Weingarten Realty Investors

About: Weingarten Realty Investors is a based out in . It is known for research contribution in the topics: Mobile robot & Piston. The organization has 892 authors who have published 1284 publications receiving 12726 citations.

e-Tourism beyond COVID-19: a call for transformative research

Abstract: This viewpoint article argues that the impacts of the novel coronavirus COVID-19 call for transformative e-Tourism research. We are at a crossroads where one road takes us to e-Tourism as it was before the crisis, whereas the other holds the potential to transform e-Tourism. To realize this potential, e-Tourism research needs to challenge existing paradigms and critically evaluate its ontological and epistemological foundations. In light of the paramount importance to rethink contemporary science, growth, and technology paradigms, we present six pillars to guide scholars in their efforts to transform e-Tourism through their research, including historicity, reflexivity, equity, transparency, plurality, and creativity. We conclude the paper with a call to the e-Tourism research community to embrace transformative research.

Virtual clustering and load balancing servers

Abstract: A method and system is provided intelligent network dispatchers that are capable of routing requests to one or more servers (e.g., LDAP servers) based on the requested application or the identity of the requester. The servers may be grouped into virtual clusters so that a particular cluster may service requests associated with a particular application or based on a type of customer (e.g., preferred or general customer) in order to grade levels of service. Also, a system resource monitor may provide continual monitoring of servers in virtual clusters to determine when one or more servers are overburdened or under burdened based on statistical performance data. As a servers performance changes, the system resource monitor may advise the intelligent network dispatcher causing a change in the rate of requests to the overburdened/under burdened server. The server may be temporarily removed from the virtual cluster until performance levels normalize. Further, servers may be re-assigned to other virtual clusters on demand to provide increased capacity to a virtual cluster.

Systems and methods for storing, retrieving, and adjusting read thresholds in flash memory storage system

Abstract: A method, system and computer-readable medium are provided for reading information from a memory unit A request may be received to read information from a set of memory cells in the memory unit At least one read threshold in an initial set of read thresholds may be perturbed to generate a perturbed set of read thresholds The set of memory cells may be read using the perturbed set of read thresholds to provide a read result The performance of said reading may be evaluated using the perturbed set of read thresholds The at least one read threshold may be iteratively perturbed for each sequential read operation that the read performance is evaluated to be sub-optimal