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        <title><![CDATA[A Novel and Robust Approach for Iris Segmentation]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Iris segmentation is almost the most challenging part in iris recognition. Several robust algorithms in the recognition part have been developed in literature yet. In this paper, the authors focus...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Risk Assessment for Scheduling Acceleration]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Time-cost-trade-off is a known method to accelerate a construction project by using the CPM method. However, this method cannot be used solely in the contractor or owner's decision to accelerate...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Cognitive Control Channels: from Concept to Identification of Implementation Options]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Recent effort related to cognitive radio systems has lead to an in-depth analysis of context information management and exploitation based on a cognitive control channel for enhancement of...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Stochastic TCO Minimization for Video Transmission Over IP Networks]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[From the viewpoint of service operators the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for developing a communication service comprises from two parts; CAPital EXpenditure (CAPEX) and OPerational EXpenditure...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Software Level Green Computing for Large Scale Systems]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Energy conservation has become a critical issue in modern system electronic devices. Energy wastage in electronic devices occurs in both hardware and software components. Software drives the...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Understanding Farmers Information Communication Strategies for Managing Climate Risks in Rural Semi-Arid Areas, Tanzania]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Crop production risk caused by climate variability cannot be managed in the absence of climate information. Despite the use of various communication strategies by rural communities in Tanzania,...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Facilitating Grass-Root Ngo's Adoption of Information Systems and Information Communication Technologies]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Increasingly, Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are being employed to share, generate and analyze information. In response to their decreasing cost, an increase in accessibility,...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Green IT: A Study and Analysis of Environmental Impact of Social Networks and Search Engines]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Green IT is a hot topic today and will continue to be an important issue for several years to come and Social Networks and Search Engines too. The use of IT has exploded in several areas,...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[VMware and IBM Discuss the Benefits of Energy Efficiency and Green IT]]></title>
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        <title><![CDATA[Telvista Keeps the Money Flowing]]></title>
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        <title><![CDATA[Optimal Prediction Intervals for Future Order Statistics From Extreme Value Distributions]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Prediction intervals for future order statistics are widely used for reliability problems and other related problems. The determination of these intervals has been extensively investigated. But...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Green Computing is Smart Computing - A Survey]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The field of &quot;Green Technology&quot; encompasses a broad range of subjects from new energy generation techniques to the study of advanced materials to be used in the daily life. Green technology...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Rapid and Sustained Cost Management: The Winning Edge in Uncertain Times Podcast]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In this podcast, the presenters explain about &quot;The winning edge in uncertain times&quot;: rapid and sustained cost management. The presenters take a three-part look at how businesses transform struggle...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Keys to Building the Right Global Business Strategy Podcast]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[These footprints reflect five key dimensions for success in today's globally unified marketplace; talent, capital, resources, consumers and trade and innovation. In this podcast, the speakers...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[IT Services Firm Gains New Business Opportunities Through Partner Initiative]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[DMI sought to enhance its position in the IT market as an expert advisor on Microsoft technologies. To achieve these business successes and industry honors, DMI has for years provided customers...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[A Method of Risk Assessment for Multi-Factor Authentication]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[User authentication refers to user identification based on something a user knows, something a user has, something a user is or something the user does; it can also take place based on a...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[A Perspective Analysis of Green IT]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The unabated thirst for energy is a recurring story in news headlines every day. Some developing nations are even struggling to meet up their power requirements. Energy consumption however has...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Resource Management in Distributed System]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Resource management in distributed environment is concerned with a system in which the main aim is to make sure that a user/client can access the remote resources with as much ease as it can...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Sourcing for Agile]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[This paper will look at traditional and contemporary practices, reflect on the changing dynamics of the customer/supplier relationship, and identify priorities for evolving the role of procurement...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[A Semiring-Based Framework for Fair Resources Allocation]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In this paper a general framework (based on soft constraints) to model and solve the fair allocation problem is proposed. The authors' formal approach allows to model different allocation...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Avis Europe Improves Business Agility and Cost Control With Real-Time Project Planning]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Avis Europe is the leading car rental company, in a difficult economic environment, Avis needed to achieve better resource utilisation and reduce costs. However, a lack of transparency of costs...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Using Randomized Caches in Probabilistic Real-Time Systems]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[While hardware caches are generally effective at improving application performance, they greatly complicate performance prediction. Slight changes in memory layout or data access patterns can lead...]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[Risk management is a continuous process that could endanger the objectives of a project or application. Risks are handled to reduce and avoid threats effects on the objectives of the project. The...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Efficient Delay-Tolerant Particle Filtering]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[This paper proposes a novel framework for delay-tolerant particle filtering that is computationally efficient and has limited memory requirements. Within this framework the informativeness of a...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Failure Risk Exposure based Test Prioritization for Sequential Non-Iterative System]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[To test a system a large number of test cases are required to be generated and applied to the candidate system. In most of the methodologies the testing phase is placed at the end of development...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Robust CDN Replica Placement Techniques]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Creating replicas of frequently accessed data objects across a read-intensive Content Delivery Network (CDN) can result in reduced user response time. Because CDNs often operate under volatile...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[IT Priorities 2012 Executive Summary - United States]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[IT organizations around the world look to the United States for emerging trends in IT. It makes sense too. Many, if not most of the new technologies in IT are created there. With virtualization,...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[IT Priorities 2012 - United States]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[IT organizations around the world look to the United States for emerging trends in IT. It makes sense too. Many, if not most of the new technologies in IT are created there. With virtualization,...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Globalization of Korean IT Companies: Opportunities and Strategies]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The main focus of this paper is to analyze the current IT industry and to provide relevant strategies for Korean IT companies (such as Samsung SDS and LG CNS et al.,) which want to go global. This...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Managing User Requirement Risks - An Exploratory Study of IS Projects From the Views of Outsourcing Teams]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Requirement risk is often identified as a reason contributing to Information Systems Development (ISD) project failure but has not been adequately explored in the IS literature. Requirement risk...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Examining IT Outsourcing Service Continuance: An Expectation-Confirmation Model]]></title>
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