It is common practice in Benefit - Cost analysis to consider freight transport time savings (FTTS) as a benefit for both transport producing and consuming companies. While transportation projects and policies resulting in FTTS are expected to have a positive effect on carriers' performance...

This paper seeks to contribute to the debate on the impact of the adoption of information technologies (ICT) in poverty reduction by understanding how the poor obtain, share and use ICT on their everyday life - what we call the informational lives of the poor. It identifies the opportunities and...

Smart home technology, an application of Internet of Things (IoT), provides householders with e.g., comfort, control and convenience. The technology has been around for sometimes, but its prevalence is not yet widespread, and thus the potentials have largely been underestimated. This paper aims...

AI has been through several booms and we have currently reached the 3rd AI boom. Although AI has been evolving over six decades it seems that the current boom is different from the previous booms. In this paper, we attempt to elucidate the issues for widespread adoption of AI in firms. Through...

Since the mid-2010s, the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) has increased both people's expectations and their anxieties. Technology-centered optimism is largely widespread, hoping that AI will lead to a blessing of human life and society by maximizing productivity and efficiency....

Recently, smart home services have been highlighted as the Internet of things market grows. Since the smart home services were introduced in the market, they were expected to grow rapidly. However, the smart home market recently experienced chasm, and still remains in early stage. This paper...