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This book identifies the critical factors that shaped and influenced New Zealand’s defence acquisition decision-making processes from the election of the Fourth Labour Government in 1984 and the subsequent ANZUS crisis, through to the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States and the following ‘war on terror’. It explores and analyses decision-making processes in relation to the ANZAC frigates, the military sealift ship HMNZS Charles Upham, the F-16 strike aircraft, the P-3C Orion maritime patrol aircraft upgrade, and the LAV IIIs.

defence --- government --- defence contracts --- armed forces --- procurement --- new zealand

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The domain of industrial service procurement lacks in adequate domain-specific solutions for the precise modeling, qualitative and quantitative analysis and implementation of electronic business processes in process-aware information systems. In this work new solutions based on methods, models and e-business solutions are worked out in order to improve the development and configuration of process-aware information systems.

Beschaffung, Dienstleistung, Geschäftsprozess, Informationssystem, Geschäftsprozessmanagement, Procurement, Service, Business Process, Information System, Business Process Management

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Depuis quelques années, l'archéologie de la montagne connaît un indéniable regain d'intérêt. Les problématiques liées au statut des espaces d'altitude irriguent des programmes pluridisciplinaires, actuellement menés ou projetés dans les différents massifs européens. Dans ce contexte, les approches diachroniques et géoarchéologiques permettent désormais de mieux connaître des territoires qu'une absence de recherche et certains présupposés maintenaient encore naguère dans un état proche de la terra incognita. Cette dynamique est rythmée par toute une série de rencontres internationales dans laquelle s'inscrit la table ronde qui s'est déroulée au Musée-Muséum départemental de Gap entre le 29 septembre et le 1er octobre 2008. Les vingt-neuf contributions rassemblées dans le présent volume reflètent à la fois la diversité des zones étudiées et l'interdisciplinarité des recherches. Avec cette publication, nous espérons contribuer de façon significative au dialogue et à la coordination nécessaires entre les équipes de recherche se vouant à l'étude de la présence et de l'activité de l'homme au coeur des écosystèmes de moyenne et de haute montagne en Europe, des milieux bien particuliers, parfois difficiles à appréhender et trop longtemps restés en marge des terrains d'investigation de l'archéologie.

human impact --- mountain --- natural resource procurement --- dendrology --- paleoenvironment --- pastoralism --- rural life

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Nach dem jähen Ende des Booms um die Jahrtausendwende verlor das E-Business viel von der Aufmerksamkeit, die ihm vorher zuteil wurde. Nicht nur für die Börse oder für die Medien, sondern auch für viele zuvor eifrig Engagierte aus der Wissenschaft büßte das Thema plötzlich rapide an Reiz ein. Mit der «Rückkehr zur Rationalität» in diesem Feld jedoch steht das Controlling mehr denn je in der Pflicht. Viele Basistechnologien lösen erfahrungsgemäß erst Jahre oder Jahrzehnte nach «ihrer Hype» die so hoch bevorschußten Versprechen ein. Dies ist auch hinsichtlich des E-Business zu erwarten. Unternehmen, die daran teilhaben wollen, müssen die richtigen Auswahl- und Ausgestaltungsentscheidungen treffen. Die Bereitstellung entsprechender ökonomischer Kalküle ist mit eine Aufgabe des Controlling. Der Band zeigt für ausgewählte Teilgebiete exemplarisch entsprechende Perspektiven auf.

Aufsatzsammlung --- Berens --- Business --- Controlling --- Controlling --- E-Business --- Electronic Commerce --- E-Procurement --- Internet --- Investitionsplanung --- Netzwerkökonomie --- Rationalität --- Rückkehr --- Strategische Planung

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Energy efficiency and low-carbon technologies are key contributors to curtailing the emission of greenhouse gases that continue to cause global warming. The efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions also strongly affect electrical power systems. Renewable sources, storage systems, and flexible loads provide new system controls, but power system operators and utilities have to deal with their fluctuating nature, limited storage capabilities, and typically higher infrastructure complexity with a growing number of heterogeneous components. In addition to the technological change of new components, the liberalization of energy markets and new regulatory rules bring contextual change that necessitates the restructuring of the design and operation of future energy systems. Sophisticated component design methods, intelligent information and communication architectures, automation and control concepts, new and advanced markets, as well as proper standards are necessary in order to manage the higher complexity of such intelligent power systems that form smart grids. Due to the considerably higher complexity of such cyber-physical energy systems, constituting the power system, automation, protection, information and communication technology (ICT), and system services, it is expected that the design and validation of smart-grid configurations will play a major role in future technology and system developments. However, an integrated approach for the design and evaluation of smart-grid configurations incorporating these diverse constituent parts remains evasive. The currently available validation approaches focus mainly on component-oriented methods. In order to guarantee a sustainable, affordable, and secure supply of electricity through the transition to a future smart grid with considerably higher complexity and innovation, new design, validation, and testing methods appropriate for cyber-physical systems are required. Therefore, this book summarizes recent research results and developments related to the design and validation of smart grid systems.

adaptive control --- fuzzy logic --- cell --- frequency containment control (FCC) --- power frequency characteristic --- droop control --- smart grids --- substation automation system (SAS) --- high-availability seamless redundancy (HSR) --- seamless communications --- traffic reduction technique --- Power Hardware-in-the-Loop (PHIL) --- interface algorithm (IA) --- operational range of PHIL --- linear/switching amplifier --- cyber-physical energy system --- co-simulation --- conceptual structuration --- coupling method --- linear decision rules --- optimal reserve allocation --- robust optimization --- web of cells --- demand response --- real-time balancing market --- elastic demand bids --- shiftable loads --- market design --- market design elements --- Web-of-Cells --- procurement scheme --- remuneration scheme --- pricing scheme --- cascading procurement --- real-time simulation --- hardware-in-the-Loop --- synchrophasors --- micro-synchrophasors --- distribution phasor measurement units --- distribution grid --- time synchronization --- PHIL (power hardware in the loop) --- simulation initialization --- synchronization --- time delay --- synchronous power system --- stability --- accuracy --- peer-to-peer --- distributed control --- device-to-device communication --- voltage control --- experimentation --- smart grid --- cyber physical co-simulation --- information and communication technology --- 4G Long Term Evolution—LTE --- network reconfiguration --- fault management --- power loss allocation --- plug-in electric vehicle --- smart grid --- locational marginal prices --- microgrid --- resilience --- investment --- underground cabling --- network outage --- battery energy storage system (BESS) --- micro combined heat and power (micro-CHP) --- electricity distribution --- solar photovoltaics (PV) --- islanded operation --- distributed control --- microgrid --- hardware-in-the-loop --- average consensus --- multi-agent system --- active distribution network --- laboratory testbed --- renewable energy sources --- DC link --- centralised control --- interoperability --- smart energy systems --- use cases --- IEC 62559 --- SGAM --- TOGAF --- integration profiles --- IHE --- testing --- gazelle --- connectathon --- Hardware-in-the-Loop --- Software-in-the-Loop --- Power-Hardware-in-the-Loop --- Quasi-Dynamic Power-Hardware-in-the-Loop --- smart grids --- real-time simulation --- validation and testing --- decentralised energy system --- smart grids control strategies --- smart grid --- wind power --- synchronized measurements --- PMU --- data mining --- Architecture --- Development --- Enterprise Architecture Management --- Model-Based Software Engineering --- Smart Grid --- Smart Grid Architecture Model --- System-of-Systems --- Validation --- design, development and implementation methods for smart grid technologies --- modelling and simulation of smart grid systems --- co-simulation-based assessment methods --- validation techniques for innovative smart grid solutions --- real-time simulation and hardware-in-the-loop experiments