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Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated (BTL), the Research and Development arm of AT&T is well known for its contributions to basic science in the field of communications. Another important mission of BTL was the initiation, development and introduction to manufacture of communications equipment that provided AT&T customers with the most advanced and reliable communication services. This...
One of strategies chosen by firms to increase firm's efficiency is the outsourcing of one or more firm's functions. Information technology (IT) is the most outsourced function. Due to the large number of highly capable IT vendors in developing countries, many firms in developed countries outsource their IT function to vendors in developing countries to reap the benefits i.e. lower cost. Although the...
Effective energy management and control is an important and urgent issue in the emerging and developing countries, so as to achieve their sustainable growth, because of poor quality of power supply by their electric power companies. In order to come up with the frequent electric power outage by the power company, most of buildings in developing and emerging countries install a power generator. Although...
Symbiotic Cognitive Systems (SCS) are multi-agent systems comprising both human and software agents that are designed to collectively perform cognitive tasks such as decision-making better than humans or software agents can unaided. Autonomic Computing Systems (ACS) are multi-agent systems that manage applications as well as software and hardware resources in accordance with goals specified by human...
In recent years, public buildings energy consumption has become increasingly prominent in the total buildings energy consumption: public buildings area accounts for about 15% of the total urban building area, while the energy consumption accounts for 28% in 2012. High energy consumption, low energy efficiency, poor operation and management are fairly common in the public buildings. The average public...
Based on symbiotic theory, this paper concentrates on High-end services symbiotic network, studies the formation of motivation, analyses influencing factors, and builds High-end services symbiotic network. This study provides a new direction for development of High-end services, also lays theory foundation for future empirical analysis.
Three perspectives of hotel brand equity, i.e., financial, customer, and employee, were identified and reviewed thoroughly in this paper. A holistic model of brand equity management was proposed, and relationships among financial based, customer based, and employee based brand equity were investigated. Management implications were made, and future research directions were discussed.
The paper offers some solutions for reducing energy losses in distribution networks by analyzing the example of one of Polish distribution companies supplying energy to 18% of the area of Poland.
Once upon a time I was an idealistic researcher. I started mining software in order to spot and correct design flaws. Like any idealistic researcher, I was creating "approaches", building "prototypes", performing "empirical studies", writing papers and giving talks; and I was happy whenever my work was appreciated by my fellows. I was living in a wonderful world (except...
In this paper, the charge and discharge strategies were conducted for a future battery energy storage system (BESS) at the National Penghu University of Science and Technology. OpenDSS software was used to establish the power distribution system. A probabilistic neural network model was used to predict the daily load and photovoltaic (PV) generation curve for controlling the charge-discharge of the...
There has been significant increase in bringing awareness across Saudi Arabia towards recycling and its impact on our environment especially in the past decade. Unfortunately, recycling succession process requires further cooperation by consumers to be advantageous and to actively promote recycling business in the competitive Saudi market. To overcome these challenges, we propose a new web framework...
Due to the significant growth in manufacturing environment disruptions and customer demand variability, logistics services have concurrently witnessed a disturbing increase in customer returns as part of the reverse logistics system. This paper proposes the use of the Vanguard Method approach for logistics services design that can reduce reverse logistics caused by forward logistics inefficiencies...
During the economic crisis in 2007 forced the entrepreneurs of the real estate sector and construction sector and industry as a whole cleansed, educated and development, to think about their actions development, to survive and future perspectives of the development.
The goal of the 24 hours of innovation challenge is to encourage student teams from French and Spanish universities around the Pyrenees to find creative solutions to challenges put forward by participating companies. The initiative is presented and analyzed in this paper as an efficient way to promote creativity and innovation in the new engineering students.
In accordance with the Design Science percepts, we present in this paper an approach that aims to give a holistic unifying framework that ensures consistency and coherence between the existing IT governance approaches and mechanisms. It considers the advances and best practices suggested by COBIT ITIL, etc. Therefore, it proposes an operational implementation and instantiation of information system...
Over recent years, more and more companies have come to recognise the utility of storytelling in the workplace. Stories are thought to be an effective means of sharing information and can fulfil a range of knowledge management functions. Furthermore, storytelling can contribute to social bonds between co-workers because stories allow the audience to create impressions about the attitudes and beliefs...
As world populations increase, the demand for non-renewable resources forces organizations to pursue mega projects in sparsely or non populated regions. Worldwide trends towards urbanization make it increasingly difficult to attract and hold skilled workers in these less attractive locations. As well, the skill sets required to design and build the large projects may not be required within the organization...
Measures need to be in place during the construction phase to insure that the final project design adheres to the contract specifications and that the project progress is in line with the contract document and that the resources are managed accordingly. This is where information technology would benefit the project management aspect of construction and provide information integration throughout all...
In plant construction business engineering has an outstanding influence on project success. Thereby, a plant is usually provided by a general contractor as turnkey solution. However, to win these projects, the general contractor is depending on external engineering service providers. The reasons are e.g. missing expertise in non-core-competence activities, lack of staff or too high costs of internal...
Building Information Modeling (BIM) is a relatively new technology emerging in the construction industry as it offers many advantages offers over typical construction drawings. However, new technology brings new problems and often uncertainty to an affected industry. Currently, the construction industry is experiencing much uncertainty as to how the BIM process works. There are very few industry standards,...
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