strategic environmental assessment can be viewed as a process to integrate the concept ofsustainable development into planning. in this context, sea can be regarded as a method that regulates theplanning process to a state of sustainable development. however, to reach that goal it is necessary to achieve full integration of planning and the sea process.therefore this paper considers the integra...

In this paper, we present a dynamic model modified with emission permit banking and pollution abatement, and investigate the effect of emission permit banking and pollution abatement on the production–inventory strategy of the firm. After introducing emission permit banking and pollution abatement, the cost function consists of the inventory holding and production costs, the cost of investment ...

This thesis examines the issues and value-added, from both the technical and economic perspective, of solving the information integration problem in the retail banking industry. In addition, we report on an implementation of a prototype for the Universal Banking Application using currently available technologies. We report on some of the issues we discovered and the suggested improvements for f...

This article is part of a Focus Theme of Methods of Information in Medicine on Health Record Banking. This Focus Theme aims at describing the Health Record Banking (HRB) paradigm, which offers an alternative constellation of health information exchange and integration through sustainability of health records over the lifetime of individuals by independent and trusted organizations. It also aims...

The purpose of this article is to give an overview of principals, technologies and aspects used in building the security around Banking kiosks services. The study is based on ATM banking kiosk built and deployed in Serbia’s payment system. The evermore use of information technologies and automated teller machines (ATMs), that are located on remote and not so physically secure locations, require...

International activities of commercial banks are a potential source for the transmission of shocks across countries. In Europe, bank finance plays a relatively important role, and efforts have been made at creating a level playing field for financial institutions. This paper reviews the stylized facts of the integration of European banking markets and the changing nature of cross-border banking...

In Europe, the past twenty years saw a process of liberalisation, deregulation and unprecedented financial sector reform whose main aims were to increase competition and remove all remaining barriers to the integration of EU banking sectors. However, the recent acceleration in the consolidation process has raised concerns about the potential implications for public policies deriving from increa...

European banking clubs in the 1960s and 1970s began as a movement imbued with the idealism and promise of European integration. The strategic choices which they represented, however, were ultimately doomed to failure. This is so for a number of reasons; they were essentially defensive responses to new competition in traditional as well as new markets, they represented an attempt to rely on coop...