Global shipping is a self-organizing ecosystem that is critical to the world economy, a growing generator of carbon emissions, an EU target for digitization, and under-served by IS scholars. The global shipping industry is essential for the global economy, as around 90% of the world's trade is...

Cooperative aspects of multiple criteria decision making with respect to cost allocation in a network will be studied. The vector valued costs of a graph that connects a group of geographically scattered users to a common source have to be distributed among the users. Here a specific class of...

Five years ago, in his piece on capacity markets, Jay Morrison discussed what he then viewed as the anticompetitive and arbitrary aspects of FERC’s shifting Minimum Offer Price Rules (MOPR) and their interference with private ordering and state policymaking. MOPRs allow administrative bodies,...

Three propositions are put forward as a conceptual foundation for Information Systems as an initial step towards creating a foundation for the field, which has operated for half a century by borrowing theory from elsewhere

Renewables have become an economically viable alternative to fossil fuels for electricity generation. Managing their intermittency, however, is an information-intensive problem that will require a massive digital transformation of the current electricity system. A comprehensive digital...

Digital twins have great potential for improving urban management. However, the way that they are formulated seems to vary according to the aims of the urban management taking place. For instance, digital twins are made sophisticated and innovative when the urban manager wants to demonstrate...