This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does not specify an Internet standard. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Abstract The Internet is currently being confronted with service demands from a new generation of applications. Supporting these applications eeectively and eeciently will require extending the current Internet \best-eeort" service model to one that ooers ...

In this paper we investigates the co-evolution of pearl industry cluster and specialized market in Zhuji. Firstly we begin with a literature review of the specialized market, which played a crucial role as a shared trading platform for SMEs, and an institutional innovation to achieve economic transformation and for China to promote industrialization, urbanization and regional economic developme...

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Public and private organizations in various areas are setting up digital Information Infrastructures (IIs) for interconnecting government, businesses and citizens. IIs can create value by sharing and integrating data of multiple actors. This can be the basis for value added services and especially collaborations of public and private partners can make IIs thrive. Easier access to integrated ser...

1 Work presented in this paper is partially supported by European Community under the Information Society Technologies (IST) Programme of the 6th FP for RTD Project IST-033789. The authors are solely responsible for the content of this paper. It does not represent the opinion of the European Community, and the European Community is not responsible for any use that might be made of data appearin...

The effective integration of services is having a positive impact in terms of support for children and parents in over half of the centres visited. Three centres were judged as making an outstanding difference. Challenges remain with onward links with primary schools, in reaching the most vulnerable families and in developing data on outcomes for parents and children. The least effective partne...

This paper studies the role of expectations in the formation of reference points. We present a questionnaire study and an experiment in which both expectations and the status quo are salient. We find that when expectations are present, they have a significant impact on reference point formation and subsequent risky choice. Therefore, it is generally not sufficient to equate the reference point ...