Due to their cost, performance, area, and energy efficiency, MPSoCs offer appealing architecture for emerging mixed criticality systems (MCS) such as driverless cars, smart power grids, and healthcare devices. Furthermore, heterogeneity of MPSoCs presents exceptional opportunities to satisfy the conflicting requirements of MCS. Seizing these opportunities is unattainable without addressing the ...

At a recent conference on real options, a delegate from a telecommunications company raised the following query in response to a speaker from a firm of management consultants. Paraphrasing somewhat, he said: “You’ve stressed the importance of ‘holding the option’ and delaying investment decisions. Last month a consultant from your company advised my firm, a telecoms company, to act decisively, ...

Improved communications and the Internet make it possible for many people to work just as effectively from a cottage in a village as in a city office, for example, while cheaper transport and increased leisure time make it easier for farms to expand into non-farming activities. As a result, governments have moved away from a defensive attitude to rural policy, essentially focussed on trying to ...

This paper deals with the impact of micro and macro environment components on trade companies in Romania. Trade companies organize and operate under specific environmental conditions impact or both. In the activity of any companies the environment plays a key role in defining its strategies in seizing and using opportunities of development, being practically the support in achieving the objecti...