...that human institutions can make it, compensated by the increased utility generated by the various property rights in question. The appropriate approach to intellectual property is not abolition but fine-tuning...
The complexity of modern technology, especially its system character, has led to an increase the number and variety of standards that affect a single industry or market. Standards affect the...
This paper examines the strategic use of standardization policy to give domestic firms and technology sellers an advantage, especially when competing for foreign markets. Can the imposition of a standard...
This paper examines the possibility that consumers will adopt an inefficient standard. When there are successive generations of consumers, the current generation will not consider the costs and benefits to...
The article presents a stochastic interaction model based on Gibbs random fields to analyze technological competition in a population of heterogeneous adopters with local or global externalities. The relationships between...
...lead to too little standardization, committees may overcome this deficiency to some extent, but bureaucracies are likely to lead to overstandardization. In the empirical section of the paper it has...
Numerous agencies and agent systems have been developed as vehicles to deliver novel types of e-commerce services to users. However service agents in one agency are often unable to interoperate...
This article describes various efforts to address security in three areas of the Internet protocol suite: the Internet Protocol itself (IPsec), the domain between transport and application layer (the Secure...
...architectures. In the area of Grid computing, which aims at providing a distributed computing architecture and infrastructure for science and engineering, web services have become an important piece of the...
In this paper, we examine issues related to the standardization of DRM systems or, more generally, IPMP systems. Rationale behind the need for standardization, targets of standardization and some general...