Energy consumption in the residential sector is a complex socio-technical problem that can be explained using acombination of physical, demographic and behavioural characteristics of a house and its occupants. In this paper, byusing the energy consumption data for the residential sector of Shiraz in Iran, the effect of built area (BA) andoccupant number (Occ) on annual energy consumption (Ec) w...

With the high availability of low-cost and energy-efficient LEDs cameras, there is increased interest in optical camera communication (OCC) to provide nonradio-frequency-based solutions domains advertisement, vehicular communication, Internet Things (IoT). As per IEEE 802.15.7-2018 standard, new physical-layer clauses support low-frame-rate with allowable flickering. This paper proposes an OCC ...

E mployees have become more cynical about their organizations (Feldman, 2000). There are many potential targets for such cynicism, such as one’s occupation, top managers, and organizational change efforts (Dean, Brandes, & Dharwadkar, 1998). This article addresses organizational change cynicism (OCC), which has the potential to undermine change programs (Reicher, Wanous, & Austin, 1997), and fo...

Reference lists from academic articles are core elements of scholarly communication that permit the attribution of credit and integrate our independent research endeavours. Hitherto, however, they have not been freely available in an appropriate machine-readable format such as RDF and in aggregate for use by scholars. To address this issue, one year ago we started ingesting citation data from t...

In a real-time database system, it is difficult to meet all timing constraints due to the consistency requirements of the underlying database. However, when the transactions in the system are heterogeneous, they are not of the same importance some are of greater importance than others. In this paper, we propose a new optimistic concurrency control protocol called OCC-PDATI which uses informatio...

Alexander Thomasian IBM T. J. Watson Research Center P.O. Box 704 Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, USA The performance of high-volume transaction processing systems is determined by the degree of contention for hardware resources as well as data. Data contention is especially a problem in the case of data partitioned (e.g., distributed) systems with global transactions accessing and updating objects...