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Soft computing can be a very attractive alternative to a purely digital system, but there are many traps waiting for researchers trying to apply this new exciting technology. For nonlinear processing both neural networks and fuzzy systems can be used. Terrifically neural networks should provide much better solutions: smoother surfaces, larger number of inputs and outputs, better generalization abilities,...
The collaborative networks paradigm can empower enterprises with the needed agility and survival capability to face market turbulence. However, the success and sustainability of collaboration requires proper understanding and modeling of the involved behavioral aspects, a basis for sound development of support tools and governance mechanisms. Therefore a set of relevant behavior-related issues are...
Radical changes are expected to occur in the next years in the electricity domain and the grid itself which has been almost unchanged the last 100 years. Value is created when interactions exist and this is the main thrust of the emerging SmartGrid which will heavily rely on IT technologies at several layers for monitoring and control. The basic building blocks are the existing efforts in the domain...
The KOMOBAR project utilizes a software agent based approach to create a decision support system for the purpose of optimizing logistic processes in the agricultural domain. This domain requires a flexible approach, which has the ability to work decentralized. The paper explains an architecture for software agent based decentralised decision support structures and discusses the problems of mobile...
KNX is an European and International communication standard for home and building automation; it has been recently updated by the definition of KNXnet/IP system, which allows integration of different KNX networks through an IP network used as fast backbone. Integration is realised by a particular device called KNXnet/IP Router. Due to the very limited transmission speeds foreseen for the KNX networks,...
This paper studies gradient routing with two-hop information for industrial wireless sensor network to enhance real-time performance with energy efficiency. The two-hop information routing is adopted as that in two-hop velocity based routing and the proposed routing algorithm is based on the number of hops to sink instead of distance. Furthermore, an acknowledgement control scheme reduces energy consumption...
OPC Unified Architecture (OPC UA) is a new standard for communication between information and automation systems, and devices. One possible application area for OPC UA is communication between intelligent automation devices and information systems. In this paper an approach is presented for utilizing OPC UA in conjunction with Service-Oriented Application Integration (SOAI) of Enterprise Asset Management...
This paper discusses how to detect the inquiry e-mails corresponding to pre-defined FAQs(Frequently Asked Questions). Web-based interaction such as orders and registration form on a web page is usually provided with its FAQ page for helping a user, however, most users submit their inquiry e-mails without checking such pages. Help desk operators must spend lots of time on replying to process lots of...
We address generating efficiently goal-oriented scenarios that are based on initial values and lead to goal values. These scenarios are generated with qualitative and quantitative hybrid simulation, which propagates the effect from initial values by Monte Carlo Simulation. Because the most of scenarios do not often lead to the goal value, we take an approach to combine the scenarios by hybrid simulation...
Action planning is important for autonomous systems since the capacity to find a solution for a particular problem determines the degree of system autonomy. When designing an action planning system for real world domains, hierarchical systems offer a promising way to split complex planning goals in clearly-arranged sub-goals. Although dividing problems into chunks depicts a performance adequate approach...
As modern industrial processes become more and more complex, machine learning is increasingly used to gain additional knowledge about the process from production data. Up to now these methods are usually based on correlations between process parameters and hence cannot describe cause-effect relationships. To overcome this problem we propose a hybrid (constraint and scoring-based) structure learning...
The novel approach to use meta-psychology — the theoretic foundation of psychoanalysis — as archetype for a decision making framework for autonomous agents was realized in simulations recently. In addition, multiple studies showed the capability of a robot to sense and interact in its environment. This work fills the gap between sensing, environmental interaction and decision making by grounding these...
The objective of this work is the model-free diagnosis of faults of motor pumps installed on oil rigs by sophisticated kernel classifier ensembles. Signal processing of vibrational patterns delivers the features. Different kernel-based classifiers are combined in ensembles to optimize accuracy and increase robustness. A comparative study of various classification paradigms, all performing implicit...
On-demand digital printing is an example of emerging personalized manufacturing services. It provides unique opportunities to automate the printing process, enhance productivity, and better utilize resources such as equipment, servers and IT infrastructure. In this work, we present a unified solution approach to solve an important optimization problem in digital printing, viz., simultaneous mapping...
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