Team processes are inherently dynamic phenomena theoretically, but they have largely been treated as static in research. It is well established that they are important contributors to team effectiveness; the lack of attention to dynamics means that team process mechanisms are essentially unstudied. I examine three primary themes. First, I speculate as to why it is that research treatments of te...

A formal consideration in this paper is given for the essential notations to characterize the object that is distinguished in a problem domain. The distinct object is represented by another idealized object, which is a schematic element. When the existence of an element is significant, then a class of these partial elements is dropped down into actual, potential and virtual objects. The potenti...

An overview of the brief history and structure of the generalised enterprise reference architecture and methodology (GERAM) is given together with the discussion of its role to systematise the activities of the disciplines that contribute to enterprise integration, and its use as a shopping list of capabilities, or components that individual enterprises need for small and large scale programmes...

We investigate what happens when an entire sample path of a smooth Gaussian process on a compact interval lies above a high level. Specifically, we determine the precise asymptotic probability of such an event, the extent to which the high level is exceeded, the conditional shape of the process above the high level, and the location of the minimum of the process given that the sample path is ab...

Globalisation, outsourcing and customisation are main challenges of today not least for one-of-a-kind producers. A crucial competitive factor will be the ability rapidly to form customer focused virtual enterprises comprised of competencies from different partners by taking full advantage of ICT. To prepare for this is a complex task, in fact all business, management and planning views, and rel...

In this paper the notion of action atomicity is relaxed by permitting actions to be observed in the middle of their evolution. Non atomic semantic equivalences, based on the notion of bisimulation, are studied over stable event structures. Splitn bisimulation equivalence (denoted n ) considers each event as composed of n phases. ST bisimulation equivalence (denoted ST ) is a slight refinement o...

Complex planning domains push the boundaries of the expressive power of planning domain modelling languages. Recent extensions to the standard planning languages have included expressions for temporal, metric and resource structures. Other work has also considered how process models can be incorporated into domain models. In this paper we consider the problem of expressing and validating models...

This paper describes the fundamentals of optical enterprise networks, including the enterprise Multi Source Agreement optical transceivers and their architecture. Then the different Ethernet optical PHY standards, and latest EDC technology that utilizes electronic signal processing methods to enable 10Gb/s Ethernet transmission over legacy MMF optical links, is presented. Finally, the EDC assoc...

Recent research in algorithms for solving global optimization problems using response surface methodology has shown that it is in general not possible to use one surrogate model for solving different kinds of problems. In this paper the approach of applying Dempster-Shafer theory to surrogate model selection and their combination is described. Various conflict redistribution rules have been exa...

This paper presents a new adaptive soft combiner implemented on cognitive radio nodes for distributed cooperative spectrum sensing. The key feature of the proposal is the use of the standard set-membership normalized least-mean squares (SMNLMS) algorithm, which enjoys good tracking capabilities, while entailing low computational burden. Indeed, simulation results show that the computational sav...