Key Features:Surveys to help understand changes occurring in the information economySurveys conducted in various countries across the world present a global perspective of the information economySurveys conducted at appropriate time intervals highlight trends brought about by information...

In knowledge-intensive projects, one of the challenges project team leaders often face is how to combine their roles of direction and contribution. In this paper, we propose a game-theoretic model of team leadership of co-productive projects and study how team leaders should combine their...

Business information services are intermediaries that collect, collate, package and distribute information of value to professional users. We consider two technologies that such intermediaries may use for delivering information. First, a packaged design that uses physical media like CD-ROMs to...

We analyzed the planning problem for HIV screening, testing and care. This problem consists of determining the optimal fraction of patients to be screened in every period as well as the optimum staffing level at each part of the health care system to maximize the total health benefits to the...

Most of the large economies in the world are dominated by services, in that services compose more than 50% of their GDP. Even in India, where most of the employment (60%) is in agriculture, services contributed just over 60% of the GDP in 2005. An exception is China, where the industrial sector...