A Study on the Productivity Review forManagement of Performance Using Bibliometric Methodology

This study aimed at investigating the author productivity of performance management related to literature in SSCI database within the year of 1976 to 2011 in order to explore the development of this management . The samples from SSCI database include 922 articles for carry out analysis. Furthermore, this study performed the calculation and verification with the author productivity distribution by Lotka’s Law, Price\u27s Square Root Law and 80/20 law separately. We believe our research findings will be referred to industries, government and academia for reference. The results of this study are summarized as follows: 1. The literature of productivity in performance management has begun to show negative growth from 1976 to 2011; 2. Performance management related researches and publications are dominated by United States and United Kingdom; 3. English is the language prevailing in the literature of performance management ; 4. The major type of disciplines in performance management domain is business economy; 5. The value of n parameter and c parameter were -3.7232, 0.8963 respectively in Lotka’s Law. Plus, this study also proved that Lotka\u27s law applies to the explaination of the developing trend of literature in performance management by Kolmogorov - Smirnov Test; 6. Further, our research has found thatAuthor productivity could not be explained by Price\u27s Square Root Law or 80/20 Law

A Descriptive Model of Robot Team and the Dynamic Evolution of Robot Team Cooperation

At present, the research on robot team cooperation is still in qualitative analysis phase and lacks the description model that can quantitatively describe the dynamical evolution of team cooperative relationships with constantly changeable task demand in Multi-robot field. First this paper whole and static describes organization model HWROM of robot team, then uses Markov course and Bayesian theorem for reference, dynamical describes the team cooperative relationships building. Finally from cooperative entity layer, ability layer and relative layer we research team formation and cooperative mechanism, and discuss how to optimize relative action sets during the evolution. The dynamic evolution model of robot team and cooperative relationships between robot teams proposed and described in this paper can not only generalize the robot team as a whole, but also depict the dynamic evolving process quantitatively. Users can also make the prediction of the cooperative relationship and the action of the robot team encountering new demands based on this model. Journal web page & a lot of robotic related papers www.ars-journal.co

The Impacts of Establishing Enterprise Information Portals on e-Business Performance

The Enterprise Information Portal (EIP) provides access - a single point of personalized, on-line access - to business information and knowledge sources, and real-time access to core application and processes. EIP is defined as an ultimate window that presents e-business fruitful results. Our research focuses on investigating the relationship between organizational characteristics and whether EIP is adopted in the business operations and the relationship among the function application degree, implementation type, integration ability, and users of EIP and e-Business performances. The result of our study shows that: (1) Between those organizations have and those have not adopted EIP, there are significant differences in the maturity and familiarity of information technologies, and organizational size; (2) In the way of implementation EIP, the relationship among function application degree, implementation type, integration ability, and e-Business performance are also significantly influence; (3) The impact between function application degree of EIP and e-Business performance will be enhanced by high e-business degree; (4) The impact between implementation type of EIP and e-Business performance will be intervened by e-business degree; (5) The implementation time of EIP has no significant impact on the relationship between implementation EIP and e-Business performance

The Literature Review of Technology Acceptance Model: A Study of the Bibliometric Distributions

Technology acceptance model plays a signified issue in the information systems field since this theory was introduced by Davis in 1989. This paper investigates the features of technology acceptance model literature based on bibliometric method. By searching the ISI Web of knowledge database under the keyword of “technology acceptance model,” 689 articles were retrieved and analyzed though growth of the literatures and citation, document type, publication countries, subject area, keyword analysis are addressed. The distribution of journal paper was also examined using Bradford’s law and Lotka’s law. As the result, this research found that technology acceptance model literature has a steady growth as well as the citations. Relevant articles were concentrating on computer science, information systems, management, information science, and library science. The author productivity distribution data in technology acceptance literature was consistent with Lotka’s law. Furthermore, eight core journals were identified utilizing the Bradford’s law

E-Learning Instruction Generation Approach in terms of Experience Economy

With the trend of service innovation and experience economy, innovative services with mass customization is the right way to shift into the Experience Economy. Nowadays, E-Learning services development is limited and digital learning material inadequate is one of the most important issues in this area. By taking rapid instruction prototyping into consideration and implementing the modular architecture that offer mass customization services and rapid, then the E-Learning in terms of Experience Economy will realize rapidly. This study proposes an innovative service concept with efficiently offering reusable learning assets for accelerating learning material development. The innovative approach of E-Learning instruction generation services is illustrated and the conceptual model of proposed service framework is outlined. The major findings of this study are: E-Learning instruction generation model for effectively utilizing course contents in Web 2.0 website; conceptual model for dynamic componentization of learning assets. Finally, discussion direction for further research is proposed

Simulation of Piezoelectric Laminated Smart Structure under Strong Electric Field

Applying strong electric field on piezoelectric actuators, on one hand very significant electroelastic material nonlinear effects will occur, on the other hand piezo plates and shells may undergo large displacements and rotations. In order to give a precise prediction of piezolaminated smart structures under large electric field, this paper develops a finite element (FE) model accounting for both electroelastic material nonlinearity and geometric nonlinearity with large rotations based on the first order shear deformation (FSOD) hypothesis. The proposed FE model is applied to analyze a piezolaminated semicircular shell structure