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It has taken platforms only twenty years to become digital economy
hubs. They have changed markets, enterprises, and society. They
have expedited communication, collaboration, and trade for
consumers, winning their attention and collecting their data. In
doing so, they have made processes, products, and industries
obsolete, and disrupted the expectations and behaviours of market
players. This raises the question, are digital platforms global
innovators or disruptive monopolists? Are they a solution to
problems of the past or emissaries of a problematic future? This
book provides a multi-faceted approach to platforms and their
profound impact on markets and ecosystems. Economic, managerial,
social, and political aspects are analysed, and the differentiation
of platforms and their disruptive potential is reviewed. The book
also examines the mechanism of achieving a monopolistic position,
including in the international supply chain, and the greater
influence of platforms on political activity and contemporary
democracy. With examples from Poland, USA, and China, the
contributions offer an international evaluation of disruptive
platforms across a multitude of industries. The edited collection,
prepared by scholars from the SGH Warsaw School of Economics, will
be valuable to researchers and academics across the fields of
strategic management, marketing, innovations, international
business, and the digital economy.
Interest in control of climbing and walking robots has remarkably
increased over the years. Novel solutions of complex mechanical
systems such as climbing, walking, flying and running robots with
different kinds of locomotion and the technologies that support
them and their applications are the evidence of significant
progress in the area of robotics. Supporting technologies include
the means by which robots use to sense, model, and navigate through
their environments and, of course, actuation and control
technologies. Human interaction including exoskeletons, prostheses
and orthoses, as well as service robots, are increasingly active
important pertinent areas of research. In addition, legged machines
and tracked platforms with software architecture seem to be
currently the research idea of most interest to the robotics
community.
Robot Motion Control 2011 presents very recent results in robot
motion and control. Forty short papers have been chosen from those
presented at the sixth International Workshop on Robot Motion and
Control held in Poland in June 2011. The authors of these papers
have been carefully selected and represent leading institutions in
this field. The following recent developments are discussed: Design
of trajectory planning schemes for holonomic and nonholonomic
systems with optimization of energy, torque limitations and other
factors. New control algorithms for industrial robots, nonholonomic
systems and legged robots. Different applications of robotic
systems in industry and everyday life, like medicine, education,
entertainment and others. Multiagent systems consisting of mobile
and flying robots with their applications The book is suitable for
graduate students of automation and robotics, informatics and
management, mechatronics, electronics and production engineering
systems as well as scientists and researchers working in these
fields.
9 papers from the session on Mesolithic/Neolithic Interactions in
the Balkans and in the Middle Danube Basin held at the 15th UISPP
Congress in Lisbon in September 2006. Contents: 1)
Mesolithic/Neolithic interactions in the Balkan Peninsula and the
Carpathian Basin: an introduction (Marek Nowak); 2) The chipped
stone assemblages of Mentese and the problem of the earliest
occupation of Marmara region (Ivan Gatsov, Petranka Nedelcheva); 3)
Late Mesolithic of Serbia and Montenegro (Duan Mihailoviae); 4)
Mesolithic-Neolithic interactions in the Danube Gorges (Duan
Boric); 5) Palaeogeographical background of the Mesolithic and
Early Neolithic settlement in the Carpathian Basin (Pal Suemegi);
6) Mesolithic foragers and the spread of agriculture in Western
Hungary by (Eszter Banffy, William J. Eichmann, Tibor Marton); 7)
Early Neolithic raw material economies in the Carpathian Basin
(Katalin T. Biro); 8) Neolithisation of the upper Tisza basin
(Janusz K. Kozlowski, Marek Nowak); 9) Problems in reading
MesolithicNeolithic relations in South-Eastern Europe (Janusz K.
Kozlowski, Marek Nowak)."
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