one of the basic tenets in recent international trade literature is about the effect of trade integration on business cycle synchronization (bcs) among trading countries. the objective of this paper is to explore the main determinants of business cycle synchronization, with emphasis on trade integration. to this end, we have specified two simultaneous regression equations which were estimated b...

It has been well known for at least the past two decades that the standard neo-classical growth model, notwithstanding its surprising success in explaining many aggregate phenomena, performs poorly when it comes to explaining business cycle fluctuations in the labor market. The work of Gomme, Rogerson, Rupert, and Wright (henceforth GRRW) builds on the premise that the understanding of labor ma...

How to apply negotiation principles to E-business is an important topic for both negotiation research and E-business research. Automation of E-business negotiation is even more challenging due to the inherent complexity of business negotiations. Some research has been done in this area, but a comprehensive model for automated E-business negotiation is still missing. Furthermore, existing work i...

This paper proposes a framework to represent life-cycle activities performed in business process management (BPM). It is based on the functionbehaviour-structure (FBS) ontology that represents all design entities uniformly, independently of the specific stages in their life cycle. The framework specifies a set of distinct activities that operate on the function, behaviour and structure of a bus...

This thesis deals with Business Process Management and its possible application in the field of Web-based Education and learning processes. To investigate these possibilities in practice, a tool that supports learning processes through Business Process Management has been developed. The thesis presents the software development process of that tool in detail. Thus, the thesis is divided into thr...

Business process compliance has become more and more important function for business process management (BPM). One of challenges in this area is to check the business process compliance in the business process life-cycle (design-time, run-time). In this paper, we propose a description logic-based approach for business process compliance checking during two phases of the business process life-cy...