Purpose – Due to its socio-cultural complexity, the impact of ethnic heterogeneous team on creative task is a two-edge sword. On one hand it will bring high cognitive stimulation and thus enhance creative production. On the other hand, it will lead to attention loading and thus determine concentration and creativity. In handling ill-defined task or well-defined task, the needed attention loadin...

Many-Task Computing (MTC) is a widely used computing paradigm for large-scale task-parallel processing. One of the key issues in MTC is to schedule a large number of independent tasks onto heterogeneous resources. Traditional task-level scheduling heuristics, like Min-Min, Sufferage and MaxStd, cannot readily be applied in this scenario. As most of MTC tasks are usually fine-grained, the resour...

In this paper, we focus on task-level parallelism, which is obtained by a high-level decomposition of the production system. Speed-ups obtained from task-level parallelism will multiply with che speed-ups obtained from match parallelism. Our vehicle for the investigation of task-level parallelism is SPAM, a high-level vision system, implemented in a production system architecture. SPAM is a mat...

the necessity and importance of teaching pragmatics has come to light by many researchers (e.g. rose & kasper, 2001). due to the consensus over the need to teach pragmatic competence, the main issue now centers on the question of how we should teach this competence in the most effective way. consistent with this line of research, the present study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of d...