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Barykin, Sergey Yevgenievich, Irina Vasilievna Kapustina, Tatiana Viktorovna Kirillova, Vladimir Konstantinovich Yadykin, and Yevgenii Aleksandrovich Konnikov. "Economics of Digital Ecosystems." Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity 6, no. 4 (October 22, 2020): 124. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/joitmc6040124.
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This paper examines a new approach to defining digital ecosystems. Within the digital economy of ecosystems, competition is eliminated, and organizations form unions and alliances in order to work together and cooperate to reach a set goal. This means a digital ecosystem can be viewed as a complex environment in which organizations without any hard ties operate. Digital ecosystems differ from traditional ecosystems in many ways. The business organization of the latter is based on management decision making by people. This paper presents theoretical foundations for developing digital ecosystems based on a literary review. Based on the logic of scientific search using the keywords “ecosystem” and “biological ecosystem”, the commonality of the properties of the digital ecosystem and the biological ecosystem is shown. The aim of the study is to identify common characteristics in biological, economic and digital ecosystems in order to substantiate the possibility of using the same approaches for research and modeling of such systems. A definition of a digital ecosystem is proposed by the authors which points out the main features of this kind of system and highlights the dominant role of modern digital technologies in the formation of the digital ecosystem. The paper looks at the distinctive features of digital ecosystems and characteristics similar to the characteristics of biological ecosystems, such as ecosystem participants, presence of limiting impacts, lack of vertical hierarchical communication. The developed model can be used to model digital ecosystems. The authors believe that the emergence of a trend in the transformation of ecosystems in the direction of expanding the collaboration of economic agents is reasonable. At the same time, digitalization helps to replace competition with collaboration. The paper finishes with a discussion of the obtained results and a plan for further research.
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Ryoo, Joohan. "THE EVOLUTION OF FINTECH INDUSTRY: THE ROLE OF INTERACTION BETWEEN DISRUPTIVE INNOVATION AND ECOSYSTEM." Advances in Mathematics: Scientific Journal 10, no. 2 (March 4, 2021): 1095–118. http://dx.doi.org/10.37418/amsj.10.2.36.
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Disruptive innovations have radically transformed many industries at a time of information and communication technology and fourth industrialization. Salient examples such as Apple, Google, and Facebook reveal how disruptive innovations often emerge at the ecosystem or system level rather than individual firms. Unfortunately, there has been little attention in the academic literature about the role of ecosystem development and the evolution of disruptive innovations. To overcome the chasm, this study introduces the concepts of disruptive innovation ecosystems and clarifies how the financial technology (FinTech) ecosystem has transformed the financial service industry. Finally, this study discusses the evolution of the FinTech ecosystem and proposes a future research agenda on disruptive innovations and ecosystems. Our study shows that disruptive innovation ecosystems are deserving of further attention.
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Shin, Yunne-Jai, and Lynne J. Shannon. "Using indicators for evaluating, comparing, and communicating the ecological status of exploited marine ecosystems. 1. The IndiSeas project." ICES Journal of Marine Science 67, no. 4 (December 16, 2009): 686–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsp273.
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Abstract Shin, Y-J., and Shannon, L. J. 2010. Using indicators for evaluating, comparing and communicating the ecological status of exploited marine ecosystems. 1. The IndiSeas project. – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 67: 686–691. One of the challenges faced by the scientific community grappling with the ecosystem approach to fisheries is to propose a generic set of synthetic ecological indicators, which would accurately reflect the effects of fisheries on marine ecosystems, and could support sound communication and management practices. The IndiSeas Working Group was established in 2005 under the auspices of the Eur-Oceans Network of Excellence to develop methods to provide indicators-based assessments of the status of exploited marine ecosystems in a comparative framework. Here, we present the two main outputs of the first phase of the project: a suite of papers documenting a combination of indicator-based methods and results comparing the ecological status of the world's exploited marine ecosystems, and a website aiming to communicate these results beyond scientific audiences.
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Sazanova, S. L. "Classification of Business Ecosystems of the Russian Territory Bordering China." Scientific notes of the Russian academy of entrepreneurship 19, no. 4 (January 26, 2021): 43–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.24182/2073-6258-2020-19-4-43-51.
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The theory of business ecosystems is becoming more and more popular in modern economic science, there is more and more applied research of business ecosystems in individual industries and territories. At the same time, there is no unified classification of business ecosystems in modern economic science. The works of Russian and foreign scientists mention digital ecosystems, technological ecosystems, communication ecosystems, but they are all considered in the sectoral and / or cross-sectoral context, without any connection with a specific territory. Thus, despite the initially ecological primary source of the concept of "ecosystem", the territorial aspect of business ecosystems is insufficiently studied, in our opinion. The article provides a classification of business ecosystems of the Russian border with China on the basis of a systemic economic approach for further study, forecasting and management of socio-economic ecosystems of business in border areas.
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Kleiner, Georgy, Maksim Rybachuk, and Venera Karpinskaya. "Development of ecosystems in the financial sector of Russia." Upravlenets 11, no. 4 (September 4, 2020): 2–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.29141/2218-5003-2020-11-4-1.
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The paper examines the problems and factors in the development of ecosystems in the financial sector and related sectors of economy. It demonstrates the prospects for expanding the population of ecosystems in both the global financial market and the Russian banking system. Special focus is on two main prerequisites for the ecosystem development: digitalization of the entire economy and the emergence of innovative information-communication technologies in the financial sector (fintech). The study aims to juxtapose theoretical concepts and definitions of ecosystem with the real practice in Russia and the prospects for the development of ecosystems in the financial sector in order to produce recommendations on activating and regulating the transition from a traditional to an ecosystem economic model. Methodologically, the research rests on system economic theory, which implies that economy is a field for creating, interacting and developing socio-economic systems of various kinds – object-, process-, project- and environment-based systems. Within the framework of this approach, an ecosystem includes: an organizational component represented by a cluster as an object-based subsystem; infrastructure – an information-technological platform as an environment-based subsystem; communication and logistics component – a network as a process-based subsystem; innovative component – a business incubator as a project-based subsystem. Ecosystems in the financial sector are analyzed for compliance with this requirements. We scrutinize the case of FinTech Association as the most technologically advanced community of banking institutions. The research methods are content analysis, ranking score and logical grouping of research objects. The findings show that it is expedient to create a regulating institution that combines the functions similar to those of the FAS of the RF and the Central Bank of the RF in relation to the ecosystems’ activities.
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Ravkin, Yu S., V. P. Sedel’nikov, M. G. Sergeev, A. A. Titlyanova, V. A. Khmelev, I. N. Bogomolova, and S. M. Tsybulin. "Spatial-typological differentiation of ecosystems of the West Siberian Plain. Communication V: Terrestrial ecosystems." Contemporary Problems of Ecology 4, no. 6 (December 2011): 568–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1134/s1995425511060026.
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Kobylko, Alexander. "Telecommunication ecosystems: Special features of management and interaction." Upravlenets 11, no. 1 (March 4, 2020): 15–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.29141/2218-5003-2020-11-1-2.
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The article explores the current situation in the telecommunications industry. The current analysis is based on the dual nature of the telecom operator, which can be regarded as an independent ecosystem company and as an infrastructure basis for implementing the model by companies engaged in other areas of the economy. Diversification of services leads to the formation of ecosystems of hightech companies. The methodological framework of the study includes theoretical principles of the ecosystem approach and the theory of management of complex systems. The research methods are deduction, comparison and classification. In the course of the analysis of the telecommunications market, we find that an ecosystem is a complex socio-economic whole consisting of sets of harmoniously functioning blocks. Each ecosystem forms its own industry distinguished from every other. The ecosystem emerges on the basis of the technological platform created by the company. The ecosystem is not built around the company as a legal entity, but precisely around its brand. In order to win the telecom operator’s communication channels, ecosystems interact and unify through partnership or parasitic integration. These integration processes may indirectly indicate that a non-telecommunication company applies the ecosystem concept. The interpenetration of two or more ecosystems can lead to their merger in the future. These particularities show that it is impossible to categorize ecosystem as an unambiguously micro- or mesoeconomic component. Ecosystem management should be based not on the traditional principles of company management, but on a combination of management projects, which are unique, rather than routine, solutions in the form of regulation and assistance in attaining the set goals. The obtained results are of theoretical importance for performing further studies on ecosystem formations in today’s economy. In practical terms, the research results can be useful for the management of companies belonging to various ecosystems to justify the formats of effective business models and development strategies
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Hujanen, Jaana, Katja Lehtisaari, Carl-Gustav Lindén, and Mikko Grönlund. "Emerging Forms of Hyperlocal Media." Nordicom Review 40, s2 (October 16, 2019): 101–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/nor-2019-0029.
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Abstract In the Nordic countries, local and regional newspapers have functioned as keystone media. This article examines the emergence of hyperlocal initiatives as part of evolving local media ecosystems in Finland, analysing the extent and characteristics of hyperlocal media, and how they relate to wider changes in the Finnish media ecosystem. The data gathered on hyperlocal initiatives include a semi-structured survey by phone and online. The research conducted shows that the field is diverse. Rather than considering hyperlocal media in the context of typical publication forms, these newcomers can be best described according to a set of dimensions. Furthermore, the results indicate rather a strong desire to engage people in community building. The emergence of hyperlocal publications means adding a new layer to the Finnish media ecosystem. This development also provides the grounds for further study of the possible emergence of a new media era in Finland.
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Schäfer, Franziska, Jupiter Bakakeu, Bruno Kleinert, Markus Michl, Dietmar Fey, and Jörg Franke. "Designing an OPC UA Based Ecosystem for Smarter Homes." Advanced Engineering Forum 19 (October 2016): 83–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/aef.19.83.
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The system architecture for self-organizing smart home ecosystems must fulfill the standard requirements of measuring home conditions, processing instrumented data, and monitoring home appliances as well as providing self-configurations mechanisms for the sensors and actors forming the ecosystem. The communication framework should allow devices to discover counterpart devices, discover the services they offers, invoke these services when needed and get notifications about the state changes of their cooperation partners. Our approach takes advantages of the communication framework OPC UA, since it provided a set of prebuild services, which can be adapted to our needs. The following lines describe the OPC UA communication framework first and describe the architecture of our communication model secondly.
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Weber, W., M. Daoud-El Baba, and M. Fussenegger. "Synthetic ecosystems based on airborne inter- and intrakingdom communication." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104, no. 25 (June 5, 2007): 10435–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0701382104.
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Griggio, Carla F., Joanna McGrenere, and Wendy E. Mackay. "Customizations and Expression Breakdowns in Ecosystems of Communication Apps." Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 3, CSCW (November 7, 2019): 1–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3359128.
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Jabeur, Nafaâ, Nabil Sahli, and Sherali Zeadally. "Enabling Cyber Physical Systems with Wireless Sensor Networking Technologies, Multiagent System Paradigm, and Natural Ecosystems." Mobile Information Systems 2015 (2015): 1–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/908315.
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Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are key components in the emergent cyber physical systems (CPSs). They may include hundreds of spatially distributed sensors which interact to solve complex tasks going beyond their individual capabilities. Due to the limited capabilities of sensors, sensor actions cannot meet CPS requirements while controlling and coordinating the operations of physical and engineered systems. To overcome these constraints, we explore the ecosystem metaphor for WSNs with the aim of taking advantage of the efficient adaptation behavior and communication mechanisms of living organisms. By mapping these organisms onto sensors and ecosystems onto WSNs, we highlight shortcomings that prevent WSNs from delivering the capabilities of ecosystems at several levels, including structure, topology, goals, communications, and functions. We then propose an agent-based architecture that migrates complex processing tasks outside the physical sensor network while incorporating missing characteristics of autonomy, intelligence, and context awareness to the WSN. Unlike existing works, we use software agents to map WSNs to natural ecosystems and enhance WSN capabilities to take advantage of bioinspired algorithms. We extend our architecture and propose a new intelligent CPS framework where several control levels are embedded in the physical system, thereby allowing agents to support WSNs technologies in enabling CPSs.
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McMeel, Dermott John James, and Robert Amor. "Knitting Patterns." International Journal of Art, Culture and Design Technologies 5, no. 2 (July 2016): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijacdt.2016070101.
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Large software conglomerates like Trimble and Autodesk provide consumers with suites of software that perform many functions within the design and construction process. Communicating with software outside of the suite can be highly problematic as file types and communication protocols are proprietary and closed within that software family - the antithesis of interoperability). This is in stark contrast with emerging trends in consumer computing, where we find a rich ecosystem of devices and services facilitating a period of intense innovation. This paper documents original research that aims to implement communication beyond specific software suites and test, to what extent, wider software ecosystems revolving around open standards might be implemented within the design and construction domain. Our first test case—an agent-based dynamic simulation combining natural and built environmental components—is deployed to explore the city as a multitude of interrelated natural and built patterns. We analyze the role this simulation might play in managing the complexities of rebuilding a sustainable urban environment after the devastating earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand. The second test case deploys an iPad application to communicate with a BIM model - exploring the development of a mobile application and methodology for openly communicating outside of the intended software family. Through these case studies we begin to identify ways to leverage emergent device and data ecosystems and representations for ‘knitting' devices and services together in innovative ways to advance design and construction processes.
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Zuckerman, Ethan. "Why study media ecosystems?" Information, Communication & Society 24, no. 10 (June 28, 2021): 1495–513. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1369118x.2021.1942513.
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Karpenko, Anastasiia, Tuomas Kinnunen, Manik Madhikermi, Jeremy Robert, Kary Främling, Bhargav Dave, and Antti Nurminen. "Data Exchange Interoperability in IoT Ecosystem for Smart Parking and EV Charging." Sensors 18, no. 12 (December 13, 2018): 4404. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s18124404.
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Many domains are trying to integrate with the Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem, such as public administrations starting smart city initiatives all over the world. Cities are becoming smart in many ways: smart mobility, smart buildings, smart environment and so on. However, the problem of non-interoperability in the IoT hinders the seamless communication between all kinds of IoT devices. Different domain specific IoT applications use different interoperability standards. These standards are usually not interoperable with each other. IoT applications and ecosystems therefore tend to use a vertical communication model that does not allow data sharing horizontally across different IoT ecosystems. In 2014, The Open Group published two domain-independent IoT messaging standards, O-MI and O-DF, aiming to solve the interoperability problem. In this article we describe the practical use of O-MI/O-DF standards for reaching interoperability in a mobile application for the smart city context, in particular for the Smart Mobility domain, electric vehicle (EV) charging case study. The proof-of-concept of the smart EV charging ecosystem with mobile application user interface was developed as a part of an EU (Horizon 2020) Project bIoTope.
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Kobernyk, A. O. "Regional Innovation Ecosystems in Ukraine." Business Inform 7, no. 522 (2021): 56–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.32983/2222-4459-2021-7-56-61.
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The article substantiates the prerequisites, prospects and advantages of creating an innovation ecosystem at different levels of its formation. The main approaches to defining the essence of the concept of innovation ecosystems in both domestic and foreign specialized literature and their adaptability to the regional level are analyzed and grouped. The harmonious innovation ecosystem is a sign of a progressive society, which is identified by the symbiotic functioning of people and organizations, the result of which is the production of conscious innovations. The author outlines the stages of formation of the regional innovation ecosystem, the circle of its participants and ways of their interaction. For each stage, the procedures for its implementation, the main characteristic features and processes of transition from one to another are determined. The main feature of the creation and functioning of the regional ecosystem is the stable, constant interaction of its participants with educational and scientific institutions, as well as the adaptability of these institutions to the variability of the external environment. The article describes certain elements of foreign experience in the development of regional ecosystems and their implementation in Ukraine. Awareness of the existence or prerequisites for creating an effective regional ecosystem is the first step towards effective regional management and activation of the potential of the national economy. On the one hand, in the context of decentralization, local self-government bodies get maximum freedom in creating organizational elements of the regional innovation ecosystem, supporting scientific and human resources and the communication business environment. The author emphasizes that without the State support it is impossible to create conditions for the protectionism of innovation activity, to activate investment potential, to stimulate the necessary forms and methods of financing the relevant activity. Therefore, work at the regional level in terms of innovation should be carried out simultaneously following two directions of the hierarchy: from bottom up and from top to bottom in constant cooperation and coordination of own actions. As a result, priority directions of the State and regional support for the development of regional innovation ecosystems on the basis of the main specific platforms or technologies are substantiated.
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Ojeda, Fernando. "Pine afforestation, herriza and wildfire: a tale of soil erosion and biodiversity loss in the Mediterranean region." International Journal of Wildland Fire 29, no. 12 (2020): 1142. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/wf20097.
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From a western society’s perspective, wildfires are catastrophic events that jeopardise biodiversity and cause soil erosion, not to mention risk to human lives and properties. However, many Mediterranean-type ecosystems are not only resilient to wildfires but sensitive to the lack of wildfires. This communication focuses on the Mediterranean heathland or herriza as a paradigmatic fire-prone ecosystem to illustrate how most negative impacts allegedly attributed to wildfires actually occur in commercial forestry plantations. They are caused by aggressive forestry practices prior to the wildfire. In natural Mediterranean habitats, such as the herriza, complete wildfire suppression may actually pose a serious threat to biodiversity. The large existing body of scientific knowledge on the relationships of Mediterranean ecosystems with fire should be incorporated into plans and policies dealing with wildfire and conservation to make them more appropriate and efficient. Finally, burned natural areas should not be regarded, or treated, as dead pieces of nature and destroyed ecosystems, but as a transitional stage within the dynamics of Mediterranean-type ecosystems.
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Ooms, Ward, Marjolein C. J. Caniëls, Nadine Roijakkers, and Dieudonnee Cobben. "Ecosystems for smart cities: tracing the evolution of governance structures in a dutch smart city initiative." International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal 16, no. 4 (February 8, 2020): 1225–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11365-020-00640-7.
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Abstract Smart cities use integrated information and communication technology in order to help their citizens and organizations deal with the challenges of urbanization, safety, and sustainability. Smart cities need complex forms of governance involving a great variety of actors. The aim of this study is to illustrate how elements of governance structures in smart city ecosystems evolve over time, and to understand in which way these elements enable or inhibit the success of such ecosystems in different phases of evolution. We draw on the ecosystem literature and the smart city literature to identify governance aspects relevant to projects with multiple stakeholders. We illustrate our framework with extensive empirical evidence from an in-depth single case study of a smart city initiative in The Netherlands. We find that the use of specific governance elements varies across the phases of evolution of the smart city ecosystem. In the initiation phase, governance structures aimed at strengthening the internal relations are key. In this phase, elements such as trust, commitment, and common goals are important as they help to create a common ground. In the growth phase, the ecosystem focuses on establishing external relations with other parties, such as competitors and suppliers. In this phase, governance elements such a co-creation strategy and a dedicated organization for promotion gain importance, as these elements facilitate communication with external parties.
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Segedinac, Goran, and Darko Reba. "Crowdsourcing in participatory planning: Online platforms as participative ecosystems." Facta universitatis - series: Architecture and Civil Engineering 17, no. 1 (2019): 81–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/fuace190123002s.
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Insufficient public presence within the traditional participatory activities in urban planning is largely caused by their incompatibility with the communication preferences of the public they are addressing. Accordingly, this research is aimed at identifying alternative approaches which enable the creation of new communication channels and improve the level and quality of participation. Starting from the hypothesis that technological development has changed the way we communicate, the goal of this research is to provide the deeper understanding of the current potentials and problems of internet participation in urban planning and also to point out on the future development strategies, which could address the problems we are facing today. By analyzing case studies in which Internet communication is used for this purpose, as well as publicly available data about user activities within the popular web platforms, we investigate the main advantages and disadvantages of the described practice, as well as the opportunities of the application of new communication approaches and technological trends, such as crowdsourcing activities and blockchain technology.
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Chen, Yun, and Yaowu Sun. "DETERMINANTS OF PLATFORM ECOSYSTEM HEALTH: AN EXPLORATION BASED ON GROUNDED THEORY." Journal of Business Economics and Management 22, no. 5 (August 27, 2021): 1142–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/jbem.2021.15047.
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Whether the platform ecosystem operates well influences the survival and development of all actors. Drawing on the literature of business ecosystem health, we propose the topic of platform ecosystem health, which refers to a stable and sustainable operating status obtained through cooperation among actors that can effectively respond to turbulent changes, meet market demand, and make profit. Platform ecosystem health is complexly influenced by internal and external factors, and exploring these is the first step towards its improvement. To address this question, this study uses grounded theory to identify the main determinants and theoretically explain the ways in which these determinants influence platform ecosystem health. Specifically, we select 15 representative platform ecosystems in the mobile communication services, e-commerce, and high-tech manufacturing industries using theoretical sampling. Three encoding processes and theoretical saturation tests are then employed to analyze interview and secondary data on the health of these platform ecosystems. Based on the identified 132 concepts and nine categories, we obtain four types of determinants: dominant capabilities of the platform enterprise, cooperation potential of the complementary enterprise, products and services, and industry environment. We finally propose four propositions to illustrate the relationships between the determinants and platform ecosystem health.
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Ghahramani, Ladan, Jalayer Khalilzadeh, and Birendra KC. "Tour guides’ communication ecosystems: an inferential social network analysis approach." Information Technology & Tourism 20, no. 1-4 (August 13, 2018): 103–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40558-018-0114-y.
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Nzau, Joslyn Muthio, Rebecca Rogers, Halimu Suleiman Shauri, Marco Rieckmann, and Jan Christian Habel. "Smallholder perceptions and communication gaps shape East African riparian ecosystems." Biodiversity and Conservation 27, no. 14 (September 18, 2018): 3745–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10531-018-1624-9.
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Cook, Clare, and Piet Bakker. "Viable, Sustainable or Resilient?" Nordicom Review 40, s2 (October 16, 2019): 31–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/nor-2019-0032.
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Abstract Hyperlocal media are increasingly prominent in local media ecologies. However, economic pressures are their biggest challenge and are therefore our main thematic. The study is based on empirical data from 35 hyperlocals in Sweden, the UK, France, the Netherlands and Belgium. We present a conceptual framework of viable, sustainable and resilient models and find that hyperlocals are diversifying their revenues. Drawing on business ecosystems as a theoretical approach, we find these hyperlocals are surviving by forging symbiotic relationships with media, businesses, advertisers and communities in their environment. With its focus on imbalanced and evolving relations, the approach offers a broad framework to explain how hyperlocal business models are developing through a dynamic system of proximal interdependencies. The results contribute to new knowledge by explaining the revenue diversification of hyperlocals in the digital ecosystemic space.
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Duarte, Bernardo, João Carreiras, and Isabel Caçador. "Climate Change Impacts on Salt Marsh Blue Carbon, Nitrogen and Phosphorous Stocks and Ecosystem Services." Applied Sciences 11, no. 4 (February 23, 2021): 1969. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/app11041969.
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Salt marshes are valuable ecosystems, as they provide food, shelter, and important nursery areas for fish and macroinvertebrates, and a wide variety of ecosystem services for human populations. These ecosystem services heavily rely on the floristic composition of the salt marshes with different species conferring different service values and different adaptation and resilience capacities towards ecosystem stressors. Blue carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorous stocks are no exception to this, and rely on the interspecific differences in the primary production metabolism and physiological traits. Furthermore, these intrinsic physiological characteristics also modulate the species response to any environmental stressor, such as the ones derived from ongoing global changes. This will heavily shape transitional ecosystem services, with significant changes of the ecosystem value of the salt marshes in terms of cultural, provisioning, regulating, and supporting ecosystem services, with a special emphasis on the possible alterations of the blue carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorous stocks retained in these key environments. Thus, the need to integrate plant physiological characteristics and feedbacks towards the expected climate change-driven stressors becomes evident to accurately estimate the ecosystem services of the salt marsh community, and transfer these fundamental services into economic assets, for a fluid communication of the ecosystems value to stakeholders, decision and policy makers, and environmental management entities.
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Ali, Omer, Mohamad Khairi Ishak, and Muhammad Kamran Liaquat Bhatti. "Emerging IoT domains, current standings and open research challenges: a review." PeerJ Computer Science 7 (August 16, 2021): e659. http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.659.
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Over the last decade, the Internet of Things (IoT) domain has grown dramatically, from ultra-low-power hardware design to cloud-based solutions, and now, with the rise of 5G technology, a new horizon for edge computing on IoT devices will be introduced. A wide range of communication technologies has steadily evolved in recent years, representing a diverse range of domain areas and communication specifications. Because of the heterogeneity of technology and interconnectivity, the true realisation of the IoT ecosystem is currently hampered by multiple dynamic integration challenges. In this context, several emerging IoT domains necessitate a complete re-modeling, design, and standardisation from the ground up in order to achieve seamless IoT ecosystem integration. The Internet of Nano-Things (IoNT), Internet of Space-Things (IoST), Internet of Underwater-Things (IoUT) and Social Internet of Things (SIoT) are investigated in this paper with a broad future scope based on their integration and ability to source other IoT domains by highlighting their application domains, state-of-the-art research, and open challenges. To the best of our knowledge, there is little or no information on the current state of these ecosystems, which is the motivating factor behind this article. Finally, the paper summarises the integration of these ecosystems with current IoT domains and suggests future directions for overcoming the challenges.
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Stylianou-Lambert, Theopisti. "Photographic Ecosystems and Archives." photographies 12, no. 3 (September 2, 2019): 375–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17540763.2019.1625808.
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Farris, Ivan, Antonio Iera, and Silverio C. Spinella. "Introducing a Novel "Virtual Communication Channel" into RFID Ecosystems for IoT." IEEE Communications Letters 17, no. 8 (August 2013): 1532–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/lcomm.2013.070913.130392.
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Anggorojati, Bayu, and Ramjee Prasad. "Securing Communication in the IoT-based Health Care Systems." Jurnal Ilmu Komputer dan Informasi 11, no. 1 (February 28, 2018): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.21609/jiki.v11i1.562.
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Rapid development of Internet of Things (IoT) and its whole ecosystems are opening a lot of opportunities that can improve humans’ quality of life in many aspects. One of the promising area where IoT can enhance our life is in the health care sector. However, security and privacy becomes the main concern in the electronic Health (eHealth) systems and it becomes more challenging with the integration of IoT. Furthermore, most of the IoT-based health care system architecture is designed to be cross-organizational due to many different stakeholders in its overall ecosystems – thus increasing the security complexity. There are several aspects of security in the IoT-based health care system, among them are key management, authentication and encryption/decryption to ensure secure communication and access to health sensing information. This paper introduces a key management method that includes mutual authentication and secret key agreement to establish secure communication between any IoT health device with any entity from different organization or domain through Identity-Based Cryptography (IBC).
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Holmgren, M., P. Stapp, C. R. Dickman, C. Gracia, S. Graham, J. R. Gutiérrez, C. Hice, et al. "A synthesis of ENSO effects on drylands in Australia, North America and South America." Advances in Geosciences 6 (January 9, 2006): 69–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/adgeo-6-69-2006.
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Abstract. Fundamentally, El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a climatic and oceanographic phenomenon, but it has profound effects on terrestrial ecosystems. Although the ecological effects of ENSO are becoming increasingly known from a wide range of terrestrial ecosystems (Holmgren et al., 2001), their impacts have been more intensively studied in arid and semiarid systems. In this brief communication, we summarize the main conclusions of a recent symposium on the effects of ENSO in these ecosystems, which was convened as part of the First Alexander von Humboldt International Conference on the El Niño Phenomenon and its Global Impact, in Guayaquil, Ecuador, from 16–20 May 2005. Participants in the symposium shared results and perspectives from research conducted in North and South America and Australia, regions where the ecological effects of ENSO have been studied in depth. Although the reports covered a wide array of organisms and ecological systems (Fig. 1), a recurring theme was the strong increase in rainfall associated with ENSO events in dry ecosystems (during the El Niño phase of the oscillation in the Americas and the La Niña phase in Australia). Because inter-annual variability in precipitation is such a strong determinant of productivity in arid and semiarid ecosystems, increased ENSO rainfall is crucial for plant recruitment, productivity and diversity in these ecosystems. Several long-term studies show that this pulse in primary productivity causes a subsequent increase in herbivores, followed by an increase in carnivores, with consequences for changes in ecosystem structure and functioning that can be quite complex.
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Ferrández-Pastor, Francisco Javier, Juan Manuel García-Chamizo, Sergio Gomez-Trillo, Rafael Valdivieso-Sarabia, and Mario Nieto-Hidalgo. "Smart Management Consumption in Renewable Energy Fed Ecosystems." Sensors 19, no. 13 (July 5, 2019): 2967. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s19132967.
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Advances in embedded electronic systems, the development of new communication protocols, and the application of artificial intelligence paradigms have enabled the improvement of current automation systems of energy management. Embedded devices integrate different sensors with connectivity, computing resources, and reduced cost. Communication and cloud services increase their performance; however, there are limitations in the implementation of these technologies. If the cloud is used as the main source of services and resources, overload problems will occur. There are no models that facilitate the complete integration and interoperability in the facilities already created. This article proposes a model for the integration of smart energy management systems in new and already created facilities, using local embedded devices, Internet of Things communication protocols and services based on artificial intelligence paradigms. All services are distributed in the new smart grid network using edge and fog computing techniques. The model proposes an architecture both to be used as support for the development of smart services and for energy management control systems adapted to the installation: a group of buildings and/or houses that shares energy management and energy generation. Machine learning to predict consumption and energy generation, electric load classification, energy distribution control, and predictive maintenance are the main utilities integrated. As an experimental case, a facility that incorporates wind and solar generation is used for development and testing. Smart grid facilities, designed with artificial intelligence algorithms, implemented with Internet of Things protocols, and embedded control devices facilitate the development, cost reduction, and the integration of new services. In this work, a method to design, develop, and install smart services in self-consumption facilities is proposed. New smart services with reduced costs are installed and tested, confirming the advantages of the proposed model.
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Krassovski, Misha B., Glen E. Lyon, Jeffery S. Riggs, and Paul J. Hanson. "Near-real-time environmental monitoring and large-volume data collection over slow communication links." Geoscientific Instrumentation, Methods and Data Systems 7, no. 4 (October 25, 2018): 289–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/gi-7-289-2018.
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Abstract. Climate change studies are one of the most important aspects of modern science and related experiments are getting bigger and more complex. One such experiment is the Spruce and Peatland Responses Under Changing Environments (SPRUCE; http://mnspruce.ornl.gov, last access: 16 October 2018) conducted in northern Minnesota. The SPRUCE experimental mission is to assess ecosystem-level biological responses of vulnerable, high-carbon terrestrial ecosystems to a range of climate warming manipulations and an elevated CO2 atmosphere. This manipulation experiment generates a lot of observational data and requires a reliable on-site data collection system, dependable methods to transfer data to a robust scientific facility, and real-time monitoring capabilities. This publication shares our experience of establishing a near-real-time data collection and monitoring system via a satellite link using the not very well-known possibilities of PakBus protocol.
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Walther, Yvonne M., and Christian Möllmann. "Bringing integrated ecosystem assessments to real life: a scientific framework for ICES." ICES Journal of Marine Science 71, no. 5 (November 13, 2013): 1183–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fst161.
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Abstract An ecosystem approach to management (EAM) aims to secure a healthy ecosystem along with sustainable use of its goods and services. Although the main principles of EAM are agreed upon and desirable, wider implementation of EAM is still a challenge. The difficulties stem from unclear definition and communication of the EAM, lack of routines or protocols to develop ecosystem-based advice, inappropriate institutional structures, and communication issues between scientists, advisers, and managers. Integrated ecosystem assessment (IEA) is an instrument that has proven to help in the implementation of EAM. For successful implementation of EAM and IEA in the European regional seas context, an international forum is required that develops tailor-made EAM tools specific to the different regional ecosystems to overcome fragmented national strategies. We describe a multinational peer network of working groups developed within the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) under the auspice of Science Steering Group on Regional Sea Programmes. Available is a wealth of data, expertise, scientific methods, and models for each regional sea. This network can be instrumental in advancing IEA for the implementation of EAM in the North Atlantic seas.
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Bystryakov, Igor, and Dmitry Klynovyi. "BYSUNESS-ECOSYSTEM CONCEPT OF SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT." Environmental Economics and Sustainable Development, no. 8(27) (2020): 21–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.37100/2616-7689/2020/8(27)/3.
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The purpose of the article is to define an innovative concept of sustainable management based on the analysis of the institutional configuration of business ecosystem entities. The concept of sustainable (SUST) management is outlined as the creation of conditions for multi-entity management of territorial capital on the basis of digital platform technologies and the principles of partnership between government, business and the population. The institutional configuration of territorial business ecosystems is analyzed. It is determined that the business-ecosystem organization of economic activity is a flexible and dynamic system that creates opportunities for the integration of natural resources into economic circulation in territorial communities. It is established that there is a need for a radical restructuring of the institutional configuration of the spatial management system of natural resources in the direction of creating a system of multi-entity management of territorial capital. The main institutions and institutes of the spatial system of natural resources management of the territorial business ecosystem are outlined, in the field of local government, public-private partnership, corporate-platform and structural-project management, etc., within which economic actors of business ecosystems are endowed with appropriate functions and powers.. The structure of the business-ecosystem concept of sustainable management is detailed, including the basic formats of institutionalization of territorial assets management, informational and communicational platform component and management mechanisms of sustainable management, which are focused on creating a system of multi-entity management of sustainable development of territorial communities. Basic formats and forms of institutionalization of territorial assets management in the conditions of decentralization of power are proposed, including communication platforms of collaborative interactions between public authorities, business and population, as well as a set of mechanisms of structural and project management of sustainable development of territorial communities.
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Wiesenberg, Markus, Alexander Godulla, Katharina Tengler, Inga-Marit Noelle, Julia Kloss, Natalie Klein, and David Eeckhout. "Key challenges in strategic start-up communication." Journal of Communication Management 24, no. 1 (February 10, 2020): 49–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jcom-10-2019-0129.
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PurposeThe paper represents a starting point of a broader research project in strategic start-up communication. The main purpose of this study is to demonstrate the current state of research in this area and to compare those insights with an explorative study on the start-up ecosystem.Design/methodology/approachA neo-institutional framework is combined with the dual narrative framework of strategic communication and emergence to explain the emergence of strategic communication in this organizational field (start-up ecosystems). Research questions are derived from a systematic literature review and subjected to exploratory testing in two different qualitative surveys, with experts and investors, reflecting an external perspective, and with start-ups themselves.FindingsResults from the literature review and the explorative interviews with expert external actors indicate eight areas in which start-ups face strategic communication challenges: the basic orientation of strategic communication, branding, external image, stakeholder relations, allocation of financial resources, owner centricity, human resources and internal communication. External consultants and funders recommend highly planned approaches like target group-oriented communication, well thought-out positioning with uniform messages and precisely applied communication channels. However, the internal perspective of start-ups presents a contrary picture based on emergent products of strategic communication.Research limitations/implicationsThe study indicates the importance of both the emergence in strategic start-up communication and the demonstration of planned strategic communication. Investigating a whole start-up ecosystem in a country regarding the emergence of strategic communication forms, practices and products offers potential for cross-country comparative research.Practical implicationsThe findings indicate key challenges of strategic communication of start-ups. Bearing in mind these key challenges when founding a start-up can make a difference in the success of the start-up.Originality/valueThe article presents the first systematic literature review in the area of strategic start-up communication and a theoretical framework for further investigation. Moreover, the results of the explorative study demonstrate the importance of the different forms of planning and emergence in strategic start-up communication. Hence, this paper provides practical implications for practitioners working and investing in the start-up ecosystem.
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F. Breidbach, Christoph, Roderick Brodie, and Linda Hollebeek. "Beyond virtuality: from engagement platforms to engagement ecosystems." Managing Service Quality 24, no. 6 (November 4, 2014): 592–611. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/msq-08-2013-0158.
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Purpose – Understanding the role and implications of information and communication technology (ICT) in service is the key research priority for service science and the management of service quality. The purpose of this paper is to address this priority by providing insights into the role of “engagement platforms” (EPs), physical or virtual customer touch points where actors exchange resources and co-create value. Despite an emerging body of literature that emphasizes the fit between engagement and technology-enabled service contexts, EPs remain ill-defined. Specifically, little is known about the particular types of EPs, their characteristics, and implications for the performance of service ecosystems and managing service quality. Design/methodology/approach – By drawing on two illustrative case studies, the authors investigate and theorize about the characteristics and dynamics of EPs in virtual/physical contexts, and identify if, how and to what extent configurations of EPs may enhance resource exchange within and across service ecosystems. Findings – By building on emerging research at the service/engagement interface, the paper introduces the notion of the “engagement ecosystem,” as a configuration of individual, mutually dependent EPs that represent specific interactivity-facilitative loci. The paper explicates the relevance of the model and highlight opportunities for future research in this emerging field of inquiry. Research limitations/implications – The work addresses the call for research at the intersection of ICT and service science through development and application of the engagement ecosystem concept. The theorizing process draws on two illustrative case studies, and thereby provides a theoretical contribution and foundation for future research in this emerging area. Practical implications – The authors guide managerial decision-making regarding the implementation, adoption, and utilization of engagement ecosystems. Furthermore, the nature of “engagement” as a bridging concept implies that the work can help managers to operationalize service-centric thinking. Originality/value – By showing how individual EPs form engagement ecosystems, the paper bridges theory and practice, and offers new insight in the realm of practical application of the S-D logic.
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Odume, Oghenekaro Nelson, and Chris de Wet. "A Systemic-Relational Ethical Framework for Aquatic Ecosystem Health Research and Management in Social–Ecological Systems." Sustainability 11, no. 19 (September 25, 2019): 5261. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11195261.
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This paper argues that if the goal of slowing global ecological degradation, and of sustained improvement in aquatic ecosystem health is to be achieved, then a departure is required from the traditional, discipline-focused approach to aquatic ecosystem health research and management. It argues that a shift needs to be made towards systemic, integrative, and holistic approaches, drawing on diverse disciplines, with values and ethics as fundamental to such approaches. The paper proposes the systemic-relational (SR) ethical framework to aquatic ecosystem health research and management as an essential contribution to addressing the potential intractability of the continuing deterioration of aquatic ecosystem health. The framework recognises the centrality of values in aquatic ecosystem health management, and the role of ethics in negotiating, and constructively balancing, conflicting values to realise healthy ecosystems in social–ecological systems (SES). The implications of the framework in terms of the research-practice interface, decision making, policy formulation, and communication are discussed.
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NICOLAIDOU, A., S. REIZOPOULOU, D. KOUTSOUBAS, S. ORFANIDIS, and T. KEVREKIDIS. "Biological components of Greek lagoonal ecosystems: an overview." Mediterranean Marine Science 6, no. 2 (December 1, 2005): 31. http://dx.doi.org/10.12681/mms.184.
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The paper summarises the available information on the main biological components – phytoplankton, zooplankton, phytobenthos, zoobenthos and fish – of Greek lagoonal ecosystems. Meiobenthos was also studied in one of the lagoons. All components show great variability both in space and time, which is attributed to the variability of environmental conditions. The most important variable influencing species distribution and diversity is the degree of communication with the sea and the nutrient load introduced through fresh water inputs. Certain new methods, which have been applied for evaluation of the ecological quality state of the lagoons, are also presented.
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Reich, Zvi, and Aviv Barnoy. "How News Become “News” in Increasingly Complex Ecosystems: Summarizing Almost Two Decades of Newsmaking Reconstructions." Journalism Studies 21, no. 7 (May 13, 2020): 966–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1461670x.2020.1716830.
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de las Heras-Pedrosa, Carlos, Pablo Sánchez-Núñez, and José Ignacio Peláez. "Sentiment Analysis and Emotion Understanding during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Spain and Its Impact on Digital Ecosystems." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17, no. 15 (July 31, 2020): 5542. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17155542.
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COVID-19 has changed our lives forever. The world we knew until now has been transformed and nowadays we live in a completely new scenario in a perpetual restructuring transition, in which the way we live, relate, and communicate with others has been altered permanently. Within this context, risk communication is playing a decisive role when informing, transmitting, and channeling the flow of information in society. COVID-19 has posed a real pandemic risk management challenge in terms of impact, preparedness, response, and mitigation by governments, health organizations, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), mass media, and stakeholders. In this study, we monitored the digital ecosystems during March and April 2020, and we obtained a sample of 106,261 communications through the analysis of APIs and Web Scraping techniques. This study examines how social media has affected risk communication in uncertain contexts and its impact on the emotions and sentiments derived from the semantic analysis in Spanish society during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Gueguen, Gaël, and Thierry Isckia. "The borders of mobile handset ecosystems: Is coopetition inevitable?" Telematics and Informatics 28, no. 1 (February 2011): 5–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tele.2010.05.007.
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Sharik, Terry L., William Adair, Fred A. Baker, Michael Battaglia, Emily J. Comfort, Anthony W. D'Amato, Craig Delong, et al. "Emerging Themes in the Ecology and Management of North American Forests." International Journal of Forestry Research 2010 (2010): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/964260.
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The 7th North American Forest Ecology Workshop, consisting of 149 presentations in 16 oral sessions and a poster session, reflected a broad range of topical areas currently under investigation in forest ecology and management. There was an overarching emphasis on the role of disturbance, both natural and anthropogenic, in the dynamics of forest ecosystems, and the recognition that legacies from past disturbances strongly influence future trajectories. Climate was invoked as a major driver of ecosystem change. An emphasis was placed on application of research findings for predicting system responses to changing forest management initiatives. Several “needs” emerged from the discussions regarding approaches to the study of forest ecosystems, including (1) consideration of variable spatial and temporal scales, (2) long-term monitoring, (3) development of universal databases more encompassing of time and space to facilitate meta-analyses, (4) combining field studies and modeling approaches, (5) standardizing methods of measurement and assessment, (6) guarding against oversimplification or overgeneralization from limited site-specific results, (7) greater emphasis on plant-animal interactions, and (8) better alignment of needs and communication of results between researchers and managers.
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Peter, Fedor, Sigmund Jakub, Zvaríková Martina, Masarovič Rudolf, Štefánik Martin, Krumpál Miroslav, Litavský Juraj, and Prokop Pavol. "The most northern record of the alien composite thrips Microcephalothrips abdominalis in Europe – short communication." Plant Protection Science 54, No. 1 (November 24, 2017): 43–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.17221/42/2017-pps.
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The most northern record of Microcephalothrips abdominalis (Crawford, 1910) (Thysanoptera, Thripidae) in Europe and the first record in Slovakia was described. The climate change induced introduction in synergy with biological commodity trade globalisation may support the ability of exotic elements to establish adequate populations with suitable fitness. The main threat consists in at least temporary survival in mild climate ecosystems dispersing from artificially heated interiors with the potential to transmit economically important viruses, such as Tobacco streak virus.
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Kull, Kalevi. "Semiosphere and a dual ecology: Paradoxes of communication." Sign Systems Studies 33, no. 1 (December 31, 2005): 175–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.12697/sss.2005.33.1.07.
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This article compares the methodologies of two types of sciences (according to J. Locke) — semiotics, and physics — and attempts thereby to characterise the semiotic and non-semiotic approaches to the description of ecosystems. The principal difference between the physical and semiotic sciences is that there exists just a single physical reality that is studied by physics via repetitiveness, whereas there are many semiotic realities that are studied as unique individuals. Seventeen complementary definitions of the semiosphere are listed, among them, semiosphere defined as the space of qualitative (incommensurable) diversity. It is stated that, paradoxically, diversity, being a creation of communication, can also be destroyed due to excessive communication.
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Touq, Ahmed Bin, and Anthony Ijeh. "Information Security and Ecosystems in Smart Cities." International Journal of Information Systems and Social Change 9, no. 2 (April 2018): 28–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijissc.2018040103.
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The purpose of this article is to evaluate the impact of ecosystems on Information Security in Smart Cities using Dubai as a case study. Innovative interconnected systems can affect the integrity of the information used by residents and citizens if not properly secured. The case study research method was used to examine the impact of the Internet of Everything on secure information exchanges. Data collected from the case study was used to assess the smartness of the urban development in managing its communication processes and information assets in a secure and confidential manner. The limitations of the study are found in its focus on one single city. By evaluating processes used to obtain information from interconnected systems, steps can be taken that would help to reduce threats in thriving innovative urban environments. The findings support the theory and perceptions held by management practitioners and information security specialists.
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Binsfeld, Nico, Jason Whalley, and Lee Pugalis. "Looking beyond official success measures: tales from the field of the complex forces shaping Luxembourg’s ICT ecosystem." Journal of Innovation Management 5, no. 2 (August 8, 2017): 15–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.24840/2183-0606_005.002_0004.
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Information and communication technologies (ICT) are increasingly becoming an important component of economic development. Luxembourg’s ICT sector is usually characterized as performing admirably - it is often at the top-end of different indices and international league tables. Nevertheless, headline statistics and high-level assessments often disguise the complexities of dynamic relations. Ecosystems are one way of understanding complex interactions and relationships. It is in this respect that this paper deploys the concept of ecosystems to investigate Luxembourg’s ICT sector. The layered ecosystem model, devised by Martin Fransman, was utilized to map key actors that comprise Luxembourg’s ICT ecosystem, following which a program of unstructured interviews were conducted. This empirical material, combined with documentary analysis, provides the basis for an analysis of the interrelated elements that are shaping the development of Luxembourg’s ICT ecosystem.The study has identified the main forces that affect the ICT ecosystem and concluded that Luxembourg’s strengths are related to its well-developed ICT infrastructures such as international fiber and national ultra-high broadband connectivity and high quality datacenters and its political vision for ICT that has led to a supportive policy environment. Its main weaknesses are related to an inappropriate educational system in which technical and scientific training is less developed, missing e-skills such as coding, application development, technical IT know-how as well a non-entrepreneurial mind-set and a risk averse culture. The paper highlights the importance of the different socio-economic, political, strategic and technological forces that shape the ICT ecosystem of a small country in order to provide a comprehensive basis for its policy makers. An empirical focus on a small country helps to redress the research imbalance, whereby small countries are often overlooked by scholars. Nevertheless, we contend that such “smallness” engenders a unique opportunity for research engagement with a majority of primary actors in ecosystems, which might be unfeasible in larger countries.
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Manzerolle, Vincent, and Allison Wiseman. "On the transactional ecosystems of digital media." Communication and the Public 1, no. 4 (November 16, 2016): 393–408. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2057047316679418.
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This article contributes a framework for understanding the convergence of two ‘transactional ecosystems’ or, put differently, the convergence of two types of currency: money and attention. The former is represented in the push to make commercial transactions ubiquitous and seamless (e.g. as in mobile payment systems), while the latter is represented by theories of the ‘attention economy’ and subsumed in the ‘attention and engagement’ metrics that currently shape the production and distribution of content on digital and mobile platforms. The means of communication and commerce, of payment and attention, are increasingly wedded together in the same device or platform implying that how we pay for things is bound up with ‘the things to which we attend’. Drawing on literature on the political economy of media, this article provides historical and theoretical contexts for this convergence, offers some paradigmatic examples alongside industry analysis and concludes by raising potential concerns emerging from its current trajectory.
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Miranda-Galbe, Jorge, Francisco Cabezuelo-Lorenzo, and Ismael López-Medel. "Analytical Model of Transmedia Storytelling Ecosystems in Audiovisual Fiction: The Spanish Model of «The Ministry of Time»." Communication & Society 34, no. 1 (January 12, 2021): 1–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.15581/003.34.1.1-13.
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Transmedia storytelling has been widely researched as a new topic in the last decade. The transmedia field includes many publications exploring the topic from different perspectives, but it lacks a standard methodology that allows the measurement of different case studies under a unified pattern. This research suggests a model for transmedia ecosystems that will allow researchers to study them in-depth. Authors suggest a potential configuration based on a simplified image of the transmedia universe, in which projects are divided into well-differentiated narrative systems, allowing the obtention of precise details on their basic functioning. This paper provides an original methodology able to observe the transmedia universes from different perspectives. To test the validity of the paradigm, the model has applied to the case study of the Spanish-fiction product, The Ministry of Time (El Ministerio del Tiempo, in the original language), because of the multiplicity of content renders its study as highly efficient. Thus, we encounter a new transmedia universe that allows precise measurement and the obtention of conclusive data. The positive results confirm that the new methodological approach meets the initial expectations. At the same time, it offers the possibility of obtaining much more information than the one the limited space of this article allows to explain, which opens the door to new lines of research in the future.
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Nepote, Ana Claudia, and Pedro Medina-Rosas. "Marine and ocean sciences in Mexico: living with our backs to the sea." Journal of Science Communication 20, no. 01 (February 1, 2021): C09. http://dx.doi.org/10.22323/2.20010309.
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Despite Mexico has coasts in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, people's connection towards the sea and marine environments is quite poor. Our commentary focuses on Mexico's coral reefs, relevant tropical ecosystems to human and oceanic welfare, and it emerges from the experience of the production of an itinerant coral reefs exhibit in Mexico, committed to the conservation and awareness of this threatened habitat. The UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development starts in 2021 and represents an opportunity to increase initiatives for public communication of science on marine and oceanic issues in Mexico and the world.
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Harries-Jones, Peter. "Honeybees, Communicative Order, and the Collapse of Ecosystems." Biosemiotics 2, no. 2 (May 13, 2009): 193–204. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12304-009-9044-6.
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Sedel’nikov, V. P., Yu S. Ravkin, A. A. Titlyanova, I. N. Bogomolova, and O. N. Nikolaeva. "Spatial-typological differentiation of ecosystems of the West Siberian Plain. Communication I: Plant cover." Contemporary Problems of Ecology 4, no. 3 (June 2011): 229–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1134/s1995425511030015.
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