Leader Election is a fundamental problem in centralized control of distributed systems. The election process starts when one or more processors discover that the leader has failed, and it terminates when the remaining processors know who the new leader is. This study presents a distributed solution to this problem in Hypercube networks considering the link failure. A distributed leader election...

Innovation, and the creative thinking that provides basis for innovation, is of great value organizations. In this article we describe what needed people to think creatively, noting a complex, albeit voluntary, activity involving performance on certain types problems. The ways leaders influence peoples’ willingness engage in, ability solve, problems are then described. Leaders efforts must not ...

in this paper, the optimal adaptive leader-follower consensus of linear continuous time multi-agent systems is considered. the error dynamics of each player depends on its neighbors’ information. detailed analysis of online optimal leader-follower consensus under known and unknown dynamics is presented. the introduced reinforcement learning-based algorithms learn online the approximate solution...

This paper investigates the effect of having a leader in a laboratory public bad experiment with five subjects in each group. The control treatment is a standard public bad experiment, while in the leader treatments the design is such that in each group the leader decides first on his or her investment in the public bad. After being informed about the leader’s decision, the four ‘followers’ in ...

Xylem within trees varies in its hydraulic efficiency and safety. Trees at the alpine timberline were expected to exhibit a hydraulic architecture protecting the leader shoot from winter embolism. Hydraulic and related anatomical parameters were compared as well as seasonal courses of winter embolism in leader shoots and twigs of Norway spruce trees growing at 2000 m. Leader shoots had a 1.4-fo...

RNA secondary structure analysis was performed to understand the translation function of the adenovirus tripartite leader, a 200-nucleotide 5' noncoding region found on all late viral mRNAs. The tripartite leader facilitates the translation of viral mRNAs at late but not early times after infection and eliminates the normal requirement for the eukaryotic initiation factor 4F or cap binding prot...

Flocking is the ability of a group of robots to follow a leader or head whenever it moves in the plane (two dimensional Cartesian space). In this paper we propose and prove correct an architecture for a self-organizing and stabilizing flocking system. Contrary to the existing work on this topic our flocking architecture do not relies on the existence of a specific leader a priori known to every...

Excellent Managers ii Abstract This thesis explores the acquisition, measurement, and impact of leader skills in relation to business managers’ performance in an Australian context. The central problem explored in this thesis is whether effective managers are the same as successful managers, and the role of leader skills in that respect. Studies of managers commonly equate effectiveness with su...