Abstract Most platform literature focuses on single platforms and their governance, e.g. concerning app developers. Yet, competition dynamics are increasingly important as they form connections with each other build complex networks. More focus platform-to-platform relationships the role of standards is warranted. Therefore, goal this study to investigate how sponsors select promote compatible ...

decommissioning of petroleum installations and platforms is a process to be decided by the parties on how to move or dismantle the installations and platforms that have reached to the end of their lives. although this is a relatively new topic, it has attracted much attention at the international level especially since 1990. a major concern for governments and industries since that time has bee...

The high speed at which new businesses are developed can to a large extent be attributed to their ability to flexibly combine existing services into an integrated business platform. The development of such platforms requires the representation of the business architecture in a model which can be implemented in a software solution. However, aside from diagramming techniques little help is availa...

This symposium presents an ideal “platform” to support the launch of a new journal focused on telecommunications and high technology law. Unlike more established areas of the law, the field of telecommunications or, as more aptly termed, information law, is not easily defined. To be sure, there is an ambitious statutory code (the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, most notably by the Telec...

By 2010 over 95 percent of what is designed into Systems-on-a-Chip (SoC) will be IP (Intellectual Property). To effectively design these SoCs of the future, designers will need to make a conceptual shift from the current notion of “integrating IP into a design” to “integrating designs into IP platforms.” Assembling a platform consists of connecting IP blocks such as processor cores, memory bloc...

Mechanotransduction has been a topic of considerable interest since early studies demonstrated a link between mechanical force and biological response. Until recently, studies of fundamental phenomena were based either on in vivo experiments with limited control or direct access, or on large-scale in vitro studies lacking many of the potentially important physiological factors. With the advent ...