creating an effective team environment is vital to succeed. more often than not there’s no opportunity for personality clashes, team members can’t be picky about which clients they prefer to deal with them. the present study is an empirical study consists of 60 samples out of 120 working employees to the tune of 50 per cent of the population. both the primary and secondary data collected using ...

it is dawn clear that empowered employees in public sector perform a critical role in their organizational service quality. by the same token, currently competitive advantages stem from employees’ high self-confidence and their commitment toward the goals rather than application of high technologies. this study summarizes twenty influencing factors on employees empowerment including information...

General awareness of the potential of mathematics to support sports decision-making has been raised by the movie “Moneyball” through its portrayal of a real professional American baseball club that used mathematical tools to improve team performance. This article addresses the same challenge, using as a test case a fantasy sport game organized by an Argentinian newspaper. Two mathematical progr...

Older adults are often viewed by society more for what they cannot do than for what they are capable of achieving. This intrinsic case study examined the formation of a women's 65+ volleyball team at a university for the purpose of better understanding what it was like for older women to learn a new sport and what meaning participating in competitive sport had for those who had not previously b...

In physical domains (military or athletic), team behaviors often have an observable spatio-temporal structure, defined by the relative physical positions of team members over time. In this paper, we demonstrate that this structure can be exploited to recognize football plays in the Rush 2008 football simulator. Although events in the simulator are stochastically generated, we present a method f...

Cooperation and communication are two of the fundamental problems associated with research into multirobot systems. In our work we examine the interactions of a team of robot footballers. Like computer chess and Go, robot football can be thought of as a game in which the agents on one team cooperate to control more space more comprehensively than the opposing team. As a research experiment we a...

Holmstrom (1982) argues that a principal is required to restrain moral hazard in a team: wasting output in a certain state is required to enforce efficient effort, and the principal is a commitment device for such enforcement. Under competition in commodity and team-formation markets, I extend his model à la Prescott and Townsend (1984) to show that competitive contracts can exploit the futures...

Global Software Development (GSD) brought competitive advantages to organizations, but it has also imposed some drawbacks due to the physical distribution. A critical aspect of this approach is related to communication. In order to provide the same semantic understanding about information exchanged on the environment to all team members it is necessary to minimize the ambiguity. This paper pres...

The coordination methodologies of CAMBADA, a robotic soccer team designed to participate in the RoboCup Middle-Size League (MSL), are presented in this paper. The approach, which relies on information sharing and integration within the team, is based on formations, flexible positionings and dynamic role and positioning assignment. Role assignment is carried out locally on each robot to increase...

In this paper, we report the joint participation of I2R-NUS team and MSRA team in entity linking task for Knowledge Base Population at Text Analysis Conference 2011. I2R-NUS team submitted two results with the full system and the partial system for diagnosis purpose. Both results incorporate the new technologies: acronym expansion, instance selection and topic modeling proposed in our recent pa...