This paper explores the story behind a crowdfunding service as an example of sharing technology. Research in a small neighborhood of London showed how locally-developed initiatives can differ in tone, scale, ambition and practice to those getting attention in the so-called sharing economy. In local accounts, we see an emphasis on organizing together to create shared spaces for collaborative use...

This paper proposes and describes a new method that can be used to schedule individual traffic flows, which share a common channel and have been shaped/policed by means of a Token Bucket (TB) mechanism. The method can also be extended to dynamically allocate bandwidth to this channel, based on information derived from TB states. Simulation results are presented and discussed.

because of the need to develop specific measurement scales for different services industries, this study aimed to empirically develop a reliable and valid model specifically for measuring mobile telecommunication service quality. a multidimensional measurement model (ms-qual) has been proposed based on an extensive literature review and then, to assess the model validity, convergent and discrim...

This paper addresses specifically leverage effects based on the irreversible nature of time and the Cognitive Time Distortion in economy. In service and information society, time has received an ever increasing importance, not from the perspective of faster production, but due to the fact that the major part of the economic value of Total Revenues and Total Costs is based on time. In this paper...

Traditional businesses are finding great advantages from the incorporation of e-business capabilities, especially for participation in the global economy, which is inherently open and dynamic. This imposes a requirement that businesses must coordinate with each other if they are to be most efficient and successful. To aid in this coordination and achieve seamless and autonomic interoperation, e...

He co-authored a text on Distance Education. His current research interests include entrepreneurship, the experience economy, nature tourism, and human resource management issues in the service industries.

Web services as independent software components are published on the Internet by service providers and services are then called by users’ request. However, in many cases, no service alone can be found in the service repository that could satisfy the applicant satisfaction. Service composition provides new components by using an interactive model to accelerate the programs. Prior to service comp...

The virtual economy operates like the one in the physical world, which is realized by players with two functions–demand and supply, only using the form as avatars. Only that in virtual worlds, the prices of virtual items is decided by the players instead of by its quality or scarcity, so the player behavior analyses became an important tool to monitor the persistent virtual worlds. In order to ...

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