In recent years the air transport industry has experienced unprecedented growth, driven by strong local and global economies. Whether this growth can continue in the face of anticipated oil crises; international economic forecasts and recent influenza outbreaks is yet to be seen. One thing is...

There has been much debate over the past few decades regarding the desirability of implementing an Australian high-speed rail (HSR) system along the nation’s eastern seaboard. The cost of building such infrastructure has meant that governments have been reluctant to pursue its development....

Consumers have different preferences regarding Cloud services. Providers of Cloud services can be limited in their resource capacities or flexibility, and they are exposed to the challenge of how to sell their services efficiently. In this thesis both views are examined. A survey was conducted...

Sustainability has been increasingly recognised as an integral part of highway infrastructure development. In practice however, the fact that financial return is still a project’s top priority for many, environmental aspects tend to be overlooked or considered as a burden, as they add to...

The reality of pervasive computing has nearly been realized, if it has not already. Pervasive computing environments promise ubiquitous connectivity, a plethora of information, and seamless computing support. Despite the advances in infrastructure to deliver on Weiser's original vision for...

Recent corporate reporting history is well–known for its corporate failures andquestionable accountancy practices, many of which caused the profession to befrowned upon. However, the splodge on the accounting profession?s reputationgoes deeper than its corporate reporting failures. The...

Die vorliegende Arbeit ist aufgrund der Beobachtung von wiederkehrenden Phänomenen in der Markenführungspraxis entstanden. Es konnte beobachtet werden, dass trotz einer vorhandenen strategischen Markenführung, eines Markenperformance Measurement und weiteren Instrumenten umfassende...

There are several reasons to assume that political decision making has to solve problems of considerably higher complexity than those to be dealt with in private business. At the same time the data base for describing the consequences of public decision making often is fairly weak. Cosequently,...

Due to increasing interest in sustainable development, today s engineer is often tasked with designing systems that are environmentally benign over their entire life cycles. Unfortunately, environmental assessments commonly suffer from significant uncertainty due to lack of information,...

In dynamic decision environments such as direct sales, customer support, and electronically mediated bargaining, decision makers execute sequences of interdependent decisions under time pressure. Past decision support systems have focused on substituting for decision makers' cognitive deficits...