The Geneva and Zurich housing markets are characterised by high proportions of foreigners and a large share of rental housing. This provides ideal conditions for testing whether foreigners pay more for the same quality of housing than Swiss households and ...
Synchrotron‐based X‐ray Tomographic Microscopy (SRXTM) is nowadays a powerful technique for non‐destructive, high‐resolution investigations of a broad kind of materials. High‐brilliance and high‐coherence third generation synchrotron radiation facilities a ...
Two operational formats namely mass customization and mass production can be implemented to satisfy customer preference-based demand. The mass customization system consists of two stages: the initial build-to-stock phase and the final customize-to-order ph ...
Today enterprises operate in a constantly changing market, characterized by shorter and shorter product life cycles, an increased demand for flexibility and changing techniques and technologies. In order to control these factors of complexity, enterprise m ...
The dissertation presents a new parallel programming paradigm for developing high performance (HPC) applications on the Grid. We address the question "How to tailor HPC applications to the Grid?" where the heterogeneity and the large scale of resources are ...