...successfully combined the roles of SDO and self-regulatory organization: the National Automated Clearing House Association (NACHA), which manages an electronic funds transfer network; the Electronic Benefits and Services Council (EBSC),...
...in the software industry. We evaluate these claims, examining relevant empirical evidence where available. While it is clear that problems exist with the patent-granting process, they do not rise to...
...a communications revolution on top of a computing revolution. Communication means “transmitting or exchanging through a common system of symbols, signs or behavior.” Standardization means “agreeing on a common system.”...
...be discussed with specific emphasis on the issue of dealing with a real-world with multiple “contexts.” Some promising research directions, some overlapping with the “semantic web” effort, will be presented....
Many companies are attempting to leverage the power of financial information by creating corporate websites to provide such information to employees, investors, and financial analysts. Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL)...
The rapid introduction of microcomputers into organizations throughout the last decade gave new importance to the analysis of how technology impacts organizations. In particular, research on usability has sought to...
This paper provides and overview of the Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents (FIPA) standardization effort in the area of specifying standards for heterogeneous, interoperating agent-bases systems.
...How Much They Would Cost? When it comes to the economic analysis, in China’s ICT market, some facts are: preliminary development stage of Chinese ICT industry, fast growing value of...
...open or close a mature platform involve: 1) backward compatibility with prior platform generations; 2) securing exclusive rights to certain complements; or 3) absorbing complements into the core platform. Over...
...to the literature by studying open source licenses from EC competition law perspective. The question is, what competition law issues are relevant when open source products enter particular software markets....