Future telecommunications systems will introduce a multitude of partly small network and/or service providers. For those providers to interwork, a coordinated organizational cooperation and standardization of the technology are crucial. One important aspect of standardization is about handling user identities. In the Daidalos architecture, users and user groups are considered equally. As there ...

The notion of organizational culture has raised a considerable interest during the past two decades in the field of International Management for being a factor playing an important role in the various organizational processes leading ultimately to performance. However organizational culture is generally presented as a set of values and ideas that would be homogeneously shared by the entire orga...

Large Information Technology (IT) organizations that implement Knowledge Management (KM) strategies contend with a number of internal organizational constituencies whose creation and sustenance while facilitating business operations, also introduces important challenges in the social landscape from a KM perspective. Organizational members tend to identify themselves closely with a host of intra...

In this work we propose a metric to assess academic productivity based on publication outputs. We are interested in knowing how well a research group in an area of knowledge is doing relatively to a pre-selected set of reference groups, where each group is composed by academics or researchers. To assess academic productivity we propose a new metric, which we call P-score. Our metric P-score ass...