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Globalization causes many challenges for companies in the branch of industrial production. The Project Business Layer Model uses a cybernetic approach as one step to deal with this problem. The central elements of this model are Business Processes which describe activities, tasks, and work steps to create products or services. Business Processes can be used to enable real-time optimization of the...
The objective of this paper is to present some discussions about data treatment in the new environment existing in the power systems and smart-grids. The paper presents some aspects of the data acquisition, communication, and security, and data amount, management, and mining. In this paper, some ideas are proposed to inspire discussions about the above themes. The goal of these discussions is to provide...
This paper aims to explore the effects of country risk, national culture, and market size in relation to the possibility of Chinese firms' entering main participating countries of “One Belt One Road”. Drawing on a sample of market entry decisions by 3748 different Chinese business groups to 52 “One Belt One Road” main participating countries, we find that country risk and national culture are uncertainty...
This paper applies the sample of the Chinese listed companies during 2004 to 2010, and tests the effect of managerial power in executive compensation contracts by analyzing the relationship between managerial power and compensation levels. We find that managerial power not only has a significant positive effect on actual compensation, but also plays an important role in the behavior of getting excess...
Currently companies need database engines able to process and store massive quantity of data. Traditional databases due to the large amount of unstructured data have trouble processing this amount of data in an acceptable time for businesses. To solve these problems recently emerged the NoSQL databases, offering great performance, flexibility and scalability. In this paper we evaluate the performance...
This work proposes a new method to identify non-technical losses in typical Electrical Power Distribution Systems (EPDS). Aiming to improve the efficiency of on-site inspection for fraudulent clients, the consumers are classified in suspects and non-suspects using the Optimum-Path Forest (OPF) classifier. The authors propose an improvement to this method using results of a Distribution State Estimator...
Based on the analysis of some typical ship database, such as Fairplay, Global Integrated Shipping Information System, Etal, which have been established and used widely, this paper puts forward the ensemble theory framework design of ship safety database. Firstly, the paper analyses data requirements and performance requirements of ship safety database. Then the paper accomplished the system function...
The exploration of clinical registries is the subject of many large-scale projects. The overarching goal behind existing initiatives is to uncover the full potential behind patient-level data, leading to a better understanding of diseases and treatments effectiveness. In this work we performed a review of well-known large-scale initiatives, strategies and projects where the exploration of patient-level...
Big Data analytics and Cloud Computing are the new trending that submerged the IT industry. In fact, Big Data technology is providing methods and tools for storing managing and analyzing a large amount of data, and cloud computing provides IT services in a scalable way via internet to a number of clients at low costs. While big data environment requires powerful cluster infrastructure, new ideas about...
Technologic strategy modes are ambiguous based on different vary analysis approaches and technologic indicators. This research tries to figure out the technologic strategy modes based on the two indicators of technologic knowledge status and technologic knowledge reliability, and four centralities (Degree, Eigenvector, Closeness and Betweenness centrality) of technologic network by technologic network...
Pressure of emerging countries, environmental protection and industrial companies' interests are pushing European companies towards new trends and paradigms such as sustainable manufacturing. Sustainability is now considered a strategic must-have and it can enable a profitability in the long run. One way to pursue sustainability is to implement a product life cycle approach, especially in the capital...
Non-practising entities, also known as NPEs, adopt lawsuits to collect authorization payments or/and settlement payments as their business models. Ascertaining which patent portfolio or patent layout and purchase strategy are suitable is an important topic of discussion for the NPEs who value operational performance. This study adopts the DigiTude company, an NPE, as the case study, exploring the...
The Metrics Grimoire system is composed by a set of tools designed to retrieve data from repositories related to software development. Their aim is to produce organized databases suitable for easy querying with research and industrial purposes. The data in those databases have a similar structure, to easy cross-database studies, and can be enriched with information such as linkage of the multiple...
Financial services companies are concerned with identifying when customers have moved because of customer service and marketing concerns. Knowing when customers have moved can create opportunities for these companies to better market their financial products and provide improved customer service. This paper focuses on identifying features of customers who have moved for the purpose of predicting customer...
Nowadays, every company could understand how its business evolves from the data (deluge) generated by its activities. Roughly speaking, two types of data co-exist: historical data and real-time data from which business analysts have to take their decisions in a timely fashion. In this context, the notions of time (application time and transaction time) and traceability turn out to play a crucial role...
This study investigates airline passenger behavior by analyzing three types of travel data: passenger name record (PNR), share of wallet (SOW) and webtrends. First, PNR archives the airline travel itinerary for individual passenger and a group of passengers traveling together. Usually, passengers and their accompaniers are close to each other, such as families, friends, lovers, colleagues and so on...
In this research, we built the fire fighting support system for supporting the fire fighting of the volunteer fire company. This system is the mobile application based on Web-GIS. By using this system, the fire corps volunteers can confirm the fire fighting water sources around the fire site in real time. In fire fighting, secure of the fire fighting water sources are the most important. Therefore,...
The selection and application of biometrics traits for authentication and identification have recently attracted a significant amount of research interest. In this paper we investigate the use of keystroke data to distinguish between humans using keystroke biometric systems and non-humans for auditing application. Recently, Benford’s Law and Zipf’s Law, which are both discrete Power law probability...
Data de-duplication has an important role in reducing storage consumption to make it affordable to manage in today's explosive data growth. Numerous DD methodologies like chunking and, delta encoding are available to optimize the use of storage. These technologies approach DD at file and/or sub-file level but this approach has never been optimal for NoSQL DBs. This method proposes data De-Duplication...
Model Driven Engineering (MDE) gives new insights into software engineering and software development. This approach is quite new and it still is the subject of discussion concerning its efficiency and usefulness. However, MDE approach becomes more and more popular among researchers and developers. That is why it is being introduced into curricula by many universities. MDE proposes a new way of software...
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