The marriage of emerging information technologies with control technologies is a major driving force that, in the context of the factory-floor, is creating an enormous eagerness for extending the capabilities of currently available fieldbus networks to cover functionalities not considered up to a recent past. Providing wireless capabilities to such type of communication networks is a big share ...

An advanced architecture for inter-domain QoS analysis, developed in the framework of European IST Project INTERMON, for automation of tasks in the area of inter-domain QoS/SLA monitoring, connectivity planning and traffic engineering is presented. The main focus of the INTERMON toolkit is the integration of tools covering different aspects of QoS analysis in large scale Internet environment su...

Inter-organizational relationships are becoming an increasingly important source of competitive advantage and innovation. This study looks at these relationships in the context of inter-organizational R&D collaborations in the European automotive industry. Previous work led to the proposal of a competence based portfolio framework that explains the design of the inter-organizational architectur...

Three N-ar-yl-2,2,2-tri-bromo-acetamides, namely, 2,2,2-tri-bromo-N-(2-fluoro-phen-yl)-acetamide, C8H5Br3FNO, (I), 2,2,2-tri-bromo-N-[3-(tri-fluoro-methyl)-phen-yl]-acetamide, C9H5Br3F3NO, (II) and 2,2,2-tri-bromo-N-(4-fluoro-phen-yl)-acetamide, C8H5Br3FNO, (III) were synthesized and their crystal structures were analysed. In the crystal structure of (I), C-Br⋯πar-yl inter-actions connect the m...

Space division multiplexing (SDM), incorporating multi-core fibers (MCFs), has been demonstrated for effectively maximizing the data capacity in an impending capacity crunch. To achieve high spectral-density through multi-carrier encoding while simultaneously maintaining transmission reach, benefits from inter-core crosstalk (XT) and non-linear compensation must be utilized. In this report, we ...

Inter-vehicle communication systems play an important role in future road communication scenarios like FleetNet. For such communication scenarios, ad hoc networks offer a promising approach due to their characteristics such as low latency and cost efficiency. While multi-hop ad hoc network communication among vehicles provides for many interesting and important applications (e.g., traveling saf...

We provide visualizations of the architecture of the economy that are informed by theory, empirically based, and meaningful at multiple levels of analysis. The systems-based view of industry architecture disaggregates the economy into demand-based vertical sectors in which firms collaborate and compete to collectively satisfy a set of similar demands. Within vertical sectors, inter-industry rel...

We propose an architecture based on a hybrid E2E-ERN approach allowing ERN protocols to be inter-operable with current IP-based networks. Without introducing complex operations, the resulting E2E-ERN protocol provides inter and intra protocol fairness and benefits from all ERN advantages when possible. We detail the principle of this novel architecture, called IP-ERN, and show that this archite...

In order to improve convenience, efficiency, and safety in vehicular networking applications (VNA), we propose a novel business model based on platform production services (PPS), design an inter-cloud architecture, and then apply this emerging scheme to vehicle maintenance services (VMS). Both internet of things (IoT) sensing framework and inter-cloud computing architecture are the crucial fact...