‘Betsy Ross’, ‘Old Glory’, and ‘Declaration’ Lilacs

LILACS, mission and abstracts

Process Engine Benchmarking with Betsy - Current Status and Future Directions

Business process management and automation has been the focus of intense research for a long time. Today, a plethora of process languages for specifying and implementing process models have evolved. Examples for such languages are established international standards, such as the Web Services Business Process Execution Language 2.0 or, more recently, the Business Process Model and Notation 2.0. ...

Choosing between Growth and Glory

Prior work has established that the financing environment can impact firm strategy. We argue that this influence can shape the earliest strategic choices of a new venture by creating a potential tradeo↵ between two objectives: rapid growth and reaping the benefits of a positive reputation (glory). We identify a simple reputation-building strategic choice, naming the firm after the founder (epon...

Tides of the Ross Sea and Ross Ice Shelf cavity

Two new ocean tide models for the Ross Sea including the ocean cavity under the Ross Ice Shelf, are described. The optimum model for predicting ice shelf surface height variability is based on assimilation of gravimetry-derived tidal constituents from the Ross Ice Shelf. Synthetic aperture radar interferograms provide an independent test of model performance. The standard deviation of tide heig...

Glory of piezoelectric perovskites

This article reviews the history of piezoelectric perovskites and forecasts future development trends, including Uchino's discoveries such as the Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3-PbTiO3 electrostrictor, Pb(Zn1/3Nb2/3)O3-PbTiO3 single crystal, (Pb, La)(Zr, Ti)O3 photostriction, and Pb(Zr, Ti)O3-Terfenol magnetoelectric composites. We discuss five key trends in the development of piezomaterials: performance to r...