Distributed software agents offer great promise in building an increasingly pervasive middleware and component technology. Context-aware systems are able to monitor and automatically adapt their operation accordingly to the execution context in which they are introduced. Component-based development (CBD) focuses on the development and reuse of self-contained software assets in order to achieve ...

This Guideline provides the clinical diagnostic criteria for beryllium sensitization and chronic beryllium disease (CBD; old term = berylliosis), based on the latest available medical literature and consultation with leading experts in the field. This Guideline does not address exposure prevention, workplace safety, or treatment. In addition, this Guideline is not intended to supplant all adjud...

Since the early 1970s, urban economists have recognized the importance of a general equilibrium model of the urban economy. Initially, however, they developed such models only for monocentric cities in which all jobs were assumed to stay in a central business district (CBD). Thus, although the analytical solution of the monocentric city model yielded many theoretical insights, it remained empir...

This position paper presents arguments for including the properties of processes involved in various approaches to component-based software development in predicting system properties. It discusses how processes impact on system properties and relates the issues raised to standards that already address process and product quality. Although many standards still apply, CBD changes interpretations...

1. In decision IX/6, on incentive measures, Conference of the Parties at its ninth meeting requested the Executive Secretary, “in cooperation with relevant organizations and initiatives, to examine the international dimension of how monitoring can support the implementation of valuation tools and positive incentive measures” (paragraph 11). This examination was to draw on earlier work undertake...

This paper looks at the development of dynamic hedging strategies for typical pension plan liabilities using longevity-linked hedging instruments. Progress in this area has been hindered by the lack of closed-form formulas for the valuation of mortalitylinked liabilities and assets, and the consequent requirement for simulations within simulations. We propose use of the probit function along wi...

The recent Bubble and its crash caused severe difficult problems to many local municipalities. Govern ments of suburban areas were required to remake their future planning and want to know the basic future trends of the local economies. The purpose of this study is to construct a model of a suburban city and use it to forecast basic tendencies of its local economy. The results will be useful fo...

RATIONALE Component Based Development (CBD) has caught the attention of academics and practitioners alike. Building upon sound Object-Oriented principles, CDB has a strong conceptual foundation as well as extensive practical orientation and application. CBD approaches promise the potential to deliver quality systems in a short period of time with opportunities for component reuse to further red...

The Green Growth Knowledge Platform (GGKP) is a global network of researchers and development experts that identifies and addresses major knowledge gaps in green growth theory and practice. Through widespread consultation and world-class research, GGKP provides practitioners and policymakers with better tools to foster economic growth and implement sustainable development. The opinions expresse...

This thesis extends the previous literature on urban subcenter formation by introducing congestion cost of transportation. A new model is constructed to analyze the efficiency of private decision about firm decentralization with the presence of unpriced transportation congestion. The model features a linear city with provision of transportation infrastructure oriented toward carrying workers to...