The Virtual Home Environment (VHE) is a very important mechanism in the upcoming mobile telecommunications infrastructure, providing a ubiquitous approach in the delivery of services. The universality of systems like UMTS and WLANs increases the need for efficient introduction of VHE. In this paper, we discuss the adoption of Mobile Agents (MA) for coping with the VHE technical challenges. We p...

During the last decade, smart grid (SG) concept has started to become a reality, mainly thanks technical progress achieved in telecommunications, informatics and power electronics, among other domains, leading an evolution of traditional electrical into intelligent one. Nowadays, SG can be seen as system systems that include cyber physical parts from different technologies interact with each ot...

Based on the first comprehensive mapping of telecommunications provisions in regional trade agreements (RTAs), this paper shows that RTAs have evolved and expanded significantly over years. While some focus information communications technologies (ICT) infrastructure, policy investment, other address services as well standards conformity assessment procedures ICT equipment. The most detailed ar...

ENUM" is an Internet protocol designed to enable one to be reached on an array of different electronic communications devices by means of just one number – a telephone number. ENUM effectively bridges the telephone and Internet worlds by placing telephone numbers from the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Recommendation E.164 public telecommunication numbering plan into the Internet D...

Knowledge sharing is crucial to organizational and team success. As the complexity and contextualization of knowledge management systems continue to escalate, employees are increasingly relying on peers for contextualized technical help. Our study focuses on knowledge sharing from the perspective of employees who provide technical help, and whether employees who are central to team communicatio...

Given the increasing importance of financing in foreign currency denominated debt, researchers have shown the conditions under which raising capital denominated in a foreign currency becomes feasible. We extend this literature in the context of a multinational corporation (MNC) by modeling the rivalry between equity and debt under a modified general equilibrium framework. We derive (i) internat...