NASA’s Earth Observing System (EOS) Program is now collecting unprecedented volumes of data (nearly one petabyte/year) to aid the nation in its understanding of the Earth’s near and long-term climate processes. These data are a national resource that must be carefully preserved to maximize the nation’s return on the EOS Program. To address this need NASA has initiated the development of a Remot...

Organizational routines and capabilities have become key constructs not only in evolutionary economics, but more recently also in business administration, specifically strategic management. The main purpose of this paper is to develop an integrative routinization model. For this purpose, we discuss organizational routines, capabilities and performance of a firm’s routionization process. We argu...

A 2D finite-differences time-domain full-wave code is used to simulate the measurements of plasma filaments with fixed frequency O-mode reflectometry. The plasma is modeled by a linear slab plasma plus a Gaussian perturbation propagating in a direction that can vary from poloidal to radial. The plasma background density gradient is chosen in agreement with the steep edge transport barrier of H-...

One Sunday in Southern California, with Santa Ana winds blowing, the tinder dry, and the temperature hot, a forest fire broke out that rapidly became uncontained. Then six more large fires broke out. Soon homes were consumed. The entire city of San Diego seemed engulfed in an uncontained firestorm. Two different emergent groups from a radio station and an internet software development firm comp...

The adoption of building information modeling (BIM) is increasing in the construction industry. However, quantity surveyors are slow in adoption compared to other professions due to lack of awareness of the BIM’s potential in their profession. It is still unclear on how BIM application can enhance quantity surveyors’ work performance and project performance. The aim of this research is to ident...

1 At the time this work was performed, Maria Corsi was a Research and Development Agent at CANMET-Energy Technology Centre, Natural Resources Canada. ABSTRACT The evolving capabilities of Building Energy Management Systems (BEMS) offer new opportunities to automate some parts of the commissioning process and can generate benefits over the entire life of a building. These benefits include a redu...

Over the past decade numerous architecture description languages (ADLs) and tools have been developed [2]. Each has certain strengths, and each tends to work in isolation. A desirable goal is to find ways to combine the capabilities so that new architecture development environments can be easily developed by combining existing building blocks for architectural description, analysis, code genera...

In this study, we examine the role of information technology (IT) in improving organizational agility and firm performance from the perspectives of the resource-picking and capability-building mechanisms of rent creation, and the hierarchy of dynamic capabilities. We divide IT capabilities into IT exploration capability, which corresponds to the resource-picking phase, and IT exploitation capab...

Recent research into the development of organizational capability, has focused either upon particular aspects of the development process (e.g. learning, routinization, heuristics, bricolage) or on individual capabilities (e.g. new product development, project management, internationalization, acquisitions). Limited attention has been given to how firms create new systems of capabilities despite...