How do different types of intragroup conflict affect group potency in virtual compared with face-to-face teams? A longitudinal study

The number of organizations using teamwork is increasing. In this context, group potency has emerged as a key construct in group research. Moreover, in the last decades, information and communication technologies (ICT) have allowed organizations to form virtual teams. Consequently, a considerable amount of research has analysed the functioning of virtual teams. We focus on intragroup conflict as a relevant antecedent of potency in computer-mediated communication groups. Specifically, the aim of this research is to examine the role of ICT in the relationship between intragroup conflict and group potency in a longitudinal study. A laboratory experiment was carried out comparing 44 groups working in two communication media (face-to-face and computer-mediated communication). The groups developed a project over a one-month period. The results show that communication media play a moderator role between intragroup conflict (relationship and task conflict) and group potency. Implications of these results are discussed.     

Factors impacting the perceived organizational support of IT employees

Organizations today face shortages of IT personnel. We investigated workplace factors in one state government in hope of identifying factors that influence perceived organizational support (POS) within an IT work environment. A combination of job characteristics (challenging job and perceived workload), job stressors (work exhaustion, role conflict, and role ambiguity), and the organization’s discretionary actions (pay-for-performance and mentoring opportunities) were measured and hierarchical regression was used to determine the relationships. Four control variables were also included (age, gender, organizational tenure, and professional versus administrator status). Role ambiguity, role conflict, work exhaustion, career mentoring, and pay-for-performance together explained 62% of the variance in the IT employees’ POS. Career mentoring and role ambiguity explained most of the variance.     

集群上软件事务内存的层次化冲突检测

大多数事务内存研究都在多核处理器上进行,只有少数研究针对集群计算环境。现有的集群事务内存性能较差,因为事务内存的运行需要进行大量的远程内存访问,而集群的内存分布性使得远程内存访问的性能较差。事务内存运行中的冲突检测是进行远程内存访问最多的操作。我们提出了一种层次化的冲突检测方法,将其分为两个步骤进行,这种层次化的策略可以使集群上的软件事务内存获得高性能。     

利用循环分割和循环展开避免Cache代价

存储系统与处理器之间的速度差距逐渐变大,为此,cache使用了分级机制,但这也带来了额外的存储延迟(cache代价).提出一种利用循环分割和循环展开相结合避免cache代价的PCPLPU(prevent cache penalty by loop partition-unrolling)算法.实验结果表明,PCPLPU算法能够有效避免循环代价,提高程序性能.     

解决策略冲突导致BGP路由发散的自适应机制

BGP(border gateway protocol)作为一种基于策略的协议,允许每个自治系统独立地选择本地路由策略.自治系统之间可能存在的路由策略冲突会引起BGP路由持续不稳定.当前提出的解决办法要么需要增加额外的通信开销,要么限制自治系统自由的选择路由策略.提出了一种解决策略冲突引起BGP路由不收敛的自适应方法,既不损害自治系统选择路由策略的灵活性,也不需要在BGP消息中增加额外信息.路由的稳定性被加入到BGP的判决过程中,不稳定路由的优先级被降低,使更加稳定的路由得以被选为最优路由,终止路由策略冲突引起的争执.在网络拓扑发生改变的情况下,这种新方法能够自适应地调整路由选择,重新收敛到新的稳定状态.     

Efficient realization of frequently used bijections on cube-connected cycles

CCC has lower hardware complexity than hypercube and is suited for current VLSI technology.LC-permutations are a large set of important permutations frequently used in various parallel computations.Existing routing algorithms for CCC cannot realize LC-permutations without network conflict.We present an algorithm to realize LC-permutations on CCC.The algorithm consists of two periods of inter-cycle transmissions and one period of inner-cycle transmissions.In the inter-cycle transmissions the dimensional links of CCC are used in a “pipeline” manner and in the inner-cycle transmissions the data packets are sorted by a part of its destination address.The algorithm is fast (O(log2N)) and no conflict will occur.     

Hash查找算法在液晶屏汉化系统中的应用

利用单片机实现了对某引进的火灾监控报警系统液晶显示模块的汉化工作。系统中对显示信息建立相应的单词字典,进行逐词翻译。在翻译过程中,采用快速的Hash查找算法来进行查找翻译,构造了一个计算简单的哈希函数并设定了一种简单有效的处理冲突的方法,有效地缩短了翻译时间,满足了汉化系统实时性的要求。     

The Effectiveness of Short Message Service for Communication With Concerns of Privacy Protection and Conflict Avoidance

Why would people use Short Message Service (SMS) to say something they would not say in person? There is a trend that SMS is becoming more and more popular because it facilitates more extended modes of communications. Using technology acceptance model, we hypothesize the attitude of SMS would be influenced by its perceived effectiveness for communications, perceived ease of use, and subjective norm. Besides the special aspects of communications, conflict avoidance and privacy protection will enforce the impact of perceived effectiveness of SMS for communication. We investigated 953 SMS users and the results support most of our hypotheses. Furthermore, our analyses also show there are differences between females and males on the influence mechanism behind their attitude towards SMS.     

面向多核的基于RSTM系统的冲突管理策略

程序并行化是充分发挥多核处理器性能的有效手段。现有编程模型受锁、管道等同步方式的约束,并行度很难提高。针对上述问题,提出一种面向多核的基于Rochester软件事务存储(RSTM)系统的冲突管理策略,在现有编程语言中提供接口,通过事务方式提高程序并行度,以优先级方式解决2个事务发生冲突时的裁决问题,减少不必要的一致性验证,减小系统开销。     

一种防火墙规则冲突检测算法

在入侵检测系统和状态检测防火墙等系统的应用中,规则冲突检测及冲突检测算法在计算机网络安全及服务质量方面起着至关重要的作用。文章首先对防火墙过滤规则进行了描述,然后对规则冲突进行了分类,在此基础上提出了一种规则冲突检测算法。