Global economy has formed a huge challenge to the trust of traditional business. It’s a important problem of all enterprise how to build a effective trust institution in the new economy. The rapid development of E-business is bringing a turning point of trust institution. In traditional trust institution, trust means that principal controls the agent in fact. The evolution of trust institution ...

Not long ago, everyone was talking about the New Economy. Recent events — notably the global economic slowdown and a possible impending war — have crowded out discussions of the New Economy. To be sure, some of the rosy scenarios portrayed at the time — most notably, that the New Economy portended the end of the business cycle — seem curiously dated. Indeed, in terms of the gap between the econ...

Over the past few decades the brisk development of information and communication technologies (ICT) has had a phenomenal impact on the economic stability and development of many countries. Empirical studies show that most developed economies have gained significant payoffs (in terms of economic growth) from their ICT investments. This study investigates the hypothesis that ICT-based investment ...

This work proposes LEASE, a novel Mobile-P2P lease-based economic incentive model, in which data requestors need to pay the price (in virtual currency) of their requested data items to data-providers. In LEASE, data-providing mobile peers lease data items to other mobile peers in lieu of a lease payment. The main contributions of LEASE are three-fold. First, its lease model entices even those u...

This paper outlines an ongoing research project on training, education and sharing of experiences among mobile people, also referred to as nomads. The importance for professionals to continuously learn is widely recognized. Organizations in the new economy are dependent on organizational knowledge and competence. Mobile workers need alternative educational and knowledge development opportunitie...

Despite great progress made in the theory of agglomeration in recent years, a number of gaps remain in our ability to understand why cities continue to have such attractive power in the new economy. Many of the most recent theories of agglomeration attempt to understand cities or clusters as loci of knowledge development and exchange, critical to higher levels of innovation and growth. Yet they...

Hybrid Vehicle fuel economy performance is highly sensitive to the “Energy Management” strategy used to regulate power flow among the various energy sources and sinks. Optimal solutions are easy to specify if the drive cycle is known a priori. It is very challenging to compute controllers that yield good fuel economy for a class of drive cycles representative of typical driver behavior. Additio...

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This work proposes LEASE, a novel Mobile-P2P lease-based economic incentive model, in which data requestors need to pay the price (in virtual currency) of their requested data items to data-providers. In LEASE, dataproviding mobile peers lease data items to free-riders, who do not have any data items to provide, in lieu of a lease payment. Thus, LEASE not only combats free-riding, but also enti...