Content-based routing realized through static networksof brokers usually exhibit nice performance when sub-scribers with similar interest are physically close to eachother (e.g. in the same LAN, domain or in the same ge-ographical area) and connected to a broker which is alsonearby. If these subscribers are dispersed on the Inter-net, benefits of such routing strategy si...

This paper investigates how the control benefits of a broker’s structural position are constrained by the perceived quality of actors a broker may represent in an exchange. I propose that brokers prefer to represent high quality actors but also that the value an actor places on representation is inversely related to the actor’s perceived quality. This tension implies that neither the actors tha...

This study considers the importance of comprehensive pipeline network plans with exploring determinants vertical integration in Japan’s natural gas distribution utilities from perspective transaction cost economics. industry is reliant on imported liquefied (LNG) that normally requires regasification prior to consumption. Unbundling has not been enforced and while some local purchase via pipeli...

This paper describes an information broker capable of retrieving texts from the WWWeb by using con-textual pointers. The broker is a client for TextNet, a text-based knowledge base using WordNet as a lexical backbone and a contextual inference scheme motivated by abductive semantic connectivity. The ability to obtain relevant information from the web is determined by a combination of (1) the te...

Grid computing is a relatively new and promising research area. Many problems regarding its deployment are still been studied and are not clearly solved yet. Scheduling on the grid is particular challenging since new aspects must be taken into account, such as grid size (which can be huge), heterogeneity of resources and their ownership by different entities. Globus Toolkit, perhaps the most su...

Children and young people from migrated families often learn host languages faster than their parents might do, very ages they help parents, or community members by translating interpreting, known as child language brokering (CLB). Language brokers need to mediate with different in contexts are more likely become aware of the status use contact other non-brokers a migrant background. This artic...

Background: A growing literature focuses on the roles of brokers, intermediaries, and boundary spanners (BIBS) in addressing challenges transferring research evidence between practice or policy communities. Aims objectives: In this systematic review, we examined two questions: (1) where, how, when are different BIBS terms (broker, intermediary, spanner) used? (2) which get defined, these who wh...

This paper presents research on how knowledge brokers attempt to translate opaque algorithmic predictions. The is based a 31-month ethnographic study of the implementation learning algorithm by Dutch police predict occurrence crime incidents and offers one first empirical accounts brokers. We studied group intelligence officers, who were tasked with brokering between machine community user tran...

The FDA is trying to decide how to implement a new law by January 1, 2015, that requires manufacturers, wholesalers, and pharmacies to trace drug products as they move through the distribution chain. A degree of turmoil appears likely to result.

Parties rely on brokers to win elections in much of the developing world. How do parties use compensation motivate these grassroots agents? often decentralize broker payment decisions local party elites. In addition helping their elections, elites seek personal career advancement. Because typically brokers’ support advance, they have an incentive payments strengthen ties brokers. Using a multiw...