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In recent years, Grid computing has gained considerable attention in industry leading to the vision of a new agile business platform which provides the on-demand access to IT resources. In this article, we refer to the current trend of financial services providers to utilize Services Grids in order to increase the level of business agility in terms of improved environmental sensing and responding...
The current challenge for the financial services industry is to improve and refine the structures of the past to meet changing information requirements and to integrate them into existing enterprise architectures. In order to meet these computational demands, Grid computing presents a secure, reliable and scalable technology to provide shared access to heterogeneous resources.This paper presents a...
The exchange of transportation capacities is an approach that is well established in the practice of logistics. Few of these mostly web-based market places, however, are able to take into consideration the synergies that can be generated by the appropriate combination of the transportation lanes of different carriers. One method of achieving this is to employ combinatorial auctions, which allow bidding...
The paper focuses on interpretation of Sovietisation as a matter of geography, chronology, and a political process. As a consequence of the Cold War period the interpretations of Sovietisation, being under the strong impact of manichean conceptions of the postwar development as well as of the propaganda schemes, have focused either on internal transformation or on the Soviet expansionism following...
The problem of tradition and modernity is one of the key themes of modern Polish history. It was caused by the strong and persistent dominance of political culture, which established itself on the basis of the norms of the noble society. In this form and for a long time it loomed over other opportunities for development as a possible inspiration and binding framework. A high frequency of political...
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