As their pace of change accelerates as a result of technological and environmental factors, organizations are faced with challenges in measuring performance. The Balanced Scorecard (BSC) enables managers to translate an organization’s strategic goals into both financial and non-financial performance measures (Kaplan & Norton, 2001). Since being initially proposed by Robert Kaplan and David Nort...

Among the techniques of video processing, video summarization is a promising approach to process the multimedia content. In this paper we present a novel summarization algorithm, Balanced Audio Video Maximal Marginal Relevance (Balanced AV-MMR or BAV-MMR), for multi-video summarization based on both audio and visual information. Balanced AVMMR exploits the balance between audio information and ...

The value returned by Enterprise Architecture (EA) is increasingly under consideration by researchers and practitioners. They struggle to justify the EA investments made. Quantifying the Enterprise Architecture benefits has always been a challenge because measurements and real value delivered can not often be expressed in simple technical oriented metrics only. In this paper we suggest a multi-...

—In this paper, a clustering algorithm based on the cooperative transmission technology is proposed with respect to uneven energy consumption in large scope wireless sensor network. In this algorithm, to ensure the even distribution of the cluster head nodes in large scope wireless sensor network which has even clusters, the cooperative transmission technology is applied in data transmission a...

We prove a geometric version of the graph separator theorem for the unit disk intersection graph: for any set of n unit disks in the plane there exists a line ` such that ` intersects at most O( √ (m+ n) logn) disks and each of the halfplanes determined by ` contains at most 2n/3 unit disks from the set, where m is the number of intersecting pairs of disks. We also show that an axis-parallel li...

By analyzing the granted patents distribution of the energy-saving and environmental protection industry in China from 2008 to 2013, the conclusion can be reached: firstly, technological innovations of the energy-saving industry are focused on the environmentally air-conditioning and heat pump technical field, and technological innovations of the resources recycling industry is mainly concentra...

Experimental observation of Majorana fermion matter gives a new impetus to the understanding of the Lorentz symmetry and its extension, the geometrical properties of the ambient space-time structure, matter–antimatter symmetry and some new ways to understand the baryo–genesis problem in cosmology. Based on the primordial Majorana fermion matter assumption, we discuss a possibility to solve the ...

A long-running issue in scorecard construction in retail banking is how to handle dramatically unbalanced class sizes. This is important because, in many applications, the class sizes are very different. We describe the impact ignoring such imbalance can have and review the various strategies which have been proposed for tackling it, embedding them in a common theoretical framework. We then des...

Distance-balanced graphs are introduced as graphs in which every edge uv has the following property: the number of vertices closer to u than to v is equal to the number of vertices closer to v than to u. Basic properties of these graphs are obtained. In this paper, we study the conditions under which some graph operations produce a distance-balanced graph.