In this paper we describe the results that came out from the project of employing the IPv6 protocol over the Greek Research & Technology Network (GRNET). In the way of this process one of the big issues that had to be considered was the transition strategy that would be deployed. The main goals of a transition strategy are to be smooth enough and therefore to put the less of configuration overh...

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Information Industries assume that information is seen as a valued resource that enables organisations and individuals to improve their effectiveness, efficiency, and overall competitiveness. For Information Industries to bridge rather than divide further the global economy to information rich and information poor, we need to understand better how firms, particularly local firms, can successful...

This paper discusses the design characteristics management accounting systems should have to be useful for strategic planning and control and provides brief introductions to strategic variance analysis and profit-linked performance measurement models. It shows two multi-period, multi-product models (Banker, Chang and Majumdar 1993; Banker and Johnston 1989) are specified, can be related to Port...

This paper provides a theoretically grounded framework for designing and analysing business models for ICT services, products and systems. It critically revisits the most topical literature on business modelling, as well as general strategic management, industrial organisation and network economics literature. Business model design is interpreted as the (re)configuration of control parameters o...

To cite this Article Concho, A. , Ramirez-Marquez, J. E. , Herald, T. and Sauser, B.(2011) 'Optimal component substitution within system evolution planning considering multiple-vendor, functionally equivalent commercial products', Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, 23: 5, 509 — 526 To link to this Article: DOI: 10.1080/09537325.2011.565663 URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09537325.2011.5...

We ask whether the absence of information about other voters’ preferences allows optimal voting to be interpreted as sincere. We start by classifying voting mechanisms as simple and complex according to the number of message types voters can use to elect alternatives. We show that while the elimination of information about other voters’ preferences allows optimal voting to be interpreted as sin...

Like any emerging field, eBusiness is changing fast and in so doing it is changing the way businesses formulate their strategies and conduct their business through realisation of those strategies. This paper identifies issues involved in the formulation of eBusiness strategy, steering towards defining the process in object terms, proceeding to develop a framework encompassing the eBusiness stra...

We want to find the optimal strategy for displaying advertisements e.g. banners, videos, in given locations at given times under some realistic dynamic constraints. Our primary goal is to maximize the expected revenue in a given period of time, i.e. the total profit produced by the impressions, which depends on profit-generating events such as the impressions themselves, the ensuing clicks and ...