The performance of many networking protocols is dependent on a handful of tuning parameters. However, it is not obvious how to set or adapt these parameters to optimize performance. We believe that this optimization task can benefit from passive monitoring of current network performance. In this paper, we apply this methodology for initializing TCP parameters, such as initial congestion window ...

Start-ups often post updates during equity crowdfunding campaigns. However, little is known about the effects of such updates on crowd participation. We investigate this question by using hand-collected data from 71 funding campaigns and 39,399 investment decisions on two German equity crowdfunding portals. Using a combination of different empirical research techniques, we find that posting an ...

Start-ups of new firms are important for economic growth. However, start-up rates differ significantly between countries and within regions of the same country. A large empirical literature studies the reasons for this and attempts to identify the regional determinants of start-ups. In contrast, there is a much smaller theoretical literature that attempts the formal modelling of the start-up pr...

“We boldly go where no man has gone before”. We want to announce new products and services and use matching supporting information systems. All this more rapidly than before and with higher quality. Thinking about time to market, you will come automatically to the question: “How to improve the process to be able to deliver more rapidly?” But the most important of all is not the process; it is t...

Data-related businesses is an emerging trend in the recent decade. However, the availability and amount of information make it difficult to ensure quality in terms of data fusion and version control. Completely automated data aggregation systems fail to provide reliable and consistent data. In this paper we summarise existing knowledge on relation databases and augment it with description of bu...

The purpose of this research was to examine the impact Sustainable Entrepreneurship on Non-Financial Business Performance for Start-up Owners in an Indonesian University. In study, three dimensions Entrepreneurship- including People, Profit, and Planet- were measured subjectively by applying eight-item dimensional scale from Soto Acosta. For Non-financial business performance, explored; Relatio...

Carmine Bianchi is Full Professor of Business Management at the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Palermo. He is director of the Masters course on: ‘‘Managing Business Growth through System Dynamics & Accounting Models’’, and of the doctoral programme in Business Management. He is also the scientific co-ordinator of CUSA System Dynamics Group, and partner in Business Dynamics S.r.l.,...