The presence or absence of worthy ideas is often the reason for companies' success or failure on competitive markets. Companies invest a lot of effort into attracting stakeholder such as customers to submit their ...
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(纸本)9781890843298
The presence or absence of worthy ideas is often the reason for companies' success or failure on competitive markets. Companies invest a lot of effort into attracting stakeholder such as customers to submit their ideas to them. For this purpose companies use several open innovation channels such as idea contests, open innovation platforms and university partnerships to boost the number and quality of external ideas. After a gold-rush period of open innovation activities, external idea contributors are no longer willing to accept companies' terms and conditions. They compare companies according to how trustworthy a company or an open innovation channel is because they want to ensure that the company does not behave in an opportunistic way. Therefore, the question arises of how companies can enhance their trustworthiness, so that idea contributors are willing to submit high-quality ideas. To answer this question we conducted an experimental setting with three groups of students to understand when idea contributors trust companies' terms and conditions and submit their ideas. The results demonstrate that e.g. a mediator is able to enhance an organization's trustworthiness and therefore increase the willingness of a potential contributor to offer an idea to the selected company.
Mr. LUND, Special Assistant to the Chairman of the War Production Board, assesses the place of labor in American war production. The story is an exciting one—a tribute to free labor in a democracy. Labor has contribu...
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Mr. LUND, Special Assistant to the Chairman of the War Production Board, assesses the place of labor in American war production. The story is an exciting one—a tribute to free labor in a democracy. Labor has contributed in mills and factories; but it has also contributed in the high councils of Government. The structure and spirit of our war production effort which have made that contribution possible are here discussed. That the lessons we have learned in war are applicable in peace needs hardly be *** author, as Director of the Labor Production Division of WPB during 1942 and part of 1943, has been in an ideal position to observe and evaluate labor's role. During that year and a half, the work of the Labor Production Division did much to make that role possibl
The concept of control of plants represented by (1) has been proposed. Using (2),(3),(4),(5) one can determine plant input U(t) forming its output as Y(T), where "new" time T depending on time-scale A(t) is ...
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(纸本)9781467321242
The concept of control of plants represented by (1) has been proposed. Using (2),(3),(4),(5) one can determine plant input U(t) forming its output as Y(T), where "new" time T depending on time-scale A(t) is defined by dT=A(t) dt, whereas Y(t) is plant "reference" output obtained for A=1. Signal A(t) is obtained as result of static operation A(t)=q(e(t)), where q(0)=0 and e(t) is control system error. The technical applications can base on MFC structure (Fig. 4). The idea of control is simple: if e(t)=A(t)=0, then model (2) is decoupled, values of its state variables and output y are conserved. Because Y follows y (Fig. 4), then changes of plant output are stopped too. If e(t)=A(t) not equal 0, then y and Y tend to reference signal y(o) and rate of follow-up action depends on q(e(t)). During this process the consecutive outputs of model and plant are y(T) and Y(T). Thus, the "reference" response Y(t) defines Y(T). The impressive results illustrating properties of proposed concept are shown in Fig. 5,6. Application of described method simplifies the analysis of system dynamics and yields perfect results of follow-up action (lack of overshoots, short setting times). The idea for SISO case has been generalized to form enabling control of MIMO plants.
Lee Teng-hui, president of Taiwan from 1988 to 2000, played an important role in launching the widespread nationalism in Taiwan today. Since the end of his presidency, Lee has pushed very hard for a separate Taiwan na...
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Lee Teng-hui, president of Taiwan from 1988 to 2000, played an important role in launching the widespread nationalism in Taiwan today. Since the end of his presidency, Lee has pushed very hard for a separate Taiwan nation, but during his terms of office he moved very cautiously and only announced his "special state-to-state" relationship to describe Taiwan's relations with China after China repeatedly refused to negotiate. Although Lee's efforts at democratization have received widespread affirmation in Taiwan, his efforts in creating Taiwan nationalism have proven more controversial.
The objective of this study is to analyze a new disruptive deployment of wireless sensors in order to cope with the explosive demand for bandwidth while taking into account energy consumption considerations. The work ...
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(纸本)9781479949120
The objective of this study is to analyze a new disruptive deployment of wireless sensors in order to cope with the explosive demand for bandwidth while taking into account energy consumption considerations. The work is grounded on the idea of massive network densification by drastically increasing the number of sensors in a given area in a Time Division Duplex (TDD) mode. Using ideas from the recent Massive MIMO technology (more than 400 antennas, without any modification of the network infrastructure), we transpose the idea to a massive deployment of sensors and show the benefits of such an infrastructure. This research is expected to provide the optimal deployment of massive wireless sensor networks in terms of cost/performance/complexity/energy efficiency trade-off and define the next generation wireless Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication.
Most models of thought are based on the idea of associative memory: The combination of distinct concepts through their association with each other based on experience. Thus, the pattern of associations in the mind is ...
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(纸本)9781479919598
Most models of thought are based on the idea of associative memory: The combination of distinct concepts through their association with each other based on experience. Thus, the pattern of associations in the mind is thought to be a critical factor in determining the ideas - both familiar and unfamiliar - that thought can generate. The Itinerant Dynamics with Emergent Attractors (IDEA) model has been proposed as a computational representation of the process by which ideas might emerge in an associative memory system. However, the effect of how "association" is defined in this context remains an important unexplored issue. In this paper, we consider three different ways of defining associations between concepts based on their joint usage in texts, and show that these lead to very different dynamics in the process of emergent conceptual combinations. We use data from two real-world text corpora to instantiate the model: The collected poems of Dylan Thomas, and the Memoirs of the economist Ludwig von Mises. The two sources differ greatly in the nature of their content as well as the statistics of their word usage, which makes them interesting subjects for comparison.
Power demand of data centers is a topic of great interest and numerous research papers. Most handle power saving by using virtualization technologies and server consolidation. In this position paper, we propose the id...
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(纸本)9781467353267;9781467353274
Power demand of data centers is a topic of great interest and numerous research papers. Most handle power saving by using virtualization technologies and server consolidation. In this position paper, we propose the idea of approaching a specific power consumption of an entire data center by using virtual machine migration strategies. To achieve this goal, several models of data center components are needed. We illustrate the models we developed as well as the measurement set-up and results we have. These are especially models for server power estimation and for a virtual machine power breakdown. At the end of the paper, we present our further ideas and future research intentions.
\"O\'er the land of the free and the home of the bravel\'This, from the US national anthem, emphasises not just freedom and bravery but also the idea of \'the land\' as -the home\'. That would...
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\"O\'er the land of the free and the home of the bravel\'This, from the US national anthem, emphasises not just freedom and bravery but also the idea of \'the land\' as -the home\'. That would seem to highlight the idea of a society, presumably based on a consensus on what the homeland constitutes. But what of her role beyond that \'homeland\'? And has that proud noun been all too readily captured as an adjective in the expression \'homeland security\'?
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