ENGLISH ABSTRACT:Knowledge is increasingly being recognised as the key element to an organisation’s sustainabilityand competitiveness. Knowledge assets refer to organisational resources made of or incorporatingknowledge. These assets ultimately create the ability for an organisation to carry...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT:Marketing practitioners and academics are increasingly applying the concepts and techniquesof products or services branding to the branding of destinations. To date, most of thesestudies focussed on using product and services branding concepts for branding destinationson the...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT:Municipalities in South Africa, especially rural ones, have been struggling to deliver servicesto communities to the extent that government placed those worse-off under ProjectConsolidate. The implementation of Project Consolidate indicate that the capability ofmunicipalities to...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT:In an effort to streamline operations and focus on what they regard as core activities, a growingnumber of organizations from both developed and developing countries are increasingly lookingto outsource their software development and maintenance activities to lower cost...

In the fast-changing environment of today, organisations have a tendency to change theirstrategy to be able to adapt to changing circumstances. It has become increasinglyimportant for organisations to remain competitive in the marketplace. The managementof organisations is therefore showing more...

Bayesian networks (BNs) have proven to be a modeling framework capable of capturing uncertain knowledge and have been applied successfully in many domains for over 25 years. The strength of Bayesian networks lies in the graceful combination of probability theory and a graphical structure...

Wireless ad hoc and sensor networks have received attention from research communities over the last several years. The ability to operate without a fixed infrastructure is suitable for a wide range of applications which in many cases require protection from security attacks. One of the first...

Citywide wireless fidelity (WiFi) offers an opportunity for municipalities and BISPs to break through the duopoly broadband market structure that is prevalent in the US. Although municipal WiFi offers low deployment cost, short building time, high capacity, and wide coverage, the competition...

Wireless communications rely on access to radio spectrum. With a continuing proliferation of wireless applications and services, the spectrum resource becomes scarce. The measurement studies of spectrum usage, however, reveal that spectrum is being used sporadically in many geographical areas...

One of the major areas for research and investment related to the Internet is the provision of quality of service (QoS). We remain confident that in the not-to-distance future, QoS will be introduced not only in private networks but in the whole Internet. QoS will bring some new features into...