and their views have been analyzed using fuzzy cognitive maps. Results suggest that having vision, ability to analyze, having systems thinking, ability to question, creativity, ability to make synergy and ability to create advantage are the main elements of strategic thinking in successful managers of holding

The importance of labour and technology to the success of the rail business should not be underestimated. Labour productivity and asset efficiency determine rail’s cost structure which is the basis of success in a competitive market. To be a successful carrier of long haul- bulk commodities simply requires being the cheapest because customers are primarily seeking low cost service. As observed in the review of rail’s marketing effort it is possible to gain incremental value from doing something differently (their distribution business brought together a mix of service features that have led to expansion in the size and value of that segment), but at this time rail do not have a core advantage in distribution and logistics, it does in bulk haul commodities over longer distances. After deregulation in 1983 and before March 1985 rail reduced staff numbers only by voluntary means, in accordance with a

Our goal is to develop a visual monitoring system that passively observes moving objects in a site and learns patterns of activity from those observations. For extended sites, the system will require multiple cameras. Thus, key elements of the system are motion tracking, camera coordination

the key elements of the emergent technology of “Smart Dust ” and outline the research challenges they present to the mobile networking and systems community, which must provide coherent connectivity to large numbers of mobile network nodes co-located within a small volume.

Abstract: This paper outlines my concerns with Qualitative Data Analysis ’ (QDA) numerous remodelings of Grounded Theory (GT) and the subsequent eroding impact. I cite several examples of the erosion and summarize essential elements of classic GT methodology. It is hoped that the article

Technological progress in integrated, low-power, CMOS communication devices and sensors makes a rich design space of networked sensors viable. They can be deeply embedded in the physical world or spread throughout our environment. The missing elements are an overall system architecture and a

In this paper we describe the major elements of MIT Lincoln Laboratory’s Gaussian mixture model (GMM)-based speaker verification system used successfully in several NIST Speaker Recognition Evaluations (SREs). The system is built around the likelihood ratio test for verification, using simple

) formulate a unified model that integrates elements across the eight models, and (4) empirically validate the unified model. The eight models reviewed are the theory of reasoned action, the technology acceptance model, the motivational model, the theory of planned behavior, a model combining the technology

Matching elements of two data schemas or two data instances plays a key role in data warehousing, e-business, or even biochemical applications. In this paper we present a matching algorithm based on a fixpoint computation that is usable across different scenarios. The algorithm takes two graphs

FrameNet is a three-year NSF-supported project in corpus-based computational lexicography, now in its second year #NSF IRI-9618838, #Tools for Lexicon Building"#. The project's key features are #a# a commitment to corpus evidence for semantic and syntactic generalizations, and #b