Planning, designing, and implementing systems to support venue operations at the Olympic Games is complicated. The organizing committees must create designs that result in reliable, high-quality venue operations at reasonable cost. The organizational backdrop is unique. The organizing committee has a limited lifetime, it has no organizational memory, any learning disappears with its dissolution...

Alternative agricultural systems that emphasize ecological and community resilience provide a bridge between traditional agriculture and natural resourcemanagement. These can be referred to as agri-ecological systems and include systems such as Organic Agriculture, Biodynamics, Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), Permaculture, Farmers Markets and Community Gardens. This paper reports on curr...

Duplex services are multimedia services that requires good connectivity in both uplink and downlink such as VoIP, video conferencing and interactive gaming. A weak connection in either directionmay cause degradation of performances and dissatisfaction of user experience.Most researchers do not consider this issue and treat resource allocations in uplink and downlink independently. For this reas...

Network traffic monitoring and analysis are essential for effective network operation and resourcemanagement. In particular, multidimensional analysis for long-term traffic data is necessary for comprehensive understanding of the traffic trend and effective quality-of-service provision considering the extremely dynamic behavior of the current Internet, where various types of traffic occur from ...

Conservation and sustainable development (CSD) represent one of the most important new ways of thinking in natural resourcemanagement and policy. Cornell University has developed an interdisciplinary graduate minor to include this approach in its curriculum. The concept of CSD involves working toward environmental, social, and economic goals simultaneously. Although sustainability is sometimes ...