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Team Action Zone's Action Track is a state-of-the-art solution for creating and running location-based activities, including 'Amazing Race' type of games where teams compete against each other along dynamic routes or a map canvas. The routes can include outdoor (GPS), indoor (QR), or location-independent checkpoints, where the users get tasks, questions, information, or entertainment through their...
Building complex and trustworthy software systems in the shortest time-to-market remains the challenging objective that competitive companies are facing constantly, and mastering the development process is a key issue towards this objective. Companies need to be able to formalize their development processes in order to analyze them, to enact them, and to assess them for quality measurement and efficiency...
Competitive facility location problems (CFLP) form a wide class of optimization problems. A new facility is to location and the market share captured by each facility depends on its distance to customers and its location costs. This paper proposes a new location problem of competitive facilities where the service capability of each facility is considered. The aggregation effects which could appear...
Some companies operate owns numerous buildings where they do their business. A typical example of this is the retail stores. These companies are significant power consumers and therefore they are also important players at the power market, especially in the DR programs because they are able to bid really big curtailments and are able to ensure them, either with own personnel or by a servicing company...
This paper will focus on successful entrepreneurship and what it takes to win as well as how incubators facilitate the process of growing start-up and early stage companies or ventures. An incubator case study is included.
Growth of population and moving towards overconsumption and over pollution are significant threats to the environment and therefore necessitate moving towards sustainability approaches. Reducing energy consumption cannot be achieved by only changing the regulations. In practice, individuals' attitudes highly impact their energy behaviors, and therefore, changing behaviors is essential for improving...
Organizational ambidexterity, defined as the simultaneously pursuit of both exploitation and exploration activities, is essential for organizations' survival, thrive and mature. However, the building of this capability is still ambiguous in prior literatures. This paper draws on the organizational learning theories, presents how two types of learning (i.e. strategic learning and business learning)...
As contemporary organizations experience an increasing pressure to change, organizational agility, i.e. the ability to sense and respond continuously to changes in the environment, is required. Enterprise Architecture (EA) has been proposed as an architectural and organizational approach in order to meet this challenge. In this exploratory study we discuss the usefulness of the approach, building...
This paper develops a novel approach to selecting the best supplier for meeting a specific customer order with regard to the benefits, opportunities, costs and risks (BOCR) dimensions. The impact of the customer order attributes on the BOCR dimensions is investigated. A new customer order-driven weighting method is developed to objectively and consistently determine the relative importance of the...
In this paper, an optimization model for solving the channel assignment problem in multi-cell WLANs is proposed. This model is based on maximizing the minimum distance between access points (APs) that work on the same channel. The proposed model is formulated in the form of a mixed integer linear program (MILP). The main advantage of the proposed algorithm is that it ensures non-overlapping channel...
This paper explores the impact of adequately sizing HPWH units based on field installations and data collected from sites in the southeastern United States. Utilities may consider offering incentives for HPWHs based on tank size or estimated flow rates rather than technology type. To maximize the value to utilities, adequate sizing of HPWH units based on gallon per day (gpd) usage is impressive.
The history of electric vehicle dissemination in Norway is a successful one. Its 5 million inhabitants are already one of the biggest electric vehicle user nations in the world. The number of vehicles recently passed 12.000. It is expected that a total of 20.000 to 40.000 electric vehicles will be on the road in Norway in 2015 and 60.000 to 80.000 in 2020. Many of them will establish a clear link...
With comprehensive analysis towards the status quo of CNPC overseas oil and gas business and the dilemma faced by current leaders and cadres, this article tries to find out demand elements of the training of leaders and cadres suitable for further development of CNODC, and present constructive suggestions and opinions to provide management talent for sustainable development of CNODC.
This document describes the usage and meaning of Energy Management Systems (EMS), applied both for utilities and end customers as a mean to supervise electricity usage and obtain energy savings. The approach also does a benchmarking on existing systems and appliances, together with the increasing usage of EMS in the newest smart grids.
Developing and maintaining team awareness within and across teams working in the same project helps team members in aligning their activities and facilitates implicit coordination. This requires both task and presence awareness. In this paper, we share our findings from a survey in which we measured the level of team awareness in cross-team collaborations with varying degree of separation. To measure...
The concept of “team” was first proposed in 1994 by Stephen Robbins. With the fiercer global competition and the more refinement of work division within the organization, enterprises not only need work division, but also need cooperation. Now the concept of “teamwork” has swept the globe. Team building has penetrated into various fields, different professions and departments. Thus, it is an urgent...
With the rise of social media, traditional customers have increasingly associated with a variety of complex online social interactions and formed fully new user characteristics and user relationship patterns. The changes brought traditional customer relationship management a great impact and forced companies to adapt, change and evolve. Relevant studies about the social customer relationship management...
A holistic integrative approach to the management of the energy used by building systems requires, interconnectivity of systems, data collection, analysis and automated control. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for Building Automation Systems (BAS) delivers comprehensive building energy renovation and integration. More specifically, this paper proposes that introducing integrated systems...
The traditional crowdsourcing approach consists in open calls that give the access to a worldwide crowd potentially able to solve particular problems or perform small tasks. However, over the years crowdsourcing platforms have started to select narrower groups of skilled solvers basing on their expertise, in order to ensure quality and effectiveness of the final result. As a consequence, the selection...
Over the past few years, researchers have implemented various algorithms to improve the scalability of clone detection. Most of these algorithms focus on scaling vertically on a single machine, and require complex intermediate data structures (e.g., suffix tree, etc.). However, several new use-cases of clone detection have emerged, which are beyond the computational capacity of a single machine. Moreover,...
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