Purpose – The idea that knowledge management can be a potential source of competitive advantage has gained strength in the last few years. However, a number of business actions are needed to generate an appropriate environment and infrastructure for knowledge creation, transfer and application. Among these actions there stands out the design of an organizational structure, the link of which wit...

Cost cap tariffs are pay-per-use tariffs for which costs cannot exceed a predefined cost limit. They were recently introduced to telecommunications markets, but were previously also applied in the insurance industry as deductibles or in the rental industry as day rates. This paper develops and empirically validates a consumer surplus model that explains the optimal consumption pattern under cos...

The aim is to develop an application which will provide the functionality to manage regular operations of the residential apartments. The main objective of the project is to develop the application software for the different apartments which will be useful for all of them. Working efforts of the members and the managing body of the apartment will be reduced to maintain the society. It mainly su...

The CMB is perhaps the cleanest cosmological observable. Given a cosmology model, the angular spectrum of the CMB can be computed to percent accuracy. On the observational side, as far as we know, there is little that stands in the way between an accurate measurement and a rigorous confrontation with theory. In this article, we review the state of the data and indicate future directions. The da...

Identifying users' frequent behaviors is considered a key step to achieving real, intelligent environments that support people in their daily lives. These patterns can be used in many different applications. An algorithm that compares current behaviors of users with previously discovered frequent behaviors has been developed. In addition, it identifies the differences between both behaviors. Id...

We present a simple model of spatial competition to analyze the impact of a structural change in transaction (transportation) costs on the location of firms. The distinctive feature of the model is the existence of two markets which are non-connected. This means that a firm willing to sell in the other market must take into account a fixed fee in addition to the usual quadratic transport costs....

This paper presents progressivity breakdowns for Croatian personal income tax (henceforth PIT) in 1997 and 2004. The decompositions reveal how the elements of the system – tax schedule, allowances, deductions and credits – contribute to the achievement of progressivity, over the quantiles of pre-tax income distribution. Through the use of ‘single parameter’ Gini indices, the social decision mak...

The aim is to develop an application which will provide the functionality to manage regular operations of the residential apartments. The main objective of the project is to develop the application software for the different apartments which will be useful for all of them. Working efforts of the members and the managing body of the apartment will be reduced to maintain the society. It mainly su...

We describe a procedure for constructing morphisms in additive categories, combining Auslander’s concept of a morphism determined by an object with the existence of flat covers. Also, we show how flat covers are turned into projective covers, and we interprete these constructions in terms of adjoint functors.

In recent years, variance-reducing stochastic methods have shown great practical performance, exhibiting linear convergence rate when other stochastic methods offered a sub-linear rate. However, as datasets grow ever bigger and clusters become widespread, the need for fast distribution methods is pressing. We propose here a distribution scheme for SAGA which maintains a linear convergence rate,...