Strategy-Making in a Loosely Coupled System:

Innovation as a loosely coupled system in services

The goal of this paper is to assess whether innovation in services can be described as a coherent and steady system. Our results are based on the survey of a great deal of theoretical but mostly empirical literature including an ongoing european project called SI4S (Innovation in services and services in innovation). We first present some general characteristics of services and of service innov...

Improved Emergency Management by a Loosely Coupled Logistic System

We investigate a robust and intelligent logistic system for emergency management where existing commercial logistic systems are loosely coupled with logistic systems of emergency management organizations and armed forces. This system is used to supply the population in case of a disaster where a high impact of environmental conditions on logistics can be seen. Very important are robustness as t...

LCN-A loosely coupled network system by LOWELL

The Control Data Loosely Coupled Network (LCN) system is a set of hardware and software that interconnects computers and peripheral devices and provides them a means to communicate with each other over shared high-speed data trunks. The term Loosely Coupled is used to denote that there is no master/slave relationship in the LCN system. To effect communications between two units connected to LCN...

Loosely Coupled Class Families

Loosely-Coupled Processes

A system of processes in which the interactions are solely through messages is often called loosely-coupled. Such systems are attractive from a programming viewpoint. They are designed by decomposing a specification into its separable concerns, each of which could then be implemented by a process; the operation of the system can be understood by asserting properties of the message sequences tra...