We present architecture for e-business applications that receive requests from a party over the Net, to allow the applications to make decisions relying on the credentials of the requesting party. Relying party applications will be provided with uniform interface to the credentials of the requesting party. This will allow use of simple, widely available credentials as well as more advanced cred...

The structure of industrial R&D has undergone considerable change since 1985, particularly in the United States. But rather than creating an entirely novel system, this restructuring has revived important elements of the industrial research “system” of the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In particular, many of the elements of the “Open Innovation” approach to R&D manage...

An important and intriguing aspect of e-entrepreneurship is the formation of new ventures in the domain of open source software (OSS). Previous research on these ventures has primarily looked at the design of business models, yet has neglected other key questions relating to the management of these firms, despite clear indications that some existing insights on venture management cannot be appl...

Over the last decades the research on monetary policy has largely concentrated on the impact of monetary authorities’ decisions on inflation and the fine-tuning of the macroeconomic, so that distributional effects of monetary policy which are non-trivial has been ignored. A view that has become increasingly popular since the financial crisis 2008 is that expansionary monetary policy can exacerb...

* The work is supported by DOE SBIR No. DE-FG03-96ER82213. Abstract Synchronous wakefields in a dispersive waveguide are formulated in a general form. The fundamental role of group velocity in wakefield propagation, calculation of attenuation, amplitudes, form-factors and loss-factors is demonstrated for single-bunch and multi-bunch train. Waveguide adiabatic tapering and bunch density variatio...

In this paper we describe an innovative way of using Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to support the efficient, effective and sustainable development of change and innovation management competencies in municipality teams and community representatives – Community Change Master (CCM). The CCM eLearning approach presented is based on both experiential and collaborative learning mod...

We propose a game theoretic model of large elections that incorporates the assumption that mandate matters. This innovation is motivated by empirical evidence that US Representatives with larger victory margins on average vote in a more partisan manner. Without relying on preference for voting, this new model predicts strictly positive limiting turnout rates in a costly voting environment as th...