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Contribution to the cooperative management of conflictual spaces between autonomous vehicles
2017
The continuous increase in the number of vehicles has constantly led to innovation to improve the regulation of road traffic. Today, vehicle automation and inter-vehicular communication make possible a new approach: the autonomous and cooperative intersection (ACI) in which autonomous vehicles communicate to negotiate their right of way at the intersection. Theoretically more effective, safer and more economical than traditional approaches, its implementation and deployment constitute a scientific and technological challenge. In this paper, we propose several contributions supporting this development: a longitudinal and lateral vehicle control strategy designed to work with information disc…
Efficient techniques for energy saving in data center networks
2018
Data centers are constructed with a huge number of network devices to support the expanding cloud based services. These devices are used to achieve the highest performance in case of full utilization of the network. However, the peak capacity of the network is rarely reached. Consequently, many devices are set into idle state and cause a huge energy waste leading to a non-proportionality between the network load and the energy consumed. In this paper, we propose a new approach to improve the efficiency of data centers in terms of energy consumption. Our approach exploits the correlation in time of the inter-node communication traffic and some topological features to maximize energy saving w…
Diffusion of Drone Journalism: the Case of Finland, 2011-2020
2020
This article details Finnish news organizations’ adoption of drones for journalistic purposes from 2011 to 2020. The theoretical starting point of the article is Rogers’ (1962) diffusion of innovations theory, which explains how new ideas and technologies spread in societies. The main empirical data for the study were derived from a phone survey conducted among the 80 most popular newspapers in Finland. The findings reveal that drone journalism in Finland has already diffused from a few pioneering organizations to a large number of newsrooms, including regional, mid-sized newspapers. Most of the newspapers are either using in-house drones, buying commissioned images, or using both strategie…
BOOK REVIEW: MARQUES, T. & WIKFORSS, Å (EDS.), Shifting Concepts (Oxford University Press, 2020, 284 Pages).
2021
Abstract In this review I provide a brief analysis of the main features of the collective volume Shifting Concepts (Oxford University Press, 2020), edited by Teresa Marques and Asa Wikforss. The volume addresses several related topics, and it contains contributions from psychologists and philosophers. It deals with the topic of concept variation understood in a broad sense, for it tackles diachronic, contextual, interpersonal and even intrapersonal variation; besides, the second part of the book is devoted to the topic of concept revision and amelioration. I provide a brief description of the book and then I critically assess each of the contributions.
Website localization towards the Norwegian market : an analysis of American firm´s websites
2011
Masteroppgave i økonomi og administrasjon - Universitetet i Agder 2011 - Masteroppgave i informasjonssystemer- Universitetet i Agder 2011 This study is the first involving international firms and the localization of firms' websites for a Norwegian audience. In order to give the reader a better understanding of the topic, we first conducted a literature review where we identified five key themes related to website localization: standardization versus localization, localization website design characteristics, website localization measurement and cultural depictions in websites. The research method used in this thesis is a quantitative analysis of data collected via the content analysis of web…
Motivations and usage patterns of social networking sites : exploring cultural differences between United States & Sri Lanka
2013
Masteroppgave i økonomi og administrasjon - Universitetet i Agder 2013 Cybernetics has experienced a major breakthrough and led to the utilization of computers at nearly all parts of daily life. The new technology created online social networking. Even though Social Networking Sites (SNS) are a global phenomenon, it is constrained by local conditions such as culture. Thus, the purpose of the study is to incorporate cultural dimensions to the motivations and usage patterns of the SNS considering SNS as a collection of features (chat, status updates, groups etc...). Present study replicates a study made in the United States in Sri Lanka, and identified differences, trace them to cultural reas…
The online marketing of religion : online marketing of religion: analysing social media use by online christian evangelists
2011
Masteroppgave i økonomi og administrasjon - Universitetet i Agder 2011 Inspired by a growing interest among scholars and practitioners concerning the promise and reality of the Internet’s ability to transform existing practices, the current study examines how evangelists actually use the Internet in their evangelism efforts. Theoretically, online evangelism is an emerging new approach to traditional evangelism. Underlying its emergence are expectations and initial evidence concerning Internet’s ability to transform certain aspects of organizations’ forms of promotions (for full detail see chapter 3). More specifically, this study engages in an abductive theory development effort with the go…
Role of advertisement in retaining customers of mobile telecommunication companies in Pakistan
2010
Masteroppgave i økonomi og administrasjon - Universitetet i Agder 2010 The telecommunications industry is a high velocity industry in the current business context. With this boom, even the competition in the developing countries like Pakistan the demand for mobile usage has significantly increased in the last few years. This emerging trend in demand and high profitable industry, leads to more and more mobile service providers who are investing for infrastructure facilities to provide their service more successfully. The network providers face a greater challenge in retaining their customers because the customers have many options and they may switch their brand to another for seeking better…
IT som konkurransefortrinn i norske havner : ISPS- en driver til bedre effektivisering?
2009
Masteroppgave i økonomi og administrasjon - Universitetet i Agder 2009 Målet med denne studien var å se på hvordan IT kan være med på å effektivisere logistikk prosesser og bidra til konkurransemessige fortrinn for norske havner etter at ISPS-koden ble innført. Det teoretiske rammeverket som er benyttet i denne studien er ressursbasert teori og teori om strategisk nødvendighet. Hensikten med teorien er å vurdere hvorvidt ressursene eller kombinasjoner av ressurser kan bidra til effektivisering og konkurransemessig fortrinn for selskapet. Den ressursbaserte teorien klassifiserer ressursene og vurderer de ut i fra variablene verdifull, sjelden, ikke kopierbar og organiserbar. Ressurser som op…
The Effect of CMC in Business Emails in Lingua Franca: Discourse Features and Misunderstandings
2018
The paper argues that everyday exchange of business emails produces a development in the work-group relationship, which, in turn, makes new communication styles possible and acceptable by the users' habit to computer-mediated forms, even in unbalanced professional exchanges. The focus is on the (spoken) discourse features of email messages in a self-compiled corpus of selected computer-mediated business emails, produced by five participants over three months (October 2015 – February 2016). The exchange, involving the use of English by non-native speaker interactants (in particular, Business English as a Lingua Franca (BELF)), as well as language adjustments in a computer-mediated exchange, …