A QoS-Aware Job Rescheduling Mechanism for Service-Oriented Media Distribution Systems

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ing-Yi Chen ◽  
Guo-Kai Ni
Keyword(s):  
Distribution Systems ◽  
Media Distribution ◽  
Service Oriented

Evangelical Encounters: The American Tract Society and the Rituals of Print Distribution in Antebellum America

2019 ◽  
Vol 88 (1) ◽  
pp. 200-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sonia Hazard
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Distribution Systems ◽  
Affect Theory ◽  
The United States ◽  
Ritual Studies ◽  
Antebellum America ◽  
Poor Whites ◽  
Sacred Objects ◽  
Media Distribution

Abstract The American Tract Society, an evangelical publisher, built one of the largest media distribution systems in antebellum America. Called “colportage” from 1841, the system mobilized hundreds of “colporteurs” who delivered tracts and books to people, mostly poor whites, in their homes across the United States. This article draws on ritual studies and affect theory to argue that colportage encounters were affectively charged rituals in which colporteurs staged a disposition of spaces, bodies, speech acts, and tempos to transmit affect, shape the subjectivity of readers, and consecrate books and tracts as sacred objects. An up-close examination of these encounters puts pressure on ideas of religious print as a democratizing medium, demonstrating that the reception of evangelical texts was conditioned by the forceful processes through which they were delivered into the hands of readers.

Performance Evaluation and Logistics

2020 ◽  
pp. 276-306
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Distribution System ◽  
Distribution Systems ◽  
Service Sector ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Marketing Channels ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Open World ◽  
Service Oriented

This chapter will deal with varied areas and their interactions with the distribution system and the marketing channels of the company. The first area discussed is the evaluation of the channel members. This is important as proper evaluation of the performances and other characteristics of the channel members is connected with their motivation as well as the overall performance of the company itself. The distribution system or the marketing channels of service-oriented companies are also discussed as the economy, especially of developed countries, are fast moving towards the service sector. In the service sector the basic principles remain the same – however, there are some major differences with the marketing channels of products. The distribution channels are so complex for large organizations that a very robust information system has to be in place in order to maintain the operations of the system and also to have proper control and evaluations of the channel members. The backbone of the distribution systems of large organizations are the logistics and the supply chain management of the company. Proper utilization of the tools and techniques of modern logistics and supply chain management is a prerequisite for efficient and effective functioning of the entire distribution system. Again, in this open world, companies are increasingly looking at the entire world as their prospective customers, and hence, a proper understanding of international channel management is necessary for all companies.

IEC 61968 Standard-Based Distribution Systems Integration Solutions and Application Research

2012 ◽  
Vol 614-615 ◽  
pp. 785-791 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun Xing Wu ◽  
Pan Zhang ◽  
Jian Cheng Yu
Keyword(s):  
Distribution System ◽  
Information Exchange ◽  
Distribution Systems ◽  
Production Management ◽  
Service Oriented Architecture ◽  
Distribution Automation ◽  
Automation System ◽  
Integration Strategy ◽  
Production Management System ◽  
Service Oriented

Based on the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) technology, following the IEC 61968 standards, This paper presents a program of building Distribution System of Information Exchange Bus (IEB); Study on the integration strategy of the Tianjin Eco Park Distribution Automation System (DAS), Dispatching Automation System, Production Management system and Geographic Information System (GIS) etc.; The information exchange between various systems and the specific processes on outage management application rely on the IEB bus was also presented.

News Distribution

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua A. Braun
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Distribution Systems ◽  
Online Advertising ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Distribution Networks ◽  
Journalism Studies ◽  
Media Distribution ◽  
News Organizations ◽  
The Impact

Media distribution plays a key role in defining publics by determining which groups are able to access and share news. Put more broadly, decisions about how content circulates, whether they are made by corporations, platforms, street vendors, or file sharers, are central to the question of who has access to cultural resources and on what terms. This is significant for scholars of journalism insofar as a central concern of journalism studies is the role that news media play in public life. As media distribution has become increasingly dependent on digital intermediaries like search engines and social media, responsibility for media circulation has become an increasingly significant aspect of news work, shifting journalistic routines in the process. Though journalism studies researchers have typically paid less attention to distribution than to news production, news content, and audience reception, the disruptive changes wrought by the widespread adoption of digital media have begun to inspire renewed interest in distribution across media industry studies. And while various industries and regulatory regimes define distribution differently, it is important for scholarship on distribution to forge its own conception of the subject matter, both to avoid industry capture and to grapple with a changing media landscape in which formerly distinct professional boundaries between distribution and other media practices like production and marketing are rapidly blurring and shifting. A variety of scholars have argued that news distribution plays an important role in creating the imaginaries that sustain public life by enabling the conceit that media are addressed to the same audience over an extended period of time. It is true, too, that distribution networks can sow social divisions by extending the reach of messages and images beyond their intended contexts. The impact of the Internet on these dynamics has drawn a great deal of attention. Distribution platforms—even digital ones—should also be understood as having material underpinnings that can constrain their form and functionality, and arguably favor particular organizational forms. The resulting dynamics can dramatically impact news providers’ access to distribution networks and, by extension, audiences. This is true for physical distribution networks and also, mutatis mutandis, in online space, where news providers have become highly dependent on a small set of companies—Google, Facebook, and their ilk—for access to audiences. At the same time, many media organizations pay substantial amounts to vendors for access to white-label technologies and infrastructures to maintain their own distribution channels. The changing distribution landscape has led to changes in production dynamics at news organizations. In particular, the online advertising industry has now built its own distribution systems for ads, fundamentally changing the relationship between advertisers and the commercial news organizations on which they once relied for access to consumers. This, in turn, has led to changes in editorial logics at many news organizations aimed at preserving rapidly diminishing advertising revenues. Simultaneously, news distribution has become an increasing part of the work that goes on in news rooms, as optimizing the news for circulation via search and social media has become an editorial responsibility. These changes across media industries have generated a surge of interest in media distribution within academia.

An Ontological Approach to Water Distribution Systems Management

WRPMD'99 ◽  
1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Costa ◽  
A. Esposito ◽  
C. Gualtieri ◽  
D. Pianese ◽  
G. Pulci Doria ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Distribution Systems ◽  
Water Distribution ◽  
Water Distribution Systems ◽  
Systems Management ◽  
Ontological Approach

Robust Estimation of Integrated Hydraulics and Parameters in Water Distribution Systems

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mietek A. Brdys ◽  
Kazimierz Duzinkiewicz ◽  
Michal Grochowski ◽  
Tomasz Rutkowski
Keyword(s):  
Robust Estimation ◽  
Distribution Systems ◽  
Water Distribution ◽  
Water Distribution Systems
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