Over the past decade the economies of East Asia and APEC more generally have been increasinglyopening up their markets, and in the process have achieved significant gains in exports and economicgrowth. In conjunction with this increased economic integration, there has been increased recognitionby regional governments of the potential for a substantial increase in the participation by smallbusin...

We classify extremal curves in free nilpotent Lie groups. The classification is obtained via an explicit integration of the adjoint equation in Pontryagin Maximum Principle. It turns out that abnormal extremals are precisely the horizontal curves contained in algebraic varieties of a specific type. We also extend the results to the nonfree case.

In modern world the data storage is based on databases. The enormous scatter between the approaches and techniques caused by wide field of database applications brings every system manager to point where integration is required. In this paper we want to challenge the problems of heterogeneous data integration. We discuss a solution that can unify the data integration effort without a need to fo...

In recent years, a number of methods have been developed for the dimension reduction and decomposition of multiple linked high-content data matrices. Typically these methods assume that just one dimension, rows or columns, is shared among the data sources. This shared dimension may represent common features that are measured for different sample sets (i.e., horizontal integration) or a common s...

Nowadays, globalization and competitiveness are major challenges in almost all organizations and managers are seeking modern approaches to gain more competitive advantages. Considering these circumstances, issues such as strategic management, benchmarking and balanced score card (BSC) become important. In this paper, benchmarking and its role in strategic management have been demonstrated. BSC ...