this paper has examined the phenomenon of convergence of per capita out put levels across the ic countries for the 1960-1998 periods. three concepts of convergence, i.e., sigma beta and relative beta, have been used. the estimated beta values reveals only a very weak convergence (?=.0014) across ic for 1960-1998 period. but when a more homogeneous group of countries were selected, the results s...

Component-oriented software seems promising in providing the dynamism and flexibility necessary to realise the Virtual Enterprise (VE) model for dynamic business organisations. According to the VE model, and from the perspective of componentoriented programming, a virtual enterprise system could be constructed by marshalling the necessary services through composition of available components sel...

Modern computing environments are characterized by a high level of dynamism. Two major kinds of dynamic changes occur frequently. The first refers to structural changes such as hardware and software upgrades, protocol and API updates, and operating system evolution. The second refers to dynamic changes in the availability of memory, CPU, network bandwidth and, in mobile systems, connectivity an...

In complex reconfigurable SoCs, the dynamism of applications requires an efficient management of the platform. To allow run-time allocation of resources, operating systems and reconfigurable SoC platforms should be developed together. The operating system requires hardware support from the platform to abstract the reconfigurable resources and to provide an efficient communication layer. This pa...

Manufacturing systems are changing its structure and organisation. Supply chain are evolving to more coupled organisations, like virtual enterprises, though maintaining the single entities autonomy, adaptability and dynamism properties. Such organisations are very different, which imply organisational and technological shift through agility, distribution, decentralisation, reactivity and flexib...