How can Trade Help to Rebuild and Enhance the Economies of the Southern Mediterranean Countries?

Arab countries are experiencing major changes in their governance systems. While the features of the new era are still unclear, what is certain is that a new development paradigm will be adopted and significant efforts will be made to rebuild the economies of these countries, which have been seriously disrupted due to the revolutions and their aftermath. This article seeks to answer the question of how trade can play a significant positive role in rebuilding and enhancing the economies of these Southern Mediterranean Countries

THROUGH THE EYES OF ONE WOMAN: DOES SPIRITUALITY HAVE A PLACE IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP BEHAVIOR?

The purpose of this paper is to review current literature relating to corporate entrepreneurship and to discern the issues that have arisen in this area of research. Issues of concern are: conceptualization of entrepreneurship (ES) and corporate entrepreneurship (CE), whether ES and CE can be taught and lastly factors facilitating CE. In addition, it will disclose the findings of a qualitative study relating to a woman entrepreneur in Malaysia. The latter study would shed light on how a woman entrepreneur in Malaysia learns to act entrepreneurially and how the findings converge or diverge from past research in this area.Entrepreneurship, Corporate Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship Behavior

Toward Self-Organising Service Communities

This paper discusses a framework in which catalog service communities are built, linked for interaction, and constantly monitored and adapted over time. A catalog service community (represented as a peer node in a peer-to-peer network) in our system can be viewed as domain specific data integration mediators representing the domain knowledge and the registry information. The query routing among communities is performed to identify a set of data sources that are relevant to answering a given query. The system monitors the interactions between the communities to discover patterns that may lead to restructuring of the network (e.g., irrelevant peers removed, new relationships created, etc.)

A multistage hierarchical algorithm for hand shape recognition

This paper represents a multistage hierarchical algorithm for hand shape recognition using principal component analysis (PCA) as a dimensionality reduction and a feature extraction method. The paper discusses the effect of image blurring to build data manifolds using PCA and the different ways to construct these manifolds. In_order to classify the hand shape of an incoming sign object and to be invariant to linear transformations like translation and rotation, a multistage hierarchical classifier structure is used. Computer generated images for different Irish Sign Language shapes are used in testing. Experimental results are given to show the accuracy and performance of the proposed algorithm

A QoS Routing Protocol based on Available Bandwidth Estimation for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks

At the same time as the emergence of multimedia in mobile Ad hoc networks, research for the introduction of the quality of service (QoS) has received much attention. However, when designing a QoS solution, the estimation of the available resources still represents one of the main issues. This paper suggests an approach to estimate available resources on a node. This approach is based on the estimation of the busy ratio of the shared canal. We consider in our estimation the several constraints related to the Ad hoc transmission mode such as Interference phenomena. This approach is implemented on the AODV routing protocol. We call AODVwithQOS our new routing protocol. We also performed a performance evaluation by simulations using NS2 simulator. The results confirm that AODVwithQoS provides QoS support in ad hoc wireless networks with good performance and low overhead