The shipping network plays an important role in the operation of container liner shipping. It provides a system on which transportation activities take place. This article aims to study the topological structure of the shipping network on the East-West corridor from 1995 to 2011. The theoretical...

Fast, global, and sensitively reacting to political, economic and social events of any kind – these are attributes that social media like Twitter share with foreign exchange markets. Does the former allow us to predict the latter above chance level? The leading assumption of this paper is that...

This study analyzes how attributes of economic activities are related to information and communication technology (ICT) investments. Since ICT can reduce coordination costs by affecting information processing, communication, delays and errors, coordination cost attributes of the activities can...

Regions with low population densities and low income, which may be rural, are far behind in Internet access as compared to their urban counterparts. Economically unsustainable deployments have been suggested as one of the factors with a high negative impact. Researchers using the Delay Tolerant...

This paper intends to unravel the theoretical literature about the relationship between information technology (IT) and survival of firms through assessing and comparing the existing literature about both concepts. A selective review of relevant theoretical literature is embarked upon. In this...

The short-term effect of BitTorrent file-sharing on movie DVD sales is estimated using sales data on newly released DVDs and torrent file downloads during a 13-week period between March and May 2009 in the USA. To overcome endogeneity between downloads and sales, the analysis is carried out in a...

Briscoe et al. IEEE Spectrum, 43(7), 34–39 (<CitationRef CitationID="CR1">2006</CitationRef>) claim that Metcalfe’s law is “wrong”. One of their arguments is that “if Metcalfe’s Law were true, then two networks ought to interconnect regardless of their relative sizes”. This paper shows that this argument is flawed. Copyright...</citationref>

Optimization of an agent-based simulation (ABS) bears specific challenges. It is demonstrated in this paper that mainstream simulation-based optimization (SBO) approaches often do not perform well in such a setting, sometimes hardly outperforming a mere random search. Two new algorithms for SBO...