in today’s complex, dynamic and ever changing modern environment, all companies need to design and use strategies helping them to improve continuous performance, because in such a competitive environment, those companies which keep pace with changing and dynamic conditions of competitive market are able to survive. this study was conducted using descriptive – correlational methodology. the stud...

For dynamic analysis to be a powerful and convenient instrument in system modelling, comprehensive support is required. Dynamic analysis should be embedded in an appropriate modelling environment and be supported by adequate visualization mechanisms. Such an environment may support model consistency, selective information display, hypertext-based documentation, model substitution, and complexit...

The dynamics of mobile systems require applications to intelligently adapt to changes in system configurations and to their environment. We describe a workplace in which users interact with a number of stationary and mobile systems through the course of a day. The relationship between systems and devices is constantly changing due to user mobility. We present a facility for mobile application c...

The Internet and wireless communication offer unprecedented access to information. To effectively collect useful information from massive available sources requires the development of new methodologies and techniques that can substantially increase speed and flexibility in a distributed environment. Focusing on content-based image retrieval, this paper presents the use of transportable agents a...

this study considers scheduling in hybrid flow shop environment with unrelated parallel machines for minimizing mean of job's tardiness and mean of job's completion times. this problem does not study in the literature, so far. flexible flow shop environment is applicable in various industries such as wire and spring manufacturing, electronic industries and production lines. after mode...

This paper presented a mixed integer programming for integrated scheduling and process planning. The presented process plan included some orders with precedence relations similar to Multiple Traveling Salesman Problem (MTSP), which was categorized as an NP-hard problem. These types of problems are also called advanced planning because of simultaneously determining the appropriate sequence and m...

In this paper we present the RoleX environment for multi-agent systems. Born to support the management of role-based interactions, Rolex provides different services, in particular to support open and flexible cooperation. To this purpose, RoleX exploits an event-based communication mechanism and adopts SOAP as message encoding. Such features make RoleX well suit dynamic and unpredictable scenar...

To provide security for active networking nodes with respect to availability and controlled access the introduction of an access control mechanism and consequently a policy framework are mandatory. We follow the approach of a scenario-tailored runtime supervision of the service. During the development of the access control mechanism we strongly focused on keeping the mechanism as efficient as p...