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The papers in this special section address risk management in industrial systems. Industrial systems today rely heavily on globalization, yet the global economic system faces many risks. While our world includes massive connectivity, and social media enable people to communicate much faster than ten years ago, we do not find that everything is getting better. Risk analytics is even more important,...
Along with the globalization of business, the opportunities and challenges in franchise business are increased. In order to ensure that the franchise industry grows stably, it has been always an important topic to forecast the franchise performance accurately. Thus, this study aims at utilizing Grey prediction as an analyze methodology to estimate the performance of US's franchise industry in order...
The adjustment of global power structure will have effects on business model of power contracting service industry. According to the research scheme of “characteristic analysis-current situation analysis-mode selection” firstly, we adopt concentration rate index to summarize market characteristics. Then, to clarify current situation of power market development, it analyzes the influencing factors...
The reliable integration of decentralized energy technologies and the associated system transformations represent a challenging task. Taking into account existing cross-sectoral demand and supply structures, diverse communities require specific solutions. With an appropriate business model, municipal utilities might be capable to transform themselves in a successful way. For better decision-making,...
Providing individual and immediate feedback in educational situations is a critical factor for improving knowledge and skills acquisition. This is especially important for complex ill-structured learning tasks, i.e. tasks that are characterized by having multiple good solutions (ill-structured), allowing individual learners to follow different routes for achieving the final learning objectives, and...
This paper proposes a complex systems approach to understand the growth and decline of Digital Businesses. Digital Businesses are characterised by unique factors such as a highly networked online customer base, where word of mouth spreads very fast, and minimal cost of incremental users due to economies of scale. Thus online businesses peak and plummet rapidly making it difficult to fathom their success...
Cloud computing remains an increasingly popular topic among practitioners as well as researchers. The literature spans across multiple disciplines, and the knowledge is fragmented and not systematized. To address this issue we apply topic models to conduct a meta-review on cloud computing. We identify twenty research topics across multiple disciplines, and demonstrate the use of the approach to conduct...
Supporting adaptation of metamodels is essential for realising Model-Driven Engineering. However, adapting and changing metamodels impact other artefacts of the metamodelling ecosystem. In particular, conformant models will no longer be valid instances of their changed metamodel. This gives rise to co-evolution issues where metamodels and models are no longer synchronised. This is critical as systems...
We consider the relationship of Internet service providers (ISP) like network operators and content service providers in the Internet ecosystem. Currently the position of ISPs is challenged by the emergence of powerful content service providers, especially with the spreading of bandwidth demanding video services. One issue here is that the further investment in the network capacity may be hindered...
As the importance of mutual growth of large and small-medium enterprises has increased, the necessity for open innovation between them has been emphasized. However, few studies of open innovation have considered both sized of firms, and they just analyzed differences of innovation from the empirical point of view. Based on the survey of manufacturing firms conducted in 2012, the Korean Innovation...
With the popularization of high-speed and high-capacity communication networks, machine-to-machine (M2M) communication has received significant attention. However, although the related technologies have been actively investigated, creating new businesses based on M2M communication is difficult. The information and communication technology community should take not only system modeling but also business...
This paper studies the design of business model innovation and implementation process from the perspective of value chain optimization. Through the industry value chain and business model architecture, the paper put forward the theoretical framework, on the basis of which establishes the theory structure of business model innovation. In the case of Kalian Inc business innovation model, the model has...
Successful business models in the field of complex services are rare and often not profitable so far. In this design science research paper, we build and evaluate an analysis framework for such business models using the exemplary field of telemedicine. The framework is a morphological box. Its dimensions are derived from existing literature. In a second iteration and after applying it to 16 services,...
This paper develops a holistic framework to examine the changing business models in creative industries in the digital economy, using evidence gathered from two strands of empirical work. The research found that digital technologies have facilitated pervasive changes in business models in all sectors of the creative industries, but with only a few exceptions, the resultant new business models are...
With this paper we introduce a simulation approach to Green Business Process Management (Green BPM). While objectives for business processes are traditionally economic (e.g. Costs or cycle time), our approach focuses on the energy consumption and the carbon footprint of complex business processes. We present an approach for applying Business Process Simulation (BPS) techniques to the subject, using...
Enterprise Architecture (EA) is a discipline designed to cope with the complexity of modern enterprises at the intersection of information technology and business operations. This article demonstrates how EA models can be enriched with the production function concept from microeconomics, enabling new and business relevant kinds of analysis. The approach is demonstrated through examples regarding growth...
This paper aims to benefit from the advantages of the Web services on behalf of business process management. It proposes a Web service approach to manufacture agile processes in two main phases: design and discovery. On the one hand, it tries to answer the question: how to model business processes that are able to be performed by Web services? On the other hand, it describes a semantic matching algorithm...
Platform as a Service (PaaS) solutions are changing the way software is produced, distributed, used, and priced. However, there has been little research into understanding the dynamics of PaaS business models and how these business models should be designed to establish a flourishing ecosystem around these platforms. Using design science research (DSR) we first identified the main design elements...
The increasing availability of digital data offers new opportunities for analyzing business processes. Process aware information systems like Enterprise Resource Planning systems store data in the course of transaction processing. This data can be exploited by using process mining techniques. Process mining algorithms produce process models by analyzing recorded event logs. A fundamental challenge...
i∗ is a goal-oriented and agent-oriented modeling framework that focuses on the analysis of intentional and strategic relationships among actors. In this mini-tutorial, we highlight a number of recent applications in practical industrial and business settings.
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