The activity of service companies is more complex today than before the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) became widespread in business. Fewerservice companies can be found on the market based solely on physical customer interaction; however, they have beenreplaced with standardized and automated services. This structural change can be observedparticularly among Knowledge In...

The information systems outsourcing market has seen rapid growth. Companies are increasingly choosing to outsource many of their information systems activities to services firms rather than sourcing them internally. This trend is inconsistent with the predictions of some of the published literature which point to the high costs of using an outside market. These articles, based on transaction co...

Before setting up a working definition of an electronic market (EM), let us look at the functions of markets in our economic system. According to traditional market market situation, branch or technological trends will be useful. This phase results in a list of potential partners in the market and their offer and/or demand. Phase 2: Trading. As soon as all information has been evaluated, we can...

Electronic markets are virtual meeting places where buyers and sellers meet and interact to trade products or services. In this paper, we consider an agent-based information system to support the ongoing negotiations among the traders in such a market. The information system's agents are active within certain market categories of which they carry a multi-criteria description. This enables the s...

Abstract T ire cent decades, the internationalization of trade and companies' engagement in the global market has been found with a double significance. Planning and investment to increase the share of non-oil exports in total exports and reform its combination to export of goods and services with higher technology are of approaches of vision plan that export of Construction Services ...

Based on full analysis of rural mobile communication market, in order to explore mobile operators in rural areas of information services for sustainable development model, this paper presents three different aspects, including rural mobile communications market demand, the rural market for mobile communications business model and development strategies for rural mobile communications market res...

It is well known that almost all of the largest economies in the world are already dominated by services. What may be less well known is that many are also evolving towards becoming information economies in the sense of both value added (GNP) and jobs. Of course, this evolution is less advanced in some countries, but the US is already well past the 60% mark in terms of value added. We further e...

Location Based Services are a key driver in today's telecom market, even if the power of Location Based Services is not nearly exhausted in nowadays telecom systems. To build intuitive Location Based Services for mobile handsets one success factor is to cover a broad range of mobile handsets available on the market and to make the services context aware. Within the EUREKA project MyMobileWeb we...