EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Given the importance of the information technology industry in today’s global economy, much recent research has focused on the relative success of small countries in fostering IT industries. This case examines the factors of IT industry success in small developed countries, and compares two such countries, Finland and New Zealand. Finland and New Zealand are alike in many resp...

The Semantic Web uses formal distributed ontologies for representing relationships among concepts in the real world. A structured framework such as this allows agents to peruse and reason about published knowledge without the need for scrapers, information agents, and centralized ontologies. However, in order to process any information, an agent must be familiar with the underlying ontology use...

Modeling and simulation (M&S) optimization applications in industry and engineering are as old as M&S itself, but the growth in computational power has allowed the description and resolution of complex issues using heuristic optimizations and M&S outside computational laboratories and in direct support of the workforce. This resulted in recent advancements in methodologies and frameworks of heu...

March 2001 PACE, Vol. 24 Introduction Industry employed allied professionals (IEAPs) have traditionally played an important role providing technical assistance to physicians and their clinically employed allied professionals (CEAPs) during pacemaker/ICD implantation, programming, troubleshooting, and follow-up. The IEAPs include directly employed or contracted manufacturer representatives, fiel...

rfid technology has great potential to improve the benefits of supply chain management. auto- manufacturing is a competitive industry that every player of it needs great operation efficiency to gain competitive advantage to survive. rfid systems are good enhancements to supply chain processes, therefore it's obvious that every industry has to pay great attention to this it solution, and in this...

Atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations and global and regional climates are already changing as a result of human activities. More change seems likely. Historical climate variations, particularly in rainfall, have had significant impacts on the Australian cropping industries and consequently we would anticipate additional impacts from future climate change. However, the magnitude of th...