This (short) paper presents the Clockwise, a mixedmedia file system. The primary goal of the Clockwise is to provide a storage architecture that supports the storage and retrieval of best-effort and real-time file system data. Clockwise provides an abstraction called a dynamic partition that groups lists of related (large) blocks on one or more disks. Dynamic partition can grow and shrink in si...

<p style='text-indent:20px;'>Promoting the sale of green agriculture products through online platforms has become main focus agricultural industries. In a supply chain consisting an e-tailer and third-party logistics (TPL), both promotion effort service TPL can affect demand. Considering that contracts may be provided by or TPL, this study defines two different timing sequences. Three typ...

The Guaranteed Frame Rate service category is currently under discussion for incorporation into the specification documents of the ATM-Forum. The concept of the GFR service is to provide a minimum service guarantee to classical best-effort services, taking into account the frame-based nature of todays data-traffic. In this paper we present a discrete-time analysis of the GFR service and discuss...

Product customization has been used for many years, and with this concept, product families can be designed that are better matched to the needs of customers through the use of market segmentation and modular architecture. This study is composed of two phases: the first phase establishes the modular architecture, and taking a bicycle as the case study, applies the Interpretive Structural Model ...

Cost overrun of software projects is major cause of their failures. In order to facilitate accurate software cost estimation, there are several metrics, tools and datasets. In this paper, we evaluate and compare different metrics and datasets in terms of similarities and differences of involved software attributes. These metrics forecast project cost estimations based on different software attr...

The aim of this practice-based paper is to provide some insight into the drivers of employee loyalty in the IT industry. This paper is the result of more than four years of industry experience in the area of human resources management with different IT companies based in Mumbai, India. The paper argues that although the HR professionals working in the IT industry are trying hard to formulate st...

Collaboration in research continuously gains importance. Recent developments in online collaboration technology, namely social research network sites (SRNS), specifically aim to support research collaboration. SRNS allow researchers to present themselves, to network, to communicate, and to collaborate. Acceptance of this technology by researchers has received little academic attention, a void t...

Sequential Contests with Synergy and Budget Constraints We study a sequential Tullock contest with two stages and two identical prizes. The players compete for one prize in each stage and each player may win either one or two prizes. The players have either decreasing or increasing marginal values for the prizes, which are commonly known, and there is a constraint on the total effort that each ...