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This paper presents both a methodology and a startup ecosystem platform for development of new business models centered on the concept of PSS (Product-Service System). The platform model is set to address specific community challenges and features at its core the concepts of emergent behavior and self-organization. While in a traditional approach the emphasis is put almost exclusively on financial...
This paper presents the SIEGMAS system (Stakeholders Interactions in Environmental Governance by a Multi-Agent System) designed to simulate interactions between stakeholders in common pool resources in Indian Ocean Islands. This decision support system tool is based on a model allowing the study of the interactions between agents acting on a territory and influenced by economic aspects thanks to an...
During recent years, there has been an increasing interest in the potential opportunities that can be attained with promoting Smart Cities; a concept that can be reached based on Information and Communication Technology (ICT). The Smart Cities concept is considered achievable by horizontal integration of a number of vertical industries in order to empower sustainability and improvements on quality...
Research directions in system of systems are examined and areas which have been relatively neglected are identified. These include the definition of complexity, the application of power laws and Paretian statistics to most complex systems issues; the greatest innovation occurring at the edge of chaos; chaordic behavior, scale laws, fractals, self-organized criticality, tiny initiating events, adaptive...
Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are often described as the engine of growth for a country's economy due to their significant economic contributions. At the same time, ebusiness offers an opportunity for SMEs to significantly further their growth as it has been identified as a tool that could improve an enterprise's operational efficiency and competitiveness in the global market. Despite the promised...
Project selection in sustainable development context is one of the major concerns of governmental departments whose are seeking to develop best approaches and innovative methods to deal with such complex decision-making problem. This work is concerned with sustainable project selection, which must guarantee a long-term balance between the integrity of the environment, the social equality and the economic...
New approaches are required to guide social and economic systems in a context presenting a deep change in the meaning of value and in ways to generate it. Until now, policies and strategies, at macro as well as microeconomic level, have focused on closed systems (the great “containers” of the industrial era), and on profits coming from the exchange of goods and services. Nonetheless, the growing misalignment...
In many sectors offering durable goods the extension of the service business is often seen as a possible key element in the current competitive context. Integration of services with an eye on sustainability issues is another aim that is considered for the servitization process, according to the so-called Product Service Systems. Product Service Systems are then taken as a reference for this paper,...
This paper proposes modifications to the decision criteria that are now technically focused onto value creation and services delivery. It argues that the current emphasis on how, why, when and for whom systems are developed and the Agile Manifesto guidance for improving the human side of IT development using a bottom-up philosophy should be modified to address a wider set of benefits and risks while...
Compared to traditional channels, Internet transactions are intrinsically untrustworthy in nature. We investigate the impact of social identity and reciprocity on trusting and cooperative behavior in dynamic gift giving networks by means of an online laboratory experiment, with a main focus on value transfers among the users individually and directed towards the group. In this study, we display profile...
Improving the quality of care for fragile persons at home is necessary to ensure that the person can confront the tasks of everyday's life. The purpose of this article is to present a literature review and analysis about the quality of care for fragile persons at home, in order to analyze the quality of services received, the organizational development and the actor's participation. Our study was...
In this paper, we lay the foundations for a contextualisation of trust, the role it plays, and its different layers within the context of a novel paradigm: Social Cloud Computing. In a Social Cloud, trust plays a vital role as a collaboration enabler. However, trust is not trivial to define, observe, represent and analyse as precursors to understand exactly what role it plays in the enablement of...
This paper presents initial results of a three-year research project entitled ATLANTIDE, which is aimed at developing a comprehensive digital archive of reference models of Italian distribution networks, including forecasted load and generation development evolving towards future smart grid scenarios. Such reference network models and evolutionary scenarios should provide a useful benchmark for testing...
This research explores the connection between online consumption and online community participation activity. Using longitudinal data that contains detailed information about 4,475 online poker players' gaming activity and online community activity over 58 months, this paper finds that the general positive relationship between consumption and community activity is very strong at the level of the community,...
Due to future ubiquitous service environments, approaches for dynamic delivery of services face new challenges. Since the web 2.0 gave to customers the change to interact with the Internet, they are not any more static entities but can also contribute to the design or co-creation of new services. In this paper we show how customers can help to dynamically bundle services, our approach is based on...
In the context of ecological civilization, China traditional regional economic growth model should be changed into the pattern which is helpful to save resources and protect ecological environment. Paper analyzes the motivation and purpose of the change, and then proposes that the effective approaches of achieving regional economic growth pattern transformation involve the regional production element...
In today's rapidly changing and highly competitive operating contexts, businesses are increasingly seeking cooperative, long-term inter-organizational relationships. Inter-organizational systems (IOS) are major enablers of inter-organizational cooperation. Drawing upon transaction costs economics theory and resource-based view as the theoretical frames, this study presents electronic cooperation value...
Today, the management of service quality poses a major challenge for many service providers and their business customers. We argue that the trade-off between service cost and benefit incurred by both parties is not sufficiently considered when service quality is stipulated. Up to now, neither in practice nor in academia a commonly accepted engineering approach exists to determine business-relevant...
Peer-to-Peer networks provide an important abstraction for modelling the trade of capabilities within a market environment. We consider a particular instance of such a market, where the traded object includes directly provisioned services (i.e. those that are delivered through capabilities directly owned by the provider), or indirectly provisioned services (i.e. those that are delivered through an...
One approach to engineering large-scale infrastructures (LSI) as self-organizing systems is to inform their design by concepts from economic theory. The paper presents an overview of the visions and intentions connected to, as well as critical aspects and limitations of this approach. As a discussion paper it reviews a selection of relevant literature. It is argued that for implementing economic behavior...
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