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This paper presents a case study concerning the forecasting of monthly retail time series recorded by the US Census Bureau from 1992 to 2016. The modeling problem is tackled in two steps. First, original time series are de-trended by using a moving windows averaging approach. Subsequently, the residual time series are modeled by Non-linear Auto-Regressive (NAR) models, by using both Neuro-Fuzzy and...
In today's financial markets, where most trades are performed in their entirety by electronic means and the largest fraction of them is completely automated, an opportunity has risen from analyzing this vast amount of transactions. Since all the transactions are recorded in great detail, investors can analyze all the generated data and detect repeated patterns of the price movements. Being able to...
Due to degradation effects, electric vehicle batteries (EVBs) have a lifetime of approximately ten years in electric vehicles (EVs). Recycling EVBs is inefficient and ecologically undesirable if the batteries can be repurposed to second life scenarios. Decision support systems (DSSs) can be implemented to identify the best second life scenario for which to repurpose individual batteries. However,...
Although organizations have widely adopted Business Process Management Systems (BPMS) as an automation and integration middleware, these systems remain limited in their orchestration capabilities. BPMS can only react to event information that enterprise applications emit and only integrate against the service interfaces these applications provide. At the same time, organizations increasingly leverage...
In enterprises, different business processes collaborate to achieve a common business goal. The processes involved in such a collaboration are connected to each other in one-to-one, one-to-many, and many-to-many relationships. The complex interdependencies between these processes require proper process coordination. Current approaches addressing process coordination rely on message exchanges between...
Business processes, as the instruments used by organisations to produce value, need to comply with a number of internally and externally imposed standards and restrictions. Since the majority of such processes involve the exchange of sensitive third party information, their compliance to security constraints needs to be verified before they can be implemented. Current attempts for the verification...
Household audience ratings are the currency of the television broadcasting business. Information communication technology has rapidly changed television viewing since the beginning of this century, and the reproducibility of audience ratings as media indicators is beginning to be questioned. This is because television viewing through various devices must be considered, due to the decline of simultaneous...
Most often, if a new product is complex, a unique company doesn't have all the competences or means to achieve alone its development. In this case alliances must be formed to carry on the development project. However, alliances often meet difficulties in achieving their objectives. That is mainly due to difficulties of communication between partners, or to missing skills or means required to go further...
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