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Purpose – Companies have to assess the benefit of supplier innovation before realization. The specific situation of supplier innovation differs from conventional innovation evaluation because a supplier innovation refers to a subproduct for which the supplier is responsible. To date, supplier innovation evaluation has not been comprehensively discussed in the literature. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to focus on how supplier innovation should be evaluated. Design/methodology/approach – For this purpose, a case study based on expert interviews has been conducted to identify how supplier innovation is evaluated in practice. On the basis of the empirical findings the specific situation of supplier innovation is discussed in relation to theoretical basics about the object, objective, time, reference, person, recipient, criteria, and methods of evaluation as well as the evaluation and selection process. Findings – Results are recommendations for the special situation of supplier innovation evaluation before their realization in the purchasing company. Research limitations/implications – Based on the recommendations, a systematic and comprehensive approach with evaluation criteria and methods should be developed. Future research should address useful evaluation criteria and methods. Practical implications – Managers can use the recommendations to evaluate supplier innovation in practice and to establish a systematic evaluation and selection process for supplier innovation. Originality/value – The research findings contribute to the literature about innovation management and supplier management research by providing insights into the special situation of supplier innovation evaluation; in particular, this is the first paper which provides a systematic and comprehensive discussion about supplier innovation evaluation.

This document specifies a transport profile for RADIUS using Transport Layer Security (TLS) over TCP as the transport protocol. This enables dynamic trust relationships between RADIUS servers.

This document describes the architecture of the eduroam service for federated (wireless) network access in academia. The combination of IEEE 802.1X, the Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP), and RADIUS that is used in eduroam provides a secure, scalable, and deployable service for roaming network access. The successful deployment of eduroam over the last decade in the educational sector may serve as an example for other sectors, hence this document. In particular, the initial architectural choices and selection of standards are described, along with the changes that were prompted by operational experience.

This paper proposes a concept of dissatisfaction that is based on the correlation between the McIntyre and the ASHRAE votes of the ASHRAE RP-884 Adaptive Model Project — Data. The correlation shows that people who are voting with ASHRAE ·2 or beyond are not necessarily dissatisfied (which is the basic assumption of the classical PPD concept) and vice versa, that people who are voting between -1 and 1 are not necessarily satisfied with their thermal environment. The data set was divided into several factors (age, gender, building type, indoor conditions, outdoor temperatures) to analyze any dependencies of the preference on these factors. Processing the data finally lead to a predictive system that is — applied to the source data — a better predictor for preference than the PPD. This improvement needs affirmation by the application of the predictive system to an independent data set.