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The deployment of fibre optics poses a huge investment risk, thus telecommunication companies are skeptical about replacing copper given the high cost of doing so. Over recent times, the usage of the internet has changed and led to a need for fibre optics. The decision on whether to deploy or not is made through the use of complex models. However, the problem being that deployment plans are manually...
When and how should we encourage network providers to mitigate the harm of security and privacy risks? Poorly designed interventions that do not align with economic incentives can lead stakeholders to be less, rather than more, careful. We apply an economic framework that compares two fundamental regulatory approaches: risk based or ex ante and harm based or ex post. We posit that for well known security...
In this paper we have performed Monte Carlo Simulation, Multiple Linear Regression and Regime analysis for Projecting Trade & Business between India and Israel. The trade relations between India and Israel are extensively analyzed and predictions are being made using various mathematical models for their expansion. The effects of political regimes on economic relations are also evaluated. We have...
The on-going paradigm shift in value creation (individualized production, co-creation experience, production networks etc.), initiated by new technologies: information and communication technologies (ICTs) as well as manufacturing technologies, results in new business models and, thus, changed organizational structures in economics. Furthermore, organizations in other societal subsystems are changing,...
The Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system is an integrated software package applied by many enterprises as an operations platform over the past years. However, according to an industrial survey, the failure rate of ERP system implementation is relatively high because of high implementation costs and long implementation time, incapable implementation teams, process misfits, resistance to change...
Todays increased interest in enterprise risk management is motivated by decision making in reaction to change and complex compliance requirements as well as the need to minimize business losses and improve business outcomes. It is therefore important to help business stakeholders become fully aware of applicable risks and their possible impact on other business constituents. This paper represents...
Firms world-wide are actively engaged to achieve internationally accepted quality levels to ensure their position in the emerging international market especially those from developing economies. Unfortunately the construction industry, generally, has lagged behind other industries in implementing Total Quality Management (TQM) which provides excellence in customer satisfaction through continuous improvements...
This paper discusses the suitability for Business Excellence Models (BEMs) to include Corporate Sustainability on business model criteria. The conceptual paper brings discussion of what sort of measures are required to fit organizations' needs in measuring performance in terms of economic, social, and environment bottom-lines. A literature review has been conducted for BEMs that includes the EFQM...
During the recent years several technologies and services based in Internet of Things (IoT) and Machine-to-Machine communications (M2M) have appeared in many different sectors, like healthcare, transport, logistics, media or utilities. When new technologies (like Smart Grid or Smart Energy) appear two types of challenges can be defined: technical and business challenges, therefore innovation has to...
With the growing economic importance of Open Source, many researchers have done great efforts for understanding Open Source Software itself and its communities. One of themes which is becoming to get strong attention is "Open Source Software Project Survivability", which researches the evaluation method of future prospections of open source software communities. Some good works have already...
This minitrack has been supported by the Digital Economy (DE)* theme of Research Council UK (RCUK). The DE theme has funded the development of four networks: Sustainable Society (SSN); Communities and Culture (CaC); IT as a Utility and New Economic Models (NEMODE). SSN and NEMODE have come together in this minitrack to identify leading publications in the impact of digital at the level of the individual...
Technology-oriented Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) face the problem of shortage of crucial resources, as functional components may contain up to 40 elements. Therefore, the assessment of alternative raw materials is of growing importance for the discipline of strategic product design and procurement processes as a topic of Information Systems (IS) research. Aspects of sustainability consider...
IN the past as well as today, companies very often define themselves through the products they offer to the market. However, the product offerings have changed tremendously over the last 10–20 years: while in the past, most products were tangible, i.e., hardware-defined objects, nowadays companies are dealing, very often if not mostly, with non-tangible products such as software, services or advice.
The purpose of this paper is to develop a nonlinear programming method for solving a type of cooperative games in which there are multiple objectives and coalitions' values on objectives are expressed with intervals, which are called intervalvalued multiobjective cooperative games for short. In this method, we define the concepts of interval-valued cores of interval-valued multiobjective cooperative...
One example of the problems that affect many people's lives is urban regional land planning. Required a collaboration mechanism which based on the ability of decision analysis in determining the spatial policy of the use of the land. This paper contains an individual decision model by using Analytical Hierarchical Process-AHP technique. The model is applied to the case of the selection of the best...
Innovation is the creation of new products, processes and services, and their acceptance in the market. Creativity is central to the innovation process. Creativity has been the subject of intense multi-disciplinary research and a huge volume of academic literature exists on the subject. It has been studied from many perspectives, such as psychology, psychometrics, cognitive science, aesthetics, design...
Since the 1970s, marketing and innovation management communities have been investigating how to incorporate customer-desired functions into new product and service designs. These wide-ranging enquiries have shed light on the impact of lead-user engagement in new product development, demonstrated ways to examine service production and delivery, such as the use of `line of visibility' in service blueprints...
This paper established a random, fuzzy double uncertain mathematical model of distribution network planning based on credibility theory. The new model takes into account the load node and line price uncertainty. The simulation results show that the adaptive ability of load model development of strong, robust and has a good flexibility.
This paper considers an inventory coordination problem in a group company where the group headquarter manages a centralized distribution center (HQ-CDC) providing inventory spaces and services for its subsidiary companies whose demands are inventory-level-dependent. To deal with uncertainty in inventory management, subsidiaries usually reserve more inventory spaces than their actual demands. This...
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