Measuring Individuals’ Virtues in Business

The Virtues Architecture: A Software Infrastructure for Business-to-Business E-Commerce

Most discussion on the current hot topic of e-commerce focuses either on the relationship between the customer and the supplier or on the security of these interactions. In this paper we present an architecture for building business-to-business e-commerce applications. The primary objective is to develop a lightweight infrastructure for building and maintaining collaborations from partners dist...

Measuring Business Cycle Time

Measuring relatedness between inbred individuals.

Genetic relatedness between individuals is an important measure in many areas of biology. However, some relatedness measures for use with molecular (allele) data assume that the individuals themselves are not inbred. Here, we present a new measure of relatedness based on the different modes of identity-by-descent for alleles that has an upper bound of 1 even when the individuals being compared ...

Modelling and Measuring Business Risk

As can be seen e.g. by the cutting edge section of RISK Magazine, research papers mainly focus on market risk, credit risk, and—with a little less attention—operational risk. Although these risk types are very important for financial institutions, the true landscape of risk is much more complex and far from being well explored and understood. There is a variety of “other” risks looming on the h...

Measuring performance in a changing business environment

The design and use of performance measurement systems has received considerable attention in recent years. Many organisations have redesigned their measurement systems to ensure that they reflect their current environment and strategies. However, increasingly the environment in which organisations compete is dynamic and rapidly changing, requiring constant modification of strategies and operati...