Open source software (OSS) previously regarded as a fad by many academics has been rapidly adopted by both public and private sector organizations. The challenge facing most organizations is how to evaluate OSS adoption benefits. OSS adoption is a complex phenomenon which requires an interdisciplinary approach to understand the socio-technical, political, economic and legal benefits. The comple...

Cloud computing (CC) and open source software (OSS) both stand out to be valuable means to address prevailing requirements of small and medium-sized enterprises (SME). For instance, such requirements include their demand for flexibility, scarcity of skills and money, and their operative focus. This paper investigates the case of e-commerce adoption by means of CC and OSS in a venture capital dr...

Online dispute resolution is becoming the main method when dealing with a conflict in e-commerce. A family of defeasible reasoning patterns is used to provide a useful link between dispute resolution agents and legal doctrines. The proposed argumentation framework combines defeasible logic with temporal reasoning and argumentation with level of certainty. The evaluation of arguments depends on ...

A natural non-Markovian extension of the theory of white noise quantum trajectories is presented. In order to introduce memory effects in the formalism an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck coloured noise is considered as the output driving process. Under certain conditions a random Hamiltonian evolution is recovered. Moreover, non-Markovian stochastic Schrödinger equations which unravel non-Markovian master e...

this research is focused on facies distribution, palaeoecology and palaeoenvironment of the gurimember of the mishan formation in kuh-e shur and kuh-e kurdeh sections at the lar area, fars province.the guri member is composed of limestone, marly limestone and marl and the thickness at kuh-e shur andkuh-e kurdeh is about 72 and 110 meters, respectively. based on petrographical studies of 120 thi...

• The exterior measure of any set A ⊂ R is μ∗(A) = inf E⊂A μ(E) where the infimum is taken over all elementary sets. • A is Lebesgue measurable if for all > 0 there exists an open set O ⊃ A such that μ∗(O \A) ≤ . • The (Lebesgue) measure of a measurable set is μ(A) = μ∗(A). A function f is measurable if the sets {t | f(t) ≤ a} are measurable for all a ∈ R. Definition 2 (Lebesgue integral) • For...

Abstract This paper is concerned with the upper bound of various coefficient functionals for a certain subclass analytic functions associated exponential function in open unit disc E = { z ∈ℂ : | < 1}. investigation will motivate other researchers to work this direction.

We derive semiclassical periodic orbit expansions for a correlation function of the Wigner time delay. We consider the Fourier transform of the two-point correlation function, the form factorK(τ, x, y,M), that depends on the number of open channelsM , a non-symmetry breaking parameter x, and a symmetry breaking parameter y. Several terms in the Taylor expansion about τ = 0, which depend on all ...

Recent results on the production of open charm in electron proton scattering at HERA are reviewed. Results on the fragmentation of charm are presented and compared to the measurements at e + e − colliders. Recent results on the charm contribution to the proton structure function F2 are shown. Furthermore, measurements of inclusive D * meson, D * + jet and D * + muon production are presented. Th...