Although e-commerce in general and platform business models report steadily increasing revenues, establishing ecosystems is not a guaranteed success per se. Potential owners must carefully plan the ignition of ecosystem to reach critical mass customers. This crucial for benefit from direct indirect network effects. However, research so far has provided clear guidance strategies on how successfu...

Using the most general, model independent form of the effective Hamiltonian, the exclusive, rare baryonic Λb → Λll (l = μ, τ) decay is analyzed. We study sensitivity of the branching ratio and lepton forward–backward asymmetry to the new Wilson coefficients. Is is shown that these physical quantities are quite sensitive to the new Wilson coefficients. Determination of the position of zero value...

Tool integration has been an important research area for many years after software engineering became a key player in information industry. With the Internet establishing ubiquitous connectivity, more and more tools become reachable through the Internet. The Internet has massively changed the environment of software engineering. This paper extensively discusses relevant technologies of tool int...

This paper reports on the results of an empirical study investigating the progression of ebusiness maturity in Australian SMEs and the applicability of the stages concept in explaining that progression. Using multiple case studies within medium-sized manufacturing organisations, the authors explore the issues and challenges experienced by organisations when moving forward with their e-business ...

General expressions for the double–lepton polarizations in the B → Kl+l− decay are obtained, using model independent effective Hamiltonian, including all possible interactions. Correlations between the averaged double–lepton polarization asymmetries and the branching ratio, as well as, the averaged single–lepton polarization asymmetry are studied. It is observed that, study of the double–lepton...

The obje tives of good hip design have traditionally in luded issues like performan e, power and reliability. Yield is rarely onsidered during the design pro ess, ex ept in the design of memory ICs, where spe i defe t-toleran e te hniques are in orporated into the ar hite ture for yield enhan ement. In order to make the ase for establishing yield as another design obje tive we must rst prove th...

In Stanley’s seminal 1995 paper on the chromatic symmetric function, he stated that there was no known graph that was not contractible to the claw and whose chromatic symmetric function was not e-positive, namely, not a positive linear combination of elementary symmetric functions. We resolve this by giving infinite families of graphs that are not contractible to the claw and whose chromatic sy...

14 of the world's 15 ‘oldest’ countries (largest percentage of people age 65 plus) are to be found in Europe. While E-Government is currently establishing as the most important public sector reform strategy in the EU (Lisbon Agenda), age is a factor which strongly affects EGovernment usage. Under the label of ‘E-Inclusion’ EU policies seeks to solve also age-related digital divide issues. This ...

Xerox Litigation Services (XLS) believes that establishing standards for technology-assisted review (TAR) is a crucial endeavor. TAR’s place in the e-discovery tool set is a relatively new and vulnerable one; its recent successes could easily be undermined by practitioners engaging in irresponsible implementation of the technology. Thus, if TAR is to have a lasting place in e-discovery, it is i...