Most scholars agree that intangible assets are far more important for a firm’s success than their tangible counterparts. As well as the traditional production factors crucial for a firm’s success (land, labor, and capital), knowledge is nowadays considered as equally important (Wickramasinghe and Von Lubitz, 2007). Numerous authors have stressed the critical role knowledge has for a firm’s sust...

Received ; accepted – 2 – ABSTRACT Some possible ways of the energy production with fusion reactions in the Sun was explored theoretically in the first half of this century. Nowadays it is a standard view that the Sun produces its energy on a uniform level. I point out, that in the stellar and solar energy production a dynamic energy source is necessarily present behind the uniform one, and gen...

Nowadays, component application adaptivity in Grid environments has been afforded in different ways, such those provided by the Dynaco/AFPAC framework and by the ASSIST environment. We propose an abstract schema that catches all the designing aspects a model for parallel component applications on Grid should define in order to uniformly handle the dynamic behavior of computing resources within ...

Statistical natural language generation from abstract meaning representations presupposes large corpora consisting of text–meaning pairs. Even though such corpora exist nowadays, or could be constructed using robust semantic parsing, the simple alignment between text and meaning representation is too coarse for developing robust (statistical) NLG systems. By reformatting semantic representation...

Nowadays, enterprises are able to outsource their internal business processes as services and make them accessible via the Web. Then, they can dynamically combine individual services to provide new added-value composite services (CS for short). Due to the inherent autonomy and heterogeneity of Web services, a fundamental problem concerns the guarantee of correct executions of a CS. An execution...

Nowadays, 3-D models are more and more used in applications such as medical imaging, digital entertainment and computer-aided design, mainly due to the processing capability improvement of ordinary PCs and the bandwidth increase of network infrastructure. A 3-D model is often numerically represented as a mesh, which is a collection of polygonal facets targeting to constitute an appropriate piec...

Abstract. MPI process placement can play a deterministic role concerning the application performance. This is especially true with nowadays architecture (heterogenous, multicore with different level of caches, etc.). In this paper, we will describe a novel algorithm called TreeMatch that maps processes to resources in order to reduce the communication cost of the whole application. We have impl...

Nowadays, a vast amount of information concerning all aspects of human activity is digitised with the goal of profit. One of the most prominent examples is the music industry that now markets audio data mainly in the form of MPEG Audio Layer 3 files rather than on CDs or DVDs. The MP3 audio files are distributed as digital files through various communication means and can easily be copied and r...

Received: 30/01/2014 Revised: 25/02/2014 Accepted: 02/03/2014 Abstract Polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) are getting more attention due to their role in human health. Nowadays, a growing awareness of health benefits of omega-3 (ω-3 or also referred as n-3) fatty acid has been found. Present overview provides importance, source and different methods used for the production of PUFA concentrates....