In the knowledge-based theory of the firm, the ability to create new knowledge is seen as the most important source of a firm’s sustainable competitive advantage. Knowledge creation is explained through concepts of dynamic routines and dynamic capabilities. In the evolutionary framework dynamic routines correspond to search routines and in the dynamic capability literature dynamic capabilities ...

The bin packing problem is one of the core problems of cloud computing management. It corresponds to the problem of assigning virtual machines to servers. However, cloud computing also imposes a huge variety of constraints on this problem and most of them can not be expressed a priori. Constraint Programming (CP) has been proved efficient for solving bin packing instances and for its capability...

In this concise review we discuss some of the complex edges of the concept of death that arose after the notorious advances in science and medicine over the last 50 years, in which the classical cardio-pulmonary criteria have led to the neurological criteria of death. New complicated questions like the definition of death and the operational criteria for diagnosing it have arisen and we think t...

with respect to the process of creation of novelty among economists; that’s why schumpeter has used the term “impossible” in regard to this unknowable process. this is a right term, since this subject matter can’t be incorporated within the theoretical framework determined by orthodox conceptual rationality. considering the importance and necessity of the creation of novelty for the process of ...