Producing accurate and reliable project cost estimations at an early stage of a project’s life cycle remains a substantial challenge in the information technology field. This research benchmarks the performance of various approaches to estimating IT project effort and duration. Empirical data were gathered from various ‘‘real-world” organizations including several prominent Israeli high-tech co...

In spite of the application of high-tech approaches, tools, and methodologies, there is a common point in all of the organizations: human beings make most of the important decisions, and they operate and use systems. Experience shows that improper application of this human factor can cally most advanced systems. The lowest level of connection among systems is made through protocols; the highest...

In the context of transition mineral extractive economies to sustainable development, role scientific and innovative support this process is increasing. Universities are key components structural breakthrough. For Russian economy, interaction competition between federal universities especially important, which, on one hand, offer new technologies "green" mining, other, they form a high-tech The...

The historically ambiguous relationship between journalism and Big Tech can be traced back to the late 20th century, when news organizations started recognize potential of Internet as a distribution platform. While growing body literature is concerned with power asymmetries journalism, role place in shaping layered histories remains underexplored. This study uses framework place—conceptualized ...

The purpose of this article is to explain and solve the early stage High-tech small medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) development issue in Tianjin, specifically so-called Valley Death. Death used as a metaphor describe relative lack resources expertise area development. In article, mainly refer financing loans required by high-tech SMEs stage. Through analysis actual situation developing illustra...

Suruchi Deodhar, NDSSL, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech , Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech Keith R. Bisset, NDSSL, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech Jiangzhuo Chen, NDSSL, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech Yifei Ma, NDSSL, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech , Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech Madhav V. Marathe...

he links among trade, technological changes, and worker earnings have been the subject of intense research during the past few decades. The current literature on this subject shows that trade liberalization and technological changes are the main drivers of demand for skilled workers and a rise in the wage premium. In the present article, a panel of 134 Iranian manufacturing industries over the ...