4 research outputs found
Evaluating the effect of structural dimensions on the successful implementation of strategies in Payam-e-noor University of Iran
This study aims to assess the relationship between structural dimensions of organization including centralization, complexity and formalization on one side and strategy effectiveness on the other side. Structural dimensions are determined based on Robbins theory, and each of them is considered as independent variables of research. Strategy effectiveness, which includes achieving strategic goals or successful implementation of strategies are the independent variable of the research, based on Noble’s strategy implementation model. One primary thesis and three secondary these are defined. This is a descriptive research of two variable correlation. The target population includes 600 senior managers of Payam-e-noor university around the country, including staff administrative managers, province and unit headmasters, of Iran at the time of data collection. Simple random sampling is used, with sample size of 120. Library resources are used for theoretical foundation data collection and note-taking. Questionnaires are used to collect data and evaluate research theses. Inferential Statistics and Pearson correlation coefficient are used to analyze the research theses. The first two theses are confirmed, at 95% and 99% respectively, but the third thesis is rejected based on the collected data. Therefore, based on this study, complexity and formalization have respectively inverse and direct effect on strategy effectiveness, but centralization does not affect strategy effectiveness in Payam-e-noor University
Efficient Personalized Learning for Wearable Health Applications using HyperDimensional Computing
Health monitoring applications increasingly rely on machine learning
techniques to learn end-user physiological and behavioral patterns in everyday
settings. Considering the significant role of wearable devices in monitoring
human body parameters, on-device learning can be utilized to build personalized
models for behavioral and physiological patterns, and provide data privacy for
users at the same time. However, resource constraints on most of these wearable
devices prevent the ability to perform online learning on them. To address this
issue, it is required to rethink the machine learning models from the
algorithmic perspective to be suitable to run on wearable devices.
Hyperdimensional computing (HDC) offers a well-suited on-device learning
solution for resource-constrained devices and provides support for
privacy-preserving personalization. Our HDC-based method offers flexibility,
high efficiency, resilience, and performance while enabling on-device
personalization and privacy protection. We evaluate the efficacy of our
approach using three case studies and show that our system improves the energy
efficiency of training by up to compared with the state-of-the-art
Deep Neural Network (DNN) algorithms while offering a comparable accuracy
Edge-centric Optimization of Multi-modal ML-driven eHealth Applications
Smart eHealth applications deliver personalized and preventive digital
healthcare services to clients through remote sensing, continuous monitoring,
and data analytics. Smart eHealth applications sense input data from multiple
modalities, transmit the data to edge and/or cloud nodes, and process the data
with compute intensive machine learning (ML) algorithms. Run-time variations
with continuous stream of noisy input data, unreliable network connection,
computational requirements of ML algorithms, and choice of compute placement
among sensor-edge-cloud layers affect the efficiency of ML-driven eHealth
applications. In this chapter, we present edge-centric techniques for optimized
compute placement, exploration of accuracy-performance trade-offs, and
cross-layered sense-compute co-optimization for ML-driven eHealth applications.
We demonstrate the practical use cases of smart eHealth applications in
everyday settings, through a sensor-edge-cloud framework for an objective pain
assessment case study