Normalization has become traditional in database design theory and practice. One disadvantage of the model-driven development is that usage of concepts normalization, and functional dependency in the enterprise software engineering is limited to only one stage of system development life cycle (SDLC) the database design stage. The provided research of these concepts motivate normalization of the...

I suggest that outstanding scholarship, within the university sector, will continue to rely on smooth integration between teaching, industry collaboration and research. As such, I question the likelihood of a wholesale change in the nature of the University due to the well-known pressures emanating from innovations in the information and communications technology sector. In the critical account...

This work weakens well-known consistency models using graphs that capture applications’ characteristics. The weakened models not only respect application semantic, but also yield a performance benefit. We introduce a notion of dependency graphs, which specify relations between events that are important with respect to application semantic, and then weaken traditional consistency models (e.g., c...

Transaction-specific investment and organizational performance are two core concepts in studies of transactions between firms. The existing literature has explored the effect transaction-specific on from three different theoretical perspectives: transaction cost economics (TCE), resource-based view (RBV), social exchange theory (SET). However, considerable ambiguities inconsistencies exist amon...

This paper extends earlier work in the use of 'Agent-based Computational Economics' (ACE) for modelling the development of cooperation between firms. Inter-firm relations have increasingly been analyzed by means of transaction cost economics (TCE). However, as has been widely acknowledged, TCE does not include any dynamics of learning, adaptation or innovation, and it does not include trust. It...

Recently, transaction level modeling (TLM) has been widely referred to in system level design community. Due to lower modeling effort yet higher simulation speed, transaction level models are useful for architectural exploration, algorithmic evaluation, hardware-software partitioning and software development. However, TLM can’t be widely applicable to IP level design phase, because the simulati...

Abstract: We examine the impact on inter-regional trade in eastern U.S. electricity markets arising from the FERC-supported creation of Independent System Operators (ISOs). Our analysis focuses on the PJM ISO (Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, and other states) and its trade with the New York ISO and ECAR (East Central Area of Reliability). The formation of ISOs has been associated with two d...

a r t i c l e i n f o The customer lifetime value combines into one construct the transaction timing, spending and dropout processes that characterize the purchase behavior of customers. Recently, the potential relationship between these processes , either at the individual customer level (i.e. intra-customer correlation) or between customers (i.e. inter-customer correlation), has received more...