In our previous work we designed and evaluated the feasibility of highly secure and dependable identity providers (IdPs) for the increasing requirements of future IT infrastructures. In this position paper we extend our previous work by analyzing and discussing the benefits of deploying highly secure and dependable identity providers-as-a-service (IdP-as-aService), without compromising the conf...

Due to the conflict that started in spring 2014 in Eastern Ukraine, a total of 1.75 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) fled the area and have been registered in government-controlled areas of the country. This paper explores perceived health, barriers to access to healthcare, caring practices, food security, and overall financial situation of mothers and young children displaced by the...

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SUMMARY The paper argues that innovation processes can be cognitive, organisational and/or economic. They happen in conditions of uncertainty and (in the capitalist system) of competition. Three broad, overlapping sub-processes of innovation are identified: the production of knowledge; the transformation of knowledge into products, systems, processes and services; and the continuous matching of...

This paper studies offshoring (defined as a change in firms’ own production location from north to south) and market structure. I develop a model of dynamic oligopoly with offshoring, and estimate it using data from the hard disk industry. The results suggest the incentive to offshore increases as more rivals offshore due to competitive pressure. The possibility of offshoring sets in motion the...

Hyperbolic discount functions induce dynamically inconsistent preferences, implying a motive for consumers to constrain their own future choices. This paper analyzes the decisions of a hyperbolic consumer who has access to an imperfect commitment technology: an illiquid asset whose sale must be initiated one period before the sale proceeds are received. The model predicts that consumption track...

The IDP framework is a declarative problem solving paradigm, in which the computational task is to expand a given finite interpretation of a set of symbols into a model of a given ID-logic theory, a classical logic theory extended with inductive definitions. This framework has been proposed as a general approach for solving finite domain problems. In this paper, we introduce a typed version of ...

the inssurance industry is one of the service industries has significant competition and innovation. with regard to importance of innovation issue for top managers of iranian insurance companies, a conceptual model has been developed for corporate innovation capability concept. in this paper, after describing the research problem, innovation concept with comparative review of recent theories of...

The purpose of this paper is to increase knowledge of central issues in building a concept for an open innovation platform for a city’s needs. So far, there is very little knowledge of the fundamental question that needs to be answered when building up an innovation platform which aims at developing solutions to a city’s problems and needs. This paper empirically fills this knowledge gap and co...