Рассматривается концепция двухуровневой модели неоднородной дискетной управляемой системы и связанные с ней алгоритмы оптимизации управления. Предлагается...

Scholars have established that team membership has wide-ranging effects on cognition, dynamics, processes and performance. Underlying that scholarship is the assumption that team membership – who is and who is not a team member – is straightforward, unambiguous and agreed upon by all...

Software development projects are complex. Coupled with technical factors, anomalies that are environment-contingent often influence such projects. Human capital, being a vital resource for project delivery, undoubtedly plays a critical role in software development projects but studies that...

Indian software industry experienced a phenomenal growht throughout 1990s. In spite of worldwide recessionary trends in the software industry, Indian software industry is expected to play a much bigger role in the new millenium for the growht of Indian economy. In the light of the research...

Innovation requires sources of novelty, but the challenge is that not all sources lead to innovation, so its value needs to be determined. However, since ways of determining value stem from existing knowledge this often creates barriers to innovation. To understand how people address the...

The focus of existing open source software (OSS) research has been on how and why individuals and firms add to the commons of public OSS code - that is, on the “giving” side of this open innovation process. In contrast, research on the corresponding “receiving” side of the innovation...

An important provision in each of the final judgments in the government's Microsoft antitrust case requires Microsoft "make available" to software developers the communications protocols that Windows client operating systems use to interoperate "natively" (that is, without adding software) with...

The rivalry between developers of open source and proprietary software encourages open source developers to court users and respond to their needs. If the open source developer wants to promote her own open source standard and solutions, she may choose liberal license terms such as those of the...

As the competition in the software development business grows fiercer, the features provided in the software become more and more important. With the growing popularity of open source software and the advent of new software delivery models, such as software-as-a-service, the traditional software...