The objective of this paper is to present an economic pricing-based resource management technique for Intranets that has the capability of managing Intranet resources from an organizational perspective. We discuss the adoption of this pricing scheme at three stages: application level, node level, and data-stream level implementations. These three levels demonstrate how a pricing based approach ...

The paper is devoted to monitoring the development in Russian criminal legislation of responsibility for illegal movement strategically important goods and resources across customs border Customs Union within EurAsEC or State Federation. At same time, author argues correctness indication disposition Art. 226.1 Criminal Code Federation a Border as place commission crime under consideration. prov...

The importance of data resources as a major component of Information Resources Management has long been recognized (Guimaraes, 1988). Many organizations are discovering that imperfect data in information systems negatively affects their business operations and can be extremely costly. Results from a survey indicate 50 percent of IS managers reported losing valuable data in the last two years an...

We describe an approach to the problem of managing resources in routine decision-making tasks. The central feature of this approach is the use of reusable RAP-like plans to generate decisions. This allows our system, APEX, to take advantage of the flexibility in scheduling and method selection provided by execution mechanisms and thereby minimize or circumvent resource conflicts. We then discus...

Mobile and portable computing devices based on microprocessors, cellular phones, portable digital agendas (PDA), etc. represent today an important part in the consumer electronic market. The commercial success of these products greatly depends on the duration of the battery support. In order to consume minimal energy during power-up, sleep, idle and underloaded conditions, many Dynamic Voltage ...

Recent events, news articles in the popular press, and research outside the field of economics have raised alarming questions about the sufficiency of global freshwater supplies and the potentially devastating impacts of current and future water shortages. For example, the 2008 Beijing Olympics drew attention to the problems of pollution and water shortages in China, where massive infrastructur...

a r t i c l e i n f o Companies willing to enter into the experience economy have available procedures for experience design and evaluation but not for strategic decision-making on what experiences to incorporate into their offering. This study presents a procedure for identifying experiences and for assessing their customer value. The fieldwork consists of a logbook technique for experience id...

This minitrack is the continuation of the former minitrack on Technology Management: Systems and Processes. The purpose of the mini-track is to stimulate applications of systems sciences to the management of technology (MoT) by providing a forum for the exchange of new research findings and concepts related to MoT and the creation of value. The scope includes both systems for managing technolog...

This chapter presents a sequence of simple and related models to analyze the strategic use of natural resources. Game theory is the natural tool for such an analysis, whether the resource is private or publicly owned, whether it is renewable or exhaustible, whether the game is static or dynamic, and whether or not the users can strategically invest in technologies. Equilibrium extraction is too...