Mobile and Cloud Based Technologies

From the information technology perspective, reconfigurable supply chain should possess ability of  

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Information processing velocity in supply chains has increased dramatically thanks in part to mobile and cloud based technologies. This chapter demonstrates that many modem supply chains are a combination ot physical and virtual supply chain units. It proposes methods tor evaluating the combined supply chains and introduces a new concept ot cloud chains. 

Early researchers sought to choose appropriate surfactants for mobility control from the hundreds or thousands that might be used, but very little of the technology base that they needed had yet been created. Since then, work on micellar/polymer flooding has established several phase properties that must be met by almost any EOR surfactant, regardless of the application. This list of properties includes a Krafft temperature that is below the reservoir temperature, even if the connate brine contains a high concentration of divalent ions (i.e., hardness tolerance), and a lower consolute solution temperature (cloud point) that is above the reservoir temperature. 

The use of mobile devices to access computing from Web services is another important area of information technology development. Many experts believe the use of Web-based software and storage, or cloud computing, may be the dominant form of computing in the future, and it is likely to employ many information technology professionals. 

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