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Cloud computing is a model that offers on-demand computational resources to clients as services. In this concept, users are charged based on a pay-per-use business model. Therefore, it dramatically reduces operating costs associated with the maintenance of the local data center. Recently, database is provided as a service to fulfill clients' demand. Following this, companies can rely on a remote database...
A major approach for formalizing business policies or compliance rules (e.g., stemming from regulatory laws or standards) are behavioral constraints. Flexible business process management approaches such as Adaptive Case Management provide business users the necessary freedom to react to unforeseeable circumstances by ad-hoc changes, but behavioral constraints are often defined and maintained on a...
Tactical Networks is typical Ad Hoc Network. Its structure leads to relative fixation for hierarchy and clustering. In order to maintain the cluster stabilization and network function in particular cases, Group leader election can be reached by address list message and connectedness message.
The scale and quantity of the domestic engineering construction increase continuously with the developing and good operation of the state economy. At the same time, the degree and scope of financing have constantly deepened. The executive meetings of the State Council in 2014 indicated that innovation mechanism of investment and financing should be promoted and PPP financing mode deserved to be widely...
Medical devices with measuring functions play a crucial role in diagnostics and treatment of patients is health care establishments. Both the testing and manufacturing guidelines laid out in the medical devices directive MDD 93/42, as well as the recommendations for electrical medical equipment in IEC 60601 and IEC 62353 are largely not implemented. The majority of the guidelines that are being followed...
In the last fifteen years, Brazilian companies software developers promoted mainly through government initiatives, the improvement in their processes through the implementation of software quality models. This contributed to the increase of national companies certified in MPS.Br SW, CMMI and other models. However, some problems persist in the creation and maintenance of software process in these companies...
This paper presents and discusses an Enterprise Rights Management System (ERM) tailored for remote maintenance facilities which features secure on-site documentation storage and availability, strong data provider control over access policy and their enforcement, minimal documentation disclosure and strong and ergonomic operator authentication by means of biometric measurements. The design approach...
Reducing grid reliability, the problem of Preparation important loads in times of critical and Production shortfall during peak hours are the factors that lead to the development of load demand response program by electric Power distribution (EPDC). Given that almost one-third of the electricity consumed in the industrial sector and the many industries are able to change their production cycle with...
This paper elaborates the stages of ERP implementation in terms of critical success factors in small and medium-sized enterprises in Croatia. These stages and their associated success factors were evaluated by company executives, implementation managers and advanced users. The implementation is an extremely critical process especially in small companies which have limited resources, particularly human...
Improving the quality of data is a crucial task for business, health, and scientific data. Several data cleaning algorithms have been translated into tools to identify and repair data errors such as outlying values, duplicate records, typos, missing values, and violations of rules in general [1], [2], [3], [4].
Although design is a problem that has been addressed in the literature, maintaining, upgrading and expanding energy distribution networks along the entire life-cycle is a topic that has received scarce attention. The problem includes considering the long-term dependence of the efficiency of the investments along their life span. This work presents a novel model for the optimization of energy distribution...
Electricity distribution network companies' activities and managerial decisions depend substantially on the applied regulatory methodology. The impact of different regulatory methodologies on different results like security of supply, investors' attractiveness and network tariffs level has been evaluated. The rate of return method has been used for the regulation of the electricity network tariffs...
The diversity of components in electricity distribution grids makes it impossible, or at least very expensive, to deploy monitoring and fault diagnostics to every individual element. Therefore, power distribution companies are looking for cheap and reliable approaches that can help them to estimate the condition of their assets and to predict the when and where the faults may occur. In this paper...
Product platforms are well-established in many industries in order to offer a wide variety of products while realizing economies of scale on the inside for development and production. Nevertheless a study performed by Laboratory for Machine Tools and Production Engineering (WZL) of RWTH Aachen University shows that most companies do not use release management to systematically introduce technical...
Maintenance activities, both corrective and preventive, are initially conducted by maintenance department in each company. Currently, some companies implement outsourcing strategies in performing maintenance activities. Outsourcing is the delegation of business functions in total or partial to other companies in conjunction with the administrative and operational activities. One of the advantages...
A hospital equipment company that has large market must maintain their competitiveness both in terms of the quality, price, number of employees, timeliness of delivery, the expansion of marketing, technology development, et all. Problems that faced by hospital equipment companies in Indonesia are often running out of stock of one of the actuator motor parts of the electric bed product. Motor actuator...
The advent of autonomous drones has initiated serious discussions about safety, accuracy, and reliability. Teams around the world are working on systems that enable unmanned flying delivery systems that can deliver the morning newspaper, your morning coffee, or packages from your favorite retailer directly to your current location. If you were assigned to one of these teams as the reliability engineer...
Software companies are increasingly moving to use Kanban after Scrum since Kanban claimed to offer improved project visibility, software quality, team motivation, communication and collaboration. However, empirical studies are needed to verify these effects and companies' real motivation for the transition. In particular, underlying reasons leading software companies to start using Kanban in software...
The agent technology arises as a solution that provides flexibility and robustness to address dynamic and complex domains. Such flexibility can be achieved by the adoption of existing agent-based approaches, such as the BDI architecture, which provides agents with the mental attitudes of beliefs, desires and intentions. This architecture is highly customisable, leaving gaps to be fulfilled in particular...
In order to continue survive in today's competitive business environment, the key to success for many manufacturing companies is productivity. In response to the external pressure of global competition, many firms were compelled to implement and focus on productivity improvement. Numerous quality management approaches and tools such as Toyota Production System (TPS), Total Productive Maintenance (TPM),...
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