We study an access trace containing a sample of Wikipedia’s traffic over a 107-day period aiming to identify appropriate replication and distribution strategies in a fully decentralized hosting environment. We perform a global analysis of the whole trace, and a detailed analysis of the requests directed to the English edition of Wikipedia. In our study, we classify client requests and examine a...

0957-4174/$ see front matter 2009 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.eswa.2009.01.005 * Corresponding author. Tel.: +886 33412500x6103 E-mail addresses: [email protected], whydec6 [email protected] (G.-H. Tzeng), j02255@ji-ee The paper proposed a Fuzzy Multiple Criteria Decision Making (FMCDM) approach for banking performance evaluation. Drawing on the four perspectives of a Balanced Scorec...

Balanced scorecard is increasingly being used as a strategic performance management tool in both public and private sectors. This adoption has encouraged evolution of the balanced scorecard methodology over the last two decades. Although, the available generations of this methodology are readily adoptable for private sector organizations, public sector organizations present diverse challenges f...

Manin’s conjecture predicts an asymptotic formula for the number of rational points of bounded height on a smooth projective variety X in terms of global geometric invariants of X. The strongest form of the conjecture implies certain inequalities among geometric invariants of X and of its subvarieties. We provide a general geometric framework explaining these phenomena, via the notion of balanc...

There is a significant gap between the performance of a coreference resolution system on gold mentions and on system mentions. This gap is due to the large and unbalanced search space in coreference resolution when using system mentions. In this paper we show that search space pruning is a simple but efficient way of improving coreference resolvers. By incorporating our pruning method in one of...

The rapid development of information and communication technologies has given rise to the emerging of the e –government. Various approaches have been adopted to evaluate the e-government. This paper suggests the Balanced Scoreboard approach and attempts to devise a systematic evaluation framework.

This paper examines the impact of mergers and acquisitions on the remuneration of the CEOs in a large unbalanced panel of UK firms, over the period 1981-1996. We find significant and substantial executive pay increases in excess of those generated by the growth in firm size consequent upon the merger. This is consistent with the view that mergers reveal information about the quality of manageme...