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What is Scalability

Chapter 12
Handbook of Research on Approaches to Alternative Entrepreneurship Opportunities
It means maximizing and expanding the effect of the social initiative. Scalability refers to how ease and how fast a system can be expanded.
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Social Entrepreneurship: What People Are Looking for When They Talk About It
Irene Dobarrio Machado Ciccarino (Centre of Applied Research in Management and Economics, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Portugal) and Susana Cristina Serrano Fernandes Rodrigues (Centre of Applied Research in Management and Economics, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Portugal)
Copyright: © 2020 |Pages: 23
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-1981-3.ch012
Abstract
This chapter seeks to understand what motivates an investment in a social entrepreneurial initiative (SEI), in order to easy the fit between investors goals and the SEI proposals. It provides a benchmark for investors and a guide for entrepreneurs through the identification of the most valued investment criteria. Data were collected online between March and May 2019 from Schawb foundation, Skoll foundation, Ashoka and Yunus Social Business. It was analyzed by content analysis. The results obtained corroborate previous literature review as well as highlighted different perspectives, suggesting further research for a better understanding where theory can improve practice. This study contributes to a theoretical consolidation of social entrepreneurship research field by means of the identification of common points among the practice of global organizations and the theory. Exploring social entrepreneurship is important because it is a new way of doing business and delivering social value and maybe the better bet to achieving a more sustainable society.
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Chapter 15
Using Technology to Assess Real-World Professional Skills: A Case Study
The ability to develop test content by applying a single item template to different scenarios and situations in order to develop a multitude of test items.
Published in Chapter: Using Technology to Assess Real-World Professional Skills: A Case Study; From: Handbook of Research on Technology Tools for Real-World Skill Development
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Chapter 5
Benchmarking Grid Applications for Performance and Scalability Predictions
The ability of a system to either handle growing amounts of work without losing processing speed.
Published in Chapter: Benchmarking Grid Applications for Performance and Scalability Predictions; From: Handbook of Research on Scalable Computing Technologies
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Chapter 41
Challenges in Big Data Analysis
The scalability issue of big data has led towards cloud computing, which now aggregates multiple disparate workloads with varying performance goals into very large clusters.
Published in Chapter: Challenges in Big Data Analysis; From: Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Fifth Edition
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Chapter 4
First of All, Understand Data Analytics Context and Changes
The measure of a system’s ability to increase or decrease in performance and cost in response to changes in application and system processing demands. Enterprises that are growing rapidly should pay special attention to scalability when evaluating hardware and software.
Published in Chapter: First of All, Understand Data Analytics Context and Changes; From: Big Data Analytics for Entrepreneurial Success
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Chapter 11
Business Intelligence: Strengths, Weaknesses, and Opportunities
The possibility of upgrading and expanding an already existing system (information system; hardware/software/people-ware) where and when required.
Published in Chapter: Business Intelligence: Strengths, Weaknesses, and Opportunities; From: Handbook of Research on Applied AI for International Business and Marketing Applications
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Chapter 252
The Quality Matters Program
The potential of a process or function to handle a larger volume of activity without degrading.
Published in Chapter: The Quality Matters Program; From: Encyclopedia of Distance Learning, Second Edition
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Chapter 4
Distributed Computing for Internet of Things (IoT)
It is the capacity of the system to handle increasing amount work without affecting existing system.
Published in Chapter: Distributed Computing for Internet of Things (IoT); From: Computational Intelligence in the Internet of Things
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Chapter 8
Architecture for Big Data Storage in Different Cloud Deployment Models
Scalability is another benefit of storing Big Data on the cloud which is also one of the most important benefits of cloud environment.
Published in Chapter: Architecture for Big Data Storage in Different Cloud Deployment Models; From: Handbook of Research on Big Data Storage and Visualization Techniques
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Chapter 6
Blockchain Revolution in Education and Lifelong Learning
Scalability is the ability of the technology to continuously respond and operate as the input size increases
Published in Chapter: Blockchain Revolution in Education and Lifelong Learning; From: Frameworks for Blockchain Standards, Tools, Testbeds, and Platforms
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Chapter 23
A Distributed Framework and Consensus Middle-Ware for Human Swarm Interaction
Is the ability to flexibly adjust the number of robots without causing any noticeable changes to the overall functionality of the system.
Published in Chapter: A Distributed Framework and Consensus Middle-Ware for Human Swarm Interaction; From: Handbook of Research on Design, Control, and Modeling of Swarm Robotics
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Chapter 23
Quality of Service and Radio Management in Biomedical Wireless Sensor Networks
Refers to the ability of a system to adapt itself in order to handle dynamic changes on its workload in an efficient way ( Marron et al., 2011 ).
Published in Chapter: Quality of Service and Radio Management in Biomedical Wireless Sensor Networks; From: Handbook of Research on Computational Simulation and Modeling in Engineering
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Chapter 3
Improving the Conditions for Business Startups in the Republic of Serbia: Human Resources Management Competencies
Means the ability of a startup to grow, while maintaining all the basic properties and functions. The only way to quickly acquire a large number of users is to be ten times better than others who offer similar solutions and to have the capacity to respond to a large number of users in a short time. You are ten times better only when you are innovative and when you solve user problems in a new, easier, and faster way.
Published in Chapter: Improving the Conditions for Business Startups in the Republic of Serbia: Human Resources Management Competencies; From: Ecosystem Dynamics and Strategies for Startups Scalability
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Chapter 14
Resource Provisioning and Scheduling of Big Data Processing Jobs
Scalability is a characteristic of a system, model or function that describes its capability to cope and perform under an increased or expanding workload. A system that scales well will be able to maintain or even increase its level of performance or efficiency when tested by larger operational demands (Scalability, 2015 AU128: The in-text citation "Scalability, 2015" is not in the reference list. Please correct the citation, add the reference to the list, or delete the citation. ).
Published in Chapter: Resource Provisioning and Scheduling of Big Data Processing Jobs; From: Handbook of Research on Big Data Storage and Visualization Techniques
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Chapter 2
What the 3Vs Acronym Didn't Put Into Perspective?
The measure of a system’s ability to increase or decrease in performance and cost in response to changes in application and system processing demands. Enterprises that are growing rapidly should pay special attention to scalability when evaluating hardware and software.
Published in Chapter: What the 3Vs Acronym Didn't Put Into Perspective?; From: Big Data Analytics for Entrepreneurial Success
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Chapter 284
Image Compression Concepts Overview
It refers to a successive quality change by bitstream manipulation. For example, PSNR scalability means the PSNR improves as more bits in the bitstream are decoded.
Published in Chapter: Image Compression Concepts Overview; From: Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Second Edition
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Chapter 12
Ready-to-Teach Online Courses: Understanding Faculty Roles and Attitudes
Making a course scalable referred to the process to increase course capacity and to allow more students to enroll in one section or to allow more than one faculty member to teach the same course in different sections ( Graves & Twigg, 2006 ). The overall intent in scaling higher education is to expand capacity and efficiency often using technology or less expensive personnel (Kahn, 2014 AU44: The in-text citation "Kahn, 2014" is not in the reference list. Please correct the citation, add the reference to the list, or delete the citation. ; NCAT, 2014 ).
Published in Chapter: Ready-to-Teach Online Courses: Understanding Faculty Roles and Attitudes; From: Handbook of Research on Building, Growing, and Sustaining Quality E-Learning Programs
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Chapter 1
Web 2.0, Social Media, and Mobile Technologies for Connected Government
This is one of the often-sought property of software and hardware systems that can improve functionality, performance, and speed by adding or removing more processors, memory, and other resources. Scalability can be horizontal or vertical .
Published in Chapter: Web 2.0, Social Media, and Mobile Technologies for Connected Government; From: Web 2.0 and Cloud Technologies for Implementing Connected Government
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Chapter 2
Cloud Computing Technologies for Connected Digital Government
This is a one of the often-sought property of software and hardware systems that can improve performance and speed of processing by adding or removing more processors, memory, and other resources. Scalability can be horizontal or vertical .
Published in Chapter: Cloud Computing Technologies for Connected Digital Government; From: Web 2.0 and Cloud Technologies for Implementing Connected Government
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Chapter 309
Ten Scalability Factors in Distance Education
The ability to increase enrollment while still remaining profitable, or at least financially self-sustaining, without adversely affecting course and program quality.
Published in Chapter: Ten Scalability Factors in Distance Education; From: Encyclopedia of Distance Learning, Second Edition
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Chapter 85
Characteristics and Technologies of Advanced CNC Systems
The facility which an existing system’s performance can be increased or decreased in the application demand.
Published in Chapter: Characteristics and Technologies of Advanced CNC Systems; From: Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Second Edition
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Chapter 8
Enhancing Learner-Centered Instruction through Tutorial Management Using Cloud Computing
The ability of a system, network, or process to handle a growing amount of work in a capable manner.
Published in Chapter: Enhancing Learner-Centered Instruction through Tutorial Management Using Cloud Computing; From: Handbook of Research on Transformative Digital Content and Learning Technologies
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Chapter 32
A Novel Secure Video Surveillance System Over Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
A property of a system, a network, or a process that can be modified to fit the problem area, that is, scaled to perform well with large-scale users.
Published in Chapter: A Novel Secure Video Surveillance System Over Wireless Ad Hoc Networks; From: Handbook of Research on Wireless Security
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Chapter 20
Towards the Integration of Trajectory Information Sources for Semantic Conflicts Detection Purpose: A Trajectory Ontology Based Approach
Scalability is more than many user accesses at runtime; it also implies the requirement of a scalable foundation (and therefore scalable methodology) for representing ontological contents itself.
Published in Chapter: Towards the Integration of Trajectory Information Sources for Semantic Conflicts Detection Purpose: A Trajectory Ontology Based Approach; From: Handbook of Research on Geographic Information Systems Applications and Advancements
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Chapter 11
Self-Managed System for Distributed Wireless Sensor Networks: A Review
It means network grows/shrinks with increasing/decreasing network load.
Published in Chapter: Self-Managed System for Distributed Wireless Sensor Networks: A Review; From: Handling Priority Inversion in Time-Constrained Distributed Databases
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Chapter 1
A Business Perspective on Non-Functional Properties for Services
Service scalability considers how quickly the service capacity can change, and the limits on service capacity.
Published in Chapter: A Business Perspective on Non-Functional Properties for Services; From: Handbook of Research on Service-Oriented Systems and Non-Functional Properties: Future Directions
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Chapter 9
Analyzing the Security Susceptibilities of Biometrics Integrated with Cloud Computing
Scalability is the ability of a system to adapt to its own expansion while displaying increased efficiency. In other words, if additional network resources are added to a system, a higher level of productivity can be expected. If this is untrue, then the system is not considered scalable.
Published in Chapter: Analyzing the Security Susceptibilities of Biometrics Integrated with Cloud Computing; From: Handbook of Research on Securing Cloud-Based Databases with Biometric Applications
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Chapter 10
Internet of Things Application for Intelligent Cities: Security Risk Assessment Challenges
Property of a system to handle a growing/reducing amount of work by adding or removing resources to the system.
Published in Chapter: Internet of Things Application for Intelligent Cities: Security Risk Assessment Challenges; From: Developing and Monitoring Smart Environments for Intelligent Cities
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Chapter 2
Computer Architectures and Programming Models: How to Exploit Parallelism
Capability of the system to increase the delivered performance proportionally to the number of added resources.
Published in Chapter: Computer Architectures and Programming Models: How to Exploit Parallelism; From: Developing Linear Algebra Codes on Modern Processors: Emerging Research and Opportunities
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Chapter 9
Routing in Vehicular Delay Tolerant Networks: A Comparision
For scalability, routing algorithm should work effectively in sparse and dense, both type of networks.
Published in Chapter: Routing in Vehicular Delay Tolerant Networks: A Comparision; From: Cloud-Based Big Data Analytics in Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks
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Chapter 14
Big Data Processing and Big Analytics
The ability of a system, network, or process to handle a growing amount of work in a capable manner or its ability to be enlarged to accommodate that growth.
Published in Chapter: Big Data Processing and Big Analytics; From: Emerging Technologies and Applications in Data Processing and Management
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Chapter 2
Empowering Scalability Through Resource Optimisation for Fuelling Startups Growth
The ability of a business to grow more sustainably, scalable quickly within an acceptable time frame, to grow and generate higher revenue without being held back by their structure or lack of resources
Published in Chapter: Empowering Scalability Through Resource Optimisation for Fuelling Startups Growth; From: Ecosystem Dynamics and Strategies for Startups Scalability
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Chapter 658
A Study of Contemporary System Performance Testing Framework
A measure of the capability of a system to increase its total output under an increased load when resources (typically hardware) are added.
Published in Chapter: A Study of Contemporary System Performance Testing Framework; From: Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Fourth Edition
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Chapter 17
Middleware for Preserving Privacy in Big Data
The ability to meet an increasing workload demand by incrementally adding a proportional amount of resource capacity.
Published in Chapter: Middleware for Preserving Privacy in Big Data; From: Handbook of Research on Cloud Infrastructures for Big Data Analytics
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Chapter 4
Routing Protocols in Wireless Sensor Networks
The ability of a sensor network to always perform equally irrespective of the increasing or decreasing size of the network. It is an important factor in WSN because there are thousand number of nodes present in the network.
Published in Chapter: Routing Protocols in Wireless Sensor Networks; From: Handbook of Research on Advanced Wireless Sensor Network Applications, Protocols, and Architectures
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Chapter 1
A Survey on Swarm Robotics
The system is adaptable for different size of population without any modification of the software or hardware which is very useful for real-life applications.
Published in Chapter: A Survey on Swarm Robotics; From: Handbook of Research on Design, Control, and Modeling of Swarm Robotics
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Chapter 7
The Mapping of Inclusion: A Digital Teaching Innovation to Tame a Fuzzy Concept
A concept which refers to the extra effort which needs to be invested in order to accommodate an extra user. While a book needs to be printed and – for a second user – printed a second time (with additional production costs), a video for instance is unlimited in its scalability.
Published in Chapter: The Mapping of Inclusion: A Digital Teaching Innovation to Tame a Fuzzy Concept; From: Innovative Digital Practices and Globalization in Higher Education
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Chapter 3
Software-Based Media Art: From the Artistic Exhibition to the Conservation Models
Is an attribute of a tool or a system to increase its capacity and functionalities based on its users' demand. Scalable software can remain stable while adapting to changes, upgrades, overhauls, and resource reduction.
Published in Chapter: Software-Based Media Art: From the Artistic Exhibition to the Conservation Models; From: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on New Media Art
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Chapter 22
Security and Trust in a Global Research Infrastructure
Scalability refers to the ability of the trusted infrastructure to scale, usually in terms of the number of participants. A secondary aspect of scalability is scaling geographically, as scaling beyond national boundaries often poses certain problems. As discussed in section 3, scalability should be seen from the perspective of the individual participant making bilateral trust decisions, as well as the total scale of the infrastructure and its ability to grow. It is the purpose of this chapter to give guidelines for building trusted infrastructures that will grow to a global scale.
Published in Chapter: Security and Trust in a Global Research Infrastructure; From: Handbook of Research on Computational Science and Engineering: Theory and Practice
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Chapter 330
Integration of MES and ERP
Understood as the ability to incorporate into the existing system additional resources or meet diverse quality requirements.
Published in Chapter: Integration of MES and ERP; From: Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Second Edition
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Chapter 4
The Emergence of Cryptography in Blockchain Technology
A blockchain system's ability to accommodate an increasing number of transactions or participants without sacrificing performance, speed, or security.
Published in Chapter: The Emergence of Cryptography in Blockchain Technology; From: Concepts, Technologies, Challenges, and the Future of Web 3
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Chapter 11
Aligning Children's Books With Digital Tools for Reader Response: The Text, the Tech, and the Task
The act of adapting an existing program designed to serve a specific population into one that can effectively serve another population of differing size, age ranges, educational conditions, or locations. An example is scaling a program designed for 20 students in a rural school district to one that serves students in a large urban district.
Published in Chapter: Aligning Children's Books With Digital Tools for Reader Response: The Text, the Tech, and the Task; From: Handbook of Research on Integrating Digital Technology With Literacy Pedagogies
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Chapter 58
Implementing Varied Discussion Forums in E-Collaborative Learning Environments
Frequently used as a magic incantation to indicate that something is badly designed or broken. Often you hear in a discussion “but that doesn’t scale” as the magical word to end an argument. This is often an indication that developers are running into situations where the architecture of their system limits their ability to grow their service. If scalability is used in a positive sense it is in general to indicate a desired property, as in “our platform needs good scalability.”
Published in Chapter: Implementing Varied Discussion Forums in E-Collaborative Learning Environments; From: Encyclopedia of E-Collaboration
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Chapter 67
Scalable Reservation-Based QoS Architecture (SRBQ)
The ease with which a system or component can handle increased dimensions of the problem it is designed to solve.
Published in Chapter: Scalable Reservation-Based QoS Architecture (SRBQ); From: Encyclopedia of Internet Technologies and Applications
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Chapter 6
Towards Connected Government Services: A Cloud Software Engineering Framework
This is a one of the often-sought property of software and hardware systems that can improve performance and speed by adding or removing more processors, memory, and other resources. Scalability can be horizontal or vertical .
Published in Chapter: Towards Connected Government Services: A Cloud Software Engineering Framework; From: Web 2.0 and Cloud Technologies for Implementing Connected Government
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Chapter 5
Implementing a Personalized Learning Initiative
The ability to replicate a process or function in a larger capacity.
Published in Chapter: Implementing a Personalized Learning Initiative; From: Evaluation of Principles and Best Practices in Personalized Learning
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Chapter 9
Privacy-Centric Approach in Leveraging Federated Learning for Improved Parkinson's Disease Diagnosis
The ability of a system or algorithm to handle larger datasets, more clients, or increased computational demands without compromising performance.
Published in Chapter: Privacy-Centric Approach in Leveraging Federated Learning for Improved Parkinson's Disease Diagnosis; From: Pioneering Smart Healthcare 5.0 with IoT, Federated Learning, and Cloud Security
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Chapter 2
Multi-Threaded Architectures: Evolution, Costs, Opportunities
is the ability of a system, network, or process, to handle growing amounts of work in a graceful manner or its ability to be enlarged to accommodate that growth. For example, it can refer to the capability of a system to increase total throughput under an increased load when resources (typically hardware) are added.
Published in Chapter: Multi-Threaded Architectures: Evolution, Costs, Opportunities; From: Handbook of Research on Computational Science and Engineering: Theory and Practice
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Chapter 157
In-Memory Analytics
It is the capability of a system to handle bigger workloads without compromising performance.
Published in Chapter: In-Memory Analytics; From: Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Fourth Edition
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