of dissertation Presented to the Graduate School of the University of Florida in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy DISTRIBUTED SOLUTIONS FOR RATE CONTROL AND MAXIMUM LIFETIME IN WIRELESS NETWORKS By Liang Zhang August 2009 Chair: Shigang Chen Major: Computer Engineering This study focuses on end-to-end flow rate fairness and lifetime fairness in wire...

This study investigates the relationship between performance evaluation systems and budget gaming behavior. Specifically, it examines mediating role of organizational politics procedural fairness. Data collection was conducted by a questionnaire survey managers go-public manufacturing companies in Indonesia. Based on sample 128 responses, partial least squares results indicate that general poli...

Purpose Buyers and suppliers often perceive relationship governance mechanisms, such as trust contractual fairness, in different ways. These differences perception create an extra layer of complexity that is ignored the extant literature. This study adds to understanding how perceived asymmetries two key impact relational rents. also analyzes boundary spanners aid managers deal with these asymm...

Electronic commerce firms adopt advanced technologies to provide personalization of marketing-mix with data for co-created by consumers. This study explores customer's perception value co-creation and how it impacts intention co-create value. Customer in an e-commerce context was operationalized as second order construct comprising fulfilment, service recovery, price perception, algorithmic fai...

This paper studies how the communication network affects the power utilization and fairness in a simplified power system model, composed by three coupled layers: physical, communication and regulatory. Using an agent-based approach, we build a scenario where individuals may cooperate (by removing a load) or not (by keeping their loads or adding one more). The agent decision reflects its desire ...

Acceptability is a required quality for a sound assessment. For students, acceptability of a test is strongly influenced by perception of fairness. Computer-based assessment has been reported to be preferred by students provided that strict controls to prevent cheating are in place. This may be difficult to achieve as e-assessments are often taken in learning environments where computer screens...

Social comparison is a prerequisite for processing fairness, although the two types of cognition may be associated with different emotions. Whereas social comparison may induce envy, the perception of unfairness may elicit anger. Yet, it remains unclear whether people who tend to have a strong sense of fairness also tend to compare themselves more with others. Here, Study 1 used a modified ulti...

A contractor proposes design changes to achieve optimization in the stage of major railway projects, which can effectively solve problems such as project cost overruns. In order promote cooperation between construction party and owner stage, fairness preference theory was introduced. Based on relationship characteristics participants a project, Stackelberg game model established. The influence ...

Literature in organizational justice suggest that organizational fairness in decision making processes may encourage employees’ acceptance of and positive reaction to many organizational decisions including decision in human resource interventions such as performance appraisal system. This study seeks to understand how perceived fairness in the performance appraisal process affects employees’ s...