We present some advances in the area of Linear Resource Temporal Networks (LRTNs), which consist of activities that consume or produce a resource linearly over the course of their duration, subject to absolute and relative metric tempo-

As technology advances, fraud is becoming increasingly complicated and difficult to detect, especially when individuals collude. Surveys show that the median loss from collusive fraud is much greater than fraud perpetrated by individuals. Despite its prevalence and potentially devastating effects, internal auditors often fail to consider collusion in their fraud assessment and detection efforts...

Based on the sparse literature investigating the cost of ERP systems implementation, our research uses data from a survey of Swiss SMEs having implemented ERP in order to test cost drivers. The main innovation is the proposition of an additional classification of cost drivers that focuses on the enterprise itself, rather than on ERP. Particular attention is given to consulting fees as a major f...

Tonal target detection is a very difficult task, especially in presence of consonantal perturbations. Though different detection methods have been adopted in tonal alignment research, we still do not know which is the most reliable. In our paper, we found that such methodological choices have serious theoretical implications. Interpretation of the data strongly depends on whether tonal targets ...

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Right from the early days of information technology (IT) diffusion and adoption research, the research has been profoundly conducted to find out the factors that are significant to adopting IT innovations. In this concern, several of the organizational (Iacovou et al., 1995 and Scupola, 2003), environmental (Iacovou et al., 1995 and Scupola, 2003) and technological factors have been studied by ...

Since 2000, enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems have been widely adopted by large, state-owned companies in China. While there is a rich body of literature on ERP implementation in western companies, studies of Chinese companies are scarce. A recent exception is a study of seventy seven mostly manufacturing companies in China by Liang et al. (2007). They found that high coercive institut...