The PetaWeb, proposed for Next Generation Internet (NGI) infrastructures, is an innovative, geographically distributed, high-capacity switch architecture based on recent advances in optical and electronic switching technologies. The PetaWeb supports adaptive capacity allocation between edge modules for connectionless and connection-oriented traffic. This is achieved by the use of a rate-regulat...

nowadays, in turbulent and violate global markets an agile supply chain (asc) network is frequently considered as a dominant competitive advantage for survival. to achieve the competitive advantage, companies must align with suppliers and customers to streamline operations, as well as agility beyond individual companies. there are many definitions and models about agile supply chain and most of...

This project proves that the semantic technology stack and related tooling allow to do data integration in a fast and agile way. Several technologies have been utilised: Ontology-Based Database Access, federated SPARQL, federation middleware. The solution is using the RDF Data Cube vocabulary for capturing the emission observations done. The additional 5 star LOD publishing was easily achieved ...

Modern manufacturing is under ever increasing pressure to develop solutions for highly complex tasks. In order to maintain the business survival in a highly competitive environment, it is vital to obtain customer satisfaction, which requires developing products with shorter lifecycles and higher quality meanwhile to reduce the production costs. In order to achieve such objectives a paradigm has...

Today‘s business environment is very much dynamic, and organisations are constantly changing their software requirements to adjust with new environment. They also demand for fast delivery of software products as well as for accepting changing requirements. In this aspect, traditional plan-driven developments fail to meet up these requirements. Though traditional software development methodologi...

Due to rapid globalization and faster growth of world market, there is always a need of modification in the present mode of manufacturing system; these modifications increase the viabilities of manufacturer to move ahead in competitive market. These changes also improve the manufacturer and consumer relation by meeting the latest demand of consumers. The concept of Agile Manufacturing system is...

Agility is the fundamental characteristic of a supply chain needed for survival in turbulent markets, where environmental forces create additional uncertainty resulting in higher risk in the supply chain management. In addition, agility helps providing the right product, at the right time to the consumer. The main goal of this research is therefore to promote supplier selection in pharmaceutica...

Agility is the fundamental characteristic of a supply chain needed for survival in turbulent markets, where environmental forces create additional uncertainty resulting in higher risk in the supply chain management. In addition, agility helps providing the right product, at the right time to the consumer. The main goal of this research is therefore to promote supplier selection in pharmaceutica...

The Department of Defense Strategy for Operating in Cyberspace (DSCOC) calls out the need for active cyber defense (ACD). The function of ACD is to provide sensing, sense-making, decision-making, and acting in cyber-relevant time in order to provide cyberspace defense before an adversary is able to bring about their desired effect. As automation increases and we move ever closer to automated cy...