Disasters are emergent and dynamic scenarios involving diverse stakeholders in complex decision making and as such, disaster management systems must account for these conditions. In order to more effectively design, build and adopt these systems we suggest that emergency service agencies should consider supplementing their traditional “command and control” approaches and common operating pictur...

in today's dynamic and uncertain environment, knowledge is a strategic source for organizations to gain the competitive advantage and innovation. in this research, we have investigated mediating role of knowledge management between environmental uncertainty and organizational innovation. data was collected through questionnaire from 89 large and medium sized manufacturing companies in suburb ma...

The long term goal attaining of economic system management requires the establishment of a dynamic framework to integrate multiple perspectives. This article considers the problem of economic development in macro level. As economic systems are complex adaptive systems composed of numerous numbers of components of dynamic and multidimensional nature, dynamics method is applied in this research. ...

Poor code locality degrades application performance, especially for large programs such as server applications, by increasing the memory stalls caused by instruction TLB and instruction cache misses. This locality problem is a particular issue for languages such as Java and C# that provide just-in-time (JIT) compilation, dynamic class loading, and dynamic recompilation. Managed runtimes for the...

For many years, financial markets have been part of people’s everyday life. Information on the major securities can be found easily in the daily press or on internet. The different actors of the economy look closely at some fundamental parameters, such as interest rates, currency rates, stock prices..., which may affect the management of their firms, especially after the deregulation process in...

Large infrastructures become technologically more and more complex and interdependencies between different infrastructures increase. As a consequence complex infrastructures become more vulnerable to emergencies. The personnel in charge must be supported in the challenging task of identifying and assessing an emergency situation and in choosing an appropriate reaction. This calls for a system w...

M o b ile term ina ls su ch a s cellu la r p h o nes, sm a rt p h o nes a nd P D A s req u ire w ireless c o nnectio n to ex ch a ng e info rm a tio n w ith th e ex terna l w o rld . In th is tu to ria l w e fo c u s o n w ireless p a ck et netw o rk s b a sed o n th e IE E E 8 0 2 .1 1 b p ro to c o l, c o m m o nly u sed to b u ild lo c a l a rea netw o rk s o f p a lm to p a nd no teb o o k ...

the need to develop the required human resources in the tourism industry has become imperative as a consequence of rapidly changing technology and dynamic changes in the international tourism market. and in this regard the role and commitment of the top management towards developing the human resources cannot be undermined. a study has been conducted to assess the perception of the top manageme...