matrix at the intersection of two identified major uncertainties. The paper shows the importance of using high-level scenarios as a guiding...
The purpose of this study was to better understand the succession of family business in China. The paper made the systemic analysis of the internal and external environment to explain the succession influencing factors in family business. Based on a review and analysis of the literature, the paper presents a model on the factors that influence the family business succession in China.
While IT projects continue to have a poor reputation for successful outcomes, there is increasing evidence that the project manager's skills can be critical for effective project team performance. The aim of this exploratory study was to examine the leadership behaviors of IT project managers, with the goal of exploring the types of leadership behaviors they used to keep their projects on track. We...
Scenarios are an important planning tool used by individuals, businesses and governments (especially in the military domain), but many of the currently used approaches focus solely on acute probabilistic timeframes and specific metricated instances of possible future states. Using a mixed method research methodology, we develop a scenario approach in which multiple timeframes are accommodated by fitting...
Success or failure of tourism industry relies heavily on how the host nations control and manage the industry, strategies and manage its capital and resources, including human. At the core, the survival and competitiveness of the industry depend largely on the workforce. It seems obvious that hospitality management schools are now playing a critical role in providing support for the unprecedented...
Scenarios are frequently used within techniques for planning and designing systems. They are an especially helpful means of visualizing and understanding the incorporation of new systems within systems of systems. If used as the basis for decisions about candidate designs, then it is important that such decisions can be rationalized and quantitative assessment is particularly important. In this paper,...
Ports exist by the grace of international trade. In the volatile and uncertain environment of globalization, liberalization, rapidly changing technologies, competition, threats and budgets, this trade is highly unpredictable and investments in port infrastructure therefore highly risky. The aim of this paper is to establish that the uncertainties due to these unexpected developments cannot be actively...
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