28 research outputs found
Advances in Condition Monitoring, Optimization and Control for Complex Industrial Processes
The book documents 25 papers collected from the Special Issue “Advances in Condition Monitoring, Optimization and Control for Complex Industrial Processes”, highlighting recent research trends in complex industrial processes. The book aims to stimulate the research field and be of benefit to readers from both academic institutes and industrial sectors
Forecasting: theory and practice
Forecasting has always been in the forefront of decision making and planning.
The uncertainty that surrounds the future is both exciting and challenging,
with individuals and organisations seeking to minimise risks and maximise
utilities. The lack of a free-lunch theorem implies the need for a diverse set
of forecasting methods to tackle an array of applications. This unique article
provides a non-systematic review of the theory and the practice of forecasting.
We offer a wide range of theoretical, state-of-the-art models, methods,
principles, and approaches to prepare, produce, organise, and evaluate
forecasts. We then demonstrate how such theoretical concepts are applied in a
variety of real-life contexts, including operations, economics, finance,
energy, environment, and social good. We do not claim that this review is an
exhaustive list of methods and applications. The list was compiled based on the
expertise and interests of the authors. However, we wish that our encyclopedic
presentation will offer a point of reference for the rich work that has been
undertaken over the last decades, with some key insights for the future of the
forecasting theory and practice
Text mining and natural language processing for the early stages of space mission design
Final thesis submitted December 2021 - degree awarded in 2022A considerable amount of data related to space mission design has been accumulated
since artificial satellites started to venture into space in the 1950s. This data has today
become an overwhelming volume of information, triggering a significant knowledge
reuse bottleneck at the early stages of space mission design. Meanwhile, virtual assistants,
text mining and Natural Language Processing techniques have become pervasive
to our daily life.
The work presented in this thesis is one of the first attempts to bridge the gap
between the worlds of space systems engineering and text mining. Several novel models
are thus developed and implemented here, targeting the structuring of accumulated
data through an ontology, but also tasks commonly performed by systems engineers
such as requirement management and heritage analysis. A first collection of documents
related to space systems is gathered for the training of these methods. Eventually, this
work aims to pave the way towards the development of a Design Engineering Assistant
(DEA) for the early stages of space mission design. It is also hoped that this work will
actively contribute to the integration of text mining and Natural Language Processing
methods in the field of space mission design, enhancing current design processes.A considerable amount of data related to space mission design has been accumulated
since artificial satellites started to venture into space in the 1950s. This data has today
become an overwhelming volume of information, triggering a significant knowledge
reuse bottleneck at the early stages of space mission design. Meanwhile, virtual assistants,
text mining and Natural Language Processing techniques have become pervasive
to our daily life.
The work presented in this thesis is one of the first attempts to bridge the gap
between the worlds of space systems engineering and text mining. Several novel models
are thus developed and implemented here, targeting the structuring of accumulated
data through an ontology, but also tasks commonly performed by systems engineers
such as requirement management and heritage analysis. A first collection of documents
related to space systems is gathered for the training of these methods. Eventually, this
work aims to pave the way towards the development of a Design Engineering Assistant
(DEA) for the early stages of space mission design. It is also hoped that this work will
actively contribute to the integration of text mining and Natural Language Processing
methods in the field of space mission design, enhancing current design processes
Twelfth Annual Conference on Manual Control
Main topics discussed cover multi-task decision making, attention allocation and workload measurement, displays and controls, nonvisual displays, tracking and other psychomotor tasks, automobile driving, handling qualities and pilot ratings, remote manipulation, system identification, control models, and motion and visual cues. Sixty-five papers are included with presentations on results of analytical studies to develop and evaluate human operator models for a range of control task, vehicle dynamics and display situations; results of tests of physiological control systems and applications to medical problems; and on results of simulator and flight tests to determine display, control and dynamics effects on operator performance and workload for aircraft, automobile, and remote control systems
Social work with airports passengers
Social work at the airport is in to offer to passengers social services. The main
methodological position is that people are under stress, which characterized by a
particular set of characteristics in appearance and behavior. In such circumstances
passenger attracts in his actions some attention. Only person whom he trusts can help him
with the documents or psychologically
Proceedings of the Conference on Production Systems and Logistics: CPSL 2022
[no abstract available
The drivers of Corporate Social Responsibility in the supply chain. A case study.
Purpose: The paper studies the way in which a SME integrates CSR into its corporate strategy, the practices it puts in place and
how its CSR strategies reflect on its suppliers and customers relations.
Methodology/Research limitations: A qualitative case study methodology is used. The use of a single case study limits the
generalizing capacity of these findings.
Findings: The entrepreneur’s ethical beliefs and value system play a fundamental role in shaping sustainable corporate strategy.
Furthermore, the type of competitive strategy selected based on innovation, quality and responsibility clearly emerges both in
terms of well defined management procedures and supply chain relations as a whole aimed at involving partners in the process of
sustainable innovation.
Originality/value: The paper presents a SME that has devised an original innovative business model. The study pivots on the
issues of innovation and eco-sustainability in a context of drivers for CRS and business ethics. These values are considered
fundamental at International level; the United Nations has declared 2011 the “International Year of Forestry”
Recommended from our members
Prophetesses of the Body: American Jewish Women and the Politics of Embodied Knowledge
What Stephen Shapin and Simon Schaffer’s Leviathan and the Air Pump demonstrates to be the case in early modern scientific culture is no less true of the experimental ethic of Jewish feminists today: epistemology and politics are inseparably linked and are projected onto the material of everyday life. In this study of transnational Jewish theopolitics and biopolitics, I show how women enlist their reproductive bodies to develop new forms of spiritual leadership, medical expertise, and religious knowledge and authority as they work to reshape American Judaism. I situate Jewish feminist claims to authenticity and authority within the entangled networks of bio-capital, nationalisms, the logics of classical liberalism and religious subjectivity, and scientific and Rabbinic moral economies. By contextualizing Jewish feminisms in technoscience’s politicization of the sexual body and Christianity’s elevation of the spirit over material, I elucidate how sexual, religious, and epistemic hierarchies structure formations of American religion. This dissertation contributes to growing literatures on religion and science; gender, secularism, and spirituality; transnational American studies; and feminist approaches to medicine and the body. While previous studies on religion and science have highlighted the inseparability of the categories in Euro-American Protestant history or showcased the participation of Jewish men in the development of modern science, this project draws on the “lived religion” methodology to move beyond the activities of elites in institutional spaces. In doing so, it shows how knowledge production happens in intimate, holy places and is structured by sacred and bodily cycles. By stretching the temporal and spatial boundaries of the study of American Judaism, this dissertation reveals how interconnected feminist projects are remaking Judaism as an American religion