E Delaporte ([email protected])1, E Jeannot2,3, P Sudre1, C A Wyler Lazarevic2, J L Richard4, P Chastonay3 1. Epidemiology and Communicable Diseases Section, Cantonal Health Service, General Directorate for Health, Department of Regional Affairs, Economy and Health, Geneva, Switzerland 2. Youth Health Service, Department of Education, Geneva, Switzerland 3. Institute of Social and ...

In today’s networked service economy, it becomes essential for service firms to continuously innovate their service offering to remain competitive in constantly changing market conditions. Many successful firms collaborate with external partners and utilize contemporary information technology (IT) support to integrate dispersed service innovation capacity and knowledge. In this paper, we develo...

a r t i c l e i n f o Transportation optimization usually aims at minimizing the empty load ratios (ELRs) of vehicles. Most Chinese vehicles for logistics are owned by individual entrepreneurs. Because China is very large, transport distances are typically long, and thus the ELR is very high. The ELR is the primary reason for high transport costs, considerable pollution, and high energy consump...

This paper analyses the e¤ects of reducing unfunded social security and population ageing on economic growth and welfare, both for a small open economy and for a closed economy. The economy consists of a service sector and a commodity sector. Productivity growth only occurs in the latter sector and is assumed to depend positively on its size. It is shown that if old agents mainly demand labour ...

Installing a financial service outlet (e.g. automated teller machine (ATM)) is an expensive affair due to the need of dedicated network connectivity. In the existing model, the users are forced to trust a service outlet to be authentic. A spoofed outlet can collect the account information and use it in some way later. In this paper, we propose a new model that would overcome these cost and secu...

With the rapid development of economy and the increase of population, we are facing the stern challenge of lack of resources and environment pollution. Through the recycling of resources we can reduce the exploitation of native resources and save energy. At present, the level of recycling resources in Nanning city is quite low, as do the utilization rate of recovery. The recyclable resource log...

Communication infrastructures play a vital role in modern society. Advances in the range of mobile network service offerings, performance, quality of service, security, and ubiquity continue to flourish, despite global economy fluctuations. Access to experimental wireless infrastructures for real-life applications by specific user communities benefits all of the stakeholders involved: the end u...

The increasing use of Information Systems (IS) in diverse business sectors and the growing degree of mobility has changed the traditional use of Information Technologies (IT) in the economy. While Big Data is a current issue in the telecommunication and trade sector, high data intensity is also in the service sector given. Especially in the Technical Customer Service (TCS) area, a large variety...