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The Challenges of Organizational Factors in Collaborative Artificial Intelligence Projects
Despite the current popularity of AI and a steady increase in publications over time, few studies
have investigated artificial intelligence (AI) in public contexts. As a result, assumptions about
the drivers, challenges, and impacts of AI in government are far from conclusive. By using a
case study that involves a large research university in England and two different county councils
in a multi-year collaborative project around AI, we study the challenges that interorganizational
collaborations face in adopting AI tools and implementing organizational routines to address
them. Our findings reveal the most important challenges facing such collaborations: a resistance
to sharing data, due to privacy and security concerns; insufficient understanding of the required
and available data; a lack of alignment between project interests and expectations around data
sharing; and a lack of engagement across organizational hierarchy. Organizational routines
capable of overcoming such challenges include working on-site, presenting the benefits of data
sharing, re-framing problems, designating joint appointments and boundary spanners, and
connecting participants in the collaboration at all levels around project design and purpose
Overcoming the Challenges of Collaboratively Adopting Artificial Intelligence in the Public Sector
Despite the current popularity of artificial intelligence (AI) and a steady increase in publications over time, few studies have investigated AI in public contexts. As a result, assumptions about the drivers, challenges, and impacts of AI in government are far from conclusive. By using a case study that involves a large research university in England and two different county councils in a multiyear collaborative project around AI, we study the challenges that interorganizational collaborations face in adopting AI tools and implementing organizational routines to address them. Our findings reveal the most important challenges facing such collaborations: a resistance to sharing data due to privacy and security concerns, insufficient understanding of the required and available data, a lack of alignment between project interests and expectations around data sharing, and a lack of engagement across organizational hierarchy. Organizational routines capable of overcoming such challenges include working on-site, presenting the benefits of data sharing, reframing problems, designating joint appointments and boundary spanners, and connecting participants in the collaboration at all levels around project design and purpose
Optical orientation of spins in GaAs:Mn/AlGaAs quantum wells via impurity-to-band excitation
The paper reports optical orientation experiments performed in the narrow
GaAs/AlGaAs quantum wells doped with Mn. We experimentally demonstrate a
control over the spin polarization by means of the optical orientation via the
impurity-to-band excitation and observe a sign inversion of the luminescence
polarization depending on the pump power. The g factor of a hole localized on
the Mn acceptor in the quantum well was also found to be considerably modified
from its bulk value due to the quantum confinement effect. This finding shows
the importance of the local environment on magnetic properties of the dopants
in semiconductor nanostructures
Control of Coercivities in (Ga,Mn)As Thin Films by Small Concentrations of MnAs Nanoclusters
We demonstrate that low concentrations of a secondary magnetic phase in
(Ga,Mn)As thin films can enhance the coercivity by factors up to ~100 without
significantly degrading the Curie temperature or saturation magnetisation.
Magnetic measurements indicate that the secondary phase consists of MnAs
nanoclusters, of average size ~7nm. This approach to controlling the coercivity
while maintaining high Curie temperature, may be important for realizing
ferromagnetic semiconductor based devices.Comment: 8 pages,4 figures. accepted for publication in Appl. Phys. Let
Reconfigurable Boolean Logic using Magnetic Single-Electron Transistors
We propose a novel hybrid single-electron device for reprogrammable low-power
logic operations, the magnetic single-electron transistor (MSET). The device
consists of an aluminium single-electron transistors with a GaMnAs magnetic
back-gate. Changing between different logic gate functions is realized by
reorienting the magnetic moments of the magnetic layer which induce a voltage
shift on the Coulomb blockade oscillations of the MSET. We show that we can
arbitrarily reprogram the function of the device from an n-type SET for
in-plane magnetization of the GaMnAs layer to p-type SET for out-of-plane
magnetization orientation. Moreover, we demonstrate a set of reprogrammable
Boolean gates and its logical complement at the single device level. Finally,
we propose two sets of reconfigurable binary gates using combinations of two
MSETs in a pull-down network
Service Platform for Converged Interactive Broadband Broadcast and Cellular Wireless
A converged broadcast and telecommunication
service platform is presented that is able to create, deliver, and
manage interactive, multimedia content and services for consumption
on three different terminal types. The motivations of
service providers for designing converged interactive multimedia
services, which are crafted for their individual requirements, are
investigated. The overall design of the system is presented with
particular emphasis placed on the operational features of each
of the sub-systems, the flows of media and metadata through the
sub-systems and the formats and protocols required for inter-communication
between them. The key features of tools required for
creating converged interactive multimedia content for a range of
different end-user terminal types are examined. Finally possible
enhancements to this system are discussed. This study is of particular
interest to those organizations currently conducting trials
and commercial launches of DVB-H services because it provides
them with an insight of the various additional functions required
in the service provisioning platforms to provide fully interactive
services to a range of different mobile terminal types
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