What types of human and social capital identify the emergence of leaders of open innovation communities? Consistent with the norms of an engineering culture, we find that future leaders must first make strong technical contributions. Beyond technical contributions, they must then integrate their communities in order to mobilize volunteers and avoid the ever-present danger of forking and balkani...

In this paper we deal with the problem of enhancing the decision making abilities of broker agents in digital learning resources brokerage systems. Following a multi-criteria decision making approach, we provide broker agents with the means to qualitatively represent the user preferences and efficiently evaluate the proposed alternatives. Learner modelling and digital learning resources descrip...

This paper examines the role of innovation brokers in stimulating innovation system interaction and innovation capacity building, and illustrates this by taking the case of Dutch agriculture as an example. Subsequently, it reflects upon the potential role of innovation brokers in developing countries’ agriculture. It concludes that innovation brokerage roles are likely to become relevant in eme...

In this article, we use three clustering methods (K-means, self-organizing map, and fuzzy K-means) to find properly graded stock market brokerage commission rates based on the 3-month long total trades of two different transaction modes (representative assisted and online trading system). Stock traders for both modes are classified in terms of the amount of the total trade as well as the amount...

This paper presents the design and implementation of a platform independent Client/Server Brokerage Application based on WWW Technology. This work has been done in the context of the MULTIMEDIATOR Project (ACTS 096). This document is structured in three parts. The first one gives an overview of the MULTIMEDIATOR system, the second one explains the implementation of a Client/Server Model for a s...

We designed and implemented end-point services and protocols for provision of end-to-end QoS guarantees. They strongly rely on a distributed QoS management entity, called the QoS Broker, to translate, negoti-ate/renegotiate, admit, monitor and adapt end-to-end QoS as a contract, as well as on end-to-end soft real-time protocols to transmit multimedia according to the negotiated contract. We tes...

How do collaborative networks influence an individual’s creativity? Some have argued that structural brokerage – having direct ties to collaborators who do not have direct ties with one another leads to greater creativity. Others have argued for the benefits of cohesive and redundant ties between an individual’s collaborators. To resolve the controversy, we argue that brokerage confers continge...

Trust–brokerage systems for the Internet by Walter D Eaves Brunel University, Uxbridge This thesis addresses the problem of providing trusted individuals with confidential information about other individuals, in particular, granting access to databases of personal records using the World–Wide Web. It proposes an access rights management system for distributed databases which aims to create and ...

E-Learning is increasingly influencing university and workplace education in Europe. The EU/IST FP6 Network of Excellence PROLEARN is focussing on these issues, advancing the state of the art in this area. Some of PROLEARNs key issues are the production, deployment, exchange and brokerage of learning resources as well as their usage for professional training in SMEs and larger companies. Furthe...

This article interrogates political brokerage on YouTube by examining the platform’s role in construction of discourses and configuring action a new genre actors advancing agenda through historical revisionism. Using assemblage theory drawing from technography, we propose concept “networked brokerage” to characterize mutually affirming relationship YouTube’s governance mechanisms alternative in...