Real-time management model for residential multi-class appliances

This article explores an overlooked aspect of the 'resilience of pastoralism' in crises through an ethnographic case study of a series of conflicts between the Samburu and the Pokot in Kenya that erupted in 2004. Emery Roe's concepts of reliability professionals and real-time management of pastoralists are utilised as theoretical frameworks for this study. It was observed that the 'logic of high input variance matched by high process variance to ensure low and stable output variance' occurred through the formation of clustered settlements and an inter-ethnic mobile phone network. This case illustrates how pastoralists endured the conflict as reliability professionals.

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Airline Recovery Model, the Model Suite for the Real-Time Management of the Operational Irregularities

Applied Optimization - Operations Research in Space and Air ◽

10.1007/978-1-4757-3752-3_16 ◽

2003 ◽

pp. 305-331 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Susanna Cappelletti ◽

Marco Carcieri ◽

Simona Falcomatà ◽

Beniamino Paoletti

Keyword(s):

Real Time ◽

Time Management ◽

Recovery Model ◽

The Real ◽

Airline Recovery

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The South Carolina Digital Watershed: End-to-End Support for Real-Time Management of Water Resources

International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks ◽

10.1155/2010/970868 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

pp. 970868 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

G. W. Eidson ◽

S. T. Esswein ◽

J. B. Gemmill ◽

J. O. Hallstrom ◽

T. R. Howard ◽

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Keyword(s):

South Carolina ◽

Water Resources ◽

Real Time ◽

Time Management ◽

State Level ◽

Data Streaming ◽

The South ◽

Core System ◽

End To End

Water resources are under unprecedented strain. The combined effects of population growth, climate change, and rural industrialization have led to greater demand for an increasingly scarce resource. Ensuring that communities have adequate access to water—an essential requirement for community health and prosperity—requires finegrained management policies based on real-time in situ data, both environmental and hydrological. To address this requirement at the state level, we have developed the South Carolina Digital Watershed, an end-to-end system for monitoring water resources. In this paper, we describe the design and implementation of the core system components: (i) in situ sensing hardware, (ii) collection and uplink facilities, (iii) data streaming middleware, and (iv) back-end repository and presentation services. We conclude by discussing key organizational and technical challenges encountered during the development process.

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