This large-scale study analyses the influence of co-ordination and trust problems on employees’ access to weekly home-based teleworking from a combined perspective of transaction-cost theory and new economic-sociology. Access is more likely when additional co-ordination and control problems are smaller. Indicators of the so-called ‘telework-risk’ are ‘time sovereignty’, ‘job autonomy’, ‘job int...

. Researchers have proposed a number of co-ordination functions in literature for improving quality of service. Each one is based on different characteristics and properties. In this paper, we evaluate the performance of wireless network using PCF, DCF & EDCF. We perform simulations using OPNET IT GURU Academic Edition simulator. In the performance evaluation of the co-ordination function, the ...

In this paper the concept of tax co-ordination within the European Union (EU) is discussed, in view of the coming enlargement of the EU. The tax externalities that possibly arise in a single market are analysed, as well as the ways these externalities can be prevented or internalised. These theoretical reflections are placed alongside the actual system of tax co-ordination within the EU. Focusi...

The objective of this paper is to compare the cost effectiveness of a co-ordination service with standard services for terminally ill cancer patients with a prognosis of less than one year. We designed a randomized controlled trial, with patients randomized by the general practice with which they were registered. Co-ordination group patients received the assistance of two nurse coordinators who...

In this paper we describe the concept of mobile coordination , a general purpose approach to overcoming failure of agents when using distributed tuple spaces. We demonstrate why mobile coordination is better than using existing techniques such as transactions, how mobile coordination can provide extra functionality in the form of agent wills, and how the framework to provide this can be impleme...

A new parallel programming approach based on the structured co-ordination of parallel behaviour is applied to programming the Fujitsu AP1000 for mixed parallel vector and scalar computation. With such a structured parallel programming model resource organisation as well as data and computation distribution can be programmed at a high level. The performance of a program can also be systematicall...