Advances in computer system technology in the areas of CPUs, disk subsystems, and volatile RAM memory are combining to create performance problems existing file systems are ill-equipped to solve. This paper identifies the problems of using the existing UNIX file systems on 1990’s technology and presents an alternative file system design that can use disks an order-of-magnitude more efficiently ...

Feature Open access, freely available online " I didn't want to be just another MBA, " says Pascal Herzer, one of the fi rst recipients of a new graduate credential known as the professional science master's, or PSM. " Not many people have the ability to understand science and business, and [the PSM] program was designed for that very purpose. " PSMs are two-year American master's degrees fi na...

First-line nurse managers play a critical management role because they greatly influence the success of healthcare organizations. Several studies have profiled the first-line nurse manager, but have focused on the characteristics and responsibilities of these individuals. This study delineated and identified specific behavioral competencies that are considered important for hospital-based nurse...

The Vinum Volume Manager is a block device driver which implements virtual disk drives. It isolates disk hardware from the block device interface and maps data in ways which result in an increase in flexibility, performance and reliability compared to the traditional slice view of disk storage. Vinum implements the RAID-0, RAID-1 and RAID-5 models, both individually and in combination.

Tension is a major aspect of involving players in a game experience. Dynamic tension management allows authors to provide a desired tension arc to their game without having to confine players to a strict, pre-scripted path. While this has been previously attempted by a small faction of computer scientists, there remains much research to be done in this area. The Illuminati tension manager is ou...

The optimal management contract is derived in an environment in which a manager can influence the distribution of earnings through an unobservable effort decision, only the manager observes actual earnings, and the manager can engage in costly reported earnings manipulation. The manager's compensation is required to satisfy an ex ante participation constraint that reflects the cost of effort an...

In this paper we report on a linked environment of the three programs XGobi, XploRe, and ViR-GIS. While XGobi and XploRe are statistical packages that focus on dynamic statistical graphics and provide analytical statistical features, respectively, ViRGIS is a 3D Virtual Reality Geographic Information System (GIS) that allows real{time access to, and visualization of, geographic data. The XGobi/...

The EuroCoOp Task Manager allows for asynchronous distributed work management. It provides means for dynamic and flexible modification of task shared by users. This paper describes the extension of the EuroCoOp Task Manager to meeting support functionality. Examining the specific requirements for meeting support, there are some demands which are already covered by the Task Manager itself and so...

Building on the early conceptual work of Lee and Cadogan (2000), this paper outlines the development of measuring scales for three sales manager problem resolution styles, namely: sales manager responsiveness, sales manager caring, and sales manager aggressiveness. The paper first provides a general introduction and theoretical primer to the topic of sales manager problem resolution styles. Thi...

The project manager has been a ubiquitous feature of traditional software development projects. However, agile software development (ASD) methods which emphasize selforganizing teams and rapid response to change have done away with the project manager’s title. New job titles such as the scrum master and product owner have been introduced instead. It is unclear as to what extent the “project man...