As the scope and complexity of information technology outsourcing expand, the importance of the number of vendors adopted by a client is rising. What are the reasons why some companies contract with a single vendor while others contract with several? While there has been considerable research on this issue, we still lack a systematic understanding of why firms utilize different numbers of vendo...

In traditional computer role-playing games (CRPGs), vendors are merchants who trade with players. Until now, these games have used vendors with static pricing or extremely simple pricing models, and this has hindered player immersion. In an effort to solve this problem, we present Crafty, a tool allowing developers to easily implement dynamic pricing mechanics for their games’ vendors. Crafty s...

Despite the prevalence of IT outsourcing, a substantial amount of contracts have been terminated. Prior research has primarily assumed that clients initiate it, overlooking the possibility of vendors doing so. Unlike clients whose reasons may stem from poor performance or other alternatives, vendors would be triggered by very different reasons. They are less likely to admit their own poor perfo...

This study aims to analyze the role of digitalization in MSMEs, namely Street Vendors (PKL) order have economic resilience that has an impact on national security. The approach taken is a quantitative method using primary data from sample 1409 street vendors 2021 DKI Jakarta PKL masterplan spread across five areas Jakarta. survey results show vendors, especially area, are still not optimally ut...

The purpose of this study is to clarify the mechanism of how software engineering capabilities relate to the business performance of IT vendors based on the continuous researches in 2005, 2006 and 2007. To end this, we developed a structural model, including the Software Engineering Excellence (SEE) indicator which consisted of deliverables, project management, quality assurance, process improv...

Software developers have varying abilities and develop software with differing reliability requirements. Sometimes reliability is critical and the developers have the mathematical capabilities to perform interactive theorem proving but this is not usually the case. We believe that most software developers need easy to use tools such as run-time assertion checkers and extended static checkers th...

Today commercial relational database management systems (RDBs) and supporting tools (database design tools, graphical database browsers, application generators, query tools, etc.) from several major vendors are used to suit most data management needs around the world. The database market is now dominated by the Big Three: IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle. Initially, commercial RDBs supported the firs...

The global network threat is becoming more and serious, security vulnerability management has become one of the critical areas in national information emergency system construction. To guide third-party sharing platforms regarding management, this work constructs a signal game model comprising software vendors for collaborative disclosures. In addition, we analyze strategy selection its influen...