Event processing will play an increasingly important role in constructing distributed applications that can immediately react to critical events. In this paper we describe the CEDR language for expressing complex event queries that filter and correlate events to match specific patterns, and transform the relevant events into new composite events for the use of monitoring applications. Streambas...

Entrepreneurs are often under time pressure and may only have a short window of opportunity to launch their new venture. This means they often have no time for rational analytical decisions and rather rely on heuristics. Past research on entrepreneurial heuristics has primarily focused on predictive modes of control. Studies have analyzed the heuristics that entrepreneurs use when they try to p...

Quality of service (QoS) differentiation within the optical infrastructure is under constant development due to the direct impact of the ever-rising demand for time-critical and multimedia applications in the Internet. In this paper, we propose an efficient prioritized hybrid model based on two eminent approaches namely, resource-reservation and extra offset-time based QoS that have already bee...

The growth in the use and application of information technology (IT) in supply chain management (SCM) can be attributed to the performance improvements and value creation in organizations. In this sense, there has been a considerable evolution of scientific investigations into this integration over the past few years. This paper seeks to review, in a comprehensive and updated manner, the availa...

Cognitivism has dominated mainstream psychology for decades, but lately its position has been weakened. It has been criticized not only by behavior analysts but also by social and evolutionary psychologists, neuroscientists, and authors who are or used to be cognitivists themselves. At the same time, psychologists and neuroscientists in several fields are now rediscovering the necessity of unde...

The paper combines the set-based concept of freedom of choice with the agent-based concept of power in order to derive a theoretical basis for the discussion of responsibility over social outcomes. It reviews the standard theory of ranking opportunity sets and applies the Public Good Index in order to evaluate the rankings from the point of view of the decision makers. In the social context, de...

Although agriculture has a major role in economy, in general, and employment opportunities for unemployed population,in particular, limited ability of individuals to recognize entrepreneurial opportunities in agriculture has reduced the share ofagriculture in employment. Therefore, the enhancement of opportunity recognition skills among individuals in the agriculture sector is believed to solve...