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In all customer based industries, customer churn is considered as one of the most important and challenging concerns since it can lead to a serious profit loss. Therefore, developing accurate churn prediction models can significantly help Customer Relationship Management in planning effective retention campaigns and consequently helps in maximizing the profit of the service provider. In this paper,...
Design automation (DA) research has for over fifty years been performed in academia, semiconductor and system companies, and EDA companies worldwide. This research has been enabling to continued scaling of design productivity and growth of the semiconductor industry. For product companies, funding program managers and individual researchers alike, a highly relevant question is: what DA research, and...
In the field of nuclear engineering, national colleges have been carrying out important roles with about 10 % of graduates obtaining jobs in nuclear related companies. Although national colleges do not have special courses and classes for nuclear engineering, we have been trying to educate our students in cooperation with universities and industries through the activities of the Japan Nuclear Human...
Currently, the electricity demand is exponentially increasing due to the population growth. Therefore, the demand side management (DSM) is becoming unavoidable especially with the increasing use of renewable energy sources. One of the most known tactics of DSM is the use pricing strategies to threaten users to schedule their loads by controlling their own appliances. In this paper, a new model of...
Demand Response (DR) is considered an effective mechanism by utilities worldwide to address demand supply mismatch and reduce energy consumption, peak load and emissions. Consumer participation is central to realize the full potential offered by DR programs. The communication between a utility company and consumers participating in DR is through DR messages. However, despite the importance of DR messages...
In this paper, we propose a secure and privacy-preserving communication scheme for power injection for the smart grid storage units. The idea is based on collecting masked bids from storage units at an aggregator and send aggregated bids to the utility rather than the individual ones. The utility company can ensure the integrity and authenticity of the aggregated bid without accessing the individual...
One key challenge in creating a sustainable society is to make consumer demand adaptive to the supply of electricity. We propose a generalization for the multiagent coordination algorithm for partially-centralized demand side management. In this setting, a central unit buys the electricity for the whole group, while the individual agents make their own demand decisions, based on their private constraints...
This paper discusses methods to identify individualusers across their digital devices as part of the ICDM 2015 competition hosted on Kaggle. The competition's data set and prize poolwere provided by http://www.drawbrid.ge/ in sponsorship withthe ICDM 2015 conference. The methods described in this paperfocuses on feature engineering and generic machine learningalgorithms like Extreme Gradient Boosting...
Health insurance companies wish to understand themain drivers behind changes in their costs to enable targeted and proactive management of their operations. This paper presents a comprehensive approach to cost change attribution that encompasses a range of factors represented in insurance transaction data, including medical procedures, healthcare provider characteristics, patient features, and geographic...
Demand response (DR) emerges as one of the cheapest and greenest solutions to match supply and demand in the electricity sector. While DR has been focused on large and industrial consumers, pervasive implementation (by including residential consumers) is needed to maximize its potential. This paper presents theoretical analysis of pervasive, incentive-based DR from the economics perspective. Our analysis...
We study a social network in which individuals make decisions influenced by a recommender as well as the previous actions taken by themselves or other users. The recommender aims to tailor its suggestions to maximize the benefit from utilizing social interactions. We refer to this benefit as the recommender's influence which, in essence, measures the value of controlling the specific suggestions offered...
Todays changing and competitive labor markets present a huge challenge for students in finding a suitable internship position or job. The paper presents a developed working prototype of an online module, which serves as a career center in connecting students with academic institutions and companies in an effort to find and manage internship positions and jobs. The paper presents an overview of current...
Socio-technical systems are systems where autonomous humans and computational entities collectively collaborate with each other to satisfy their goals in a dynamic environment. To be resilient, such systems need to adapt to unexpected human behaviours and exogenous changes in the environment. In this paper, we describe a framework for the development of social-technical systems where adaptation is...
Due to the global digitalization, fast shifting business models and short technology lifecycles, modern enterprises need a strategy how to deal with those unpredictable changes in order to stay competitive. The concept of capability driven management like capability-based-planning or investment gets more and more attention by executives and scientists. In the last decade IS and management journals...
Architectural Technical Debt is a metaphor for representing sub-optimal architectural solutions that might cause an interest, in terms of effort or quality, to be paid by the organization in the long run. Such metaphor has been regarded as useful for communicating risks of suboptimal solutions between technical and non-technical stakeholders. However, it's fundamental to understand the information...
The importance of linking efficiently the outputs of R&D processes with the business world has become evident. Researchers and practitioners have developed tools to help build business from a starting-point (business-idea) to the description of elements that make the business possible. The Business Model Canvas (BMC) identifies the essential parts of a business; it's applicability and simplicity...
A company's capability to be involved in science popularization plays a very important role in advancing the nation's innovation capability. Based on the definition of a nation's science popularization capabilities, the company's science popularization's capability is put forward. In addition the theoretical model and indicator system of a regional company's science popularization capability is also...
This paper describes an experimental approach for determining the more important EMC immunity test stressors for EMC HALT (Highly Accelerated Limit Test) immunity test on a given test object. The more relevant stressors are chosen based upon a large number of collected EMC test data, EMC design rules and design statements that are selected through a Grounded Theory research process. “Grounded” in...
After more than a decade of research in Global Software Engineering (GSE), organisations have a wealth of practices that they can draw on to support them in their global development activities. However, practitioners are now asking, "What is the current status of my GSE practices?", "How prepared is my company for GSE?", "What practices need improving?" We aim to give...
New societal challenges influence product development on different levels, from business strategies of companies to engineering activities. For instance, the extension of product centered development to Product-Service Systems including products, services, infrastructure, business models etc. demand specialists of different domains regarding the development of such solutions. Therefore, transdisciplinary...
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