1 The work described in this paper was partially supported by a strategic grant from the City University of Hong Kong [Project No. CityU 7001259]. Abstract. This paper studies the location management problem in PCS network. An adaptive direction-based location update (ADBU) scheme is proposed in which a line-paging method is adopted to minimize the paging cost and an adaptive direction-based sc...

Sweet potato is an important food, industrial, and pharmaceutical crop worldwide highly adapted to adverse ranges of agroclimatic conditions, making it one the strategic crops under climate change. Despite importance, sustainable production continues be issue because pressure put on land, decline in soil fertility, buildup pests diseases, no standardized practices. Production mechanized tempera...

The NOAA Fisheries Service, Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC) asked the panel to review the activities of their Social Science Branch (SSB) and provide advice and recommendations on the alignment of the SSB strategic objectives and initiatives with the missions, strategic goals, and objectives of NOAA, NMFS, and the NEFSC; the direction and quality of SSB programs and research in relat...

this article aims at strategic vision to technology and suggests a strategic planning for this purpose. the main emphasis in this article is on strategic report compilation in the framework of strategic vision and covers issues such as identification of strategic planning dimensions and strategic vision levels, technology priority setting, environment monitoring, focus on costumer needs, method...

Why should we be interested in strategic planning for our information-development organizations? We might simply apply specific tactics for getting our everyday jobs done. We might focus our concerns on producing a manual or getting the online help finished. We might even plan far enough in advance to send staff members to workshops on the latest online help development tools. These tactics wou...