Component retrieval, about how to locate and identify appropriate components, is one of the major problems in component reuse. It becomes more critical as more reusable components come from component markets instead of from an in-house component library, and the number of available components is dramatically increasing. In this paper, we review the current component retrieval methods and propos...

abstract: this paper investigates the existence of the house money effect among individual investors by using the intraday transactions dataset in iran stock market. regarding the purpose of investigation the relation between the investment gains and the change in risk taking, firstly, we calculate the profit profile of investors in each day. then, the risk taking of every investor are calculat...

We analyze the role of subcontracting in industries where firms compete with their design of organizational production mode as strategic instrument. In particular, we investigate the decision of what fraction of components to produce internally and what fraction to subcontract. In-house production of components is assumed to generate monitoring costs, which increase as a convex function of the ...

We analyze the role of subcontracting in industries where firms utilize their design of organizational production mode as strategic instrument. In particular, we investigate the decision of what fraction of components to produce internally and what fraction to subcontract. In-house production of components is assumed to generate monitoring costs, which increase as a convex function of the numbe...

Plagues of the house mouse (Mus musculus) occur at irregular intervals throughout the agricultural regions of south-eastern Australia. This paper discusses these phenomena in terms of their impact on agricultural production, previous attempts to reduce damage and levels of infestation, and associated environmental implications. Consideration is also given to the accurate prediction of mouse pla...

Empirical studies often use Freedom House ratings for Political Rights and/or Civil Liberties as institutional proxies for the degree of democracy. In this study, Granger-causality tests are used which reveal that Political Rights tend to precede Civil Liberties, but not the reverse, in a panel data set of former Soviet Republics. For transition nations, Freedom House also publishes a separate ...

In this paper we present a CORBA-based architecture for electronic auction applications. The core of this architecture is represented by two services, which considerably facilitate the implementation of an electronic auction house by performing some of the main tasks that typically have to be implemented by a developer in this context, such as distributing and recollecting bidding data. Besides...