Organizational design affects performance via coupled search processes. At low frequency, managers search for appropriate organizational designs. At higher frequency, managers use designs to search for high-performing operational choices. The two searches are coupled: organizational design molds the choice among operational alternatives, and performance feedback from operational choices shapes ...

Voyage optimization is a technology to predict the ship performance in various sea states and current conditions, and based on the performance of the ship to assist ship masters in route selection. The targets of increasing energy efficiency and reducing Green House Gas (GHG) emission in the shipping industry can be achieved by voyage optimization. However, the practical and accurate prediction...

joule-thomson cooling systems are used in refrigeration processes such as cryogenic gas liquefaction. although extensive studies have been carried out by researchers, most of them include cryogenic heat exchangers and their associated fields. in the current study, an attempt was made to indicate the effect of using inappropriate operational conditions in a cryogenic joule-thomson cooling system...

Prior knowledge in the domain of mathematics can sometimes interfere with learning and performance in that domain. One of the best examples of this phenomenon is in students' difficulties solving equations with operations on both sides of the equal sign. Elementary school children in the U.S. typically acquire incorrect, operational schemata rather than correct, relational schemata for interpre...

This study explores how information technology, operating cost, and operational efficiency are related to each other in banking. It is well known that the adoption of information technology can reduce organizational operating cost and improve operational efficiency. However, the intuitive impacts should be evaluated in greater detail. This paper proposes a framework for measuring the performanc...

Building on multiple theoretical perspectives, we examined how organizational culture moderates the association of different dimensions of Internet-enabled Supply Chain Integration (i.e., online information integration and operational coordination) and firm performance (i.e., customer service and financial performance). We tested hypotheses using survey data from senior executives in China. Our...

The increasing use of micro-blogs as marketing tools has increased the research attention on the usage and performance of enterprise micro-blogs. Based on research on information system (IS) usage and the resource-based view (RBV) theory, this study develops a model to measure the business value of enterprise micro-blogs. The model consists of metrics on micro-blog usage, micro-blog operational...

in this paper an adaptive pid controller for wind energy conversion systems (wecs) has been developed. theadaptation technique applied to this controller is based on reinforcement learning (rl) theory. nonlinearcharacteristics of wind variations as plant input, wind turbine structure and generator operational behaviordemand for high quality adaptive controller to ensure both robust stability an...

This paper presents an empirical investigation into the influence of enterpriselevel software package implementation on operational performance. It seeks to determine whether, as some suggest, the implementation of these technologies leads to convergence in operational performance. The potential for performance convergence is important because if it occurs, then the use of packaged software app...

The technique of operational analysis (OA) is used in the study of systems performance, mainly for estimating mean values of various measures of interest, such as, number of jobs at a device and response times. The basic principles of operational analysis allow errors in assumptions to be quantified over a time period. The assumptions which are used to derive the operational analysis relationsh...