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On-demand digital print service is a form of personalized manufacturing service. Key to the commercial print value-creation chain is the responsive and accurate knowledge discovery and decision making throughout the service engagement and fulfillment between the content suppliers and the print service providers (PSP). The business model of on-demand print imposes a great challenge to the PSP factory...
This paper presents a modeling approach based on fuzzy logic based system in order to analyze the economic sustainability of End of life vehicle (ELV) dismantlers under uncertainties. The proposed modeling approach with considering the different types of uncertainty including auto manufacturers design changes, technology market and regulations, provides a framework for auto manufacturers to evaluate...
Ecology and resource efficiency have achieved high relevance in industry, not only due to their economic effects. Thus, logistics planning is required to contribute to “green” initiatives. However, it still lacks appropriate methods and tools. Simulation represents a well-accepted method in logistics planning, for it can handle dynamics, stochastic effects and a high degree of complexity. In the context...
Developing and using models is an important skill employed by practicing engineers that is difficult to cultivate in students. One way to help students develop modeling capability is through feedback. Feedback has been shown to be effective in helping students close the gap between actual and desired performance. This case study investigates the effect of feedback on student teams' use of models in...
Malaysia is moving forward towards a developed country by the year 2020. Therefore, implementation of Private Financial Initiative (PFI) in Malaysia is really needed in order to improve the delivery and quality of infrastructure facilities and public services in this nation. The success of this program can only be made possible by healthy participation from both public and private sectors in Malaysia...
Choosing a farmland's ecological compensation mode with low transaction cost, consideration to both fairness and efficiency and easy operation fairness, efficiency and operability, realizing the market operation of farmland ecological products, which do not only influence the effect of the ecological compensation, but also are the key to a successful implementation of ecological compensation mechanism...
Indigenous knowledge is the basis for many remote, rural, and marginalized communities in society and as such, is an important component in the educational development of members within these communities. Due to many reasons, including colonization, a lack of understanding by hegemonic societies, and disparate knowledge systems (for example, orally based), there is a risk of this knowledge disappearing...
The field of educational technology considers the research of new models as well as the experimentation of new methods as one of the greatest challenges for educational designers. How can educators reach the Millennial students and provide a productive and engaging learning environment? Guided learning activities, like digital storytelling, help learners bridge the gap between the real context and...
The Personal Learning Environment (PLE) driven approach to learning suggests a shift in emphasis from a teacher driven knowledge-push to a learner driven knowledge pull learning model. One concern with knowledge-pull approaches is knowledge overload. Thus, there is a crucial need for knowledge filters to help learners cope with the problem of knowledge overload. In this paper, we present the details...
ICTs have a direct impact on the environment, consuming energy, materials and producing e-waste. But ICTs are the major enabling technology for mitigation of environmental impacts across all economic sectors. ICT applications and services can help limit energy use and material consumption. In other words ICTs can contribute in achieving more sustainable lifestyles, consumption and production. The...
The rapidly increasing use of mobile devices for sensing applications, and the growing amount of simulated data generated from simulation tools such as agent-based transport simulations results in massive spatiotemporal datasets. Therefore, the demand for applications to manage and to visualize this data effectively in an interactive and easily understandable way increases quickly. Spatiotemporal...
The behaviour of skin is still not well understood and characterising skin properties is always challenging due to its complex biological structure. Nevertheless, this paper highlights the success of determining skin material parameters using Ogden's model and finite element (FE) simulation. The approach involved integrating experiment, FE modelling and inverse-FE analysis. Data from in vivo experiments...
In order to solve the transformation problem of BOM from engineering BOM to maintenance BOM for MRO system (MRO, Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul), a formal transformation model of BOM view is established. In this model, the intermediate component, inherit component, virtual component are defined on the specific maintenance management domain, and the transformation process from engineering BOM to...
Abstract-The paper analyzes reactive power optimization problem in distribution system with garbage power plant. Two mathematical models which involve garbage incineration and city rubbish fuel cell are presented based on garbage heating value. A new model for reactive power optimization is proposed where garbage quantity is used as a additional control variable and garbage biggest processing capability...
The use of model-based cepstral features has been shown as an effective characterization of damaged materials tested with ultrasonic non-destructive evaluation (NDE) techniques. In this work, we focus our study on carbon-fiber reinforced polymer plates and show that the use of signal models with physical meaning can provide a cepstral representation with a high discriminative power. First, we introduce...
We consider the sparse sample goodness of fit problem, where the number of samples n is smaller than the size of the alphabet m. The generalized error exponent based on large deviation analysis was proposed to characterize the performance of tests, using the high-dimensional model in which both n and m tend to infinity and n = o(m). In previous work, the best achievable probability of error is shown...
This article describes how the fields of biometrics and forensic science can contribute and benefit from each other. The aim is to foster the development of new methods and tools improving the current forensic biometric applications and allowing for the creation of new ones. The article begins with a definition and a summary of the development in forensic biometrics. Then it describes the data and...
There are potential eco-efficiency benefits from ‘closing the loop’ in product life cycles. However, its implementation is not always straightforward especially for manufacturers of complex products such as electronic devices. They need to know how, where and when to close the loop in order to achieve the desired improvement in eco-efficiency. To help them do this, we propose a methodology that is...
In this paper, a Spinal unit otherwise known as vertebral column consists of 24 separate bony vertebrae together with 5 fused vertebrae, it is the unique interaction between the solid and fluid components that provide the disc the strength and flexibility required to bear loading of the lumbar spine. In this work Magnitude and Edge Length based Canny Edge Detection Algorithm has been proposed to pre...
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