While previous studies have shed light on the benefits and antecedents of platform-based product development, there is still much to be learned on the subject, particularly through an empirical approach. Based on the literature, this study proposes the concept of product platform competency and identifies four antecedents related to the development process, knowledge sharing, and the organizati...

Software is the key enabling factor for many industrial giants in product development and the ability to deliver reliable software intensive systems in a cost-efficient manner is becoming the differentiating factor for their future competitiveness. This underlines the importance of an industrially relevant software engineering program and realization of the above fact has lead us to conceptuali...

there is little consensus on the corporate diversification-efficiency relationship in the diversification literature. according to the corporate diversification, firms have a tendency to get more market share with diversifying in the local segment or in the international market. theoretically, a contradictory exists between the profitable strategy and the value reducing strategy in the diversif...

Customers’ demands regarding quality and cost efficiency caused the Swedish construction industry to increase its levels of prefabrication. However, the main focus has been on the structural design and production in the development of these new building systems, and very little attention has been devoted to customer needs and requirements. This has created a situation where ad hoc solutions hav...

Word-of-Mouth plays its great important role on the base of social network in affecting consumers’ shopping behaviour. However, it is little known how firms make a self-suitable marketing strategy according to both online and offline WOM effect in their product diffusion. This article investigates a new product diffusion process taking both offline WOM and online WOM effect into consideration. ...

In recent years, networking issues have become more and more important in the design of vehicle control systems. In the beginning of the 1990s a vehicle control system was built up by ‘simple’ computer nodes exchanging ‘simple’ and relatively non-critical data. Today we have moved into distributed vehicle control systems with functions spanning several nodes from different vendors. These system...

Today 4G mobile systems are evolving to provide IP connectivity for diverse applications and services up to 1Gbps. They are designed to optimize the network performance, improve cost efficiency and facilitate the uptake of mass market IP-based services. Nevertheless, the growing demand and the diverse patterns of mobile traffic place an increasing strain on cellular networks. To cater to the la...

Cost efficiency measures the cost of resource by output production. While conventional cost efficiency models set targets separately for each DMU, There are cases where the Central decision making is seeking the above targets, and at the same tries to obtain the target of Min cost efficiency for the total consumption. in this paper we consider that there is a centralized decision maker (DM). In...

The multi-radio access architecture within the ambient network concept opens up opportunities for new business roles within the mobile and wireless domain. The new business roles take advantage of the control plane functionality that enables cost efficient connectivity over heterogeneous radio access technologies. Index Terms — Multi Radio Access, cost efficient, new business roles

The Peer-to-Peer (P2P) paradigm dictates a distributed network model which enables the sharing of resources between its participants. In many cases, the location of these resources is a non-trivial task with network-wide effects. In this work, we describe the Adaptive Probabilistic Search method (APS) for search in unstructured P2P networks. APS utilizes feedback from previous searches to proba...