Event processing will play an increasingly important role in constructing distributed applications that can immediately react to critical events. In this paper we describe the CEDR language for expressing complex event queries that filter and correlate events to match specific patterns, and transform the relevant events into new composite events for the use of monitoring applications. Streambas...

Entrepreneurs are often under time pressure and may only have a short window of opportunity to launch their new venture. This means they often have no time for rational analytical decisions and rather rely on heuristics. Past research on entrepreneurial heuristics has primarily focused on predictive modes of control. Studies have analyzed the heuristics that entrepreneurs use when they try to p...

Quality of service (QoS) differentiation within the optical infrastructure is under constant development due to the direct impact of the ever-rising demand for time-critical and multimedia applications in the Internet. In this paper, we propose an efficient prioritized hybrid model based on two eminent approaches namely, resource-reservation and extra offset-time based QoS that have already bee...

The growth in the use and application of information technology (IT) in supply chain management (SCM) can be attributed to the performance improvements and value creation in organizations. In this sense, there has been a considerable evolution of scientific investigations into this integration over the past few years. This paper seeks to review, in a comprehensive and updated manner, the availa...

Cognitivism has dominated mainstream psychology for decades, but lately its position has been weakened. It has been criticized not only by behavior analysts but also by social and evolutionary psychologists, neuroscientists, and authors who are or used to be cognitivists themselves. At the same time, psychologists and neuroscientists in several fields are now rediscovering the necessity of unde...

A long-standing objective of friendship research is to identify the effects of personal preference and structural opportunity on intergroup friendship choice. Although past studies have used various methods to separate preference from opportunity, researchers have not yet systematically compared the properties and implications of these methods. This study puts forward a general framework for di...

The European Semester is a challenge for national parliaments but also an opportunity to reform domestic oversight institutions. Drawing on data from all member states, this study examines the conditions under which use opportunity. Is Euro area membership prerequisite parliamentary adaptation and, if so, further combinations of account variation among countries? analysis suggests that in or cl...

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