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Warehouse Management Systems (WMS) play a major role in optimizing warehouse logistic processes, archiving merchant trends of supply and demand, and also easen treating of goods which are close to expiring deadline, out of stock, broken or deposited by customers. Since warehouse management systems may be integrated with business intelligence, they may comprise algorithms for optimization of warehouse...
Implementing a successful warehouse management system from scratch contains many challenges of different nature. The most important aspect is the financial status of the company that is implementing the system. How many resources is the company willing to spend is always a difficult dilemma. The second important issue is the actual usefulness of the developed solution. If the system cannot be implemented...
Recommender systems (RS) performance largely depends on diverse types of input that characterize users' preference in the form of both explicit and implicit feedbacks. An explicit feedback is stated directly by an explicit input from users regarding their interest in some options of services or products. Such feedback, however, is not always available. On the other hand, an implicit feedback, which...
Despite widespread use of commercial anti-virus products, the number of malicious files detected on home and corporate computers continues to increase at a significant rate. Recently, anti-virus companies have started investing in machine learning solutions to augment signatures manually designed by analysts. A malicious file's determination is often represented as a hierarchical structure consisting...
In this paper, we describe a new teaching approach whose objective is to implement entrepreneurship-based learning. The proposed teaching approach is essentially a project-based approach, but, with two novel key components that give it the entrepreneurship emphasis. First, the main idea is to divide students into groups of four or five members and have each team go through the process of starting-up...
The Rising Sophomore Abroad Program (RSAP) is a program for first-year engineering students that combines a spring semester global engineering course with a two-week international module in May immediately following the semester. RSAP has been running for 10 years, and a variety of assessments have demonstrated benefits for students participating in the program. However, the goals of RSAP extend beyond...
Project monitoring poses a relevant role for project success and it is considered more fundamental in a distributed environment since it confronts additional risks such as culture, geographical, and temporal barriers. Recognizing the complexity and importance of a distributed project, it is vital that undergraduate students receive practical experience and are trained to face the obstacles this form...
This paper presents a Six Sigma approach for reducing the interruption in power distribution. The objective is to improve the overall service, reduce operating costs, and to increase customer satisfaction. A case study of current interruption in power distribution at a local utility company is used to illustrate the Six Sigma application. The company has been experiencing unexpected increase in power...
In the present day, developed economies that function on the basis of knowledge indicate better economic performance. Many studies have shown that one prerequisite for economic growth is the availability of information and new findings – when the conditions of creativity and high technology are also present (not only for companies but also for regions and entire economies). Economic players face ever...
Task allocations in collaboration are complex. This paper presents a challenging assignment problem, called Group Role Assignment with Agents' Busyness Degrees (GRAABD). The solution to this problem aims at creating a high-performance group by role assignment with consideration of the busyness degrees of agents. The contribution of this paper is the formalization of the proposed problem, a practical...
The aim of this study is to propose an information system that should help boost cooperation between business and academia and their innovativeness. Its novelty relies on introducing such a system architecture and business processes that allow implementing the paradigm of open innovation easily. More specifically, the proposed system: (i) automatically acquires data from the Internet and extracts...
Nowadays is well known the relevance of requirements engineering in software development processes. Regrettably, the correct application of the activities is living aside for some developer's teams. This study presents the priority given by software factories in Sinaloa, México. A set of software factories (25 in total) in Sinaloa were interviewed in order to obtain the relevance given for requirements...
A centralized system for thermal energy supply in Chisinau (CSTES) comprises thermal energy sources, namely two Combined Heat and Power stations (CHP) — Source1 and Source2 and two Heating Plants (HP West and HP South). Thermal energy transport and distribution from the above mentioned sources is provided through the appropriate loops by means of thermal thoroughfare network, distribution and in-house...
Supplier selection problems have been increasingly treated as multicriteria decision problems since evaluating them must take into account several objectives. In many problems, all criteria can be treated as order-winner factors. However, in some cases, the decision maker (DM) needs to consider qualifier factors as criteria. To allow the DM to include such factors, a veto function must be included...
Describing business processes by directed graphs is a common way for system designers, because it makes easier to realize how the process goes on. However the concept of serviceoriented architecture increased difficulty of the business process management system development, because the specification of the whole system and each software unit are different in general. Therefore, describing behavioral...
In task allocation problems one usually only considers a single round in which players participate. In practice, many allocation problems are of repeated nature, in which players can decide to keep participating or leave. Players' participation, or behavior, influences the outcome, or social welfare, of these problems. In this paper, we use a fuzzy connective to model agents' behavior in regard to...
Water supply management in urban areas is not simple because it involves several aspects that a decision-maker needs to address simultaneously. Due to their high complexity, problem structuring methods are adequate to provide a better understanding and to guide the decision-maker towards more assertive decisions. For this purpose, this work proposes the Value-Focused Thinking (VFT), an approach that...
Connected and automated driving vehicles have become a present and near future reality. There are already a slowly increasing number of trucks that do autonomous test drives on highways. Level 3 Highway Chauffeur applications are expected to be on the market as early as 2020 and Level 4 Highway Pilot applications are expected to be available around 2025. There is also a drive towards smarter cities...
E-recruitment sites such as LinkedIn, Reed, and Indeed have a huge number of professional resumes from job seekers and job openings posted by recruiters. In this situation, it is a very time-consuming task for job seekers to find job openings that are well matched to their careers and desired conditions. Accordingly, active studies on job recommendation (JR) have been conducted recently. In this paper,...
When Agile development meets critical embedded systems, verification, validation and accreditation activities are impacted. Challenges such as tests increase or accreditation documents production have to be managed in terms of time and resources. In this paper, we highlight these challenges and present a continuous integration ecosystem that aims to tackle these issues. We report on how this approach...
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