The Global environment oIn the past, managers have viewed the global sector as closed Each country or market was assumed to be isolated from others Firms did not consider global competition, exports oToday's environment is very different managers need to view it as an open market Organizations buy and sell around the world Managers need to learn to compete globally Irwin/McGraw-Hill CThe McGran-Hill Companies, Inc, 2000

The increased application of temperature legislation in many countries. coupled with economic requirements to maximise throughput, minimise weight loss and operate refrigeration systems in the most efficient manner, has created a very large demand for process design data on all aspects of

Bounded gain There exist very easy ways of testing(analytically) whether S Gu)< SISO Bounded Gain Theorem: Gain of generic stable system

This is a bit strange, because previously our figure of merit when comparing one state-space model to another(page 8-8)was whether they reproduced the same same transfer function Now we have two very different models that result in the same transfer function

It is useful and very tempting to value MANY THINGS in But there are also many problems. No market, no price. No price, can't count it. Can't count it, doesn't count

Histol · Kautz and selman.1992 Inspired by improvements in satisfiabity algorithms Big Idea Encode planning problem as a(very large) logical formula Initial-state all-possible-actions goal Find a satisfying assignment to action-time propositions, and we have a plan

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Most people learn more effectively when they study in small groups and cooperate in various other ways on homework. This can be particularly true in programming assignments, where working with a partner often helps to avoid careless errors. We are very much in favor of this kind of cooperation, so long as all participants actively involve themselves

Slide 17.5.1 Streams-a different way of structuring Now, let's look at one example in which changing the computation evaluation model allows us to explore a very different kind of computational problem. Our goal is to show how a smal

The role of abstractions In this lecture, we are going to look at a very different style of creating large systems, a style called object oriented programming. This style focuses on breaking systems up in a different manner than those we have seen before To set the stage for this, we are first going to return to the notion of