A computational enterprise model representing key facets of an organization can be an effective tool to consider when planning an enterprise information architecture. For example, a specific organization's quality management business processes and organizational structures can be represented using such a model, and then compared to a reference model of "good" processes and structures, such as t...

The goal that they want to achieve from this program is develop the knowledge of micro-entrepreneurs regarding merchandise inventory management in order increase their income by minimizing cost expired inventory. method will be used increasing understanding micro-enterprise community training and education for business using a lecture discussion approach conducted us as lecturers at UNG Faculty...

Organizations in both the private and public sectors have been struggling to determine the appropriate investments to make for protecting their critical intellectual property. As a result, cybersecurity investment strategies at the macro level (overall strategic investment in systemor enterprise-wide protection) and the micro level (how to allocate the tactical security elements across componen...

We study the nexus between enterprises and the state in transition countries, using new enterprise survey data. We examine the quality of governance, state intervention in enterprise decision-making, state benefits to firms and corruption payments. The quality of governance varies both across countries and across different dimensions of governance within countries. Economic reform improves gove...

The paper proposes new mechanism in Hierarchical Mobile IPv6 (HMIPv6) implementation for utilization in IPv6 Enterprise Gateway. This mechanism provides seamless mobility and fast handover of a mobile node in HMIPv6 networks. Besides it provides continuous communication among a member of HMIPv6 components while roaming. The mechanism anticipates future movement of mobile node and accordingly pr...

Previous studies on return migration have stressed the propensity of returning migrants to invest primarily in household consumption; where 'productive' investments have taken place, these are usually seen to involve micro-enterprises that contribute little to development or poverty reduction. Yet development initiatives more broadly are increasingly orientated towards small enterprise developm...

// Microblogging is a popular form of social media that has quickly permeated both enterprise and open source software development communities. However, how exactly open source communities can leverage microblogging isn't yet well understood. // SOCIAL MEDIA HAS become an important means of communication in modern society, as evidenced by the widespread use of wikis, blogs, and social networkin...

Credit scoring is perceived as an important innovation for microfinance institutions in managing the credit risk of their clients. Increase in defaults has necessitated microfinance institutions to improve their credit analysis by incorporating objective procedures. Various studies have confirmed that credit scoring can increase efficiency and reduce costs for microfinance. However, the take up...

Micro-recovery, or failure recovery at a fine granularity, is a promising approach to improve the recovery time of software for modern storage systems. Instead of stalling the whole system during failure recovery, micro-recovery can facilitate recovery by a single thread while the system continues to run. A key challenge in performing micro-recovery is to be able to perform efficient and effect...