Network Design

 

You work as a network consultant for West Consulting, a graphic design and printing company. West Consulting is growing in customer and sales volume and, therefore, is expanding its local campus in Houston, Texas, and adding a test location in China.

You are tasked with designing a network to support their growth and expansion plan and drafting a proposal. You will work on this project over the next five weeks. The first task is to confirm your understanding of the project and outline your high-level plan to approach the design.

Refer to the West Consulting Network Design Summary document, which lists the network requirements and configuration details.

Create a Customer Design Summary that includes the following: 

  • Project Summary
  • A description of the organization, the business environment, and the project purpose
  • Design Requirements
  • Desired functional network requirements, any technical constraints, and network performance or design goals
  • Existing High-Level Network Infrastructure Survey
  • Include logical topology diagrams (layer 3) and physical network diagrams of current infrastructure and routing.
  • Implementation Plan
  • Description of a high-level network upgrade plan based on Cisco’s network design lifecycle principles and an explanation of how your plan addresses West Consulting’s goals and strategies

Diagram your current network survey in Microsoft® Visio®.

Document the remainder of your Customer Design Summary as either a:

  • 2- to 3-page Microsoft® Word document
  • 10-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation with detailed speaker notes

Research Paper: Building an economy: Government planning vs. entrepreneurial innovation

Research Paper: Building an economy: Government planning vs. entrepreneurial innovation

Find a peer-reviewed scholarly journal article discussing government planning and/or entrepreneurial innovation. Complete a review of the article by writing a 2-3 page overview of the article. This will be a detailed summary of the journal article, including concepts discussed and findings. Additionally, find one other source (it does not have to be a peer-reviewed journal article) that substantiates the findings in the article you are reviewing. 

You should use the UC library (https://www.ucumberlands.edu/library) and/or Google Scholar to find these types of articles (https://scholar.google.com/ )

Once you find the article, you will read it and write a review of it.  This is considered a research article review.

Your paper should meet these requirements: 

  • Be approximately 3-4 pages in length, not including the required cover page and reference page.
  • Follow APA 7 guidelines. Your paper should include an introduction, a body with fully developed content, and a conclusion.
  • Support your answers with the readings from the course and at least two scholarly journal articles to support your positions, claims, and observations, in addition to your textbook. The UC Library is a great place to find resources.
  • Be clearly and well-written, concise, and logical, using excellent grammar and style techniques. You are being graded in part on the quality of your writing.

human computer interface

 discuss how a particular human-computer interface might impact a person’s satisfaction with and ability to use technology. Then, describe another example of a technology product and the human-computer interface you use to interact with that product, such as a wearable device or a self-service checkout machine. In your post, discuss the positives and negatives of the experience, with a focus on how HCI elements allow you to interact with the technology. Finally, describe how interacting with that technology compares to the way you were accustomed to doing that task before. 

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 The reading this week discusses strategy and how ERM can be integrated with an organization’s overall strategy. Prepare a research paper on some of the various issues, protocols, methods, frameworks you found and discuss how – if possible – organizations can use ERM as strategy. It is perfectly acceptable if you deem ERM cannot be used as strategy, just back up your claim with scholarly research and justifications. 

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Team managment dis 4

 

Communication and Team Decision Making

Part 1: Sharpening the Team Mind: Communication and Collective Intelligence

A.    What are some of the possible biases and points of error that may arise in team communication systems? In addition to those cited in the opening of Chapter 6, what are some other examples of how team communication problems can lead to disaster?

B.      Revisit communication failure examples in Exhibit 6-1. Identify the possible causes of communication or decision-making failure in each example, and, drawing on the information presented in the chapter, discuss  measures that might have prevented problems from arising within each team’s communication system.

Part 2: Team Decision-Making: Pitfalls and Solutions

A.    What are the key symptoms of groupthink? What problems and shortcomings can arise in the decision-making process as a result of groupthink? 

B.    Do you think that individuals or groups are better decision-makers? Justify your choice. In what situations would individuals be more effective decision-makers than groups, and in what situations would groups be better than individuals?

AI with reinforcement Learning

 Your task, put simply, is to design a reinforcement learning algorithm to teach the mouse how to find the food. The fundamental task is as follows: • There is a 100×100 matrix representing a grid where any space can either be occupied by a mouse or a piece of food. There is only one mouse, and an arbitrary amount of food. • The mouse is able to sense the food with a 3×3 matrix representing its sense of smell, the range of which is the full grid, and stacks (Two foods next to each other will generate twice as much smell). This will be the input for your algorithm. Note that the center of this matrix will always be 0, as that space represents the mouse itself. • The mouse has a limited amount of energy, which is fully replenished when it finds food. If it runs out of energy, it dies, and the game is over. • The mouse is able to move in any cardinal direction (North, South, East, and West). The goal is for them to eat all of the food in the grid as quickly as possible. This simulation is visually represented using PyGame. This task can also be solved by a trivial algorithm using nothing but simple arithmetic, as the ‘scent’ of food is a function of distance from the mouse. You can try to find a non RL solution and compare it to the best version of the RL algorithm’s results. For each frame, a forward pass is run through your model. The input for each frame is an array (or tuple) with four numbers between 0 and 1. These are the probabilities generated from your model. These will determine how the mouse moves. QUESTIONS:  (The questions are not graded by correct/incorrect. They are just here to get the student thinking.)  Q: Does the order matter for the reinforcement learning model? (Ex: Inputting (N,S,E,W) vs (N,E,S,W))   Q: Does the order matter for a closed form solution?  Q: What would be better for reinforcement learning; taking the highest value from the array as the movement choice, or choosing a random direction weighted by the given probabilities? Why? Tasks for the students • Write a reward function.  You have access to the current game state, as well as the number of previous frames (Ex: 50) of input matrices, food level, and number of food tiles found. This number of frames will be the same number of frames it takes to starve from a full energy level.  This can be very simple, like just using the number of food tiles found, or use reward shaping using multiple frames of previous input matrices to create more frequent positive/negative rewards (Ex: when the mouse moves closer or farther away from food.)  QUESTIONS:  Q: What would be a sparse reward function for this model?   Q: How can the reward function be improved?  • Write a model:  As described above, write a model that takes in 8 inputs (The mouse’s sensory matrix minus the center), and outputs four probabilities for each cardinal direction.  In addition, you will be handling when to back-propagate a reward, or when to keep running. Additional task (Optional worth extra credit):  There are many variables that you can mess around with to complicate the problem to make it more suitable to Reinforcement learning. One of them is decreasing the range of the mouse’s scent with the variable SCENT_RANGE. Another is the variable VARIABLE_TERRAIN which gives the mouse a second sense (sight) and adds a value to each terrain section which indicates how much energy is spend by stepping over that tile.  Q: How does the reward function change if you add the new variables?  

Discussion

 

The article on IRB this week discusses broad consent under the revised Common Rule. When you are doing any sort of research you are going to need to have your research plan approved by the University’s institutional review board or IRB. If you have never heard of this term before, please take a look online and find a brief summary of what it is about, before you read the article.  

Please answer the following questions in your main post:

  • What are the main issues that the article addresses?
  • What is the Common Rule?
  • How is this issue related to information systems and digital privacy?

Please make your initial post and two response posts substantive. A substantive post will do at least two of the following:

  • Explain, define, or analyze the topic in detail provide an outside source  that applies to the topic, along with additional information about the topic or the source (please cite properly in APA)