Guanxi is deeply ingrained in Chinese society and business etiquette; therefore, it is critical to understand and appreciate it to gain a commercial foothold in China. This paper explores the fundamental differences between Chinese and Western approaches to business dealings, to identify the factors that make it difficult for Western managerial practises to adopt guanxi. The authors identify th...

The flexibility provided by the demand side will be crucial to take a step forward increase penetration of renewable energy resources in system. proposed methodology provides aggregator with information about most reliable consumers, attributing trustworthy rate that characterizes their performance on Demand Response (DR) events. innovation relies applying rates and evaluating context which eve...

Secure data transmission for the wireless sensor network (WSN) is always an important issue. The technique of traditional authenticated encryption allows a sensor node to generate a ciphertext which can only be decrypted and authenticated by a designated data aggregator. The convertible property further enables the aggregator to announce an ordinary signature for public verification. To allevia...

We study competition and cooperation among a group of storage units. We show that as the number of storages increases, the profit of storages approaches zero under Nash competition. We propose two ways in which storages can achieve non-zero profit and show that they are optimal in the sense that storages achieve the maximum possible profit. The first is a decentralized approach in which storage...

To increase the lifespan of wireless sensor networks (WSN) and preserve the energy of sensors, data aggregation techniques are usually used. Aggregation can be seen as the process by which data sent from sensors to the BS are little-by-little processed by some nodes called aggregator nodes. Aggregators collect data from surrounding nodes and produce a small sized output, thus preventing that al...

Active participation of demand-side resources in power system control tasks, i.e., demand response, is expected to facilitate the integration of renewable energy sources in the grid. In this paper, we present a novel hierarchical control scheme to enable provision of frequency control reserves by a pool of office buildings managed by an aggregator. The reserves are provided by controlling the c...

In this paper, a generic architecture for intrusion alert management, analysis and security decision support is described. The architecture is composed of four components: (1)Alert Aggregator, (2)Alert Evaluation and Security Decision Support Component, (3)Alert Correlator and (4)Synthetic Alert Report Generator. The core of this architecture is the Alert Evaluation and Security Decision Suppor...

Really simple syndication (RSS) feeds and aggregators are indispensable tools for clinicians who need to stay abreast of the latest clinical research, public health publications, and economic factors that might affect their practice. RSS enables clinicians with a compatible browser, such as Mozilla Firefox, or other desktop aggregator, to view headlines and journal article titles from dozens or...