The Value Of Events

Author : Erik Lundberg,John Armbrecht,Tommy D. Andersson,Donald Getz
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317193241

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The Value of Events by Erik Lundberg,John Armbrecht,Tommy D. Andersson,Donald Getz Pdf

The Value of Events fills an important niche in the literature on events, being the first book to comprehensively deal with the subject of value creation and measurement, as opposed to impact assessment and programme evaluation. Value creation and measurement is often done routinely from specific perspectives such as tourism, event management, corporate marketing, or customer satisfaction. However, there exist a number of discourses on value and evaluation that have not yet received adequate attention, including the justification of governmental intervention and the costs and benefits of hosting major events. This edited book, written by an international group of academics with expertise in the relevant fields of events, tourism, sport and culture, offers new insight into events and their relationship to sustainability, social responsibility, cultural and social value. Fostering debate in the context of conceptual thinking, philosophising, multiple stakeholder perspectives and interdisciplinary approaches, it challenges the events industry, students, policy-makers and strategists with new perspectives on value, with implications for impact forecasting and assessment. This is a book for all students pursuing degrees in fields where planned events are important topics, while being of great interest to researchers, policy-makers, evaluators and organisers/managers of planned events. Within a subject in need of further attention, The Value of Events offers the most comprehensive overview of event value to date.

Author : Michael L. Commons,James E. Mazur,John A. Nevin,Howard Rachlin
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-19
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317838074

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The Effect of Delay and of Intervening Events on Reinforcement Value by Michael L. Commons,James E. Mazur,John A. Nevin,Howard Rachlin Pdf

First published in 1986. This is Volume V of six in a series on Quantitative Analyses of Behavior. Quantitative analysis now generally refers to the fact that theoretical issues are represented by quantitative models. An analysis is not a matter of fitting arbitrary functions to data points. The volumes in the present series have been written for behavioral scientists. Those concerned with issues in the study of how behavior is acquired and then allocated in various environments-biologists, psychologists, economists, anthropologists, and other researchers, as well as graduate students and advanced undergraduates in those areas-should find volumes in this series to be state-of the-art readers and reference works. Each volume of the series examines a particular topic that has been discussed at the annual Symposium on Quantitative Analyses of Behavior held at Harvard University. This volume, V, addresses the topic of how reinforcement value is affected by delay and intervening events. Self-control studies are also presented and discussed.

Author : Andrew Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317656357

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Events in the City by Andrew Smith Pdf

Cities are staging more events than ever. Within this macro-trend, there is another less acknowledged trend: more events are being staged in public spaces. Some events have always been staged in parks, streets and squares, but in recent years events have been taken out of traditional venues and staged in prominent urban spaces. This is favoured by organisers seeking more memorable and more spectacular events, but also by authorities who want to animate urban space and make it more visible. This book explains these trends and outlines the implications for public spaces. Events play a positive role in our cities, but turning public spaces into venues is often controversial. Events can denigrate as well as animate city space; they are part of the commercialisation, privatisation and securitisation of public space noted by commentators in recent years. The book focuses on examples from London in particular, but it also covers a range of other cities from the developed world. Events at different scales are addressed and, there is dedicated coverage of sports events and cultural events. This topical and timely volume provides valuable material for higher level students, researchers and academics from events studies, urban studies and development studies.

Author : Tiziana Margaria,Bernhard Steffen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-26
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783662452318

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Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification and Validation. Specialized Techniques and Applications by Tiziana Margaria,Bernhard Steffen Pdf

The two-volume set LNCS 8802 and LNCS 8803 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification and Validation, ISoLA 2014, held in Imperial, Corfu, Greece, in October 2014. The total of 67 full papers was carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the proceedings. Featuring a track introduction to each section, the papers are organized in topical sections named: evolving critical systems; rigorous engineering of autonomic ensembles; automata learning; formal methods and analysis in software product line engineering; model-based code generators and compilers; engineering virtualized systems; statistical model checking; risk-based testing; medical cyber-physical systems; scientific workflows; evaluation and reproducibility of program analysis; processes and data integration in the networked healthcare; semantic heterogeneity in the formal development of complex systems. In addition, part I contains a tutorial on automata learning in practice; as well as the preliminary manifesto to the LNCS Transactions on the Foundations for Mastering Change with several position papers. Part II contains information on the industrial track and the doctoral symposium and poster session.

Author : Douglas R. Mauro,Kevin James Schmidt,Kevin J. Schmidt
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0596000200

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Essential SNMP by Douglas R. Mauro,Kevin James Schmidt,Kevin J. Schmidt Pdf

A practical introduction to SNMP for system network administrators. Starts with the basics of SNMP, how it works and provides the technical background to use it effectively.

Author : Laura Macchi,Maria Bagassi,Riccardo Viale
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780262034081

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Cognitive Unconscious and Human Rationality by Laura Macchi,Maria Bagassi,Riccardo Viale Pdf

Examining the role of implicit, unconscious thinking on reasoning, decision making, problem solving, creativity, and its neurocognitive basis, for a genuinely psychological conception of rationality. This volume contributes to a current debate within the psychology of thought that has wide implications for our ideas about creativity, decision making, and economic behavior. The essays focus on the role of implicit, unconscious thinking in creativity and problem solving, the interaction of intuition and analytic thinking, and the relationship between communicative heuristics and thought. The analyses move beyond the conventional conception of mind informed by extra-psychological theoretical models toward a genuinely psychological conception of rationality—a rationality no longer limited to conscious, explicit thought, but able to exploit the intentional implicit level. The contributors consider a new conception of human rationality that must cope with the uncertainty of the real world; the implications of abandoning the normative model of classic logic and adopting a probabilistic approach instead; the argumentative and linguistic aspects of reasoning; and the role of implicit thought in reasoning, creativity, and its neurological base. Contributors Maria Bagassi, Linden J. Ball, Jean Baratgin, Aron K. Barbey, Tilmann Betsch, Eric Billaut, Jean-François Bonnefon, Pierre Bonnier, Shira Elqayam, Keith Frankish, Gerd Gigerenzer, Ken Gilhooly, Denis Hilton, Anna Lang, Stefanie Lindow, Laura Macchi, Hugo Mercier, Giuseppe Mosconi, Ian R. Newman, Mike Oaksford, David Over, Guy Politzer, Johannes Ritter, Steven A. Sloman, Edward J. N. Stupple, Ron Sun, Nicole H. Therriault, Valerie A. Thompson, Emmanuel Trouche-Raymond, Riccardo Viale

Author : Whei-Jen Chen,Rajeev Kamath,Alexander Kelly,Hector H. Diaz Lopez,Matthew Roberts,Yee Pin Yheng,IBM Redbooks
Publisher : IBM Redbooks
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-03
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780738441184

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Systems of Insight for Digital Transformation: Using IBM Operational Decision Manager Advanced and Predictive Analytics by Whei-Jen Chen,Rajeev Kamath,Alexander Kelly,Hector H. Diaz Lopez,Matthew Roberts,Yee Pin Yheng,IBM Redbooks Pdf

Systems of record (SORs) are engines that generates value for your business. Systems of engagement (SOE) are always evolving and generating new customer-centric experiences and new opportunities to capitalize on the value in the systems of record. The highest value is gained when systems of record and systems of engagement are brought together to deliver insight. Systems of insight (SOI) monitor and analyze what is going on with various behaviors in the systems of engagement and information being stored or transacted in the systems of record. SOIs seek new opportunities, risks, and operational behavior that needs to be reported or have action taken to optimize business outcomes. Systems of insight are at the core of the Digital Experience, which tries to derive insights from the enormous amount of data generated by automated processes and customer interactions. Systems of Insight can also provide the ability to apply analytics and rules to real-time data as it flows within, throughout, and beyond the enterprise (applications, databases, mobile, social, Internet of Things) to gain the wanted insight. Deriving this insight is a key step toward being able to make the best decisions and take the most appropriate actions. Examples of such actions are to improve the number of satisfied clients, identify clients at risk of leaving and incentivize them to stay loyal, identify patterns of risk or fraudulent behavior and take action to minimize it as early as possible, and detect patterns of behavior in operational systems and transportation that lead to failures, delays, and maintenance and take early action to minimize risks and costs. IBM® Operational Decision Manager is a decision management platform that provides capabilities that support both event-driven insight patterns, and business-rule-driven scenarios. It also can easily be used in combination with other IBM Analytics solutions, as the detailed examples will show. IBM Operational Decision Manager Advanced, along with complementary IBM software offerings that also provide capability for systems of insight, provides a way to deliver the greatest value to your customers and your business. IBM Operational Decision Manager Advanced brings together data from different sources to recognize meaningful trends and patterns. It empowers business users to define, manage, and automate repeatable operational decisions. As a result, organizations can create and shape customer-centric business moments. This IBM Redbooks® publication explains the key concepts of systems of insight and how to implement a system of insight solution with examples. It is intended for IT architects and professionals who are responsible for implementing a systems of insights solution requiring event-based context pattern detection and deterministic decision services to enhance other analytics solution components with IBM Operational Decision Manager Advanced.

Author : J. David Velleman
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781783741670

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Beyond Price by J. David Velleman Pdf

In nine lively essays, bioethicist J. David Velleman challenges the prevailing consensus about assisted suicide and reproductive technology, articulating an original approach to the ethics of creating and ending human lives. He argues that assistance in dying is appropriate only at the point where talk of suicide is not, and he raises moral objections to anonymous donor conception. In their place, Velleman champions a morality of valuing personhood over happiness in making end-of-life decisions, and respecting the personhood of future children in making decisions about procreation. These controversial views are defended with philosophical rigor while remaining accessible to the general reader. Written over Velleman's 30 years of undergraduate teaching in bioethics, the essays have never before been collected and made available to a non-academic audience. They will open new lines of debate on issues of intense public interest.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 922 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : MINN:31951D00546928G

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Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ivan Stojmenovic,Ruppa K. Thulasiram,Laurence T. Yang,Weijia Jia,Minyi Guo,Rodrigo Fernandes de Mello
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 1000 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2007-08-22
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540747420

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Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications by Ivan Stojmenovic,Ruppa K. Thulasiram,Laurence T. Yang,Weijia Jia,Minyi Guo,Rodrigo Fernandes de Mello Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications, ISPA 2007, held in Niagara Falls, Canada, in August 2007. The 83 revised full papers presented together with three keynote are cover algorithms and applications, architectures and systems, datamining and databases, fault tolerance and security, middleware and cooperative computing, networks, as well as software and languages.

Author : Jean-Yves Le Boudec
Publisher : EPFL Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-13
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9782940222407

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Performance Evaluation of Computer and Communication Systems by Jean-Yves Le Boudec Pdf

Performance evaluation is a critical stage of software- and hardware-system development that every computer engineer and scientist should master. Although complex Рrequiring skills in mathematics, measurement techniques and simulation Рperformance evaluation is primarily an art; indeed, the most difficult stage in a performance analysis is defining the approach: once you know what to do, it is less difficult to define a plan of attack with your familiar software tools. We present a set of topics, which we believe should be part of every engineer's intellectual toolkit. This includes the statistical exploitation of numerical results in an efficient and ethical way, for example: how to summarize variability or fairness; what transient removal in a simulation is; and how to make predictions from a time series. We also present well-known performance patterns, which helps to quickly bring the engineer to the main issues. For queuing theory, we focus on a subset of very useful results, such as operational laws. A highlight of the book is the development of Palm calculus, also called “the importance of the viewpoint,” which is central to queuing theory. Indeed, this topic has so many applications to simulation and to system analysis in general that it is a very good time investment. This book began as a set of lecture notes for a course given at EPFL.

Author : Zhixiang Hou
Publisher : Trans Tech Publications Ltd
Page : 1454 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-02
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783038135272

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Measuring Technology and Mechatronics Automation by Zhixiang Hou Pdf

Volume is indexed by Thomson Reuters CPCI-S (WoS). This special collection of over 292 peer-reviewed papers reflects the success of a high-level international forum for scientists, engineers, and educators which was aimed at presenting a state-of-the-art appreciation of measuring technology and mechatronics, automation research and their applications in diverse fields.

Author : Uri Abraham
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-27
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781000124743

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Models for Concurrency by Uri Abraham Pdf

Concurrent systems are generally understood in terms of behavioral notions. Models for Concurrency analyzes the subject in terms of events and their temporal relationship rather than on global states. It presents a comprehensive analysis of model theory applied to concurrent protocols, and seeks to provide a theory of concurrency that is both intuitively appealing and rigorously based on mathematical foundations. The book is divided into three main sections. The first introduces the required concepts from model theory, details the structures that are used to model concurrency, gives an in-depth description and explanation of the semantics of a simple language that allows concurrent execution of sequential programs, and deals with the question of resolving executions into higher-level and lower-level granularities. The second and third sections apply the theory developed to practical examples, and an exposition of the producer/consumer problem with details of two solutions is given. The author also deals with message passing, as opposed to shared memory.

Author : Jorge Dias De Deus,P Sa,Mario Pimenta,Joao Seixas
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1997-05-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789814546096

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Multiparticle Dynamics - Proceedings Of The Xxvi International Symposium by Jorge Dias De Deus,P Sa,Mario Pimenta,Joao Seixas Pdf

This volume discusses the most recent results on multiparticle production. These include the differences between quark and gluon jets from LEP at CERN, the search for the disoriented chiral condensate at Fermilab, the existence (or not) of the quark-gluon plasma and the large rapidity gaps in Hera physics. In many different experimental situations, the subject of multiparticle dynamics remains alive.Main speakers: J Antos, B J May, J D Bjorken, P Sondereger, I Tserruya, R C Hwa, R Ugoccioni, A Giovannini, C Grupen, A de Angelis, G Thompson, J Kwiecinski, B Andersson.

Author : Lingyu Wang,Basit Shafiq
Publisher : Springer
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-10
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642392566

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Data and Applications Security and Privacy XXVII by Lingyu Wang,Basit Shafiq Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 27th IFIP WG 11.3 International Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy, DBSec 2013, held in Newark, NJ, USA in July 2013. The 16 revised full and 6 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 45 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on privacy, access control, cloud computing, data outsourcing, and mobile computing.