The purpose of this chapter is to use the theory of bottlenecks laid out in previous chapters to better understand the dynamics of an open standards-based platform. I describe how the Wintel platform evolved from 1990 through 2000 under joint sponsorship of Intel and Microsoft. I first describe...

This research explores the benefits of Companies House (CH) data to businesses, consumers and wider society. The data is accessed billions of times a year. Using a stated preference approach, the study: estimates the willingness of direct users and smaller intermediaries' to pay for CH data;...

The research goal is set in devising a UIT (Usability interface Factors) model in designing user interface when there is a time pressure and investigating the todays software company’s tendency to shift towards shorter-time-to-market phenomena, while still carrying about high quality of User...

We study optimal policies for design reuse in a software project using a control theoretic approach. A project needs to be developed in minimum time by optimally choosing the proportion of effort allocated towards design activities. We first consider a local case, where the benefits of design...