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  • International Startups from Poland: Born Global or Born Regional?

    Publication

    - Central European Management Journal - Year 2019

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  • "Born Poland, Gone Global". The case of successful Polish ICT company - Aiton Caldwell

    Publication

    - Year 2018

    This work examines the pathway to global markets of Polish ICT company Aiton Caldwell

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  • Journal of Global Entrepreneurship Research

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    ISSN: 2228-7566 , eISSN: 2251-7316

  • Julita Wasilczuk dr hab.

    Born on 5th of April, 1965 in Gdansk. In 1987-1991 studied the economics of transport, at the University of Gdansk. At 1993 she started to work at the Faculty of Management and Economics. In 1997 received a PhD at the faculty, in 2006 habilitation at the Faculty of Management, University of Gdansk. Since 2009 Associate Professor at Gdansk University of Technology. In 2010-2012 Associate Professor of Humanistic High School at Gdansk. The...

  • Magdalena Gajewska prof. dr hab. inż.

    Magdalena Gajewska (born   June 1th  1968 in Gdańsk) in 1993 graduated Hydro-Engineering Faculty at Gdańsk University of Technology.   At present she is an assistant professor in the Department of Water and Wastewater Technology at the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering GUT. PhD (2001) and habilitation (2013) in the discipline of environmental engineering. In the 2016-2020 term, serves as Vice -dean for science. She...

  • Magdalena Popowska dr

    Magdalena Popowska (PhD) is a researcher and lecturer of Organization Science and Entrepreneurship at the Faculty of Management and Economics of Gdansk University of Technology. For many years she has been in charge of exchange programmes, double degrees and other internationalization activities. In 2008-2016 she was a Vice-Dean for International and Public Affairs and now she is a Dean Proxy for International Cooperation. Her...

  • Internationalization of Born Globals from Theoretical Perspective

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    The paper discusses the evolution of theoretical approaches towards internationalisation process of firms, especially SMEs. It clarifies the definitions of born global (BG) firm, presents its characteristics and the specifics of its internationalisation process. The objective of this paper is to present internationalisation process of born global firm from theoretical perspective. The article starts with presentation of the oldest...

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  • Research on entrepreneurship – the forms of entrepreneurship

    The aim of this article is to present suggestions for future directions of research on entrepreneurship, with particular emphasis on different forms of entrepreneurship. The suggestions are preceded by a brief review of research on entrepreneurship. The article is theoretical in nature and does not present any own research, although its content is based on multiple years of experience in studying this phenomenon. The forms of entrepreneurship...

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  • Education as a Stimulating Factor for Entrepreneurship Development

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    The main purpose of the paper is to present the role of entrepreneurial education for entrepreneurship development. The paper is theoretical and includes both a literature review and world reports (Global Entrepreneurship Monitor and WEF Global Education Initiative) on entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial education.

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  • Semantic Driven Table Understanding in Born-Digital Documents

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    - Year 2014

    This paper presents a new approach to table understanding, suitable for born-digital PDF documents. Advance beyond the current state of the art in table understanding is provided by the proposed reverse MVC method, which takes advantage of only partial logic structure loss (degradation) in born-digital PDF documents, as opposed to unrecoverable loss (deterioration) taking place in scan based PDF documents.

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  • The impact of bankruptcy regimes on entrepreneurship and innovation. Is there any relationship?

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    The literature review indicates that bankruptcy law may play an important role in and be one of the factors infuencing the development of entrepreneurship, innovation, and thus economic growth, among other things. In previous studies, the analysis of the impact of bankruptcy law on individual variables has been conducted independently. Our aim was to conduct a holistic analysis, taking several factors into account simultaneously....

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  • Including the Dark Side of Entrepreneurship in the Entrepreneurship Education

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    Pursuing an entrepreneurial career is often rewarding in terms of both economic and psychological outcomes. However, becoming an entrepreneur also has its darker side that affects professional and personal life. Meanwhile, the positivity bias is prevalent in entrepreneurial education and research. It is recognized as emphasizing the advantages of becoming an entrepreneur and giving considerably less attention to potential downsides....

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  • Przemysław Banasik dr hab.

    e-mail:  Przemyslaw.Banasik@zie.pg.edu.pl,  pba@zie.pg.gda.pl         tel.: +48 58 347 28 75, pok. 510dr hab. Przemysław Banasik, prof. PG –  autor ponad 140 publikacji z prawa, zarządzania i ekonomii. W pracy naukowej podejmuje badania nad organizacją wymiaru sprawiedliwości oraz przedsiębiorczością w jej ujęciu prawnym, ekonomicznym i zarządczym. Od 2017 r. Sędzia Sądu Apelacyjnego w Gdańsku. W latach 2013 – 2017 Prezes Sądu...

  • Entrepreneurship Today: Selected Aspects

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    • M. Byczkowska
    • Z. Poplavska
    • S. Komarynets
    • Y. Stukalina
    • A. Majzel
    • K. Zięba

    - Year 2020

    At its very beginning, entrepreneurship was a purely economic notion. However, this growing interest in entrepreneurship-related problems prompted other sciences to participate in explaining the entrepreneurship phenomenon. Nowadays, entrepreneurship is analyzed through multiple theoretical lenses of economics, management, psychology, sociology – just to name a few. Therefore, it would be difficult to find a notion that could be...

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  • Determinanty tempa internacjonalizacji przedsiębiorstw ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem born globals

    Celem artykułu jest przedstawienie czynników internacjonalizacji przedsiębiorstw, przede wszystkim born globals. Przedstawione zostały teorie internacjonalizacji przedsiębiorstw i ich ewolucja. Szczególny nacisk położono na wczesną i szybką internacjonalizację przedsiębiorstw. W części empirycznej przedstawiono wyniki badań przeprowadzonych na próbie 355 polskich zinternacjonalizowanych przedsiębiorstw.

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  • Wojciech Sadowski prof. dr hab. inż.

    Wojciech Sadowski (born 2 February 1954 in Ostaszewo, Poland), scientist, engineer, professor at Gdansk University of Technology, specialist in solid state body physics, nanotechnology, optoelectronics. In 1973 he completed his high school education at High School Nicolaus Copernicus in Chelmno. In 1979 he graduate from Leningrad Electrotechnical Institute in Russia (former Soviet Union) with specialism in dielectrics and semiconductors....

  • Legal destructive entrepreneurship in the modern economy

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    Motivation: Usually examples of activities that have a positive impact on the economy of the state are cited. Destructive entrepreneurship refers to activities that have negative impact on the economy. This phenomenon is relatively new in the literature and does not yet have a precise definition. Aim: The aim of this article is to attempt a definition of the phenomenon of legal destructive entrepreneurship. The author also analysed...

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  • Pronouncement of embedded agency in the field of social entrepreneurship

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    The paper provides insights into how social entrepreneurship and the institutional theory framework can be combined. The author situates the social entrepreneurship phenomenon here, and embarks on the traditional structure vs agency debate from social sciences, sociology of organizations in particular. The concept of embedded agency is referred to and employed to explain the phenomenon of social entrepreneurship. In this paper,...

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  • Extraction of information from born-digital PDF documents for reproducible research

    Born-digital PDF electronic documents might reasonably be expected to preserve useful data units of their source originals that suffice to produce executable papers for reproducible research. Unfortunately, developers of authoring tools may adopt arbitrary PDF generation strategies, producing a plethora of internal data representations. Such common information units as text paragraphs, tables, function graphs and flow diagrams,...

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  • The Housing Pattern and Entrepreneurship in Polish Suburban Landscape

    Abstract. Housing stimulates the development of SMEs (small and medium enterprises) in the suburbs. The multidisciplinary research in fields of urban planning and economics, carried out by the Authors, confirms this trend. The purpose of this paper is to present the multidisciplinary results of the research on the determinants of SME localization in the suburban areas of Gdansk, Gdynia and Sopot (the Metropolitan Area Gdansk–Gdynia-Sopot...

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  • Gender differences in entrepreneurship myths

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    - Year 2014

    The article presents the research results related to the most popular entrepreneurship myths in a group of business students. The author focused on gender differences in myth intensity, credibility and importance based on subject literature. The statistic analysis does not confirm any significant differences between male and female groups in case of the majority of myths, however women’s entrepreneurial intentions proved to be...

  • Female entrepreneurship in Kazakhstan

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    - Year 2021

    Women constitute the majority of the Kazakh population and, even though they live almost 10 years longer than men on average, they are far less economically active. Less than half of the female population take up employment. Women’s wages are often as much as 30% lower than men’s. The subjective reasons for undertaking economic activity as mentioned by women included: independence from the husband, low earnings of the husband and...

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  • Entrepreneurship nests in a polish edge city

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    - Year 2020

    The last two decades in Poland have been a period of both a dynamic development of the small and medium-sized enterprise sector and a transformation of the city surrounding territories. This development began during the economy transformation after 1989. Population migration and movement of economic entities away from central cities resulted in development of territorial structures within some Polish suburban areas, defined as...

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  • Accelerator of the entrepreneurship: suburbs in the coastal metropolis of GOM

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    - Year 2014

    Polish model of suburban structure is made of variety types of enterprises in different scales, and a range of housing. However this mass of unordered structure with its urban development problems, often leads to the establishment of business and also the development of local entrepreneurship. This article investigates SME sector located in the suburban area of costal metropolis GOM to prove the thesis that the positive effect...

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  • Entrepreneurship in Virtual Economy: the Case of Currency One SA

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    Purpose: The scientific purpose of the study is an attempted synthesis of interpretation of “the virtual economy” and “the virtual environment” in the Polish and foreign literature on the subject. The cognitive purpose thereof is to offer an identification and a qualitative analysis of the factors that determine the development of e-entrepreneurship using an example of business practice. Methodology: The theoretical basis of the...

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  • Social entrepreneurship and its hybridity determining resource challenges and chances

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    In this conceptual paper, the author aims to grasp what are the particular challenges and opportunities in social entrepreneurship, in terms of resource access and mobilization, considering the hybrid nature of social enterprise. To this end, the author points to the nature of hybridity and discusses what advantages and disadvantages are inherent in financial, human and physical resources access for social enterprises as hybrid...

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  • Social Entrepreneurship Research – Challenges, Explanations and Suggestions for the Field Development

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    Employing critical review and reflection on the key literature in the area of entrepreneurship and management studies in social entrepreneurship field, this paper aims to outline the current challenges this field is facing, while introducing related explanations and suggesting required changes. The current field of social entrepreneurship research is at its nascent stage, which is determined by ongoing definitional debates and...

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  • Paweł Ziemiański dr

    Paweł Ziemiański - assistant professor at the Faculty of Management and Economics of the Gdańsk University of Technology. His research interests concern entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial intentions, and the dark side of entrepreneurship. He also conducted research regarding psychological aspects of exercising power in organizations. In teaching, he is interested in developing and using case studies. He took part in the training...

  • It is not OK but it works – unproductive entrepreneurship, the case of Poland

    The concept of unproductive entrepreneurs was introduced to science by Baumol, who pointed out the differences in business output between countries. Unproductive behaviour of entrepreneurs is often a consequence of ineffective institutions used by entrepreneurs for rent seeking. The aim of this article is to examine subjective norms (S.N.) and attitudes regarding specified types of unproductive entrepreneurship, which in many cases...

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  • Social Entrepreneurship Avenues for the Field Development through Research Paradigm Intersection Discussion

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    The aim of this paper is to identify and provide key arguments for employing integrative approach in the choice of research paradigm for studying social entrepreneurship phenomenon. The fact that social entrepreneurship as a field of research is at its preliminary stage, serves as argument and gives freedom in the discussion of the choice of employing a research paradigm. The author does so through identifying commonalities and...

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  • Female entrepreneurship in transitional economies: the case of Poland

    Polska przeszła skomplikowaną drogę przemian gospodarczych by ostatecznie wstąpić do UE. Jednę z sił, pomocnych na tej drodze była i jest przedsiębiorczość. Autorzy podjęli się charakterystyki przedsiębiorczości kobiet w okresie transformacji, porównując ją z przedsiębiorczością w pozostałych 15 krajach UE (przed akcesją Polski). Wykorzystano do tego badania przeprowadzone w 1992, 1999 i 2004 wśród przedsiębiorców regionu gdańskiego....

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  • Gendered entrepreneurship and its impact on firm innovativeness - a literature review.

    Entrepreneurs gain a lot of attention in recent decades. Even if a precise definition of entrepreneur and entrepreneurship remains problematic, it is clear that there is a strong link between entrepreneurship and innovativeness, as well as between entrepreneur and innovation. In the current era of globalisation, the importance of innovations is as great as never before. And so is the importance of innovativeness determinants. Investigating...

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  • Aleksandra Parteka dr hab. inż.

    About me: I am an associate professor and head of doctoral studies at the Faculty of Management and Economics, Gdansk University of Technology (GdanskTech, Poland).  I got my MSc degree in Economics from Gdansk University of Technology (2003) and Universita’ Politecnica delle Marche (2005), as well as MA degree in Contemporary European Studies from Sussex University (2006, with distinction).  I received my PhD in Economics...

  • Corporate Entrepreneurship: A Literature Review and Future Research Perspectives

    Background. Nowadays, corporate entrepreneurship (CE) is perceived as an essential approach to boost the innovation and creativity within existing organizations for achieving higher opportunities in the market. This paper examines this concept, which has been largely discussed in the Anglo-Saxon world over the last thirty years. Like for many other phenomena, also in case of CE, this discussion has provided numerous conceptualizations,...

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  • The entrepreneurship of host cities of the Olympic Games – Between success and social destruction

    Many publications focus on the deficit nature of the Olympic Games organisation, when considered from the point of view of host cities – organisers of such events. However, does such an event actually affect the region and the host country in a positive way? The presented article aims at the assessment of the organisation of mass sports events, such as the Olympic Games, taking into consideration entrepreneurial activities which...

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  • Global edge alliances in graphs

    In the paper we introduce and study a new problem of finding a minimum global edge alliance in a graph which is related to the global defensive alliance (Haynes et al., 2013; Hedetniemi, 2004) and the global defensive set (Lewoń et al., 2016). We proved the NP-completeness of the global edge alliance problem for subcubic graphs and we constructed polynomial time algorithms for trees. We found the exact values of the size of the...

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  • Youth attitude to entrepreneurship in Eastern and Central European countries: Gender aspect

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    Current business conditions pose new challenges to youth entrepreneurship, which is a significant component of countries’ economic growth. In addition, Generation Z differs from previous generations and requires new approaches. In this context, a comprehensive study of the peculiarities and various aspects of youth entrepreneurship development is highly-demanded and relevant. Furthermore, the lower representation of women among...

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  • ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND CREATIVITY - summer term 2021/22

    e-Learning Courses
    • M. Popowska

    The aim of the course is to acquaint students with entrepreneurship as a phenomenon,  increase their pro-entrepreneurial attitudes and develop skills necessary in entrepreneurship process. Special emphasis will be placed on fashion business as representing creative industry. The main objectives are as follows: Learn how to prepare a business model canvas and business plan. Know the backstage of the fashion industry. Identify...

  • ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND CREATIVITY - summer term 2023/24

    e-Learning Courses
    • M. Popowska

    The aim of the course is to acquaint students with entrepreneurship as a phenomenon,  increase their pro-entrepreneurial attitudes and develop skills necessary in entrepreneurship process. Special emphasis will be placed on fashion business as representing creative industry. The main objectives are as follows: Learn how to prepare a business model canvas and business plan. Know the backstage of the fashion industry. Identify...

  • Marzena Starnawska dr

    People

  • Global defensive sets in graphs

    In the paper we study a new problem of finding a minimum global defensive set in a graph which is a generalization of the global alliance problem. For a given graph G and a subset S of a vertex set of G, we define for every subset X of S the predicate SEC ( X ) = true if and only if | N [ X ] ∩ S | ≥ | N [ X ] \ S | holds, where N [ X ] is a closed neighbourhood of X in graph G. A set S is a defensive alliance if and only if for...

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  • Formal Institutions: the Source of Unproductive Entrepreneurship in Poland

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    The purpose of this article is to determine the entrepreneurs' perception of formal institutions in Poland as a source of non-productive behaviours. The research methodology was developed based on many years of the teams' research experience. It involved three stages of research: 1) panel of experts and 2) telephone surveys of 1,612 entrepreneurs in Poland, which were the basis for 3) development of detailed research to be conducted...

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  • Entrepreneurship without Borders: Do Borders Matter for International Entrepreneurship?

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  • Entrepreneurship after the Age of Sixty–Five? Reflections of Third Age University students

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    The common synonyms for entrepreneurship usually include such concepts as creativity, innovation, and activity. These, in turn, are more often associated with youth rather than people of older age (Górniak, 2013). On the basis of literature research and interviews conducted with students from the Sopot School of Social Psychology of the University of the Third Age, the authors determined that among individuals...

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  • Methodology of entrepreneurship teaching in tertiary education - experiences of the Faculty of Economics and Management on the Gdansk University of Technology

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    The purpose of the chapter is an overview of the available methods and techniques of teaching entrepreneurship at the academic level, as well as the presentation of the methodology of the work with students within the framework of the Entrepreneurship course at the Faculty of Management and Economics of the Gdańsk University of Technology.

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  • Social Entrepreneurship through Cooperatives: Founder Insights

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    • B. Huybrechts
    • T. Nelson
    • D. Nelson
    • G. Trasiani
    • K. Harris
    • R. Pashov
    • M. Starnawska
    • G. Esposito
    • A. Carobolante
    • F. Dufays
    • N. O’Shea

    - Year 2013

    In this research we are interested in how social entrepreneurs think about their organizational creation process in the context of cooperatives, and how cooperatives conceptualize and actualize their ‘care for community’ social principles. In this interface of organizational purpose and form, we find a variety of interesting issues presented by our interview sample of founders of young, global organizations from six nations. Discussing...

  • Bankruptcy system model and efficiency versus the entrepreneurship and innovation in selected European countries

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    - Year 2018

    model and its efficiency on the development of entrepreneurship and innovation in selected European countries and Turkey. This goal was achieved by examining the relationships between debtor-friendliness of the bankruptcy law model and its efficiency on one side and entrepreneurship and innovation on the other. The cross-sectional ANOVA test and OLS regression method were chosen as the research method. In order to verify the research...

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  • Methodological challenges in social entrepreneurship – on the nexus of economics and management area

    In this paper we make an attempt distinguishing challenges in SE research agenda in Polish and beyond. We identify what can impede the development of this area in Polish discourse These challenges vary in scope. They involve the dilemma between either economics or management as disciplinary settings. Also the understanding of social economy as such determines the chaos. Additionally, divergences in paradigms where researchers situate...

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  • Entrepreneurship in Internet Business

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    - Year 2008

    Sklasyfikowano przedsięwzięcia elektroniczne. Zarysowano problematykę rozwoju e-biznesu od fazy startowej do formy dojrzałej. Zaprezentowano technologie informatyczne służące do tworzenia, implementacji oraz wdrożenia komercyjnych witryn internetowych. Zwrócono uwagę na możliwości pozyskiwania wsparcia finansowego od funduszy inwestycyjnych podwyższonego ryzyka. Przedstawiono szereg wniosków praktycznych mogących służyć przedsiębiorcom...

  • Global defensive secure structures

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    Let S ⊂ V (G) for a given simple non-empty graph G. We define for any nonempty subset X of S the predicate SECG,S(X) = true iff |NG[X]∩S| ≥ |NG[X]\S|. Let H be a non-empty family of graphs such that for each vertex v ∈ V (G) there is a subgraph H of G containing v and isomorphic to a member of H. We introduce the concept of H-alliance extending the concept of global defensive secure structures. By an H-alliance in a graph G we...

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