It is the growing societal interest about the individual and its behaviour in our and modern societies which is asking for microanalyses about the individual situation. In order to allow these microanalyses on a quantitative and empirically based level microsimulation models were developed and...

This study provides background information on the evolving library systems market in Europe, with a view to encouraging indigenous library systems suppliers to participate more actively in collaborative research and development projects. The study included two surveys, firstly of libraries and...

This report contains information on the 101 projects (92 application experiments and nine dissemination actions) launched in the pilot phase of the European systems and software initiative (ESSI), a group of actions aimed at promoting the adoption of software best practice. After a short...

In this study we compared seven commercial Software packages for project management. Employing multi attribute value theory, the comparison is based on a sound decision-theoretic framework. Additionally, we included a comprehensive assessment of the capability to solve resource-constrained...

This study assesses the quality of seven commercial project management packages to schedule precedence- and resource-constrained projects. We introduce the basic project scheduling model and give a short survey of optimal and heuristic Solution methods. Furthermore, we outline extensions of the...

This paper develops and estimates cost-of-living indexes (e.g., Fisher and Griliches [1995]) for measuring buyer benefits from technical change in the commercial mainframe computer industry in the 1980s. For this purpose we use a micro-econometric model of demand for product characteristics...