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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Decentralized decision-making"”.
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Problems in decentralized decision making and computation
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1985.
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Decentralized decision making in a hypothesis testing environment
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1990.
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Impact of decentralized decision making on access to cholera treatment in Haiti
… an affected population. As a result of this decentralized decision-making environment, individuals’ access to facility resources may suffer in comparison to a hypothetical system in which a single planner locates the facilities to optimize access for all. Furthermore, due to the unanticipated …
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Decentralized Decision Making and Information Sharing in a Team of Autonomous Mobile Agents
<p>In an attempt to realize decentralized cooperation and coordination in a heterogeneousteam of autonomous mobile agents, we have proposed a platform to model many practicalissues encountered in the process. The system includes an unexplored environment and ateam of agents with different …
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The impact of decentralized decision making on parental dissatisfaction in primary to secondary schools
… for various job categories, such as making decisions about budget allocations, textbook choice, and disciplinary policies. The index ranges between 1 and 5, with lower scores earned when responsibilities are fulfilled with more centralized individuals (such as a national education …
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Essays in organizational economics
… activities. It analyzes how the allocation of decision rights inside the organization impacts the quality of decision-making and the accuracy of information transmission when information is both soft and distributed inside the organization. The results show that, contrary to the common …
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The impact and dynamics of centralization in supply chain decision-making
… use one of two methods for their supply chain decision-making: centralized decision-making where supply chain decisions are made at the corporate level by the central supply chain department or decentralized decision-making where supply chain decisions are made at a business unit level. We …
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A Phenomenological Study on Collaborative Leadership from Assistant Principals' Perspective in High Schools
… might have a clearer description of decentralized decision-making in a school culture of collaborative leadership. Assistant principals can be viewed as model collaborative leaders that have a voice in reforms preparing students for 21st century learning. The researcher provided …
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From Contagion to Stability: Insights into Network Dynamics, Resilience and Stability
… science, whereas we rely on centralized and decentralized decision-making to design interventions that mitigate cascading failures and bolster network stability. First, the thesis focuses on optimizing resource allocation in networks undergoing contagion, developing novel resilience metrics …
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Propensity for participative decision making as an enabler of strategic agility
… structures that promote, collaboration, decentralized decision making, and employee empowerment. The practical implications of strategic decisions and choices must be understood by managers as the decisions managers make can have significant consequences for the organisations ability to …
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A hybrid approach for intersection management in V2X-enabled connected vehicles
… onboard sensors to improve AV perception and decision-making capabilities. In particular, this thesis proposes a hybrid centralized-decentralized management system, which maximizes the benefits of centralized control for strategic traffic management and the responsiveness of decentralized …
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Disembodied characters
… organisms - is able to perform remarkable feats, decentralized information processing among them. For instance, a swarm of bees is able to choose the best possible nesting cavity even though only a few of the individuals have any knowledge of the available sites, and no single bee has a full …
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Leveraging information technology to enable network centric engineer reconnaissance operations
… with a brief discussion on the implications for decentralized decision-making.
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Smart Charging of Electric Vehicles: Algorithms, Ramifications, and Hardware Development
… results of this dissertation show that simple, decentralized decision-making can be employed to effectively mitigate the grid impacts of EV charging with little-to-no compromise in benefits to EV owners. Consequently, this work represents a set of practical techniques to accelerate the …
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Three Essays on the Economics of Education
… causal effects. The first chapter examines how decentralized decision-making about schools' curricula affects student achievement. Decentralized decision-making in this context involves a tradeoff, since individual schools might be better able to target the needs of their student populations, …
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Social sector participatory development in Honduras: a process across institutions, culturesval and continents
… participatory project. Supporting factors were a decentralized decision-making structure, key host-country based employees and recognition that socialization and play cement relationships that are an essential base for participatory processes. Impeding factors were a lack of time and funds …
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A Framework for Agile Collaboration in Engineering
… concurrent resolution by interacting (though decentralized) stakeholders is required. The ensuing interactions are characterized predominantly by degree of interdependence and level of cooperation. Since tradeoffs, made within and among sub-systems, inherently contribute to system level …
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Wideband Spectrum Sensing and Signal Classification for Autonomous Self-Learning Cognitive Radios
… 3) unsupervised learning and reasoning and 4) decentralized decision-making. To this end, we implement a blind spectrum sensing method based on joint energy/cyclostationary detection. Optimal wideband energy detector is designed based on the Neyman-Pearson (NP) criterion which maximizes the …
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Bankfranchising als Organisationsform für die genossenschaftliche FinanzGruppe in Deutschland
… is characterized by decentralization. Local decision making ensures higher production and transaction costs within the network. The core authority of the organization lies in the local membership. Although continual adaptations of the corporate governance structure have been made, the …
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