We develop and test a model of key determinants of software sales based on characteristics of a firm's business scope and network position - especially, cluster coefficient, degree centrality, partner diversity and linkage scope diversity. We use data on a sample of 509 firms in the packaged...

This paper tackles two main disparities between conceptual data schemes and ontologies, which should be taken into account when (re)using conceptual data modeling techniques for building ontologies. Firstly, conceptual schemes are intended to be used during design phases and not at the run-time...

Sell Globally and Shop Globally have been seen as a potential benefit of web-enabled electronic business. One important step toward realizing this benefit is to know how things are selling in various parts of the world. A global price comparison service would address this need. But there have...

Much work has been done in recent times to answer the question of why people contribute, and continue to contribute, to open-source and free software, despite the lack of immediate financial gain in most cases. Lerner and Tirole (2002) hypothesize that open-source contributions act as a form of...

A software specification language Templar is defined in this article. The development of thelanguage was guided by the following objectives: requirements specifications written in Templarshould have a clear syntax and formal semantics, should be easy for a systems analyst to developand for an...

Computer chargeback systems are installed to meet various dataprocessing objectives. One objective is to increase user involvementin decisions regarding information systems development and use.Presumably, increasing user involvement will result in more effectiveinformation systems.In a field...

Knowledge bases constitute the core of those Artificial Intelligenceprograms which have come to be known as Expert Systems. Anexamination of the most dominant knowledge representation schemes usedin these systems reveals that a knowledge base can, and possiblyshould, be described at several...

Current planning and control procedures for large-scale software projects are not sufficientlyequipped to deal with changing or imprecise requirements, resource breakdowns,unexpected delays, etc. We propose a solution for managing change inprojects, based on a semantic model of the software...

A software specification language Templar is defined. The language is based on temporallogic and on the Activity-Event-Condition-Activity model of a rule which is an extension ofthe Event-Condition-Activity model in active databases. The language supports a rich setof modeling primitives,...

Software reuse in the presence of a repository and object-based CASE tool is likely to be biased. Prior research has shown that a developer will be: (1) most likely to reuse her own objects; (2) somewhat less likely to reuse objects developed by her project team members; and, (3) even less...