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    Resource allocation model for sensor clouds under the sensing as a service paradigm

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    The Sensing as a Service is emerging as a new Internet of Things (IoT) business model for sensors and data sharing in the cloud. Under this paradigm, a resource allocation model for the assignment of both sensors and cloud resources to clients/applications is proposed. This model, contrarily to previous approaches, is adequate for emerging IoT Sensing as a Service business models supporting multi-sensing applications and mashups of Things in the cloud. A heuristic algorithm is also proposed having this model as a basis. Results show that the approach is able to incorporate strategies that lead to the allocation of fewer devices, while selecting the most adequate ones for application needs.FCT (Foundation for Science and Technology) from Portugal within CEOT (Center for Electronic, Optoelectronic and Telecommunications) UID/MULTI/00631/2019info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

    RELIGIO-CENTRIC SELLING STRATEGY IN THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MARKET SENSING CAPABILITIESAND THE SMEs BUSINESS PERFORMANCE

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    This paper aims to investigate and examine the mediating role of religio-centric selling strategy in relation to market sensing capabilities with SMEs business performance in religious-based industries. This paper selected 330 Muslim SMEs in Central Java and tested the regressive relationships of the three constructs. Through confirmatory factor analysis and goodness of fit model testing using SEM, the results of market sensing capabilities obtained have a positive effect on the religio-centric selling strategy and SMEs business performance. In addition, the religio-centric selling strategy also has a positive impact on SMEs business performance. Therefore, the religio-centric selling strategy really acts as a partial mediation in relation to market sensing capabilities with SMEs business performance. By examining the literature on various marketing capabilities, selling strategies, religiosity, and SMEs business performance, this paper offers a unique analysis of the relationship between market sensing capabilities and religio-centric selling strategy and their impact on SMEs business performance. Conceptual discussions and empirical results are expected to extend previous research on the culture of market orientation and selling strategy in specific religious-based small businesses

    LEARNING STYLES OF EGYPTIAN BUSINESS STUDENTS

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    The Index of Learning Styles (ILS) instrument based on the Felder-Silverman Learning Style Model was used to determine distribution of learning styles of eighty Egyptian business students enrolled in an Egyptian institution of higher education. Results show that Egyptian business students surveyed in this study prefer sensing, visual, active, and sequential learning styles over intuitive, verbal, reflective, and global learning styles respectively. The majority of business students have a balanced learning style in all four dimensions of the Felder-Silverman model. Gender difference in learning style preference was statistically significant for only two of the four dimensions. The small gender difference was deemed inconsequential for designing teaching and learning methods. More than 85 percent of Egyptian business students are likely to benefit from teaching methods geared toward sensing, visual, active, and sequential learners

    Exploring Dynamic Capabilities in Open Business Models: The Case of a Public-Private Sector Partnership

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    The case explores and offers insight into the boundary-spanning dynamic capabilities evidenced by the entrepreneurial CEO of a private-sector family-owned firm from the sensing, seizing and transforming/reconfiguring perspectives during the opportunity identification, evaluation and pursuit of the co-creation of a public-private sector partnership in collaboration with the CEO of a public-sector firm. This partnership, which is situated in a city-region in the North of England, is seen through the lens of an open business model whereby value is co-created and captured outside the boundary of a single firm, and which involves significant financial uncertainty being assigned from the public to the private sector

    Analisis Transformasi Kapabilitas Penyedia Layanan Broadband Perusahaan Telekomunikasi Indonesia

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    Abstrak. Lingkungan bisnis layanan broadband di era bisnis digital sedang mengalami situasi turbulensi, ditandai dengan meningkatnya persaingan bisnis. Persaingan bisnis tidak hanya berasal dari sesama penyedia layanan broadband namun juga dengan Over The Top (OTT). Respon yang dapat dilakukan oleh penyedia layanan broadband adalah mengubah kemampuan. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah menganalisis faktor-faktor yang berpengaruh dan membangun model transformasi kapabilitas penyedia layanan broadband perusahaan telekomunikasi Indonesia. Teknik analisis yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa turbulensi lingkungan mempengaruhi profil kapabilitas manajemen dan sensing data analytics. Profil kapabilitas manajemen mempengaruhi sensing data analytics, seizing, transforming, dan kinerja perusahaan. Selanjutnya, sensing data analytics mempengaruhi seizing dan seizing mempengaruhi transforming. Kemudian, transforming mempengaruhi kinerja perusahaan. Untuk implikasi manajerial, penelitian ini menyarankan bahwa pada turbulensi lingkungan yang tinggi, perusahaan perlu melakukan matching kapabilitas terhadap turbulensi lingkungan dan perlu meningkatkan profil kapabilitas manajemen yang mempunyai keunikan. Kinerja perusahaan akan optimal apabila peningkatan profil kapabilitas manajemen melalui 3 aktifitas kapabilitas dinamik yaitu sensing data analytics, seizing, dan transforming.Kata kunci: Kapabilitas dinamik, SEM, sensing data analytics, seizing, transformingAbstract. The business environment of broadband services in the era of digital business is experiencing turbulence situation, marked by increasing business competition. Business competition comes not only from fellow but also Over The Top (OTT) service providers. The response that a broadband service provider can make is transforming capabilities. The objective of this study is to analyze the influential factors and to build the capability transformation model of broadband service providers of the Indonesian telecommunication companies. The analytical technique used in this study was Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). The results showed that environmental turbulence affects the profile of management capability and sensing data analytics. The profile of management capability influences sensing data analytics, seizing, transforming and company performance. Further, the sensing data analytics affects the seizing and then seizing affects the transforming. Later, the transforming affects the company performance. For managerial implications, this study suggests that on high environmental turbulence, firms need to match the capabilities of environmental turbulence and need to enhance the profile of management capabilities that are unique. Company performance will be optimal if the improvement of management capability profile through 3 dynamic capability activities that are sensing data analytics, seizing, and transforming.Keywords: Dynamic capability, SEM, sensing data analytics, seizing, transformin

    Techno-economic evaluation of cognitive radio in a factory scenario

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    Wireless applications gradually enter every aspect of our life. Unfortunately, these applications must reuse the same scarce spectrum, resulting in increased interference and limited usability. Cognitive Radio proposes to mitigate this problem by adapting the operational parameters of wireless devices to varying interference conditions. However, it involves an increase in cost. In this paper we examine the economic balance between the added cost and the increased usability in one particular real-life scenario. We focus on the production floor of an industrial installation where wireless sensors monitor production machinery, and a wireless LAN is used as the data backbone. We examine the effects of implementing dynamic spectrum access by means of ideal RE sensing, and model the benefit in terms of increased reliability and battery lifetime. We estimate the financial cost of interference and the potential gain, and conclude that cognitive radio can bring business gains in real-life applications

    Does Culture Influence Learning Styles of Business Students? A Comparative Study of Two Cultures

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    This paper presents the usage of the Index of Learning Styles (ILS) instrument based on the Felder-Silverman Learning Style Model to investigate the influence of culture on learning style distribution of business students. Western culture was represented by the United States and was compared with middle-eastern culture represented by Egypt. Results of this study show that majority of business students have a balanced learning style in each of the four learning style dimensions of the Felder-Silverman model both in the U. S. and in Egypt. Difference in learning style distribution of business students between the U. S. and Egypt was statistically significant only for the sensing-intuitive and visual-verbal dimensions of the Felder-Silverman model. The difference was not statistically significant for the active-reflective and the sequential-global dimensions

    Studying innovation ecosystems using ecology theory

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    This paper proposes a set of perspectives for studying innovation ecosystems that are based on ecological research. Our perspectives are based on fundamental similarities between natural and business systems. We suggest that innovation ecosystems can be defined as pathways of interlinked business models. Pathways are characterised by the flows they convey not the types of business model that support the flows. These pathways convey material and informational resources, as well as value. Like the nutrient and energy pathways in natural ecosystems. Pathways help to recycle scarce resources such as customer attention and customer-derived information. Business model descriptions are similar to an organism’s genome in that they describe limitations on sensing, acting and understanding. We conceptualise this as the ‘umwelt’; the self-world. These limitations have implications for how firms and customers interact with customers. They have other implications for how firms interact with each other in business model communities and how they accommodate each other. We illustrate and test these ecological perspectives using a case study of a healthcare smartphone app’s ecosystem. We find that our perspectives can be used as novel methods of studying interactions between business models; or to study ecosystem building
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