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"This book provides a wide range of coverage on the adoption of technology, providing a better understanding of the topics, research and discoveries in this significant field"--

"This book identifies the multidimensional impact of e-adoption and provides theoretical and practical solutions for policy makers, managers, and researchers in government, industry, and academia"--Provided by publisher

The distributed corporate networking technology environments of the 1970s and 1980s are gaining new life, only this time the move toward distributed networks is being led by upstart application service providers (ASPs). Organizations of the twenty‐first century are going to be Web‐centric and focus their objectives on agility and cost savings. Pressure to reduce overhead in information technology (IT) pushes these organizations to consider outsourcing. With the use of Internet technology, a new alternative for IT outsourcing has evolved. ASPs allow companies to access and run software applications over the Internet on a subscription basis. By using the Web as an application platform, an enterprise can quickly and easily deploy new systems in response to market changes as well as reap the savings of using a single, standard platform. Recently, there has been a tremendous growth in the number of ASPs. This growth in ASPs has raised several issues and challenges that need to be resolved to realize the potential benefits of ASPs. Discusses the developments in ASPs, outlines the activities of various kinds of ASPs, describes the ASP business models, and examines the issues and challenges facing ASPs for their future success.

AbstractResearchers and practitioners in system dynamics usually follow a trial‐and‐error process to design new policy decisions. They mainly use influence diagrams for this purpose. However, these diagrams portray the direction of influence but not its strength. Therefore, the process of policy design becomes time‐consuming, especially for beginners and those working with insufficient computer facilities. This paper presents an alternative approach for policy design using modal control theory. Policy variables are treated as control variables by delinking them from other variables. This generally leads to greatly simplified models that are free from many nonlin‐earities. Provided that this reduced system is linear and controllable, it is possible to synthetically generate control policies by modal control theory to ensure any prescribed degree of stability. These theoretical control policies then can be used to design realistic policy decisions. This approach has been used in a test example.

"This book Systems addresses the field of enterprise systems covering progressive technologies, leading theories, and advanced applications"--Provided by publisher