Business strategies and index evaluations on communities of practice (CoPs) could be the prevailing way for group learning and innovation building within firms. As firms grow in size, scope, and complexity, CoPs members who regularly engage in sharing and learning based on common interests, could improve organizational performance. Due to multi-criteria consideration and uncertain information h...

The Council of Pediatric Subspecialties (CoPS) was founded in September 2006 largely due to concerns about the nonuniformity of the fellowship application process. Working with the pediatric subspecialty community, CoPS has been successful in promoting a uniform process with many more pediatric fellowship programs now using a matching program and the Electronic Residency Application Service. Mo...

Policy based management is being adopted widely for different domains like QoS, security and VPNs in order to allow new services and facilitate network management. Also, the interface to the network device and the information models required for specifying policies are either standardized or being standardized in IETF and DMTF. This paper reports the design, implementation, and performance eval...

We consider a variant of the game of Cops and Robbers, called Containment, in which cops move from edge to adjacent edge, the robber moves from vertex to adjacent vertex (but cannot move along an edge occupied by a cop). The cops win by “containing” the robber, that is, by occupying all edges incident with a vertex occupied by the robber. The minimum number of cops, ξ(G), required to contain a ...

The cops-and-robber (CR) game has been used in mobile robotics as a discretized model (played on a graph G) of pursuit/evasion problems. The “classic” CR version is a perfect information game: the cops’ (pursuer’s) location is always known to the robber (evader) and vice versa. Many variants of the classic game can be defined: the robber can be invisible and also the robber can be either advers...

Stefan Vogler and Valerie Jenness on community views toward cops.

Knowledge co-creation at the boundaries of communities practice (CoPs) can lead to heightened tensions and power struggles. This study examines how struggles among CoPs begin structure knowledge creation processes. Drawing on a qualitative case new medical research project, shows negotiations became manifested through conflicting discursive positioning coercive affecting efforts. One CoP adopte...