- Industry: Consulting
- Number of terms: 1807
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Generation scheduling tools analyze the electric power system network operations and the economic dispatch of each power plant to optimize overall energy delivery under given constraints, such as carbon dioxide emissions or transmission stability limits. Scheduling tools support different planning horizons, such as hourly, daily, weekly, monthly and annually, as well as 10-year plans for long-term unit commitment and maintenance scheduling.
Industry:Technology
Japanese term for “actual place” but frequently used as “the shop floor” in the lean paradigm.
Industry:Technology
Gaze control is about effecting computer action by changing the direction of one’s gaze. This involves determining the angle or position of a user’s visual attention, usually through the use of cameras, and choosing from a set of available instructions that are mapped to those positions.
Industry:Technology
A server designed to transform data streams to better match device capabilities. For example, Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) gateway servers convert HTML to Wireless Markup Language (WML) for wireless devices, and a number of products can reformat HTML for devices such as mobile phones and personal digital assistants (PDAs). Today, HTML-based servers predominate. While HTML can be made aware of a unique device requesting content, more often “shadow” Web server applications are created to draw off and reformat the native content.
Industry:Technology
Server designed to transform data streams to better match device capabilities. For example, Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) gateway servers convert HTML to Wireless Markup Language (WML) for wireless devices, and a number of products can reformat HTML for devices such as mobile phones and PDAs. Today, HTML-based servers predominate. HTML can be made aware of a unique device requesting content; however, more often, “shadow” Web server applications are created to draw off and reformat native content.
Industry:Technology
Gamification is the use of game mechanics to drive engagement in non-game business scenarios and to change behaviors in a target audience to achieve business outcomes. Many types of games include game mechanics such as points, challenges, leaderboards, rules and incentives that make game-play enjoyable. Gamification applies these to motivate the audience to higher and more meaningful levels of engagement. Humans are “hard-wired” to enjoy games and have a natural tendency to interact more deeply in activities that are framed in a game construct.
Industry:Technology
Gallium nitride (GaN) is a semiconductor material that has high-frequency and high-power characteristics, and is capable of operating at high temperatures. GaN is already used for specialist discrete devices, such as blue light-emitting diodes and blue laser diodes for Blu-ray disc players.
Industry:Technology
Describes a contract that defines the vendor’s contribution to the customer in terms of specific benefits to the customer’s business. Such a contract also defines the payment the customer will make according to the vendor’s performance in delivering those business benefits. Gain-sharing contracts require the development of a delivery paradigm that links a customer’s business metrics to a vendor’s IT solution. The key elements of this paradigm, in order, are:
1. Business metric definition and selection
2. Client metric benchmarking
3. Development of key performance indicators
4. Investment options evaluation
5. Gain-sharing contract development
6. Financial engineering
7. Delivery of services
8. Re-evaluation and adjustment of metrics
Industry:Technology
Fuzzy logic is a reasoning paradigm that deals with approximate or imprecise information by enabling variables to be described (often linguistically) and acted upon in terms of their degree of membership in predetermined sets. Control systems in electronic equipment and consumer products and other embedded control systems are among the most popular applications.
Industry:Technology
