The resource model of self-control casts self-control as a capacity that relies on some limited resource that exhausts with use. The model captured our imagination and brought much-needed attention on an important yet neglected psychological construct. Despite its success, basic issues with the model remain. Here, we ask six questions: (i) Does self-control really wane over time? (ii) Is ego de...

Deriving concrete products from a product-line infrastructure requires resolving the variability captured in the product line, based on the company market strategy or requirements from specific customers. Selecting the most appropriate set of features for a product is a complex task, especially if quality requirements have to be considered. Resource-usage-aware configuration aims at providing a...

In this dissertation, we focus on resource management in distributed systems. The essence of resource management is to match the requirements of computing tasks with the available resources. We propose and develop approaches to resource management in three qualitatively different systems: (1) server clusters providing computing-as-a-service, (2) tiered-architecture (of servers) hosting web serv...

green space, as a social development indicator has environmental, social, cultural, economical, and skeletal aspects and to be able to play its role effectively, the first and most important step is to select an appropriate site for it. site selection necessitates stability analysis of urban green space. the main three steps are identifying stability factors, ahp-based weighting factors and lay...

This paper summarizes and comments on Conner (1991) that contributes to the strategic management area by providing an historical comparison of resource-based theory and five schools of thought within industrial organization economics. Conner (1991) argues that the fundamental distinction between resource-based theory and transaction costs theory is that resource-based theory focuses on the depl...

Abstract For providing distributed multimedia applications with end–to–end QoS (Quality of Service) guarantees, resource–reservation based control mechanisms should be employed in both of networks and end–systems. Resource reservation within the network can be achieved by virtue of bandwidth allocation mechanisms of Internet RSVP or ATM, and the CPU resource on the end system can be reserved by...

It is challenging to reduce the processor power consumption while meeting the processor resource requirement of distributed multimedia applications in portable computers. This paper presents a middleware framework coordinating the Processor/Power Resource Management (PPRM) in mobile computing environment. Our framework has four major contributions: (1) providing a power-aware resource reservati...

For high speed mobile communication applications, the data rate can be increased by using multiple channels (or time slots) instead of one channel. To reduce the high blocking rate of multiple channels assignment, exible resource allocation strategies have been proposed. This paper proposes the Equal Resource Sharing Allocation scheme (ERSA scheme) for exible resource allocation. The ERSA schem...

This paper summarizes and comments on Conner (1991) that contributes to the strategic management area by providing an historical comparison of resource-based theory and five schools of thought within industrial organization economics. Conner (1991) argues that the fundamental distinction between resource-based theory and transaction costs theory is that resource-based theory focuses on the depl...

Network slicing is a key enabler for the serviceoriented 5G vision, that aims to satisfy various per-service requirements. Unlike core network slicing, radio access network (RAN) slicing is still at its infancy, with several works just starting to investigate the challenges and potentials to enable a mutli-tenant, multi-service RAN. One of the major challenges in RAN slicing is to provide diffe...