The paper presents a metric that is well suited to evaluate online job schedules for massively parallel processors. We point out the disadvantages of commonly used metrics like makespan or machine utilization. We suggest to use the well known total weighted completion time metric with an appropriate selection of job weights and show that this metric exhibits many properties that are similar to ...

The question of how perfectionism affects performance is highly debated. Because empirical studies examining perfectionism and competitive sport performance are missing, the present research investigated how perfectionism affected race performance and what role athletes' goals played in this relationship in two prospective studies with competitive triathletes (Study 1: N = 112; Study 2: N = 321...

The use of information systems for competitive advantage has been the topic of much writing and research. As a successful example, American Airlines’ aggressive use of its computer-based reservation system, SABRE, has often been cited for improving operational efficiency, increasing organizational flexibility, and altering interorganizational relationships. Yet, little attention has been given ...

As an important participant in Chinese market, SMEs are confronted with the tasks of keeping themselves competitive, which concern their survival and future growth. To help Chinese SMEs maintain and improve competitiveness, a theoretical framework is built up through organizing the existing theories and findings in studying SMEs in China. The framework investigates competitive strategy and busi...

Frank Eeckman Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P.O. Box 808 (L-426), Livermore, Ca. 94550 A simple architecture and algorithm for analytically guaranteed associative memory storage of analog patterns, continuous sequences, and chaotic attractors in the same network is described. A matrix inversion determines network weights, given prototype patterns to be stored. There are N units of cap...