Social media are known for substantial creativity support, as they allow users exploring, creating, and sharing various types of content. Social 3D virtual worlds, such as Second Life, can also be seen as a social media that have wide possibilities for being creative. In this paper, we explore how 3D virtual worlds can support creativity in educational settings, including creativity of the coll...

Virtual enterprises mostly renounce formal contractual guarantees as coordination mechanism in order to ensure overall flexibility. However, when formal coordination mechanisms vanish, informal coordination immediately gains increasing importance. As a consequence, trust becomes a decisive issue for all kinds of loosely coupled organizations and virtual enterprises in special. This paper presen...

Information Technology, globalization and new budgetary processes have growing impact on universities. Planning and design are no longer restricted to the invention and construction of physical artifacts and architecture. The number of non-physical or virtual aspects of buildings is growing steadily. The emergence of rapidly changing and spatially distributed research teams requires new types o...

Intercell interference is a major limiting factor in wireless multi-cell networks. Recently, it has been shown that significant performance gains can be achieved by cooperation between base stations. Different degrees of cooperation are possible: From full cooperation, where multiple base stations form a virtual antenna array, to weak cooperation, where base stations take into consideration the...

Many organization theorists have predicted the emergence of the networked or virtual firm as a model for the design of future organizations. Researchers have also emphasized the importance of trust as a necessary condition for ensuring the success of virtual organizations. This paper examines the open source software (OSS) ‘movement’ as an example of a virtual organization and proposes a model ...

As a result of globalization and advances in information and communication technologies, the increased use of virtual teams in business has become prominent. In the competitive environment companies are obliged to produce more rapidly, more effectively and more efficiently. It is necessary for them to put together different capabilities and services with the goal, through cooperation between su...

—In order to expand the application of virtual reality technology in network, game, agriculture, industry and other fields, the generation and reconstruction of virtual animation has been deeply studied. However, under the impact of virtual human randomness and human behavior collision, there are the challenges of reliability and real time in the virtual animation. First of all, the model of h...

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The amount of home networks, as well as the number of services and hosts in them, is increasing. Often the home users cannot get public IPv4 network allocations from service providers and are forced to use Network Address Translation (NAT) and port forwarding to solve connectivity issues to the different home services. This paper introduces a secure connectivity solution utilising both IPv6 and...

An Extended Enterprise (EE) is a new form of organizing Business-to-Business (B2B) cooperation among business partners. Here, independent companies form a network to develop and deliver a product to a customer. An EE extends the concept of a virtual enterprise because it persists even after the product is delivered. Thus, the EE serves as a container for knowledge captured during product develo...