Emerging technologies like sensors, mobile devices and internet-of-things enable a new range of smart home services that go beyond simple home automation. The service platforms, on which these services run, are highly disparate based on different technological as well as organizational...

Collaboration between government, the private sector and citizens is deemed critical to further improve the quality and effectiveness of public services. However, the stage models describing and guiding the development of e-government do not or only rarely cover external collaboration for...

Many firms hesitate to share data via a Trusted Third Party (TTP) due to the risk of exposing sensitive information to competitors. Multi-party computation (MPC) is a cryptographic technology that removes the need for TTPs in data sharing, as it allows conducting computations without having to...

Purpose Information and digital literacy have recently received much interest, and they are being viewed as critical strategic organisational resources and skills that employees need to obtain in order to function at their workplaces. Yet, the role of employees' literacy seems to be neglected in...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study what motivates small businesses to engage in collective action, especially in high-tech industry. Design/methodology/approach – Application domain is smart living industry, in which installation companies offer ICT-enabled solutions for smart...

Cascading failures are one of the main reasons for large scale blackouts in power transmission grids. Secure electrical power supply requires, together with careful operation, a robust design of the electrical power grid topology. Currently, the impact of the topology on grid robustness is...

Cascading failures are one of the main reasons for blackouts in electric power transmission grids. The economic cost of such failures is in the order of tens of billion dollars annually. The loading level of power system is a key aspect to determine the amount of the damage caused by cascading...