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- A Non-Programming Introduction to Computer Science Via NLP, IR, and AI
- Algorithmic concepts and programming techniques from computer science are very useful to researchers in natural language processing. This paper describes a new Cornell University course serving as a non-programming introduction to computer science, with natural language processing and information retrieval forming a crucial part of the syllabus.
- Tags: Natural Language Processing, Computer Science, Cornell University, Computer, Productivity
- White papers
- The Human Capital "Impact" on E-Business: The Case of Encyclopedia Britannica
- This case study gives an overview of the 'new economy' before undertaking a detailed case study of how Encyclopedia Britannica has adjusted its operations to reflect the trend towards the provision of information via the internet and CD Rom. This study looks at how the development of information technology impacts...
- Tags: Cornell University, E-business, Human Capital, Knowledge Management, Strategy, Internet, Business Intelligence, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Data Management
- Case studies
- Crafting a Human Resource Strategy to Foster Organizational Agility: A Case Study
- A decade ago, the CEO of Albert Einstein Healthcare Network AEHN, anticipating a tumultuous and largely unpredictable period in its industry, undertook to convert this organization from one that was basically stable and complacent to one that was agile, "nimble, and change-hardy". This case study briefly addresses AEHN's approaches to...
- Tags: Cornell University, Agility, Organizational Structure, Human Resources
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- Human Resource Practices, Knowledge-Creation Capability and Performance in High Technology Firms
- This study examines the relationship among key HR practices (i.e., effective acquisition, employee-development, commitment-building, and networking practices), three dimensions of knowledge-creation capability (human capital, employee motivation, and information combination and exchange), and firm performance. Results from a sample of 78 high-technology firms showed that the three dimensions of knowledge creation...
- Tags: Human Resources, Performance, Cornell University, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales
- Case studies
- Cornell University Deploys Oracle Calendar for Cost-Effective, Cross-Platform Calendaring and Scheduling
- In response to campus demand for shared calendaring and scheduling (C&S) services in April 1998, Cornell University embarked on a process to select, a calendaring system that would best meet the needs of the Cornell community. Oracle Calendar, a component of Oracle Collaboration Suite, was viewed as a mature, well...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Cornell University, Enterprise Software, Software
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- SumTotal System Case Study: Cornell University
- Consisting of 180 employees, Cornell University's Division of Financial Affairs houses the university's payroll, accounting and procurement functions, servicing tens of thousands of university students and employees. Approximately six years ago, the Division's Customer Training and Development team began to require training automation when the number of employees that needed...
- Tags: SumTotal Systems, Training, Cornell University, Workforce Management, Purchasing & Procurement, Human Resources, Business Operations
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- Embedded Real Time Linux Kernel Design Using Game Theory and Control Logic
- This paper describes a distributed hybrid architecture that imparts autonomous intelligence capabilities of the "Perception-decision-action" to an ALV Autonomous Landing Vehicle control unit. The system is shown to degenerate to a remote thread execution mechanism of a real-time operating Linux system where the kernel instantiation is control strategy dependent. This...
- Tags: Game, Linux Kernel, Cornell University, Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software
- White papers
- Semi-Oblivious Routing: Lower Bounds
- This paper initiates the study of semi-oblivious routing; a relaxation of oblivious routing which is first introduced by Racke and led to many subsequent improvements and applications. In semi-oblivious routing like oblivious routing, the algorithm should select only a polynomial number of paths between the source and the sink of...
- Tags: Cornell University, Sink, Engineering, Semiconductors, Hardware
- White papers 2008-01-01
- On the Scalability of Cooperative Time Synchronization in Pulse-Connected Networks
- The problem of time synchronization in dense wireless networks is considered. Well established synchronization techniques suffer from an inherent scalability problem in that synchronization errors grow with an increasing number of hops across the network. In this work, a model for communication in wireless networks is first developed, and then...
- Tags: Network, Scalability, Cornell University, Networking, Wi-Fi, Wireless
- White papers 2006-02-12
- The Power of Indirection: Achieving Multicast Scalability by Mapping Groups to Regional Underlays
- Reliable multicast is a powerful primitive, useful for data replication, event notification (publish-subscribe), fault-tolerance and other purposes. Yet many of the most interesting applications give rise to huge numbers of heavily overlapping groups, some of which may be large. Existing multicast systems scale poorly in one or both respects. This...
- Tags: Group, Scalability, Cornell University, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- White papers 2005-11-25
- Optimizing Power Consumption in Large Scale Storage Systems
- Data centers are the backend for a large number of services that are taken for granted today. A significant fraction of the total cost of ownership of these large-scale storage systems is the cost of keeping hundreds of thousands of disks spinning. This paper presents a simple idea that allows...
- Tags: Power Consumption, Cornell University, Storage System, Data Centers, Storage, Storage Management, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2007-04-10
- The Price of Stability for Network Design With Fair Cost Allocation
- Network design is a fundamental problem for which it is important to understand the effects of strategic behavior. Given a collection of self-interested agents who want to form a network connecting certain endpoints, the set of stable solutions - the Nash equilibria - may look quite different from the centrally...
- Tags: Stability, Network, Allocation, Cornell University, Network Design, Networking, Network Administration
- White papers 2007-01-01
- Skype Journal Briefing Book
- This presentation presents the Skype Journal briefing book.
- Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., Cornell University
- Presentations 2006-10-28
- SENSTRAC: Scalable Querying of SENSor Networks From Mobile Platforms Using TRACking-Style Queries
- Future applications running on mobile platforms will sometimes need to query sensors and track sensor data over time. This paper uses the publish-subscribe paradigm as a natural solution to querying sensors from mobile platforms, and proposes a scalable approach to implement publish-subscribe, driven by the querying application. The approach is...
- Tags: Mobile, Network, Sensor, Cornell University, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing
- White papers 2006-08-10
- Scaling IP Routing With the Core Router-Integrated Overlay
- IP routing scalability is based on hierarchical routing, which requires that the IP address hierarchy be aligned with the physical topology. Both site multi-homing and switching ISPs without renumbering break this alignment, resulting in large routing tables. This paper presents CRIO: a new approach to IP scalability for both global...
- Tags: Router, Topology, Scalability, IP, Cornell University, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Network Technology, Routers & Switches, Networking, Internet
- White papers 2006-07-18
- Termite: A Swarm Intelligent Routing Algorithm for Mobile Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks
- A biologically inspired algorithm named Termite is presented. Termite directly addresses the problem of routing in the presence of a dynamic network topology. In the Termite algorithm, network status information is embedded in the network through the passage of packets. Probabilistic routing decisions are based on this information such that...
- Tags: Algorithm, Mobile, Network, Cornell University, Wireless, Termite, Engineering, Networking
- White papers 2006-01-15
- Certified In-Lined Reference Monitoring on .NET
- Mobile is an extension of the .NET Common Intermediate Language that supports certified In-Lined Reference Monitoring. Mobile programs have the useful property that if they are well-typed with respect to a declared security policy, then they are guaranteed not to violate that security policy when executed. Thus, when an In-Lined...
- Tags: Microsoft .NET, Mobile, Security Policy, Monitoring, Cornell University, Advertising & Promotion, Security, Marketing
- White papers 2005-11-11
- Network Design and Management With Strategic Agents
- Network design is a fundamental problem for which it is important to understand the effects of strategic behavior. Given a collection of self-interested agents who want to form a network connecting certain endpoints, the set of stable solutions the Nash equilibria may look quite different from the centrally enforced optimum....
- Tags: Network, Agent, Cornell University, Network Design, Real Estate, Networking, Network Administration, Business Operations
- White papers 2005-07-01
- The Indian Call Centre Industry: National Benchmarking Report Strategy, HR Practices, & Performance
- The dramatic growth of the call center industry is a world-wide phenomenon, fueled by advances in information technologies and the precipitous decline in the costs of voice and data transmission over the last two decades. As part of this global industry, call centres in India have experienced spectacular growth in...
- Tags: Human Resources, Performance, Benchmarking, Industry, Cornell University, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2005-07-01
- Interference-Aware IEEE 802.16 WiMax Mesh Networks
- The IEEE 802.16 WiMax standard provides a mechanism for creating multi-hop mesh, which can be deployed as a high speed wide-area wireless network. To realize the full potential of such high-speed IEEE 802.16 mesh networks, two efficient wireless radio resource allocation extensions were developed. The objective of this paper is...
- Tags: Aware, Network, IEEE 802.16, Cornell University, WiMAX, Mesh Networking, Wireless, Wi-Fi, Networking
- White papers 2005-05-29
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