Data mining techniques reveal patterns in large databases that may be strategically relevant. Organizations prepare the data before participating in data sharing agreements in order to avoid revealing tactically important insights to external organizations. Viable techniques that preserve the privacy of strategically significant frequent item sets are essential in the protection of a competitiv...

Within the realm of globalization of R&D, offshoring is a relatively recent and still emerging phenomenon. Rooted in the notion of comparative advantage, offshoring of R&D involves disaggregation and global distribution of the firm’s R&D value chain activities to leverage innovation capacity of low-cost countries. Characteristically different from marketand technology-seeking globalization of R...

This paper analyzes the analytical approach of cloud computing on logistics management by studying various literatures on academic logistics journals, practitioner journals and various books. The paper sought to explain the theoretical background of articulating effective logistics information system in any industrial outfit. This is predicated on the fact that logistics is “the process of stra...

A principal-agent model is considered in which the principal decides how much private information to acquire before making an offer to the agent (e.g., an insurer decides whether to gather information about the risk status of a potential client through medical testing before offering the client a policy). I prove in a general environment that there is a nontrivial set of parameters for which it...

Conceiving, building, maintaining and refi ning a universal health system is an inordinately complex undertaking. Its effective implementation requires everything from political will consistently and strategically applied, to accurate epidemiological data and analysis, plus quality medical education and active citizen participation. It also takes resources—fi nancial, technological, pharmaceuti...

In the paper, the DDoS scenario is modelled as a mathematical programming problem. The defender strategically utilizes the limited resources to maximize the legitimate traffic, and he can adopt packet marking to observe the network status. The information extracts from the marking field can help the defender develop a defense strategy which combines packet filtering and packet blocking. A Lagra...

Examination of alliance formation and management in the context of ‘fit’ or alignment with individual partner’s organisational strategy, administrative systems, and managerial characteristics still remains unexplored. This conceptual paper argues that the success of alliances depends on the ability of the partners to strategically match/align resources, capabilities, compatibilities and the man...

There are two main challenges in managing natural resources. One is to respond appropriately to the ecological characteristics of a given environment, preserving its integrity and functions while assuring a flow of benefits from it. This challenge is mostly about content— the what and when of managing natural resources. The other is to respond to the social characteristics of the same environme...

Understanding how governance structures align to ecological processes in a landscape is critical for effective management of ecological resources. Ecological resources are not independent from each other, instead they are interconnected, and their well-being is often critically dependent on upholding ecological connectivity, especially in times of change and disturbances. Coordination and colla...

In libraries a change from physical resources to electronic resources, with new licensing models and lending processes, has taken places. The existing managing infrastructure is not yet suitable for the upcoming requirements and does not provide support for flexible and extensible data models for being future-proof. In this paper we present a system that uses the generic RDF resource management...