I examine the possible impact of venture capital (VC) backing on the commercialization direction of technology-based start-ups by asking: to what extent (if at all) do VC-backed s...
Computer games have increasingly been the focus of user-led innovations in the form of game mods. This paper examines how different kinds of socio-technical affordances serve to o...
Abstract. This text describes how persistent object system technology developed in European basic research is being used by a small German startup software company to realize innov...
Andreas Gawecki, Florian Matthes, Joachim W. Schmi...
The origins of chart graphics (e.g., bar charts and line charts) are well known, with the seminal event being the publication of William Playfair´s (1759-1823) ¨The Commercial a...
Eriola Kruja, Joe Marks, Ann Blair, Richard C. Wat...
Many decades of work have been invested in the area of distributed transactions including protocols such as 2PC, Paxos, and various approaches to quorum. These protocols provide t...