Design of the leading zero anticipator ( L a ) or detector (LZD) is pivotal to the normalization of results for addition and fused multiplication-addition in highperjormance floating point processors. This paper formalizes the analysis and describes some alternative organizations and implementations from the known art. It shows how choices made in the design are o fen dependent on the overall d...

admits a meromorphic continuation to the entire complex plane, with the unique and simple pole of residue 1 at s = 1. In the half-plane {s : Rs ≤ 0}, the Riemann zeta function has simple zeros at −2,−4,−6, . . ., and only at these points which are called trivial zeros. There exist also non-trivial zeros in the band {s : 0 < Rs < 1}. We refer for these basic facts for instance to [Bl] (Propositi...

Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain and rising continental European unemployment (with rather stable wage inequality) have led to a popular view in the economics profession that these two phenomena are related to negative relative demand shocks against the unskilled in the industrialised world, combined with flexible wages in the Anglo-Saxon countries, but institutional rigidities in...

Research whose financial support is gratefully acknowledged. We are in particular indebted to Eugenio Peluso and Nicolas Gravel for helpful conversations and suggestions. We also would like to thank two anonymous referees whose comments have helped us to make our ideas more precise and to improve the paper. Needless to say, the authors bear the entire responsibility for remaining errors and def...

The analysis of coordination among the supply chain is a key factor for improving its performance. The highly dynamic demand induced by the volatility of customers requires defining tools to improve the performance. This paper presents an agent-based modelling concept for simulation of customer-centric supply chain. We describe the specificities of such supply chains at the enterprise modelling...

Despite the rising potential of big data, a few studies have been conducted to examine it in the supply chain field. This article gives an overview of big data use in this field and underlines its potential role in the supply chain transformation by leading a systematic literature review. The results show that the big data analytics techniques can be categorized into three types: descriptive, p...

Applying Information and communication technologies (ICT) tools is crucial for businesses to stay competitive sustainable. The aim of this study investigate the attitudes Hotel, Restaurant, Catering sector (HoReCa) wholesale companies towards using ICT improve B2B drive sustainable development. Through in-depth interviews with representatives from twenty HoReCa firms seven suppliers, tool was f...

There is a huge amount of hype associated with the term “Big Data” (Walker, 2014; Chen, Chiang & Storey, 2012; Chen, Mao & Liu, 2014). Its applications to industry appear limitless (Chen, Alspaugh & Katz, 2012). However, research applying big data to the supply chain management domain fails to demonstrate useful results (Richey et al., 2016). We therefore propose the following research objectiv...

There has been a realisation within the UK construction industry that the promotion of innovation and innovative thinking across the supply chain can offer, the clients and service providers, key benefits in terms of adaptability, financial growth and improved service delivery. This paper attempts to highlight the benefits of innovation and how organisations can promote innovation and innovativ...

Intensifying global competitions and rapid advancement of technology have promoted the needs for companies to work collaboratively with their supply chain partners in the form of a virtual enterprise, giving rise to virtual supply chain. However, given the concept was originated from the West, how to promote the application of virtual supply management concept in Asia has become an important is...