Economics-related ICT research has moved from the fringes of the discipline to penetrate all of its branches. It is, therefore, not a separate economics sub-discipline. It is also unlikely to become part of an ‘ICT or Internet Research’ proto-discipline. Instead, it should be seen as only one part of a bigger agenda toward a proper ‘information and knowledge economics’ and possibly a future pro...

This paper examines the potential offered by adaptive hardware configurations of a class of weightless neural architecture called the Enhanced Probabilistic Convergent Network targeted on a Virtex-II pro FPGA which is re configurable. The reconfiguration and adaptive capability of the Enhanced Probabilistic Convergent Network is a highly adaptive architecture offering a very fast, automated, un...

Datasets with a large amount of noisy data are quite common in real-world classification problems. Robustness is an important characteristic of state-of-the-art classifiers that use error minimization techniques, thus requiring a long time to converge. This paper presents ClusWiSARD, a clustering customization of the WiSARD weightless neural network model, applied to credit analysis, a non-triv...

In this paper, we present a WiSARD-based system facing the problem of Indoor Positioning (IP) by taking advantage of pervasively available infrastructures (WiFi Access Points – AP). The goal is to develop a system to be used to position users in indoor environments, such as: museums, malls, factories, offshore platforms etc. Based on the fingerprint approach, we show how the proposed weightless...

In this supplement we describe our event driven algorithm along with the collision rules relevant for motion of the dimer in the drift (D) mode. For the convenience of reading we recall here the general approach. Our dimer is made of two heavy spheres of radius R connected by a light (weightless) rod. The distance between the centers of spheres is L. The dynamics of the dimer is governed by the...

The evolution of IoT network is basically the effect of requirement of a system that is having better capabilities compared to existing ones. One main feature of the system that we need to satisfy is long range and low power. The protocols IEEE 802.15.4, 6LoWPAN, IPv6 and CoAP are used for achieving low rate, low power, large address space and reducing the data space respectively. In this paper...

Generation and exploitation of knowledge became one of the most significant components in the new economy. This paper first investigates influence of information and communications technology on economy, with specific emphasis on Internet economy and electronic commerce. The paper then describes characteristics of the knowledge economy, discusses knowledge, presents main issues relevant for bui...

The transition to the New Economy accelerated in the last half of the 1990s. Using new economy index measures, one can see that rapid growth in service sector activity from 1990 to 2000, at 45 percent, overshadowed the performance of the nation’s manufacturing sector, at 22 percent (Atkinson and Court). We now live in an economy where 80 percent of all workers do not produce things. Even within...

This paper will first review existing literatures and empirical results from national statistics on employment transformation, underemployment and gender effects on occupational restructuring. Then, we further examine the relation between unemployment and underemployment by conducting an empirical survey. From the national statistics, we found that the employment structure by industry in Taiwan...

The idealistic beginnings of the sharing economy made ways to an entrenched battle to win over the public opinion and for law makers to appreciate its benefits and its risks. The stakes are high as the success of services like Airbnb reveals that under-utilized assets (e.g. spare rooms or apartments left vacant) can be efficiently matched to individual demands to generate a significant surplus ...