Current manufacturing industry requires product data management (PDM) for efficient product development and production. As an important part of effective PDM solutions, workflow management facilitates creating and executing workflow so as to streamline business processes. Unfortunately, existing workflow management solutions are designed to handle static business processes; when a workflow chan...

This paper incorporates the cost of adjustment between observed and optimal leverage in explaining the variation in firm’s equity or bank-debt financing investments. Using a dynamic adjustment approach identifies the determinants to capital structure between different financial systems. In relation to firm sales U.K and U.S firms have 50-100 percent more equity financing than Swedish firms depe...

The classical approach to testing for structural change employs retrospective tests using a historical data set of a given length. Here we consider a wide array of fluctuation-type tests in a monitoring situation – given a history period for which a regression relationship is known to be stable, we test whether incoming data are consistent with the previously established relationship. Procedure...

One of the major challenges in the provision of distributed systems is the accomodation of evolutionary change. This may involve modifications or extensions to the system which were not envisaged at design time. Furthermore, in many application domains there is a requirement that the system accomodate such change dynamically, without stopping or disturbing the operation of those parts of the sy...

Every long-time running software system is sooner or later subject of a change. The most common reasons are different requests for a bug fixing or adding a new functionality. Software maintenance forms bigger part of software’s lifetime. Before applying a change, it is essential to correctly understand current state of affected system. Without all relevant information about both – system as who...

We present and evaluate a framework and tool for combining multiple program analyses which allows the dynamic (on-line) adjustment of the precision of each analysis depending on the accumulated results. For example, the explicit tracking of the values of a variable may be switched off in favor of a predicate abstraction when and where the number of different variable values that have been encou...

This paper notes that the autonomy of ‘boundary spanning’ units are becoming critically important as organizations continue to decentralize. This dynamic business change and the consequent new configurations are believed to have a significant and pervasive impact upon the role of IS/IT. The formal ‘technology push’ common to these circumstances is clearly inappropriate given the emergence of th...

In general, the scene change for video indexing could be detected by using an appropriate threshold. However, the single fixed threshold value used in previous researches cannot perform well for all videos equally. In this paper, we propose a dynamic threshold method(DTM) in order to improve the performance of the scene change detection. The proposed method utilizes variable parameters obtained...

Five scales have been developed to assess changes that are consistent with the therapeutic rationales and procedures of dynamic psychotherapy. Seven raters evaluated 50 patients before and 36 patients again after brief dynamic psychotherapy. A factor analysis indicated that the scales represent a dimension that is discriminable from general symptoms. A summary measure, Dynamic Capacity, was rat...