APEC Study Centre, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand     Abstract:   One of the key sets of questions underlying Asia Pacific economic cooperation over the last decade has been over the nature and form of the regional trade architecture that would gradually emerge from the turmoil of the Asia-Pacific “noodle bowl” of bilateral and plurilateral FTAs, and how that architecture...

Article history: Received 25 April 2012 Received in revised form 13 August 2013 Accepted 14 August 2013 Available online 27 August 2013 While paying careful attention to the stochastic properties of income process, this paper tests the joint rational expectation and permanent income hypothesis (RE/PIH) to clarify how and to what degree financial integration delinks national income and consumpti...

Even though the development of formal methods makes steady progress with respect to techniques and tool support, their acceptance in industry is still relatively low. One reason for this probably stems from the fact that most formal approaches require users to forget about their conventional techniques and tools, and to relearn in a new environment. What makes this switch even harder to accept:...

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The increasing digitalization of business and society leads to drastic changes within enterprises. Therefore, they are confronted with enormous challenges when dealing with digitalization topics. One of these challenges represents the complex field of Industry 4.0/the Industrial Internet (as part of the digitalization), especially the realistic classification of the company’s own IT infrastruct...

Globalization and growth-maximizing governments may cause countries to converge towards a similar composition of government expenditures. These convergent forces may be even more intensive in the case of EU Member States engaged in the European integration process. The results obtained, through calculation of a constructed dissimilarity index and by adapting the usual indicators of convergence ...

Side effects of one phase of the software development process are known to affect the subsequent phases. In this paper we analyze such side effects with respect to two consecutive phases: integration testing and system testing. The analysis is conducted based on a discrete event simulation model and focus on effort and effectiveness of integration testing and their effect on system testing.

The energy consumption of information and communication technology (ICT) is still increasing. Several solutions regarding the hardware side of Green IT exist, until now the software contribution to Green IT is not considered sufficiently apart from scientific research. In our paper, we discuss a new method of improving the energy efficiency of software during its development, by putting energy ...

Modern enterprises need to be agile and dynamically support decision making processes at several levels. To achieve that, critical information need to be available at the right point in a timely manner, and in the right form. The data stream that flows from the real world devices towards enterprise systems, needs to be integrated, processed within a specific context and be communicated on-deman...

Every company strives to come-up with innovative products that satisfy customer requests efficiently and effectively. The principles and working methods of Lean thinking have been suggested in literature for companies to optimize stakeholders’ interests throughout their product development (PD) process. However, the application of the Lean PD remains unclear from practitioner’s perspective. As ...