by Tang Oo. / Thesis submitted in: December 1997. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 68-[75]). / Abstract also in Chinese. / Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- Background --- p.1 / Chapter 1.2 --- The Concept of Cross-Path Switching --- p.8 / Chapter 1.3 --- Contribution and Organization of Thesis --- p.12 / Chapter 2 --- The Virtual Path Scheduling Scheme --- p.14 / Chapter 2.1 --- The Trade-off Between Throughput and Concentration Loss --- p.14 / Chapter 2.2 --- Partition of Virtual Paths --- p.19 / Chapter 2.3 --- The Capacity and Route Assignment of Virtual Paths --- p.21 / Chapter 3 --- Performance Analysis and Simulation Results --- p.28 / Chapter 3.1 --- The Improvement of Concentration Loss --- p.28 / Chapter 3.2 --- The Throughput with Look-ahead Scheme --- p.30 / Chapter 3.3 --- The Throughput with Input Smoothing Scheme --- p.34 / Chapter 3.4 --- The Throughput with Bursty Source --- p.37 / Chapter 3.5 --- Buffer Dimensioning and The Cell Loss Probability Due to Buffer Overflow --- p.38 / Chapter 4 --- Capacity Assignment and Evaluation of Multiplexing Gain --- p.47 / Chapter 4.1 --- Principle of Capacity Assignment --- p.47 / Chapter 4.2 --- The Model of Virtual Path --- p.49 / Chapter 4.3 --- Capacity Assignment for CBR Service --- p.51 / Chapter 4.4 --- Capacity Assignment for Real-time VBR Service --- p.53 / Chapter 4.5 --- Capacity Assignment for Non Real-time VBR Service --- p.55 / Chapter 4.6 --- Capacity Matrix --- p.56 / Chapter 4.7 --- The Evaluation of Multiplexing Gain of Input Stage --- p.58 / Chapter 5 --- Discussions and Conclusions --- p.64 / Bibliography --- p.67

by Lin Hon Man. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 59-[63]). / Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- Organization of Thesis --- p.3 / Chapter 2 --- Principles of Multicast Cross-Path Switches --- p.4 / Chapter 2.1 --- Introduction --- p.4 / Chapter 2.2 --- Unicast Cross-Path switch --- p.5 / Chapter 2.2.1 --- Routing properties in Clos networks --- p.5 / Chapter 2.2.2 --- Quasi-static routing procedures --- p.5 / Chapter 2.2.3 --- Capacity and Route Assignment --- p.7 / Chapter 2.3 --- Multicast Cross-Path Switch --- p.8 / Chapter 2.3.1 --- Scheme 1 - Cell replication performed at both input and output stages --- p.10 / Chapter 2.3.2 --- Scheme 2 - Cell replication performed only at the input stage --- p.10 / Chapter 3 --- Architectures --- p.14 / Chapter 3.1 --- Introduction --- p.14 / Chapter 3.2 --- Input Module Design (Scheme 1) --- p.16 / Chapter 3.2.1 --- Input Header Translator --- p.16 / Chapter 3.2.2 --- Input Module Controller --- p.17 / Chapter 3.2.3 --- Input Replication Network (Scheme 1) --- p.19 / Chapter 3.2.4 --- Routing Network --- p.23 / Chapter 3.3 --- Central Modules --- p.24 / Chapter 3.4 --- Output Module Design (Scheme 1) --- p.24 / Chapter 3.5 --- Input Module Design (Scheme 2) --- p.25 / Chapter 3.5.1 --- Input Header Translator (Scheme 2) --- p.26 / Chapter 3.5.2 --- Input Module Controller (Scheme 2) --- p.27 / Chapter 3.5.3 --- Input Replication Network (Scheme 2) --- p.28 / Chapter 3.6 --- Output Module Design (Scheme 2) --- p.29 / Chapter 4 --- Performance Evaluations --- p.31 / Chapter 4.1 --- Introduction --- p.31 / Chapter 4.2 --- Traffic characteristics --- p.31 / Chapter 4.2.1 --- Fanout distribution --- p.31 / Chapter 4.2.2 --- Middle stage traffic load and its calculation --- p.32 / Chapter 4.3 --- Throughput Performance --- p.34 / Chapter 4.4 --- Delay Performance --- p.37 / Chapter 4.4.1 --- Input Stage Delay --- p.38 / Chapter 4.4.2 --- Output Stage Delay --- p.39 / Chapter 4.5 --- Cell Loss Performance --- p.43 / Chapter 4.5.1 --- Cell Loss due to Buffer Overflow --- p.44 / Chapter 4.5.2 --- Cell Loss Due to Output Contention --- p.45 / Chapter 4.6 --- Complexities --- p.50 / Chapter 5 --- Conclusions --- p.57 / Bibliography --- p.59

by Jin Mai. / Thesis submitted in: June 1998. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1999. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 62-[67]). / Abstract also in Chinese. / Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- Background and Motivation --- p.1 / Chapter 1.2 --- Organization of the thesis --- p.8 / Chapter 2 --- Principles of WDM Cross-Path Switch --- p.11 / Chapter 2.1 --- Principles of path scheduling --- p.11 / Chapter 2.2 --- Call setup and path rearrangement --- p.15 / Chapter 2.3 --- ABR control --- p.17 / Chapter 3 --- Star coupler and WDM path scheduling --- p.20 / Chapter 3.1 --- Star coupler and other WDM ATM switches --- p.20 / Chapter 3.2 --- Two schemes of implementation --- p.22 / Chapter 4 --- input/output modules and local routing --- p.26 / Chapter 4.1 --- Shared buffer memory switch --- p.26 / Chapter 4.2 --- local routing at input/output modules --- p.29 / Chapter 5 --- Multicasting --- p.32 / Chapter 5.1 --- Two multicasting schemes --- p.32 / Chapter 5.2 --- Call blocking --- p.36 / Chapter 6 --- Performance --- p.37 / Chapter 6.1 --- Introduction --- p.37 / Chapter 6.2 --- Switch complexity --- p.38 / Chapter 6.3 --- Speed up --- p.40 / Chapter 6.4 --- Two multicasting schemes --- p.41 / Chapter 7 --- Switch Model and Operation --- p.47 / Chapter 8 --- Conclusions --- p.50 / Chapter A --- Effective bandwidth and QoS guarantee --- p.52 / Chapter A.l --- ATM service categories and QoS parameters --- p.52 / Chapter A.2 --- Effective bandwidth for single source --- p.53 / Chapter A.2.1 --- Markovian on/off source approach --- p.54 / Chapter A.2.2 --- Leaky bucket regulated source --- p.55 / Chapter A.3 --- Effective bandwidth for multiplexed sources --- p.60 / Chapter A.3.1 --- Gaussian model approach --- p.60 / Bibliography --- p.62

This study investigates preferred conflict management styles in order to explore how conflict is dealt with in a particular cultural/geographical context (i.e. the Middle East), as culture is one of the factors, which affects management style, whether in a conflict situation or any other situations. Upon researching the literature in the area of conflict management styles in the Middle East it has been found that there is no published research for the region and specifically on the cultural issues. Therefore, this research study has taken a step forward in exploring how and in what ways, the conflict management styles of those individuals (e.g. employees) in Kuwait (a culture/context within the Middle East) may or may not be similar or different to those described in studies carried out in other cultures/contexts. The research explores the different conflict management styles used in Kuwait, which is approached by simulating the application of different conflict situations in Kuwaiti business context and explores the negotiation and application of conflict management styles applied. The use of the Thomas Kilmann Conflict mode Instrument (TKI) to gather research data helped in understanding the different conflict management styles used. The TKI is an extensively validated instrument used in the field to highlight the different ways of how people handle disputes and its effects on the dynamics of individuals and teams. This study attempts to make its contribution to knowledge in the field of conflict management styles in that (a) it assesses Kuwaiti conflict management styles, and (b) It studies the effects of the process of the different conflict management styles and its outcomes in resolving these conflicts in the Kuwaiti Business culture.

Standard Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) sampling methods can experience problem sampling from multi-modal distributions. A variety of sampling methods have been introduced to overcome this problem. The mode jumping method of Tjelmeland & Hegstad (2001) tries to find a mode and propose a value from that mode in each mode jumping attempt. This approach is inefficient in that the work needed to find each mode and model the distribution in a neighbourhood of the mode is carried out repeatedly during the sampling process. We shall propose a new mode jumping approach which retains features of the Tjelmeland & Hegstad (2001) method but differs in that it finds the modes in an initial search, then uses this information to jump between modes effectively in the sampling run. Although this approach does not allow a second chance to find modes in the sampling run, we can show that the overall probability of missing a mode in our approach is still low. We apply our methods to sample from distributions which have continuous variables, discrete variables, a mixture of discrete and continuous variables and variable dimension. We show that our methods work well in each case and in general, are better than the MCMC sampling methods commonly used in these cases and also, are better than the Tjelmeland & Hegstad (2001) method in particular.

Previous studies often associated a specific type of ownership mode with the extent of control a parent firm may have over (strategic) decision-making in a foreign subsidiary, suggesting that parent firms should have higher control over wholly-owned subsidiaries (WoS) than international joint ventures (IJVs). Building on principal agent theory, we argue that in the Chinese context higher ownership levels do not necessarily have a positive effect on the extent of control over the foreign subsidiary. We further argue that cultural distance between the parent firm and the subsidiary moderates this relationship. We test our hypotheses using data from a sample of 156 foreign subsidiaries in the People's Republic of China (PRC) and find strong support for our arguments. Our findings show that in WoS parent firms reduce their extent of control, while in IJVs parent firms increase their extent of control. Moreover, we find that extent of control over WoS (IJVs) declines (increases) when cultural distance increases. Our results have significant theoretical implications for international business (IB) research as they challenge existing views with regard to the relationship between ownership mode and control as well as the moderating effect of cultural distance.

Vi går Butikschefsprogrammet med inriktning mot mode och textil och har valt att utarbetaen affärsidé. Uppsatsens ämne är till viss del redan givet i och med vår utbildning,där arbetet ska ha en inriktning mot detaljhandeln.Idag befinner sig modedesigners på en tuff marknad, där konkurrensen är hård och detkan vara svårt att etablera sig på den svenska modemarknaden. Oetablerade designersefterfrågar därför en tjänst som hjälper dem med arbetet som tillkommer runt designprocessen.Marknadsföring och försäljning av deras alster anser de vara en av de svårastebitarna att själva kunna hantera.il NuovoiiiKlädkedjorna dominerar modemarknaden, men trenden går mot ett allt mer personligtmode, vilket gör att vi anser att det finns en lucka på marknaden. Därför syftar uppsatstill att undersöka om det finns en potential att starta upp en butik i Göteborg, som säljeroetablerade designers alster som bidrar till originalitet och mångfald inom modeindustrin.Den affärsidé vi har utformat grundar sig därför på att vi som ett detaljistföretagska tillhandahålla design från oetablerade designers och förmedla den till konsument. Vivill på det sättet ta vara på all den talang som finns hos Sveriges modedesignsskolor. Dåvi anser att det finns en allt för dålig koppling och integration mellan näringslivet ochden akademiska världen.I empirin har vi använt oss av kvalitativa intervjuer med modedesignstudenter på Textilhögskolan(THS) i Borås, för att skapa en bild av hur de uppfattar sin nuvarande situationoch framtid. Det här för att vi ska kunna utveckla vår affärsidé i linje med derasönskemål. Vidare har vi genomfört telefonintervjuer för att skapa oss en bild av fastighetsmarknadeni centrala Göteborg. Vi har även använt oss av en kvantitativ metod ioch med en marknadsundersökning som vi genomfört i vårt valda område, i syfte atttesta vår potentiella målgrupp och om det finns ett intresse för vår idé.Resultatet av våra frågeställningar visar att både designers och konsumenter har en positivuppfattning om och visar ett intresse för vår affärsidé. Konsumenterna upplever attdet saknas unika plagg på marknaden och kan tänka sig att handla alster från oetableradedesigners. Vidare anser modedesignstudenterna att det saknas en distributionskanal,som kan sälja deras designade kreationer och som har en förståelse för hur de vill verkaoch bli exponerade på modemarknaden. / Program: Butikschefsutbildningen

by Ding Quan-Long. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1997. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 135-141). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Mode of access: World Wide Web.

by Cheuk-hung Lam. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1997. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 120-[129]). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Mode of access: World Wide Web.

In this thesis, a scheme of using multiple controllers which handle multiple network devices has been proposed, while using OpenFlow controllers in the proactive operations paradigm, and this in order to face the problem of using a single controller in the SDN model, including the lack of reliability and scalability on such a model. The main characteristic of this new approach are focused on the ability to design a dynamic and highly programmable network, moving the intelligence from the underlying systems to the network itself through a controller. To evaluate the proper effects of this new approach, different dynamic and programmable networks that could simulate real scenarios and measure their performance contrasting the obtained results with the pragmatic theory has been implemented. The SDN (Software-Defined Network) controller (Open Daylight), has been utilized, and thoroughly examined. Different sort of nets has been worked out through diverse Open Daylight functionalities, either implementing the intelligence of the controller (bundle), or going through it by an outside intelligent application (External Orchestrator), and eventually sending it through Open Daylight (by making Open Daylight work as an interpreter/translator from its language to OpenFlow or another protocol language). Summing up, the scheme that has been proposed in this research which is the multiple-proactive mode approach and the single proactive controller has scored no packet loss at all, in which implies the strength of reliability of this scheme, while the multiple reactive mode approach has a range of 1-8% packet loss ratio and the single reactive mode approach has a range of 1-25% packet loss ratio. Also, in case of delay the improvement which was obtained from our approach scored an average reduction of 13% comparing with other tested schemes. Thus, these new and interesting technologies show an astonishing capability to add more efficiency in different types of Networks.