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Establishment of an improved model for assessing criticality of waste in maintenance operation strongly supports the creation of sustainable manufacturing. However, contribution of previous maintenance engineering studies to above issue is very limited. If any, it is very few intended to create a model for ranking criticality of maintenance waste using risk management tool. In spite of the fact that...
The application of time series analysis and forecasting to stock markets is particularly relevant to Technical Analysis, which uses historical values to obtain indicators that highlight possible trends in stock prices. In practice, most of these indicators are evaluated graphically and their direct impact on the quality of stock price forecasting has not been appraised so far. Therefore, the impact...
Ordinary Lapillus has been thought as an aggregate though, it in this study, it is considered of particulate and being developed based on powder particle technology. The purpose of this study is guaranteeing safety of workers, improving working efficiency and minimization damage to farmlands. We are developing lapillus conveying system. This paper describes the detailed design of the Conveying System,...
The location selection of distribution centers is one of important strategies to optimize the logistics system. To solve this problem, this paper presents a new multi-actor multi-attribute decision-making method based on ELECTRE I. The proposed method helps decision-makers to select a preferred location from a given set of locations for implementing. The strength of the proposed method is to incorporate...
To understand connectivity among companies in financial news, and their overall influence, we define an algorithm for ranking companies in networks of positive, negative and mixed co-occurrences. We collect a homogeneous set of financial articles from crowd sourced news to get a sentiment polarization between positive and negative news. We use this polarization to develop three types of sentiment...
This paper studies the relationship between China stock market performances and investors' attention, where the attention is measured by the page view of China's largest stock forum. The results show that trading volume, intraday volatility and liquidity have positive effects on investors' attention, while the effects of stock return to the attention is not significant. Finally, we demonstrate that...
Globalization and highly competitive business environment are pushing many organizations to realize numerous productivity improvement efforts in order to continue to survive. To gain competitive advantage, manufacturing organizations are compelled to adopt productivity enhancement programs such as total quality management (TQM), total productive maintenance (TPM), lean manufacturing concept to achieve...
This paper proposes a methodology based in fuzzy opinion under group decision making, to obtain a single index of sustainability and indicate the best actions to improve this index. This proposed methodology was implemented in a software system that provides managers with an important computational support to detect problems and implement actions to improve processes in all areas of the company, aiming...
Each company continually has to choose the projects in which to invest, among the numerous proposals submitted by company departments. Just a few projects among those put forward for funding can be actually accepted, due to the unavoidable discrepancy between available money and required investments. Though overall profit maximization could appear as the natural allocation goal, it is to be considered...
Use cloud service to share inventory resource in traditional garments industry, it will allow the staffs to focus on its core business and thus helps it to become more competitive. This article intends to establish a set of indexes for evaluating outsourced cloud service systems in terms of three aspects, i.e. supply, demand and supervision. We then apply Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) to collect...
In this work a medium-sized port is analysed, which acts as a mixed network, interacting with private companies, trade associations, social groups and components of the State. Each public and private actor declares strategic phrases and rubrics in his/her mission, they can relate to the political, economic, social, technological and environmental multi-criteria macro-environment classification (PESTA)...
This paper introduces an agent based model for Frequency Activated Reserve Markets. Generation Units (GenUns) bid both prices and quantity in interconnected and dynamically congested Market Areas in order to reach their optimal production point. The units are limited by their spare capacity after their actions on the spot market. Generation Companies (GenCos) manage the strategy portfolios of their...
Preserving important troubleshooting experience gained in industrial practice, often referred to as “tribal knowledge”, and making it readily available to be re-applied in similar situations represent a serious challenge for many companies in heavy industry. The solution is very often tied to building mental models to capture and express key latent cognitive variables. In this paper, we first attempt...
Influence on health behavior from peers is wellknown and it has been shown that participants in an onlinephysical activity promotion program are generally more successfulwhen they share their achievements through an onlinecommunity. However, more detailed insights are needed intothe mechanisms that explain the influence of a community onphysical activity level (PAL). This paper discusses a detailed...
Social media marketing (SMM) has become an essential means of marketing in various industries, however, the attitude of financial service industry is relatively conservative. This paper explores the influencing mechanism of SMM activities on relationship marketing outcomes via relationship quality, and investigates the moderating effects of culture value on the relationships between SMM and relationship...
In the case of electricity market reform, the electricity market is becoming increasingly active, and transacted electricity quantity is growing unceasingly and the tradable format is on the increase. Because of the limited energy resources, the level of transaction efficiency has become the focus of attention. In the face of resources diversity of electricity purchasing and selling, power grid carries...
This paper shows the application of a multi-criteria analysis method for prioritization of commercial and supply restoration services in an electricity distribution company. The methodology is based on the Macbeth algorithm and on a large amount of input parameters that are evaluated in order to set the relative importance of each service. This study is of great relevance and complexity because it...
The success or failure of a construction project depends largely on the contractor's performance since they are responsible for important activities in the building process. In this way, it is necessary to monitor the performance of the contractors who already working with the organization to control failures during the development of work. Due the complexity and necessity of considering various criteria...
Applying internet data to investor attention research is a trend now. This paper propose a new method to measure positive and negative investor attention paid to a certain industry by using of search data from search engine. We select keywords from a corpus of energy industry by text-analysis technique including TextRank algorithm instead of taking company names or stock tickers as keywords in previous...
Increased number of malware samples have created many challenges for Antivirus companies. One of these challenges is clustering the large number of malware samples they receive daily. Malware authors use malware generation kits to create different instances of the same malware. So most of these malicious samples are polymorphic instances of previously known malware family only. Clustering these large...
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