In this study we extend the resource-based view of the firm to include inter-organizational complementary resources. We use web services as an example of a technology that extends firm resources beyond organizational boundaries. The modular design of web services enables the integration of monolithic applications within and across enterprises, creating the vision of an extended enterprise that ...

This article discusses a new modular design approach for hybrid models consisting of a dynamic framework augmented with static fuzzy sub-models. As the framework is physically based, the models have a dynamic behaviour that corresponds well with the original process. Their fit to process data assures good steady state behaviour and corrects the dynamic behaviour for assumptions and simplificati...

This work presents the concept and realisation of the integration of deliberative and reactive strategies for controlling mobile robot systems Programming at the task level in a partially known environment is divided into two consecutive steps subgoal planning and subgoal guided plan execution A modular fuzzy control scheme is proposed which allows independent development and exible integration...

Forecast composition is a time consuming task requiring the interaction and the integration of knowledge about meteorology, knowledge about language and knowledge about the conventions used to communicate the right amount of information to meet the needs of diverse user communities. The project “KAIROS” facilitates this work by (semi-)automating the configuration and the generation of forecasts...

We present a deterministic sieve-based system for attributing quotations in literary text and a new dataset: QuoteLi31. Quote attribution, determining who said what in a given text, is important for tasks like creating dialogue systems, and in newer areas like computational literary studies, where it creates opportunities to analyze novels at scale rather than only a few at a time. We release Q...

Mosel is a new tool-set for the analysis and veri cation in Monadic Second-order Logic. In this paper we concentrate on the system's design: Mosel is a tool-set to include a exible set of decision procedures for several theories of the logic complemented by a variety of support components for input format translations, visualization, and interfaces to other logics and tools. The main distinguis...

An assemble to order policy considers a tradoff between the size of product portfolio and assembly lead time. The concept of modular design is often used to implement the assemble to order policy. Modular design impacts assembly of products and the supply chain. In particular storage, transportation and production are affected by the selected modular structure. For a determined assembly lead ti...

Increasing logic resources coupled with a proliferation of integrated performance enhancing primitives in high-end FPGAs results in an increased design complexity which requires new methodologies to overcome. This paper presents a structured system based design methodology, centred around the concept of architecture reuse, which aims to increase productivity and exploit the reconfigurability of...

This paper concerns the problem of building reactive systems in a modular way. Several institutions have been proposed for the specification of reactive systems throughout the last fifteen years. Based on the institutions, formalisms for the incremental construction of system specifications have been developed. Related problem of modular construction of system implementations has received less ...