Distributed database directory refresh strategies, commonly recommended for the X.500 standard, are defined and analytically modeled for variations on push/pull and total/differential under idealistic asynchronous control conditions. The models are implemented in a HyperCard-based tool called DirMod (for “directory model”). Experimental test results show important elapsed time performance trade...

Hardy’s lifetime spanned a time of intense technological, societal and sociological change. Pushed away from pollution-saturated urban centres, the wealthiest classes sought to create an idealistic version countryside. A novelist like Thomas Hardy contributed, albeit unwittingly, this myth-making; he also, in what one might call counter-text, fiercely criticised system producing commodification...

Fictitious play (FP) is a canonical game-theoretic learning algorithm which has been 4 deployed extensively in decentralized control scenarios. However standard treatments of FP, and of 5 many other game-theoretic models, assume rather idealistic conditions which rarely hold in realistic 6 control scenarios. This paper considers a broad class of best response learning algorithms, that we 7 refe...

W hy do people work? Economic theory generally, and the principal– agent model specifically, emphasize the role of material incentives. The standard assumption is that people work hard only if they receive monetary compensation for doing so. However, a substantial body of evidence contradicts the standard economic model. Many salaried academics, for example, work diligently year after year, con...

The article examines the museum object from theoretical and methodological positions of idealistic approach, placing Human Creator at center culture history. is characterized as a substance nature point view. Also, it designed in accordance with ideological content human consciousness having value view main ideas society’s worldview. An explanation phenomenon information provided article. proce...

The May 4th Movement of 1919 is a significant period ideological change in Chinese modern history, and it during this time that the enlightenment women made its debut. Led by intellectuals, they, from all angles, criticized traditional social structure, etiquette feudal family system hindering liberation development women, further discussed emancipation terms education, economic independence, s...