Furthermore, roles are considered to be distributed and loosely coupled entities interacting via programmable interfaces.
The essential components of our feedback loop (monitor, analyser, decider and executor) are loosely coupled entities with a specific behaviour.
Even the small and mid-sized manufacturing operation is now part of a global network of loosely coupled entities that must collaborate and deliver real-time status information to customers, supply chain partners, organization leaders, and employees.
The first is that service-oriented concepts can be very useful for building open, flexible, and collaborative virtual networking environments, in which various network functionalities are considered as services that can be reused and composed, and roles are considered to be distributed and loosely coupled entities interacting via programmable interfaces.
This view seems to best meet the representation held by decision-makers of what an organization really is [ 25]. "In essence, a configurational approach suggests that organizations are best understood as clusters of interconnected structures and practices, rather than as modular or loosely coupled entities whose components can be understood in isolation" [ 26].
Any "system of systems" in practice, including a network of neurons studied here, is unlikely to consist of homogeneously coupled identical entities, and the consideration of heterogeneity among the constituent entities is often necessary.
(iv) Service-oriented architectures (SOAs) use loosely coupled software entities that implement a single software function.
Hence, timely recognition of this disease entity coupled with urgent and appropriate management is the key to a successful outcome in a majority of patients.
There is still no clear concept why MMF causes integrin up-regulation in one tumor entity but down-regulation in another entity, both coupled with reduced tumor cell adhesiveness.
Services are autonomous, loosely coupled and heterogeneous computational entities able to cooperate to achieve common goals.
In the context of the theory of general relativity the metric is not an absolute structure with convenient global symmetries; rather, the metric is a dynamical entity that is coupled to the energy-momentum density of matter and other fields.
