Digital Rights Management covers the description, identification, trading, protection, monitoring and tracking of all forms of rights over both tangible and intangible assets, including management of relationships between rights holders in a digital environment. The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) system provides a framework for the persistent identification of content in its broadest interpret...

Executing effective, efficient disaster response processes (DRPs) in the immediate aftermath of disaster is crucial to minimizing any potential damages to life and assets. Existing approaches from the business process management background seem to promise to support the management of DRP with process-aware IT systems and tools. However, domain-specific challenges of disaster response management...

The conservation of cultural heritage is directly proportional to the success transfer. For this purpose, in study, sustainability aimed by introducing assets Isparta students studying field foreign language high school, raising awareness and transferring these values new generations. Before trip, interviews were made with 33 selected from schools Isparta, which was research, their preliminary ...

Arguments regarding the distinction between child and adult learning have existed for decades. Pedagogy has a long tradition of providing educational guidance in which there is little differentiation between child and adult education. The two groups of learners are assumed to learn under the same philosophy. Conversely, andragogy, advanced by Malcolm Knowles in the 1970s, is a well-known approa...

This chapter studies how venture capitalists invest in open source-based companies. Evaluation and valuation of knowledge-intensive companies is a challenge to investors, and while many methods exist for evaluating traditional knowledge-intensive companies, the rise of open source companies with new hard-to-measure value propositions such as developer communities brings new complexity to deal-m...

We investigate the impact of family firms on cost borrowing in East Asia. find consistent evidence that pay significantly higher loan spreads than nonfamily firms. This effect is stronger environments with weaker investor protection. Furthermore, covenants help reduce debt while collateral embedded relatively riskier borrowers. also small, highly leveraged borrowers spreads, they are lower for ...

This research maps out the value network of collaboration enabling automated access to egovernment services, motivated by the dissemination efforts of the EU-funded Access-eGov project. The main contribution of this article is the stepwise development of a value map which highlights the exchange of tangible and intangible deliverables and an initial value network analysis based on two different...

Access control mechanisms currently employed in various applications lack the power to provide (express and enforce) complex, dynamic relationships between users and resources in a scalable and consistent way. The problem escalates when we consider dynamic ad-hoc environments where security associations between users and objects continuously change and are not known prior to a decision. This pa...

We propose a new method for estimating the power-law exponents of firm size variables. Our focus is on how to empirically identify a range in which a firm size variable follows a power-law distribution. As is well known, a firm size variable follows a power-law distribution only beyond some threshold. On the other hand, in almost all empirical exercises, the right end part of a distribution dev...