Self-Reinforcing Mechanisms in Economics: with Two Case-Studies from Shipping Industry

Management of Seafarers in Liner Shipping Industry

 The use of Human Resource Management (HRM) practices in the form of ‘bundles’ and in integration with the business strategy of the organisation have been emphasised throughout the HRM literature. These are called the horizontal integration and vertical integration respectively. This article aim at examining the use of these practices in liner shipping industry in which human element plays a vi...

Service Discovery Mechanisms: Two Case Studies

Connecting other devices than workstations to the Internet is becoming commonplace now. In this article we investigate two approaches to the discovery of devices and the services they may provide, viz., the Universal Plug ’n Play standard by Microsoft and the wireless Corba model.

Self-Organising Mechanisms from Social and Business/Economics Approaches

This paper discusses examples of socially inspired self-organisation approaches and their use to build socially-aware, self-organising computing systems. The paper presents different mechanisms originating from existing social systems, such as stigmergy from social insects behaviours, epidemic spreading, gossiping, trust and reputation inspired by human social behaviours, as well as other appro...

Enterprise COllaboration and INteroperability (COIN) Platform: Two Case Studies in the Marine Shipping Domain

Enterprise Collaboration and Enterprise Interoperability are two key aspects of networked enterprises, which proceed along parallel tracks with rare opportunities to convene, support and influence each other. To resolve this issue we propose the use of the COIN platform, which allows exposure, combination and integration of Web Services to support these aspects in different business sectors. Su...

Investment Appli ations in the Shipping Industry