Abstract: This paper is about Iranian health industry facing the challenges created by the comprehensive international sanctions. This paper aims to give a realistic account of the different positive and negative impacts of the factor of international collaboration (or rather, the lack thereof) on the dual aspects of "technological and non-technological" catching up process. The case study is r...

Within the context of supply chain simulation, this paper introduces the generic runtime infrastructure for distributed simulation as a novel infrastructure for distributed supply chain simulation that promotes user transparency and extensible service provision. These are discussed with regard to a distributed simulation of a supply chain model (federation) GRIDS-SCF and a case study on supply ...

The IEEE 802.11 standard includes an optional encryption capability, the Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) however, WEP is vulnerable to attack and can easily be broken, therefore WEP was recently temporarily supplemented with Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) which offers improvements over WEP while a newer, more secure protocol 802.11i is developed. However, China has now introduced a new security pr...

As digitalization and technological innovations have blurred the line between physical and electronic channels, enormous growth rates in internet use have motivated most established retailers to expand their business to include online sales. These multichannel retailers are now under severe pressure from pure online retailers, since their physical infrastructure decreases their ability to compe...

Recent advances in web technologies have now created a ubiquitous environment for cross-platform and cross-device multimedia applications. Media files can now be reproduced in a wide range of devices, from mobile phones to desktop computers and web-enabled televisions, using a common infrastructure. This trend towards unifying the technological infrastructure, however, has given rise to a new a...

We propose a new conceptual model for understanding technological evolution that identifies the impact of social (e.g., market, economic, and political forces) and technological forces. We build on theories from technological forecasting, technology evolution, and innovation research to develop the concept of a technology ecosystem. By considering the influence of social forces, technical force...

The creation of specific organisations or programs for developing or overseeing the development of Spatial Data Infrastructures, particularly by government at various levels, can be seen as the logical extension of a long practice police oriented to co-ordinate the building of other necessary infrastructures for ongoing development such as transportation or telecommunication networks. This kind...

Railway service terminals (nodes) are the places of a railway network equipped with costly technology based on high complexity technological procedures demanding a high degree of coordination and control skills. Great effort is therefore exerted to find an optimal configuration of infrastructure to extensively exploit technical and human resources and to effectively organize technological proce...

This research paper seeks to investigate the critical success factors of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) implementation in banking sector of Pakistan by identifying internal organizational, technological and individual factors from past studies and then determine their significant impact on successful implementation of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) in banking sector of Pakistan. IT infr...

Ensuring the reliable and continuous operations of complex, unpredictable, and unstable smart infrastructures, such as computerized and automated power grids or water distribution systems, is a persisting organizational challenge and a societal concern. As technologies are inherently unreliable and, especially, the behavior of complex technological systems is unpredictable, the reliability and ...