Knowledge, as intellectual capital, has become the main resource of an organization, and the process of knowledge discovery, acquisition and storage is a very important one. Knowledge discovery can be easily realized through Data Mining, a Machine Learning technique, which allows the discovery...

Like many other modern information technologies, intelligent agents and multiagent systems are used successfully in many economic areas as electronic commerce, marketing or company management. But, technology intelligent agents, multiagent systems by default, can be successfully applied in...

Problem definition: We study customer-centric privacy management in service systems and explore the consequences of extended control over personal information by customers in such systems.Methodology: We adopt a stylized queueing model to capture a service environment that features a service...

This paper aims to describe the conceptual relationship between information and communication technologies (ICT) and competitive intelligence (CI) by emphasizing the role of ICT in support of knowledge processes specific activities relevant to the viability of the organization. Assessing the...

Cloud Computing technology has become an imminent reality by penetrating all the environments. Although the benefits of implementing Cloud Computing solutions are obvious, there is still a reluctance to use them, especially in the banking sector. Some authors have compared the banking...

In this rapidly changing world, the future intelligence competitions will be for rapid knowledge discovery and delivery. How to manage this knowledge has become an important issue in the past few decades, and the knowledge management (KM) community has developed a wide range of technologies and...

The world economy is undergoing dramatic changes, largely driven by the new availability of fine-grained information. Innovative ways of using data—large and small—have also prompted a rethinking of the boundaries for the combination and use of knowledge. The strategic design of information...

We investigate how improvements in organizations’ internal communication technology affect their voluntary disclosure, a form of external communication. By developing a model with a headquarters manager and several divisional managers, we formalize two competing economic forces—information...

The external expectations of organizational accountability force organizational leaders to find solutions and answers in organizational (and information) governance to assuage the feelings of doubt and unease about the behaviour of the organization and its employees that continuously seem to be...

Research into computing resource markets has mainly considered the question of which market mechanisms provide a fair resource allocation. However, while developing such markets, the definition of the unit of trade (i.e. the definition of resource) has not been given much attention. In this...