Effective leadership in organisations is important to the achievement of organizational objectives. Yet leadership is widely seen as a quality that individuals innately possess, and which cannot be learned. This paper makes two assertions; (a) that leadership is a skill that not only can b e learned, but which can be formalized into a Process Reference Model that is intelligible to practitioner...

This memo describes a framework for Traffic Engineering (TE) in the Internet. The framework is intended to promote better understanding of the issues surrounding traffic engineering in IP networks, and to provide a common basis for the development of traffic engineering capabilities for the Internet. The framework explores the principles, architectures, and methodologies for performance evaluat...

The RoboPatriots are a team of three humanoid robots sponsored by George Mason University. Each robot is built on a Kondo KHR-1HV humanoid base and a customized Gumstix Verdex microcontroller. The two attackers share the same behavior, and the goalie’s is different. At present there is minimal communication between the robots, but this may change by the competition. RoboCup 2009 provides an opp...

Classifier systems are massively parallel, message-passing, rule-based systems that learn through credit assignment (the bucket brigade algorithm) and rule discovery (the genetic algorithm). They typically operate in environments that exhibit one or more of the following characteristics: (1) perpetually novel events accompanied by large amounts of noisy or irrelevant data; (2) continual, often ...

Extending R.A. Wicklund and P.M. Gollwitzer's (1982) self-completion theory, 2 experiments examined the role of self-defining goals in predicting performance effects of failure among students committed to professional goals such as becoming a physician (Experiment 1) or a computer scientist (Experiment 2). Results of Experiment 1 revealed that failure on a task characterized as being relevant t...

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) has attracted a large following in recent years. Goals for the paradigm have included bringing computational implementations closer to abstractions (the HCI school, exemplified by Smalltalk []), partitioning spaces of concepts (the AI school, exemplified by CLOS []) and software engineering for reuse and extensibility (the SE school, exemplified by Eiffel []). ...

In order to overcome the drawbacks of mathematical optimization techniques, soft computing algorithms have been vigorously introduced during the past decade. However, there are still some possibilities of devising new algorithms based on analogies with natural phenomena. A nature-inspired algorithm, mimicking the improvisation process of music players, has been recently developed and named Harm...

The current COVID-19 pandemic is making a huge impact on society. Most projects are either abandoned or halted due to this pandemic, especially in developing countries. We have conducted study evaluate the of construction by using concept rework projects. 'Rework project' class that initiated achieve intended objectives second attempt after failing goals first attempt. People who were involved ...

Literacy cannot be separated from peoples' sociocultural contexts and from their self-conceptualizations within those contexts. A person's literacy functioning will depend upon the role literacy plays in meeting one's goals and in the resulting construction of one's self-image. Within context, not only written language, but the interaction between written and oral language modes becomes importa...