The paper analyzes the impact of institutional and cultural factors on a remarkable economic activity: the production of so-called open source software (OSS). OSS is marked by free access to the software and its source code. Copyright-based OSS licenses permit users to use, change, improve and...

Open source software (OSS) is marked by free access to the software and its source code. OSS is developed by a 'community' consisting of thousands of contributors from all over the world. Some research was undertaken in order to analyze how global the OSS community actually is, i.e. analyze the...

Die Diplomarbeit befasst sich im zweiten Kapitel mir Datenbanken. Es werden dieAnforderungen an Datenbanken formuliert. Des weiteren wird in diesem Kapitelauf dea ER-Modell und auf SQL eingegangen.Im nächsten Kapitel werden die Methoden und die Datentypen von Java vorgestellt.Im vierten Kapitel...

This paper deals with the sizing of telecommunications networks offering private line service to a few clients...

This paper proposes and tests an approximation of the solution of a class of piecewise deterministic control problems, typically used in the modeling of manufacturing flow processes. This approximation uses a stochastic programming approach on a suitably discretized and sampled system.(...)

This exploratory study examines outsourcing and offshoring of software development by analysing Indian companies in Finland. Based on qualitative data our results support the view that offshore outsourcing decisions are usually cost-driven. Another important motive has been the availability of...