Multi-hazard risk assessment may provide comprehensive analysis of the impact multiple hazards but still needs to resolve major challenges in three aspects: (1) proper consideration hazard inter-dependency, (2) physically based modelling interactions, and (3) fully quantitative show probability loss. Compound flooding is a typical multi-hazard problem that involves concurrence drivers, e.g. hea...

Collaborative Businesses are often interpreted as the new organisational form of the 21st century. Such organisational forms exist to satisfy complex needs, which one company could usually not satisfy on its own. This means that the participating companies in Collaborative Businesses are to a certain degree dependent on each other. From a business-IT alignment perspective, Collaborative Busines...

We present a new version of the Croatian Dependency Treebank. It constitutes a slight departure from the previously closely observed Prague Dependency Treebank syntactic layer annotation guidelines as we introduce a new subset of syntactic tags on top of the existing tagset. These new tags are used in explicit annotation of subordinate clauses via subordinate conjunctions. Introducing the new a...

the purpose of this study is to assess the transaction cost of borrowing from non-governmental investment development funds which are established in less than a decade. transaction costs are considered as significant and limiting factors for micro-borrowers in using formal loans. the required data are provided by the investment developing support’s parent company using the stratified random sam...

be able to obtain a gain in performance, essentially for free, by performing the post-processing step suggested in Claim 1. What we have proposed can therefore be added as the final step in existing schedulers. Of course, an exhaustive search procedure like the one proposed in [11] will certainly find the schedule directly. For an ordered transaction strategy, we use the transaction ordering su...

Based on a case study of a Portuguese packaging firm, this paper examines how vertical integration of the supplier serves as a vehicle for the full outsourcing of the client firms' needs in a solution that reduces transaction costs, favors specialization, and permits small and medium-sized firms to develop competencies that may be exploited in a wide array of projects. Vertical integration by t...

This research extends upon the previous work of pye and Warren (2005) and presents a refinement of the previously proposed critical infrastructure model to enhance further our understanding and appreciation of where the likely inter-play and existence of dependency relationships between infrastructures coexist. These associations are presented as a number of linkages that exist within each sect...

This paper presents a Markov arrival process (MAP) based methodology for the analysis of two-class queueing networks with priority service nodes. We apply the multi-class extension of MAP, referred to as Marked MAP (MMAP), for the description of the input and internal traffic in the queueing network. The MMAP traffic description allows to capture not only the dependency structure of the traffic...

We present an approach to annotating timelines in stories where events are linked together by temporal relations into a temporal dependency tree. This approach avoids the disconnected timeline problems of prior work, and results in timelines that are more suitable for temporal reasoning. We show that annotating timelines as temporal dependency trees is possible with high levels of inter-annotat...

A key challenge of designing coherent semantic ontology for spoken language understanding is to consider inter-slot relations. In practice, however, it is difficult for domain experts and professional annotators to define a coherent slot set, while considering various lexical, syntactic, and semantic dependencies. In this paper, we exploit the typed syntactic dependency theory for unsupervised ...