Decision making in new technologies is a crucial activity to raise competitiveness, especially for technology organizations. The decision-making process requires the use of information technology tools, since the information amount is large and requires reliable methods for collecting, accessing, storing, processing, distributing, and evaluating, in order to provide reliable information to deci...

In today's cities, especially metropolises, the issue of identity and its transformation has become one of the most important issues among urban authorities and designers. Mean while, Mashhad as the second religious metropolises in the world has an identity- causing and effective role among Islamic cities of Iran In recent decades, the amount of urban construction, especially in central part of...

This article uses historical data on inventor and firm research and development (R&D) lab locations to examine the technological and geographic structure of corporate knowledge capital accumulation during a formative period in the organization of United States innovation. Despite the localization of inventive activity around the labs, one-quarter of inventors lived outside a 30 mile commuting r...

This paper serves as part of an ongoing research project into the behaviour of the employee within the work environment regarding information security. Can an employee be audited, like the financial transactions or the information systems? The human factor is of vital importance to the security of information in the organization nowadays, and this element should also be investigated in order to...

This paper investigates the effect industry life cycle phase shifts have on the effectiveness of firms’ knowledge creation strategies. Building on literature streams on strategic knowledge management and industry life cycles, we develop theoretical arguments for why the best knowledge search strategy should be different before the emergence of an industry compared to afterwards. Testing our hyp...

1 Supported by FAPESP and CNPq. Abstract The main goal of this work is to show how the Formal Description Technique (FDT) Language of Temporal Ordering Specification (LOTOS), a standard by International Organization for Standardization (ISO), can be useful in the design of real-time systems. This paper concentrates on the specification phase of a development methodology and uses as an example t...

We give a brief overview of the methodology of modeling massive datasets arising in various applications as networks. This approach is often useful for extracting non-trivial information from the datasets by applying standard graph-theoretic techniques. We also point out that graphs representing datasets coming from diverse practical fields have a similar power-law structure, which indicates th...