Business Model Innovation and Firm Performance: The Role of Mediation and Moderation Factors

Business model (BM) innovation is vital for today’s businesses. However, BM innovations can be irreversible, and therefore, in comparison to product, service or process innovation, entail bigger risk and ambiguity. Understanding the way in which BM innovation exerts influences over firm’s performance would help business-owners to be more...

Inventory and rating of performance indicators and organisational features in metropolitan public transport: A worldwide Delphi survey

This paper contributes to the discussion on the ways organisational form of public transport systems may influence its performance. A worldwide Delphi survey with experts in the field is presented. After a three-stage iterative process interspersing questionnaires and controlled feedback the survey produces authoritative inventories and...

The ISPRS benchmark on indoor modelling

Automated generation of 3D indoor models from point cloud data has been a topic of intensive research in recent years. While results on various datasets have been reported in literature, a comparison of the performance of different methods has not been possible due to the lack of benchmark datasets and a common evaluation framework. The ISPRS...

Complex Systems Engineering: Designing in sociotechnical systems for the energy transition

The EU has set ambitious targets for an energy transition. While research often focuses on technology, institutions or actors, a transition requires complex coordination and comprehensive analysis and design. We propose a framework accounting for technology, institutions and actors' perspective to design in socio-technical systems. We present...

Real estate implications of transitions in Dutch health care institutions

Due to structural changes in laws and regulations and ways of financing, Dutch health care organisations are in a phase of reorientation and transition. As such, many strategical issues have to be solved that will influence their corporate real estate strategy. In such a dynamic context real estate represents a high risk. The transition requires...

Facilities management and corporate real estate management: FM/CREM or FREM?

Purpose: This paper aims to explore similarities and dissimilarities between facilities management (FM) and corporate real estate management (CREM) regarding its history and key issues, and whether the similarities may result in a further integration of FM and CREM. Design/methodology/approach: The paper is based on a review of FM and CREM...

A model for evaluating sharing policies for network-assisted HTTP adaptive streaming

HTTP adaptive streaming (HAS) has become the dominant technology for streaming video over the Internet. It gained popularity because of its ability to adapt the video quality to the current network conditions and other appealing properties such as usage of off-the-shelf HTTP servers and easy firewall traversal. However, when multiple HAS...

The Role of Awareness for Complex Planning Task Performance: A Microgaming Study

This study introduces the concept of microgames to support situated learning in order to foster situational awareness (SA) of planners in seaport container terminals. In today’s complex working environments, it is often difficult to develop the required level of understanding of a given situation, described as situational awareness. A container...

Teaching academic staffers’ performance contracting and community service for innovation and academic development in kenya

Performance contracts can be made to work, but there are numerous pitfalls along the way which can punish innovation, success and can erect complex barriers to effective implementation. Performance contracting has largely been considered as the remedy to the quality of service delivery in public universities in Kenya. Performance is the extend...

Socializing by Gaming: Revealing Social Relationships in Multiplayer Online Games

Multiplayer Online Games (MOGs) like Defense of the Ancients and StarCraft II have attracted hundreds of millions of users who communicate, interact, and socialize with each other through gaming. In MOGs, rich social relationships emerge and can be used to improve gaming services such as match recommendation and game population retention, which...

Towards a Systematic Exploration of the Optimization Space for Many-Core Processors

The architecture diversity of many-core processors - with their different types of cores, and memory hierarchies - makes the old model of reprogramming every application for every platform infeasible. Therefore, inter-platform portability has become a desirable feature of programming models. While functional portability is ensured by standards...

Adding value by FM: exploration of management practice in the Netherlands and Denmark

The last decade shows a growing attention into the concept of added value of Facilities Management and Corporate Real Estate Management and how to attain and measure added value. A variety of different types of added value came to the fore such as user value, customer value, financial value, environmental value and relationship value....

Performance measurement in the context of CREM and FM

Purpose: To discuss trends in organisational performance measurement, to identify and discuss widely used performance criteria and key performance indicators (KPIs) in general and in the fields of Facility Management (FM) and Corporate Real Estate Management (CREM), and to identify how a more holistic measurement framework could be used in...

Comparisons and Lessons Learned

Purpose: To create an overview and evaluation of the achievements of the contributions in this book by identifying, summarising and discussing cross-cutting themes and essential learning points across the former chapters.<br/>Methodology: Based on a purposeful reading of all chapters comparisons are made of the essential theoretical perspectives...

Theoretical performance of reiterated LMMSE filtering and coded radar waveforms

Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) waveforms offer strong advantages for integrated communication and radar systems. However, they exhibit inherent high-range sidelobes after matched filtering when standard communication constellation symbols are used for the coding of the carriers. Consequently, they require filtering at the...

Error correcting coding for satellite communications

This report describes the most relevant block- and convolutional codes to be used in satellite communication systems. Design trade-offs are given for the choice of coding techniques in SCPC, TDMA and SS-TDMA communication system,