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Environment Consisting (environment + consisting)

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Business, Economics, Finance and Accounting40%

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DRIVE,Dispatching Requests Indirectly through Virtual Environment

CONCURRENCY AND COMPUTATION: PRACTICE & EXPERIENCE, Issue 4 2010
Hyung Won Choi
Abstract Dispatching a large number of dynamically changing requests directly to a small number of servers exposes the disparity between the requests and the machines. In this paper, we present a novel approach that dispatches requests to servers through virtual machines, called Dispatching Requests Indirectly through Virtual Environment (DRIVE). Client requests are first dispatched to virtual machines that are subsequently dispatched to actual physical machines. This buffering of requests helps to reduce the complexity involved in dispatching a large number of requests to a small number of machines. To demonstrate the effectiveness of the DRIVE framework, we set up an experimental environment consisting of a PC cluster and four benchmark suites. With the experimental results, we demonstrate that the use of virtual machines indeed abstracts away the client requests and hence helps to improve the overall performance of a dynamically changing computing environment. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]

Knowledge Life Cycle, Knowledge Inventory, and Knowledge Acquisition Strategies,

DECISION SCIENCES, Issue 1 2010
Andrew N. K. Chen
ABSTRACT For a knowledge- and skill-centric organization, the process of knowledge management encompasses three important and closely related elements: (i) task assignments, (ii) knowledge acquisition through training, and (iii) maintaining a proper level of knowledge inventory among the existing workforce. Trade-off on choices between profit maximization in the short run and agility and flexibility in the long term is a vexing problem in knowledge management. In this study, we examine the effects of different training strategies on short-term operational efficiency and long-term workforce flexibility. We address our research objective by developing a computational model for task and training assignment in a dynamic knowledge environment consisting of multiple distinct knowledge dimensions. Overall, we find that organizational slack is an important variable in determining the effectiveness of training strategies. Training strategies focused on the most recent skills are found to be the preferred option in most of the considered scenarios. Interestingly, increased efficiencies in training can actually create preference conflict between employees and the firm. Our findings indicate that firms facing longer knowledge life cycles, higher slack in workforce capacity, and better training efficiencies actually face more difficult challenges in knowledge management. [source]

Searching for certainty in an uncertain world: the difficulty of giving up the experiential for the rational mode of thinking

JOURNAL OF BEHAVIORAL DECISION MAKING, Issue 2 2003
Yaacov Schul
Abstract Our research explores predictions that people make in a simple environment consisting of sequences of a binary signal followed by two possible outcomes. In order to optimize their prediction success, respondents should use a very simple decision rule, called maximization, whereby they consistently predict according to the signal. In line with past research, our findings show that even respondents who realized after the experiment that maximization is optimal failed to use it during the experiment itself. We discuss conditions that weaken or reinforce behaving according to the optimal rule in a repeated choice situation. Experiment 1 shows that individuals who are forced to plan their strategy and justify their actions are more likely to discover and use the optimal rule than those not forced to do so. Thinking about the appropriateness of one's performance can be done in two different orientations: focusing on the past (justifying past actions) or on the future (planning future action). Experiment 2 shows that planning induces rule-base thinking, while justifying fails to do so. These findings are discussed within a theoretical framework which suggest an interplay between the experiential and the rational modes of processing. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]

catena -Poly[[[aqua[3-(2-pyridylsulfanyl)propionato N -oxide-,O1]copper(II)]-,-[3-(2-pyridylsulfanyl)propionato N -oxide-,3O3:O1,O1,] dihydrate]

ACTA CRYSTALLOGRAPHICA SECTION C, Issue 1 2008
Murugan Indrani
In the title complex, {[Cu(C8H8NO3S)2(H2O)]·2H2O}n, the CuII cation has a distorted square-pyramidal coordination environment consisting of five O atoms, one from a water molecule, one from an N,O group and the other three from the carboxylate groups of two 3-(2-pyridylsulfanyl)propionate N -oxide anions. The aqua[3-(2-pyridylsulfanyl)propionato N -oxide]copper(II) moieties are bridged by 3-(2-pyridylsulfanyl)propionate N -oxide anions to form an infinite three-dimensional coordination polymer with a zigzag chain structure. The crystal structure is stabilized by hydrogen bonds. [source]

Poly­[iron(II)-di-,-imidazole-4,5-di­carboxyl­ato-,3N3,O4:O5]

ACTA CRYSTALLOGRAPHICA SECTION C, Issue 6 2004
Ying Xu
In the title compound, [Fe(C5H3N2O4)2]n, each Fe atom lies on a centre of symmetry, in an octahedral coordination environment consisting of two chelate rings [Fe,N = 2.154,(3),Ĺ and Fe,O = 2.180,(3),Ĺ] and two carboxyl­ate O atoms [Fe,O = 2.111,(2),Ĺ] from imidazole-4,5-di­carboxyl­ate ligands. Extensive hydrogen-bonding interactions exist between layers constructed of Fe4 squares, forming tunnels along the a axis with large voids. [source]