Decision making and problem solving are especially important skills for business and life. As an innovation leading corporate, Sony has gradually lost their superiority in innovation and core competences under more and more intensive competition environment. This report is made to investigate Sony current procedure on its solving problems and making decision, analyze approaches and tools used b...

We propose an intermediation core for an economy that is explicit in how traders organize themselves into trade cooperatives (intermediaries) and how trade between them gets carried out. The intermediation core allocations are closely related to equilibrium allocations of a non-cooperative intermediation game in Townsend (1983). We show that the intermediation core contains all subgame-perfect ...

Networks-on-Chip (NoC) based many-core processors can not only increase system performance but also allow the integration of multiple functions on a single hardware platform. To consolidate functionality on many-core systems in safety-critical domains software partitioning is required to avoid the propagation of faults due to the use of shared resources. In this paper we propose extensions to w...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to analyze and describe process and outcomes of two pilot assessments based on the HTA Core Model, discuss the applicability of the model, and explore areas of development. METHODS Data were gathered from HTA Core Model and pilot Core HTA documents, their validation feedback, questionnaires to investigators, meeting minutes, emails, and discussions in the ...

Can the right to health, and particularly the core obligations of states specified under this right, assist in formulating and implementing universal health coverage (UHC), now included in the post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals? In this paper, we examine how core obligations under the right to health could lead to a version of UHC that is likely to advance equity and rights. We first addre...

Markov state models (MSMs) have become the tool of choice to analyze large amounts of molecular dynamics data by approximating them as a Markov jump process between suitably predefined states. Here we investigate "Core Set MSMs," a new type of MSMs that build on metastable core sets acting as milestones for tracing the rare event kinetics. We present a thorough analysis of Core Set MSMs based o...

The Service-oriented Router (SoR), a highly functional router based on a novel router architecture, enables unprecedented web services traditional routers were unable to provide. The SoR performs Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) to analyze Layer 7 information, which is becoming increasingly difficult due to the substantial increase in Internet traffic. Meanwhile, multi-core processors and general-p...

Multipoint communications is the simultaneous transmission of data streams from a number of sources to a set of receivers in a group according to predetermined metrics. The core-based approach in multipoint communication enhances potential solutions in terms of QoS-efficiency and feasibility of the results in inter and intra-domain routing. In this paper, we first analyze the solution space for...

Contemporary high-end Terascale and Petascale systems are composed of hundreds of thousands of commodity multi-core processors interconnected with highspeed custom networks. Performance characteristics of applications executing on these systems are a function of system hardware and software as well as workload parameters. Therefore, it has become increasingly challenging to measure, analyze and...

As semiconductor manufacturing technology continues to improve, it is possible to integrate more and more transistors onto a single processor. Many-core processor design has resulted in part from the search to utilize this enormous transistor real estate. The Single-Chip Cloud Computer (SCC) is an experimental many-core processor created by Intel Labs. In this paper we present a study in which ...