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In 1973, two noteworthy bilateral treaties (ITAIPU and YACYRETA) were signed between South American countries for the use of part of the shared hydroelectric potential in the Paraná River Basin. The international negotiations presented complexities of various kinds and resulted in an asymmetrical situation between Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil. The negotiations continued during the construction and...
A program at Iowa State University, Make to Innovate (M:2:I), allows students to work on real world engineering problems through a problem-based learning framework. Over the five years this program has been operating, observational data and student feedback have been collected identifying a potential issue with students' success in their projects. In most cases, this was not due to a lack of technical...
Soft skills are increasingly important to the engineering profession and course modifications are often needed to ensure students have opportunities to practice them prior to graduation. This suggests that engineering programs need to go beyond simply offering industry-based capstone courses and internships. Role-play has a long history as a tool for learning. It can be used to simulate real world...
This article aims to compare the educational effect of the Manga Case Method in offline and online environments. The Manga Case Method is an educational tool described by Manga. In this study, we used a manga case designed to improve learners' literacy when using social media in a company. We conducted experiments of the Manga Case Method in both offline and online environments. The results show that...
Social media is very important factor in analyzing modern society as a whole, their values, norms, and behaviors, as being a part of our everyday life. This study is oriented towards analyzing social media in order to allow users to create their own preferences to follow (analyze) a specific social media source. The web application has been developed to allow a user to follow specific Facebook accounts...
The use of Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) recently became famous in crowd localization services. In this article we show that such service induces significant threats and we propose a scheme that achieves privacy preserving crowd localization. Crowd localization applications leverage all their users to perform periodic BLE scan and detect the nearby tracked devices. The users run a smartphone application...
This work deals with modern trends in the design and development of monitoring and data acquisition systems for potentially explosive gases in underground sites, as well as implementing this kind of a system, with dedicated software, in mine openings made by Hidroconstructia Company in Buzau County.
With the growing installation of natural gas fired power plants (NGFPPs), more and more generation companies are engaging in both electricity and natural gas markets as big players simultaneously. Recognizing the inefficiencies caused by scheduling discontinuities between the two markets, studies on the improvement of the living natural gas market are emerging. This paper presents a bi-level bidding...
The introduction of the new situation of power industry reform program marks the formal launch of China's new round of power system reform. This paper focuses on the new electricity reform program, studies the impact of the new electricity reform on the grid investment, and discusses the investment principle and investment strategy of the new power reform. It is considered that the introduction of...
This paper presents a multicriteria nominal classification method derived from the concepts of PROMETHEE, which is then applied to problems characterized by minimum performance profiles (MMP) to determine categories. In order to illustrate the applicability of the proposal, this method is applied to classify relational attitudes in the context of IT outsourcing regarding an IT service contractor company...
In this paper, we evaluate methods of aggregating personal sensor data to estimate the degree of group stress. We compare the estimation accuracy of two aggregation methods, one without and one with personal distribution scaling. As a result of applying the data of 9 groups of people (105 people) to the methods, it is shown that the no-scaling method successfully estimates the degree of group stress...
It has become a general consensus that smart grid is one of the most important technical fields for big data technology application. Power network dispatching and planning is fundamental to power industry development and construction, however, massive power data is still manually filled in, dispatching method and planning design method relies heavily on experience and single data source. This paper...
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are used to inspect the performance and progress of businesses. This study introduces a new, integrated approach to manage KPIs in the context of decentralized information efficiently and to address the visual and managerial gaps existing in companies. The proposed Business Indicator Management (BIM) system is essential for any businesses to meet their needs in terms...
The purpose of this industrial brief is to introduce an information system named Inventorum, which implements the idea of open innovation. Its aim is to increase cooperation between business and academia and in this way boost economic competitiveness. The system recommends innovations, projects, experts, partners, and conferences to the users based on their profiles. Information is served in three...
The authors have held both academic and industrial research positions, and have designed and carried out many empirical studies of large software systems that were built and maintained in industrial environments. Their experiences show that the most crucial component of a successful study is the participation of at least one industrial collaborator who is committed to the study's goals and is able...
The authors of the article analyze the current situation in Russia in the area of foreign direct investment encouragement and capabilities of private consulting firms to facilitate encouragement of FDI, acting as an intermediary between investors and companies that require project financing.
“System analysis” and “target management” are two concepts that cover the whole direction of the development of science and the practice of production management. The achievements of technology and economics have forced to reject many obsolete theories and management techniques aimed at meeting the demand — the needs of people. Principal changes in management conditions both in state institutions...
The article is focused on issues of enhancing the methodological instruments of corporate governance. The concept of a new approach to quality assessment of a company's corporate governance is rationalized.
There are proposed company's capital structure models that can be used in an automated monitoring system and preliminary analysis of the risks of the company's assets financing. It is developed classification of the main structures of assets financing.
In 2006, the first Li-ion battery was installed in traction power supply system by West Japan Railway Company and now more than 20 energy storage systems have already installed in traction power supply system in Japan. In this article, the recent trend for regenerative energy utilization is summarized not only in d.c. railway but also a.c. railway. We, East Japan Railway Company, have installed 3...
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