while many researchers devoted numerous articles to the organizational culture, relatively few articles have been contributed to culture and performance research. the purpose of this study is to shed light on the role of organizational culture on performance. to achieve this goal and in order to measure organizational culture, denison organizational culture model was used. the components of thi...

An examination of the statistical accuracy and economic value of modeling and forecasting the term structure of interest rates using forecast combinations is considered. Five alternative methods to combine point forecasts from several univariate and multivariate autoregressive specifications including dynamic factor models, equilibrium term structure models, and forward rate regression models a...

Home-based consistency model, a variant of lazy release consistency model (LRC), is a recent development in the DSM field that has open out many areas for further research and development. In this paper, we present 2 adaptive schemes for home-based DSM systems: home migration and dynamic adaptation between write-invalidation and writeupdate protocols. The two fully automatic schemes are in line...

Reliable performance evaluations require the use of representative workloads. This is no easy task because modern computer systems and their workloads are complex, with many interrelated attributes and complicated structures. Experts often use sophisticated mathematics to analyze and describe workload models, making these models difficult for practitioners to grasp. This book aims to close this...

Rapidly evolving information technology has dramatically changed the knowledge dissemination process. A proper e-learning environment is one of the most important knowledge tools in modern organizations. However, many of them lack a generic evaluation process to verify performance. In an attempt to solve this problem, this study propose an agent-based model which compose learning model, balance...

The subsequent white paper introduces assessment scheme for recital evaluation of model driven architecture. The plan is about to access the performance of model driven architecture so that it’s performance can be enhanced further if domino effect are not pleasing. Nevertheless the main dictum of this paper is to just come out with the recital proportion of model driven architecture and work ha...

Last but not the least, I would like to acknowledge the support and encouragement provided by my family during my Master's studies.

The use of hidden Markov models (HMMs) has found widespread use in many different areas. This chapter focuses on HMMs applied to the performance evaluation of computer systems and networks. After presenting a brief review of background material on HMMs, applications such as channel delay and loss characteristics, traffic modeling and workload generation are surveyed. The power of HMMs as predic...

This paper investigates the problem of finding author interest in coauthor network through topic modeling with providing several performance evaluation measures. Intuitively, there are two types of explicit grouping exists in research papers (1) authors who have co-authored with author A in one document (subgroup) and (2) authors who have co-authored with author A in all documents (group). Trad...

for the performance improvement and higher flexibility in irrigation networks, applications of automatic systems are expanding and on evaluation of their success for achieving the objectives are essential and necessary. considering various equipment, algorithms, and their applications at different levels of irrigation networks, the performance of automatic systems is a function of the performan...