This paper applies Agent-Based Modeling to the auto industry. The auto industry might be considered as a complicated rather than a complex system, because it is characterized by adaptation and emergence, two of the three major characteristics of complex systems [1]. Yet some characteristics residing in human could lead us to consider the auto industry as a quasi-complex system because individua...

Host auto-configuration of mobile hosts is a key issue in the mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) as hosts cannot participate in unicast routing without unique addresses. A distributed agent based dynamic host auto-configuration protocol for heterogeneous MANET nodes is presented in this paper. In this approach, every address agent has a disjoint set of IP addresses which it can assign to the new n...

This paper focuses on the connection between product complexity and vertical integration using original empirical evidence from the auto industry. A rich literature has addressed the choice between internal production and external sourcing of components in the auto industry. More recent literature has developed the concept of product architecture as another choice variable that may be one of th...

Mobile devices and mobile applications have a significant effect on the present and on the future of the software industry. The diversity of mobile platforms necessitates the development of the same mobile application for all major mobile platforms, which requires considerable development effort. Mobile application developers are multiplatform developers, but they prioritize the platforms, ther...

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