beside developing strategies, success of organizations depends on alignment of strategies. one of the important functional areas in which companies develop strategies is operation. alignment of operation strategies is called horizontal alignment. the aim of this article is to present a model for alignment of operation strategies. to this end, an original algorithm has been presented by which ho...

preset study is conducted to evaluate strategic alignment between business and it in the view of organizational managers. present study has used luftman’s model on strategic alignment maturity and gartlen & shenks’ factors to promote alignment in order to evaluate alignment. research statistical population consists of managers at high education planning and research institute. no sampling is co...

In flocking, a swarm of robots moves cohesively in a common direction. Traditionally, flocking is realized using two main control rules: proximal control, which controls the cohesion of the swarm using local range-and bearing information about neighboring robots; and alignment control, which allows the robots to align in a common direction and uses more elaborate sensing mechanisms to obtain th...

Motion trajectory contains plentiful of motion information which is useful for motion analysis in many tasks. Motion recognition via trajectory is important in motion analysis for many human and robotic tasks. An effective descriptor for motion trajectories plays an important role in the recognition algorithm. In this paper, we propose a new descriptor with a modified data alignment method for ...

Algorithms, Protocols and Systems for Remote Observation Using Networked Robotic Cameras. (May 2008) Ni Qin, B.S., Wuhan University; M.C.S., University of Mississippi Medical Center; M.S., Texas A&M University Chair of Advisory Committee: Dr. Dezhen Song Emerging advances in robotic cameras, long-range wireless networking, and distributed sensors make feasible a new class of hybrid teleoperated...

We study the cohesive coordinated collective motion of a group of mobile autonomous robots. We use virtual interactions between robots implemented via proximal control, a method that allows the robots to reach a stable formation using virtual potential functions (Turgut et al., 2008; Ferrante et al., 2011). The alignment component can be seen as a mechanism for directional information transfer ...

PURPOSE To determine planning target volume margins for prostate intensity-modulated radiotherapy based on inter- and intrafraction motion using four daily localization techniques: three-point skin mark alignment, volumetric imaging with bony landmark registration, volumetric imaging with implanted fiducial marker registration, and implanted electromagnetic transponders (beacons) detection. M...

Flocking is an self-organized behavior that is widely observed in nature from simple organisms such as crickets and locusts to more complex ones such as birds and quadruplets. It can be defined as the coherent and aligned motion of a group of animals at a certain direction. Coherence is the tendency of the individuals to stay together and alignment is a consequence of minimizing collisions at t...

In this paper, the problem of recovering a highresolution frame from a sequence of low-resolution frames is considered. High-resolution reconstruction process highly depends on image registration step. Typical resolution enhancement techniques use global motion estimation technique. However, in general, video frames cannot be related through global motion due to the arbitrary individual pixel m...