Electronic collaboration future

In the future, high-end methods such as these will be accessible to everyone as PC power increases, cost decreases, and Internet collaborations such as ours become commonplace. In our own collaboration, input parameters were generated on a personal computer in Wisconsin, electronically sent over the Internet to New York, and then read by the Power Visualization System and rendered. 

The current volume presents the compilation of splendid contributions distributed over 21 chapters. The very first chapter contributed by Istvan Hargittai presents the historical account of development of structural chemistry. It also depicts some historical memories of scientists presented in the form of their pictures. This historical description covers a vast period of time. Intruder states pose serious problem in the multireference formulation based on Rayleigh-Schrodinger expansion. Ivan Hubac and Stephen Wilson discuss the ciurent development and future prospects of Many-Body Brillouin-Wigner theories to avoid the problem of intruder states in the next chapter. The third chapter written by Vladimir Ivanov and collaborators reveals the development of multireference state-specific coupled cluster theory. The next chapter from Maria Barysz discusses the development and application of relativistic effects in chemical problems while the fifth chapter contributed by Manthos Papadopoulos and coworkers describes electronic, vibrational and relativistic contributions to the linear and nonlinear optical properties of molecules. 

I wish to thank my friends and collaborators. Dr. Chris Martin (University of Manchester, UK) and Mr. Robert Olley (University of Reading, UK) for extremely helpful assistance in the structural characterization of the materials. I always enjoyed scientific discussions and work with them and wish them all the best for their career and future. 1 consider myself lucky I had the chance to meet Robert and work with him over the last decade. 1 thank him for sharing with me his exceptional knowledge in the field of investigation of polyurethane morphology. I thank him for teaching me the in and outs of electron microscopy. 

As we discussed in Chapter 12, CPFR or just collaborative forecasting is the process of setting up a continual line of communication between you and those customers with the abihty to predict the future needs of the products they buy from you. Advances in electronic commerce have facilitated better communications between computer systems that has resulted in the development of electronic CPFR systems. Large retailers like Wal-Mart and Tesco are benefiting from sophisticated CPFR systems by electronic link with the major suppUers ERP and global supply chain systems. 

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