Web Services have the potential to facilitate applications and information to be delivered over the Internet, which can be accessed by disparate devices from handhelds to large servers. Web Services offer a company the capability of conducting business electronically with potential business partners in a multitude of ways at a reasonable cost. Web Services technology is an emerging technology. ...

A model for economic behavior, under heterogeneous spatial economic conditions is developed. The role of selection pressure in a Bak-Sneppen-like dynamics with entity diffusion on a lattice is studied by Monte-Carlo simulation taking into account business rule(s), like enterprise enterprise short range location ”interaction”(s), business plan(s) through spin-offs or merging and enterprise survi...

Complex Event Processing – the identification of event patterns in event streams, the analysis of their impact, and the execution of corresponding actions – is gaining momentum within various research disciplines and business areas. However, one of the major problems associated with Complex Event Processing is its lack of usability, especially the complexity of its management, preventing its wi...

Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) generate a substantial share of the GDP in industrial economies. The more than 20 million SMEs in Europe are an important source of new jobs and entrepreneurial activity (European Commission, 2002a, 2002b). Considerable funding has been granted to research programs targeting the development of SMEs in general and in specific areas such as the diffusion ...

This research addresses the theoretically neglected question of how the internal diffusion of inter-organizational systems (IOS) into a firm’s activities and its external diffusion into the supply chain partners influence performance improvement. Drawing on the resource-based view, our research model posits that organizational and relational resources affect both internal and external diffusion...

We analyze recent results of atomistic computer simulations of grain boundary (GB) diffusion in metals. At temperatures well below the bulk melting point Tm GB diffusion occurs by random walk of individual vacancies and self-interstitials. Both defects are equal participants in the diffusion process and can move by a large variety of diffusion mechanisms, many of which are collective transition...

The plethora of actors, the complexity of relationships and the variety of information and financial flows affecting the mobile entertainment arena today, have created a series of challenging business opportunities for entrepreneurs and key market players. The evolving and quite promising mobile music market, however, is suffering from the luck of integrated theoretical frameworks critical for ...

Peer-to-Peer (P2P) applications have become highly popular in today’s Internet due to the spread of file sharing platforms such as KaZaa, eDonkey, and BitTorrent. P2P technologies have emerged from disruptive, grey-scale applications to developments of business-cases. In this paper we investigate the diffusion behavior in an eDonkey-like system. We use nonstationary simulation techniques to inv...

This paper analyzes the nature of e-commerce policy actions in three European countries. Compiling the EU and national policy instruments into four groups (regulation and legislation, knowledge diffusion, economic incentives and e-government), France is viewed as a front-runner with early Minitel applications but loosing steam during the EC rush. Germany is the European EC power house with a la...

In this paper, the authors examine the process of diffusion of innovation ICT within agrarian business enterprises operating in developing countries. There is substantial research in the area of Diffusion of Innovation Theory (DoI) and its application to Information Systems (IS) research within organisations. However, in recognition of the conceptual limitations of DoI, researchers have called ...