Client server computing and cooperative processing

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Exploring a new incubation model for FinTechs: Regulatory sandboxes

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A Survey Comparison of Virtual and In Situ Leadership Competencies

Leaders support many workplace configurations that do not rely on the collocation of leaders and followers and may exhibit different interaction competencies with employees. There was limited understanding about these leadership competencies required in virtual work environments. The purpose of this nonexperimental study was to examine the relationship between the percentages of time spent weekly as a virtual leader (IV) and 6 leadership competencies (DVs), such as a leader\u27s vision and values. The theoretical framework was based on Sandstrom and Smith\u27s legacy leadership model. Study participants were randomly selected from LinkedIn.com forums (N = 93). Data were collected using the Legacy Leadership Competency Inventory LLCI instrument and analyzed using linear regression to assess the effect of percentage of work time as a virtual leader on a summative score for all answers on the LLCI and each of 5 competency indicators. Significant relationships between the IV and 2 DVs were identified: supporting leadership inspiration through communication and diverse team leadership. Findings may assist managers to improve leadership development, hiring, and support with global teams. One recommendation would be to extend the study participation to more diverse population groups to obtain better data. Implications of positive social change could be a reduction in costs to employers based on improved leadership competencies leading to more effective management. Employees could benefit from more enlightened leadership leading to a healthier workplace. Finally, customers might benefit from lower costs from more effective organizations

ENABLING UTXO-BASED BACKWARDS AND FORWARDS TRACEABILTY

Increased regulation creates challenging requirements for production environments, changes mindsets, breaks off IT silos, and creates IT landscapes with greater integration. Many researchers and practitioners hope to meet future product traceability requirements beyond one\u27s company borders using DLT approaches. However, interdisciplinary teams still face different organizational and technical integration and standardization challenges in supply networks. This paper uses a Design Science Research (DSR) approach to consolidate confusing event terminologies in supply chains and develops a modified UTXO token considering EPCIS 2.0 standards. The results present an evaluated input-output traceability system (IOTS) that maps holistic meta-events. We use a simple cross-organizational example and visualization tools that multiple organizations can use to ensure efficient and easy backward and forward traceability of objects and events. Finally, we conclude the results with a detailed discussion and future research directions

Satellite Capabilities Mapping - Utilizing Small Satellites

The cost and schedule advantages small satellites have over larger legacy systems have been studied, but there has been very little experimentation performed to determine whether small satellites can actually deliver the capabilities of larger spacecraft. To date, a desired operational capability has not been fully realized by a scalable satellite design. Advances in sensor technology have led to significant reductions in size, weight, and power (SWaP) presenting an opportunity to exploit the evolution of space operations by using small satellites to perform specific missions. This paper describes a methodology that maps a specific set of large space vehicle capabilities to CubeSats. The process examines the utility of advanced sensors. Space weather has been identified as an excellent mission area to exploit the potential of small satellites. Advances in micro-electronics have produced sensors with reduced SWaP, making them viable test subjects. Mapping capabilities to a single or constellation of small satellites, could provide solutions and affordable options to the adverse challenges facing space operations. The methodology developed here selects sensor of the National Polar-Orbiting Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Space Environmental Sensor Suite (SESS) and maps them to a CubeSat illustrating a small satellite can perform an operational mission

ERP implementation methodologies and frameworks: a literature review

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) implementation is a complex and vibrant process, one that involves a combination of technological and organizational interactions. Often an ERP implementation project is the single largest IT project that an organization has ever launched and requires a mutual fit of system and organization. Also the concept of an ERP implementation supporting business processes across many different departments is not a generic, rigid and uniform concept and depends on variety of factors. As a result, the issues addressing the ERP implementation process have been one of the major concerns in industry. Therefore ERP implementation receives attention from practitioners and scholars and both, business as well as academic literature is abundant and not always very conclusive or coherent. However, research on ERP systems so far has been mainly focused on diffusion, use and impact issues. Less attention has been given to the methods used during the configuration and the implementation of ERP systems, even though they are commonly used in practice, they still remain largely unexplored and undocumented in Information Systems research. So, the academic relevance of this research is the contribution to the existing body of scientific knowledge. An annotated brief literature review is done in order to evaluate the current state of the existing academic literature. The purpose is to present a systematic overview of relevant ERP implementation methodologies and frameworks as a desire for achieving a better taxonomy of ERP implementation methodologies. This paper is useful to researchers who are interested in ERP implementation methodologies and frameworks. Results will serve as an input for a classification of the existing ERP implementation methodologies and frameworks. Also, this paper aims also at the professional ERP community involved in the process of ERP implementation by promoting a better understanding of ERP implementation methodologies and frameworks, its variety and history

Survey and Analysis of Production Distributed Computing Infrastructures

This report has two objectives. First, we describe a set of the production distributed infrastructures currently available, so that the reader has a basic understanding of them. This includes explaining why each infrastructure was created and made available and how it has succeeded and failed. The set is not complete, but we believe it is representative. Second, we describe the infrastructures in terms of their use, which is a combination of how they were designed to be used and how users have found ways to use them. Applications are often designed and created with specific infrastructures in mind, with both an appreciation of the existing capabilities provided by those infrastructures and an anticipation of their future capabilities. Here, the infrastructures we discuss were often designed and created with specific applications in mind, or at least specific types of applications. The reader should understand how the interplay between the infrastructure providers and the users leads to such usages, which we call usage modalities. These usage modalities are really abstractions that exist between the infrastructures and the applications; they influence the infrastructures by representing the applications, and they influence the ap- plications by representing the infrastructures