A study of System Interface Sets (SIS) for the host, target and integration environments of the Space Station Program (SSP)

System interface sets (SIS) for large, complex, non-stop, distributed systems are examined. The SIS of the Space Station Program (SSP) was selected as the focus of this study because an appropriate virtual interface specification of the SIS is believed to have the most potential to free the project from four life cycle tyrannies which are rooted in a dependance on either a proprietary or particular instance of: operating systems, data management systems, communications systems, and instruction set architectures. The static perspective of the common Ada programming support environment interface set (CAIS) and the portable common execution environment (PCEE) activities are discussed. Also, the dynamic perspective of the PCEE is addressed

Regional governmentality: neoliberalization and the Caribbean community single market and economy

Formally launched on 30 January 2006, the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Single Market and Economy (CSME) is, like many other regional economic initiatives, designed to create an economic space in which the uninhibited flow of goods, capital and skills across the borders of member states is anticipated to generate competitive business opportunities and external investment. Despite the intensification of such regional programmes, promoters and critics alike continue to consider CARICOM to be an intergovernmental organization dependent on the political will of member states as they negotiate the pressures of neoliberal globalization. In this paper, I argue that such a framing of regional integration in the Caribbean misses some of the tangible ways that CARICOM works beyond the sovereign intent of member states to enable the encroachment of neoliberal-style economic orders across the space of the region. I adopt a Foucauldian analytics of governmentality to unhinge CARICOM from the governments of its member states. Once freed from a persistent statism it becomes possible to consider the technical competencies through which CARICOM initiatives increasingly connect and cohere with neoliberal rationalities. My goal in developing such an analytics is not to suggest CARICOM operates as a superstate but rather to broaden the sites considered relevant to understanding the encroachment of neoliberalism in the Caribbean

Determinats of Customer Purchasing Decision: Price, Product, and Location

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to analyze the effect of price, product and location on customer home purchasing decision on PT. Putra Bumi Airlangga both partially and simultaneously. Design/methodology/approach: The population in this study are all customers from PT. Putra Bumi Erlangga as many as 95 customers and sample of this study used a number of respondents who were selected by total sample or census, namely from 95 customers of PT. Putra Bumi Airlangga were selected as samples. The data analysis technique used was multiple regression analysis. Findings: The research results are: 1) Price affects customer purchasing decision of PT. Putra Bumi Airlangga, 2) Product affects customer purchasing decision of PT. Putra Bumi Airlangga, 3) Location affects customer purchasing decision of PT. Putra Bumi Airlangga, 4) Price, product and location simultaneously affect customer purchasing decision of PT. Putra Bumi Airlangga, 5) Price has the most dominant effect on customer purchasing decisions of PT. Putra Bumi Airlangga. Research limitations/implications: The number of respondent relatively small. Practical implications: Result of this research can be referred by company to increase consumer purchasing decision. Originality/value: This paper is original because there is no similar research that is conducted in PT. Putra Bumi Airlangga. Paper type: Research pape