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- An Operational Semantics for StAC, a Language for Modelling Long-Running Business Transactions
- This paper presents the StAC Structured Activity Compensation language and its operational semantics. StAC is a business process modelling language and a distinctive feature of the language is its support for compensation. A compensation is an action taken to recover from error or cope with a change of plan, especially...
- White papers 2003-12-04
- Creative Destruction And Policy In A Model Of Endogenous Growth
- This paper extends a model of endogenous growth through the introduction of a component of knowledge that makes new technologies more productive than older vintages. Creative destruction or obsolescence of technologies underlies the growth process. In this setup, the growth effects of various policies are analyzed. These policies include selective...
- White papers 2004-07-08
- Productivity In Economies With Financial Frictions: Facts And A Theory
- We document and account for two facts regarding the relation between international interest rates and Total Factor Productivity TFP in a sample of developing countries. First, there is a negative correlation between both variables at quarterly frequency. Second, the share of agricultural labor and interest rates are positively correlated, whereas...
- White papers 2006-09-01
- Migration And FDI: Complements Or Substitutes?
- In a global context, migration and FDI Foreign Direct Investment substitute one another in the matching process between workers and firms. However, since migrants participate in the labor force in the destination country, they can both convey information on their home country including the quality of its workforce and institutions...
- White papers 2006-09-01
- Spillovers From Foreign Direct Investment: Within Or Between Industries?
- This paper contributes an estimation framework to measure both technological and linkage externalities from Foreign Direct Investment FDI. Empirical research dealt mainly with intra-industry spillovers from FDI with restrictive treatment of inter-industry effects until nowadays. However, as optimal organization of the MultiNational Corporation MNC involves minimization of profit losses due...
- White papers 2005-07-01
- Designing and Evaluating an Adaptive Trading Agent for Supply Chain Management Applications
- This paper provides a number of insights into building agents for supply chain applications. Specifically, it details the design, implementation and evaluation of SouthamptonSCM Supply Chain Management; an agent that successfully participated in the 2004 trading agent competition. The agent employs fuzzy techniques at its core. In particular, it uses...
- White papers 2005-05-31
- Effects of Payroll Taxes on Employment and Wages: Evidence From the Colombian Social Security Reform
- In this paper, one assesses the effect of higher payroll taxes on employment and wages. One uses a panel of manufacturing plants from Colombia to analyze how the sharp rise of 10.5% in payroll tax rates following the Social Security Reform of 1993 affected the labor market. This paper exploits...
- White papers 2002-05-01
- The Labor Market Effects of Payroll Taxes in a Middle-Income Country: Evidence From Colombia
- Colombian payroll taxes rose sharply in the 1980s and 1990s, a development that has been blamed for increasing unemployment in policy circles in this country. As a theoretical matter, the employment consequences of payroll taxes depend on the extent to which they can be passed on to workers in the...
- White papers 2005-03-01
- Modelling a Continuous Process With Discrete Simulation Techniques and Its Application to LNG Supply Chains
- This paper discusses the problem of modelling an LNG supply chain efficiently. The production, processing, transportation and consumption of LNG Liquid National Gas and the associated products are a topic of major interest in the energy industry. While the problem is apparently continuous, analysis suggests that this problem can be...
- White papers 2003-10-31
- Skilled Emigration, Business Networks And Foreign Direct Investment
- In a global context Foreign Direct Investment FDI and migration substitute one another in the matching process between workers and firms. However, as labor flows can lead to the formation of business networks, migration can actually facilitate FDI in the long-run. We first present a stylized model for a small...
- White papers 2005-03-01
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- Statoil ASA wins patent case against University of Southampton
- NORDIC BUSINESS REPORT-31 May 2006-Statoil ASA wins patent case against University of SouthamptonC1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com Norwegian state-owned gas and oil company Statoil ASA said on Wednesday (31 May) that the case that Statoil brought against the University of Southampton on a seabed logging patent has now been...
- Research articles 2006-05-31
- Professor Wendy Hall named as founding member of the Scientific Council of the European Research Council.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-18 July 2005-UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON: Professor Wendy Hall named as founding member of the Scientific Council of the European Research CouncilC1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:18072005 Professor Wendy Hall, Head of the School of Electronics and Computer Science, at the University...
- Research articles 2005-07-18
- Study reveals identity of a puzzling star
- The supernova remnant Cassiopeia A, one of the youngest in our galaxy and one that has long puzzled astronomers, is likely a dense type of star called a neutron star swathed in a carbon atmosphere, a new study finds. Cassiopeia A, a remnant of the explosion of a star that...
- News items 2009-11-04
- A Usage Based Analysis of CoRR.
- L. Carr, W. Hall, S. Hitchcock, and S. Harnad. 2000. ACM journal of computer documentation 24, no. 2:54-59. In this second of four commentaries on Halpern's repository plan, four members of the Open Citation Project (University of Southampton, UK) assess CoRR's past and likely...
- Research articles 2000-08-01
- Gale Group to Publish Complete Papers of Winston Churchill
- Gale Group, a Thomson Corp. company, has announced that it is working in association with the Sir Winston Churchill Archive Trust and the University of Southampton (U.K.) to publish for the first time the complete papers of Sir Winston Churchill. The project will be microfilmed and published over the next...
- Research articles 2000-12-01
- emgs Confirmed as Owner of Important Sea Bed Logging Technology.
- TRONDHEIM, Norway, May 30 /PRNewswire/ -- emgs has learned that The University of Southampton has withdrawn its appeal against last year's decision of the UK Patent Office to award ownership of a UK patent and a number of foreign applications on Sea...
- Research articles 2006-05-30
- David Payne named IEEE Photonics Award recipient.(BUSINESS)
- David Payne, director of the Optoelectronics Research Centre at the University of Southampton in Highfield, Southampton, England, will receive the IEEE 2007 Photonics Award, recognizing his contributions to the development and commercialization of David Payne, director of the Optoelectronics Research Centre at the...
- Research articles 2007-03-01
- David Payne named IEEE Photonics Award recipient.(IEEE)
- David Payne, director of the Optoelectronics Research Centre at the University of Southampton in Highfield, Southampton, England, will receive the IEEE 2007 Photonics Award, recognizing his contributions to the development and commercialization of David Payne, director of the Optoelectronics Research Centre at the...
- Research articles 2007-03-01
- Apple components may improve asthma.(From the bench: fruits & vegetables)(Brief Article)
- New research suggests the phytonutrients found in apples can reduce the risk of developing asthma. Seif Shaheen and colleagues from London's King's College and the University of Southampton report people who ate at least two apples per week had a 22- New research suggests the phytonutrients...
- Research articles 2004-06-01
- School students challenged to find a cure for malaria.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-21 June 2005-UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON: School students challenged to find a cure for malariaC1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:21062005 In the first project of its kind, school students will have the chance to design compounds with anti-malarial potential. ...
- Research articles 2005-06-21
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