Framework for Analyzing the Implications of Architectural Solutions to Market Structures

Abstract

Understanding the economical effects of a technology has become more and more important. This has created a need for a conceptual framework to analyze the economic implications of technologies already in their design stage. So far, most of the research has been done in retrospect. Our framework is an organized approach to analyze this complex multidisciplinary task. The framework is experimented by analysing a case of a personalized mobile context-aware community web calendar. The market structure analysis concentrates on three solutions designed for the collection and distribution of user context and community information, an essential functionality for the service being developed.