KEN KRECHMER'S RESEARCH

Published Papers by Ken Krechmer

• "Exploring Adaptable Access in Next Generation Networks" was presented at the Innovations in NGN: Future Network and Services, 2008. First ITU-T Kaleidoscope Academic Conference, Geneva, Switzerland May 13, 2008 and is published in the proceedings of that conference and IEEE Xplore.


• "Teaching Standards to Engineers" was published in The International Journal of IT Standards and Standardization Research, Vol. 5 No. 2, July- December 2007.


• "The Entrepreneur and Standards" was originally submitted to the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) as part of the IEC Centenary Challenge 2006, organized in association with "The Economist", and in partnership with the IEEE, the IET and VDE. This paper received the joint second prize on December 14, 2006. It has been published in International Standardization as a Strategic Tool: Commended Papers from the IEC Centenary Challenge 2006, p. 143-154. Geneva, Switzerland: International Electrotechnical Commission. It is copyright by the IEC, Geneva, Switzerland. All rights reserved. It is reproduced here with their permission. Further information on the IEC and the IEC Centenary Challenge is available from www.iec.ch.


• "Open Standards: a Call for Action" was an invited paper at the first ITU Kaleidoscope Conference Geneve, Switzerland May 12, 2008 and published in IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 47 No. 5 May, 2009. Earlier iterations of this paper include:
  "Open Standards Requirements" was published in The International Journal of IT Standards and Standardization Research, Vol. 4 No. 1, January - June 2006. "The Meaning of Open Standards" was presented at the Standards and Standardization mini-track of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, January 2005. "The Principles of Open Standards" was the Second Place Winner World Standards Day paper competition, 1998.


• The Mathematical Basis of Standards was presented at the Standards and Innovation in Information Technology (SIIT) 2005 in Geneva, Switzerland September 23, 2005.
  
  
• Modeling System Variation was presented at the International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO) 2005 in Barcelona, Spain September 15, 2005.


• Standards Mark the Course of Economic Progress, 2005 is a revised version of Fundamental Nature of Standards: Economic Perspective, paper presented at the International J.A. Schumpeter Society Economics Conference, June 28 - July 1, 2000, Manchester, England.


• Communications Standards and Patent Rights: Conflict or Coordination was presented at The Economics of the Software and Internet Industries conference in Toulouse, France, January, 2005. A previous version of this paper was a feature article published in STAR, 1998, publication of Telecommunciations Industry Association.


• Face the FACS (Formal worldwide, regional and national Agencies for Communications Standardization), paper presented at the Third IEEE Conference on Standardization and Innovation in Information Technology (SIIT 2003), October 22, 2003, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. In SIIT 2003 Proceedings, p. 141-148.


• Cathedrals, Libraries and Bazaars, In Proceedings of the 17th Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), ACM Press, 2002, p. 1053-1057.


• Standards, Information and Communications: A Conceptual Basis For a Mathematical Understanding of Technical Standards , paper presented at the Second IEEE Conference on Standardization and Innovation in Information Technology (SIIT 2001), October 4, 2001, Boulder, Colorado, with Elaine Baskin.


• Winner (First Prize) World Standards Day paper competition, 2000 "The Microsoft Anti-Trust Litigation: a Case for Standards", with Elaine Baskin.


• Fundamental Nature of Standards: Technical Perspective, article published in IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 38, #6, June, 2000, p. 70.


• Market Driven Standardization: Everyone Can Win,  Runner up, British Standards Society's Fred E. Butcher Memorial prize, July 2000. Subsequently published in Standards Engineering, Volume 52 #4, July/August 2000, p.15 - 19.


• Technical Communications Standards: New Directions in Innovation, paper presented at the First IEEE Conference on Standardization and Innovation in Information Technology (SIIT), September 16, 1999, Aachen, Germany.


• The six dimensions of standards: Contribution towards a theory of standardization, E. Baskin, K. Krechmer and M. Sherif, Management of Technology, Sustainable Development and Eco-Efficiency, edited by Louis A Lefebvre, Robert M Mason, Tarek Khalil, Elsevier, 1998, page 53. Also presented as a paper at the Seventh International Conference on Management of Technology, February 20, 1998.


• Technical Standards: Foundations of the Future, feature article published in StandardsView, March 1996.


• Winner (First Prize) World Standards Day paper competition, 1995 "Recommendations for the GIH: A Matter of Standards"

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• "Standards and Standardization"
  Lecture at University of Colorado, Boulder, April 3, 2007


• "Optimizing the Economic Consequences of International Standards on Chinese Trade"
  A 2.5 hour lecture with in line translation was presented at the Shenzhen Hi-Tech Standardization Forum in Shenzhen, China November 24-25, 2005. Chinese speakers see http://www.wtosz.org/hitechforum/2005/Experts.aspx for further details.


• "Economics of Standards Revisited"
  Lecture at the School of Business, Australia Defence Force Academy, University of New South Wales, Australia, May 24, 2005


• "Standards and Standardization"
  Lecture at University of Colorado, Boulder, Visiting ICSR (International Center for Standards Research) Fellow, November 8, 2004


• "Two Public Lectures at University of Colorado, Boulder,"
  Visiting ICSR (International Center for Standards Research) Fellow, April 3, 2003


• "Public Lectures at University of Colorado, Boulder,"
  Visiting ICSR (International Center for Standards Research) Fellow, April 3-5, 2001


• "Two Public Lectures at University of Colorado, Boulder,"
  Visiting ICSR (International Center for Standards Research) Fellow, September 6-7, 2000


• "Four Public Lectures at University of Colorado, Boulder,"
  Visiting ICSR (International Center for Standards Research) Fellow, November 16-18, 1999


• "Three Public Lectures at University of Colorado, Boulder,"
  Visiting ICSR (International Center for Standards Research) Fellow, November 9-11, 1998

Book Reviews by Ken Krechmer

• Standardization and Digital Enclosure by Timothy D. Schoechle. IGI Global, Hershey PA, USA, 2009 , Reviewed June 9, 2009.


• Elaboration of NMT and GSM Standards from idea to market by Ari T. Manninen. Dissertation for the Faculty of Humanities, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland, 2002, Reviewed August, 2003.


• Information Rules by Carl Shapiro and Hal Varian. Harvard Business School Press, 1999, Reviewed April, 2003.


• The Dynamics of Progress Time, Method and Measure by Samuel L. Macey. The University of Georgia Press, 1989, Reviewed August, 2002.


• Standards Essentials by Steven M. Spivak and F. Cecil Brenner. Marcel Dekker, Inc. New York, NY, 2001, Reviewed September, 2001.


• Scaffolding the New Web - Standards and Standards Policy for the Digital Economy by Martin Libicki, James Schneider, David R. Frelinger, Anna Slomovic. RAND Science and Technology Policy Institute, 2000, Reviewed May, 2001.


• Shaping Standardization - A study of standards processes and standard policies in the field of telematic services by Tineke Egyedi, , Ph.D. Thesis, 1996, Delft Technical University, Reviewed March, 2000.


• Standards for the Nation by Henk de Vries, Doctoral Thesis, 1999, Reviewed September, 1999.


• Technology Standards and Standardization Process, Impact on Innovation and International Competitiveness Lectures at Stanford University, September 24 through December 3, 1998, Reviewed August 1999.


• Open Systems Standardization, A Business Approach by Carl F. Cargill, Prentice Hall, 1997, Reviewed April, 1999.


• Coordinating Technology by Susanne K. Schmidt and Raymund Werie, The MIT press, 1998, Reviewed September 1998.

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