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Human Resource Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite the increasing application of digital technology in management practices, its implications for employee involvement and high involvement work systems (HIWSs) remain largely unexplored. Based on an in‐depth qualitative case study of Tencent—one of China's largest information technology companies—this article explores whether and in what
Wei Wei, Xiaolan Fu
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, 2011 A special customer must complete service from two servers in series, in either order, each with an M/M/1 queueing system. It is assumed that the two queueing system lengths are independent with initial numbers of customers a and b at the instant when the
Hlynka, Myron +2 more
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Scaling Emerging Healthcare Technology: Managing Paradoxical Tensions in A Connected Health Platform
Journal of Operations Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT To address growing geographical disparities in healthcare access and quality, connected health platforms (CHPs) have emerged as promising solutions. However, rapidly scaling CHPs poses significant challenges, particularly in managing tensions among multiple entities.
Yichuan Wang +4 more
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, 2017 By analyzing energy-efficient management of data centers, this paper proposes and develops a class of interesting {\it Group-Server Queues}, and establishes two representative group-server queues through loss networks and impatient customers ...
Li, Quan-Lin +3 more
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Journal of Field Robotics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Personal autonomous vehicles can sense their surrounding environment, plan their route, and drive with little or no involvement of human drivers. Despite the latest technological advancements and the hopeful announcements made by leading entrepreneurs, to date no personal vehicle is approved for road circulation in a “fully” or “semi ...
Xingshuai Dong +13 more
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مدیریت اطلاعات سلامت, 2016 Introduction: The queue is one of the most complex social systems in which human lives are inevitably associated with the activities of organizations. Due to the characteristics of healthcare organizations and the critical role that planning plays in ...
Hoda Moradi, Maryam Razavi
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Computing infrastructure issues in distributed communications systems : a survey of operating system transport system architectures [PDF]
, 1992 The performance of distributed applications (such as file transfer, remote login, tele-conferencing, full-motion video, and scientific visualization) is influenced by several factors that interact in complex ways.
Schmidt, Douglas C., Suda, Tatsuya
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The dynamic nature of small islands being geographically isolated and their perceived connectedness with global networks complicates research attempts to draw general conclusions on whether insularity leads to marginalization or strengthens their resilience for sustainable development.
Toheeb Lekan Jolaosho +2 more
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Marginal productivity index policies for problems of admission control and routing to parallel queues with delay [PDF]
, 2008 In this paper we consider the problem of admission control of Bernoulli arrivals to a buffer with geometric server, in which the controller’s actions take effect one period after the actual change in the queue length.
Jacko, Peter, Niño Mora, José
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An Ecosystem to Develop Multi‐Agent Systems in Real‐World IoT Applications
Software: Practice and Experience, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Software agents and multi‐agent systems are critical components in the development of distributed autonomous systems, as they exhibit a wide range of “intelligence,” from reactive behaviors to advanced reasoning and planning. Integrating these capabilities into multi‐agent systems enables distributed artificial intelligence, a programming ...
Davide Carnemolla +3 more
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