Hard infrastructure is an important topic to research because of its importance perceived destination competitiveness. Besides, tourism suppliers who adopt mobile technology can improve visitors' trip experiences. Moreover, Malaysia, experiencing declined competitiveness ranking and poor hard development in Sarawak. The primary goal this examine the infrastructures as determinants moderating ef...

Distributed Feature Composition (DFC) is a new component-based architecture for telecommunication services. Its principles are similar to the well-known pipe-and-filter architecture, adapted for use in the telecommunication domain. We present an overview of this architecture and explain how it might be used as a basis for componentbased development of telecommunication software. We also describ...

Nested Rollout Policy Adaptation (NRPA) is an approach using online learning policies in a nested structure. It has achieved great result variety of difficult combinatorial optimization problems. In this paper, we propose Meta-NRPA, which combines optimal stopping theory with NRPA for warm-starting and significantly improves the performance NRPA. We also present several exploratory techniques e...

Sentences with “more” can be used to compare along many different dimensions (e.g., number, height, etc.). Barner, Wagner, and Snedeker (2008) found that participants strongly preferred number as the relevant dimension for comparatives with deverbal nominals like “more jumping,” even when height was an available choice. Would this preference manifest as a choice of number over height pitting th...

We survey different optimization problems under uncertainty which arise in telecommunications. Three levels of decisions are distinguished: design of structural elements of telecommunication networks, top level design of telecommunication networks and design of optimal policies of telecommunication enterprize. Examples of typical problems from each level show that the stochastic programming par...

According to current models of word recognition, the time to recognize a word would be affected by the frequency of its neighbors. The present study examined the role of neighborhood frequency in spoken word recognition, using a definition of the neighborhood in terms of the last candidates of the cohort aligned from onset with the input [8]. Two sets of disyllabic CVCV words were selected whic...