The paper presents a framework methodology and process for planning and developing capabilities and measures for protection of critical infrastructure and presents major methodological and organizational challenges of effective and efficient protection. The authors emphasize the need for comprehensive approach, based on much better communication and greater coordination among governmental organ...

Significant advances have been made during the last decade in developing infrastructure asset management systems. However, there is an obvious need to extend the scope and capabilities of these systems to better support the sustainable development and management of infrastructure assets. This paper provides a state-of-the-art review of municipal infrastructure asset management systems currently...

Research Article Gimun Kim Konyang University [email protected] Bongsik Shin San Diego State University [email protected] Kyung Kyu Kim Yonsei University [email protected] Ho Geun Lee Yonsei University [email protected] More and more publications are highlighting the value of IT in affecting business processes. Recognizing firmlevel dynamic capabilities as key to improved firm performan...

In recent years the capabilities of the common Internet infrastructure have increased to an extent where data intensive communication services may mature to become popular, reliable applications. Videoconferencing over IP can be seen as such a highly prominent candidate. However, heavy infrastructure and complicated call handling hinder acceptance of standard

To support engaging human users in robust, mixed-initiative speech dialogue interactions which reach beyond current capabilities in dialogue systems, the DARPA Communicator program [1] is funding the development of a distributed message-passing infrastructure for dialogue systems which all Communicator participants are using. In this presentation, we describe the features of and requirements fo...

To lead their company toward success in today’s ever-changing landscape, managers need to know how to rapidly and creatively use their organization’s capabilities to seize opportunities before others do. We term this leadership team capability strategic improvisation. Strategic improvisation, as an alternative to traditional planning for urgent situations, builds on clear and real-time informat...

In this paper, we examine the impact of customer relationship management (CRM) on firm performance using a hierarchical construct model. Following the resource-based view of the firm, strategic CRM is conceptualized as an endogenously determined function of the organization’s ability to harness and orchestrate lower order capabilities that comprise physical assets, such as IT infrastructure, an...

This paper seeks to compare the export and technological capabilities generated by foreign and local electronics firms in Malaysia, Philippines and Thailand, and to explain their determinants. FDI has been the key driver of electronics exports in all three economies. While the data available prevented an assessment of the role of FDI in technology diffusion to local firms, it was sufficient to ...

T HIS Special Issue contains revised papers originally pre-It attracted 383 participants from 17 countries. Immediately after this conference, in order to report on its success, we (Broggi, Ikeuchi, and Thorpe) decided to have a special issue in this newly created IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS, by collecting some of the most important papers presented at the conference...