Abstract. Sales cannibalization -i.e., intra-organizational sales diversionbears a prominent role in the competitive upheavals within Information Technology markets. However, detection and measurement thereof have only raised lukewarm interest among Information Systems scholars so far. To their defense, relevant methodological contributions are scattered across several disciplines, base themselves on equivocal definitions of cannibalization, present an overwhelming range of model specifications, and overlap with research on product and technology substitution. Therefore, we provide an interdisciplinary review of the literature on cannibalization, formulate a novel, clear-cut definition of the phenomenon, and clarify its relationship with substitution. Our other contributions are an exhaustive list of the modeling requirements necessary to describe the phenomenon, a compendium of cannibalization measurement models, and a summary of the findings with regard to Information Technology artifacts. This work should provide an adequate foundation and identify promising topics of study for further research endeavors in this domain.
Abstract. Platform competition may engender a substitution process whereby customers and complementors drift from one platform to another. For example, as the aftermath of a competitive race between a general-purpose platform and a single-purpose rival. A case in point is how sales of personal navigation devices (PND) have allegedly been sapped by GPS-enabled smartphones with comparable turn-by-turn navigation functionalities. Using a structural-break unit-root econometric model, the impact of smartphones on the quarterly volume sales of two leading PND manufacturers can be statistically assessed. Such an econometric analysis reveals a significant shift in the level of the underlying stochastic processes and dates the structural change at the third quarter of 2008, when the iOS and Android ecosystems were launched.
The research activities presented in this manuscript are focused on the documentation of a valuable built heritage asset: the Santa Marta bell tower (1769-1772), designed by the Italian architect Bernardo Antonio Vittone and located in the municipality of Montanaro (30 km North-East of Turin, Italy). The documentation of this complex palimpsest was designed to meet the requirements of the decay analysis and to provide a reference for the future restoration and valorisation project. To achieve these objectives a multi-scale and multi-sensor survey was designed and carried out exploiting several geomatics techniques (both range and image based). The fieldwork activities were firstly dedicated to the creation and measurement of a reference topographic network to be used as common local reference system for all the acquisitions as well as a series of control points (both inside and outside the bell towe) to be used for data orientation and accuracy assessment. Secondly, the exterior of the bell tower and its surroundings were imaged by means of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) and a set of Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS) acquisitions. The interior of the bell tower was sensed with two different rapid mapping approaches: using a handheld laser scanner based on the Simultaneous Localisation And Mapping (SLAM) technology and two different 360° cameras. All the acquired data were processed following both consolidated and experimental approaches and then integrated to generate traditional 2D architectural drawings supported by added value metric products. Of particular interest are the tests connected with the processing of the SLAM data and 360° images using a spherical photogrammetric approach that delivered preliminar encouraging results.
Castle Garth is the name of the fortified area once enclosed within the castle walls. In the fifteenth century Newcastle became a county in its own right, however, the Garth, being within the castle walls, remained part of the County of Northumberland. The Great Hall, a building separate from the Castle Fortress (the “Keep”), which in later years became known as the “Old Moot Hall”, was used by courts that sat at regular intervals in every county of England and Wales. The Fortress then became a prison for the County and was used as such until the early nineteenth century. Beginning in the fifteenth century, unlicensed traders, taking advantage of the fact that the city authorities had no jurisdiction over the Garth area, settled there with their commercial activities. From the time of Charles II (1630-1685), the area then became famous for its tailors and shoemakers, who grew particularly abundantly on the path known as “Castle Stairs”. In 1619 the fortified complex was rented by James I to the courtier Alexander Stephenson, who allowed the civilian houses to be built inside the castle walls. After the civil war, new houses were added until, towards the end of the eighteenth century, Castle Garth had become a distinct and densely populated community, with a theater, public houses and lodgings. The main urban transformations were started in the early nineteenth century with the construction of the new Moot Hall called County Court. From 1847 to 1849 the fortified enclosure was partially compromised by further intersections with the infrastructure for the construction of the railway viaduct, thus interrupting direct access from the Castle guarding the Black Gate. Despite the development of the contemporary city has affected the preservation of the ancient fortified palimpsest, a strong consolidated link is still maintained by the sedimentation of values of material and immaterial culture. The proposed contribution intends to present this process of integration between fortified structure and city highlighting today the state of the art, the conservation, restoration and enhancement initiatives undertaken in the last forty years.
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The Internet of Services envisions the trading of services where pricing information is an important aspect to enable cost comparisons. So far, there is a lack of a comprehensive pricing model that can be reused in different settings. XML-based electronic product catalogs are not comprehensive enough and established enterprise applications or billing engines bury their pricing model in the source code. Therefore, we present a directly applicable pricing model in the form of an ontology. We also contribute a runtime environment that determines the price on the basis of a contextaware declarative service description.
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