The goal of this thesis work is to find a distributed solution for the propagation manager of SIES, to improve the throughput and availability of the whole system. SIES is the abbreviation for “Stuttgart Information and Exploration System”. It is an instance of Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) in data level in the context of heterogeneous industrial IT infrastructures. Based on the conc...

This supplementary material is intended to supplement the paper and contains references to parts of it. It is divided into two sections. In Section A, we solve the proposed model for other utility functions, namely when the manager operates under logarithmic and power preferences. In Section B, we provide an extension of the proposed model in the case of multiple risky assets and multiple stoch...

It is expected that more accounting conservation (environmental uncertainty) reduces manager optimism. Prior research, however, has struggled to establish this relation empirically. Moreover, some evidence points to the possibility that the manager optimism is lower for firms with more accounting conservation. In this paper, the author examine the link between accounting conservation, environme...

We describe a process extension to a lazy functional programming system, intended for applications with graphical user interfaces (GUIs). In the extended language, dynamically-created processes communicate by asynchronous message passing. We illustrate the use of the language, including as an extended example a simple board game in which squares are implemented as concurrent processes. We also ...

This paper describes the use of fuzzy QoS specifications to manage quality of service. These specifications associate their membership functions with QoS levels perceived from a resource. Besides it is described the implementation of a QoS manager of fuzzy specifications. The QoS manager, denominated Mediator, has two parameters called α-cuts. One of them is used to allocate and the other to po...

Abstract. Programming OSI management communications is considered daunting because of the complexity of the service/protocol (CMIS/P) and the lack of standardized high-level Application Program Interfaces (APIs) that can harness the power and hide the protocol and abstract syntax complexity. In the OSIMIS platform, high-level C++ APIs, namely the Remote MIB and Shadow MIB, are provided to suppo...

Deploying Grid technologies by distributing an application over several machines has been widely used for scientific simulations, which have large requirements for computational resources. The Grid Configuration Manager (GCM) is a tool developed to ease the management of scientific applications in distributed environments and to hide some of the complexities of Grids from the end-user. In this ...

This study was aimed at developing a method for measuring the relationship between intellectual capital and project manager competencies. Intellectual capital consist human capital, structural capital and relational capital. Project manager competencies have been evaluated based on IPMA Competence Baseline (ICB) and Project Manager Competency Development Framework (PMCDF) includes knowledge, sk...