Described is a display sub-system, designed for support of a very high speed rendering engine. It provides high-performance graphics to an enVironment that consists of a hierarchy of resizable windows. The concept of virtual memory has been applied with the organization of the virtual to physical address spaces having a unique mapping that fits the organization of a bit-mapped graphics memory d...

This paper analyzes the simulation of Finite State mobile agent, which regards the migration, execution, and searching of the mobile agents as finite states. As the finite state mobile agents are deployed under the virtual organization platform, the corresponding search algorithm in virtual organization is also introduced. The experiments results based on the finite mobile agent’s evaluation mo...

This paper presents news problems linked to the increasing use of virtual spaces in the building of new types of manufacturing what is currently called Virtual Manufacturing (VM). VM has many consequences in the activity of industrial companies whatever be size, economic sector or geographical area. Particular attention is paid on virtual spaces, manufacturing and collaboration, skills matrix a...

Despite a sizable body of literature on virtual organization, little attention has been paid to defining organizational virtuality and identifying factors that influence degree of virtuality in organizations. Based on virtual organization literature and the knowledge-based view of the firm, we develop a working definition of organizational virtuality. We do this by conducting a review of existi...

Global competition and rapidly changing customer requirements afe forcing manufacturing enterprises to assume new production styles and configurations. Today, the agility has to concem not just operations and technology aspects but also organization: in this framework the concept of virtual organisation seems to be a new emerging paradigm to improve manufacturing firm competitiveness. Several r...

In the actual market conditions, where it is essential to rapidly respond to business opportunities that might emerge, the concept of virtual organization appears particularly well-suited. The possibility of rapidly forming a virtual organization to respond to a business or collaboration opportunity gives companies an expression of agility and survival mechanisms in face of the market turbulenc...

Internal ideas communities are becoming important instruments for companies, as they are virtual places where employees solve organizational issues, develop new products, services, and business opportunities. The engagement in such communities is voluntary and users are asked to invest their expertise, creativity, and their time to develop ideas. This makes it important to continuously acquire ...

The market globalization and increase of competition forces manufacturing companies to adopt new business organization paradigms. Moreover, Small and Medium Enterprises can compete to a global level if they try to cooperate at different levels as: design, production planning, et cetera. Figure 1 shows the driving forces towards the adoption of cooperation mechanism for the Small and Medium Ente...

Adapting virtualization concepts to satisfy network telecommunication challenges receives more and more attention. The virtual network environment is formed by the amount of bounded virtual resources provided by physical network equipments. Deploying virtual network infrastructure has recently caught more research interests due to its flexibility and manageability. However, virtual network depl...

Organizations are faced with a great challenge when trying to compete in the complex and unstable business environment of the twenty-first century. One of the potential solutions to this challenge is the new organizational form known as a Virtual Organization (VO). The aim of this chapter is to clarify VO as a phenomenon, and to discuss different degrees of virtuality. A conceptual analysis of ...