Operational Resource Theory of Imaginarity

Operational Quantum Theory; Measurement Theory

Resource-Constrained Non-Operational Testing of Software1

In “classical” testing approaches, “learning” is said to occur if testers dynamically improve the efficiency of their testing as they progress through a testing phase. However, the pressures of modern business and software development practices seem to favor an approach to testing which is very akin to a “sampling without replacement” of a relatively limited number of pre-determined structures ...

Resource Mobilization Theory: Political Movement in Egypt

This paper discusses the application of the resource mobilization theory (RMT) to clarify the activities of certain key socio-political groups and movements in Egypt up till 2011. It contends that the political movements in the country have utilized information and communication technologies (ICTs) and social networks sites (SNSs) as a tool for mobilizing people and coordinating anti-regime act...

A Theory of Operational Risk

We study the dynamic decision making of a financial institution in the presence of a novel implementation friction that gives rise to operational risk. We distinguish between internal and external operational risks depending on whether the institution has control over them. Internal operational risk naturally arises in the context of model risk, as the institution exposes itself to operational ...

A review of methods for resource allocation and operational framework in cloud computing

The issue of management and allocation of resources in cloud computing environments, according to the breadth of scale and modern technology implementation, is a complicated issue. Issues such as: the heterogeneity of resources, resource dependencies to each other, the dynamics of the environment, virtualization, workload diversity as well as a wide range of management objectives of cloud servi...