In this paper, we characterise and compare status and evolution of the ICT industry of the six major global economies in ICT: China, the EU, Japan, Korea, Taiwan and the USA. For this, we employ official data covering the period 2006–2009. Our analysis shows that although the EU is the largest...

Purpose – This paper aims to present the results of a research project that the Institute for Prospective Technology Studies commissioned to research the possible effects of information and communication technologies (ICT) on a set of environmental indicators in 2020....

We present an analytical approach to evaluate the performance of a manufacturing workcell tended by a single operator when operator-induced machine interference occurs. Each part must be processed at every workstation in the workcell. The fact that one or more machines can request an operator...