A cumulative index to Aeronautical Engineering: A special bibliography, January 1976

This publication is a cumulative index to the abstracts contained in NASA SP-7037 (54) through NASA SP-7037 (65) of Aeronautical Engineering: A Special Bibliography. NASA SP-7037 and its supplements have been compiled through the cooperative efforts of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). This cumulative index includes subject, personal author, corporate source, contract, and report number indexes

Management, Technology and Learning for Individuals, Organisations and Society in Turbulent Environments

This book presents the collection of fifty two papers which were presented on the First International Conference on BUSINESS SUSTAINABILITY ’08 - Management, Technology and Learning for Individuals, Organisations and Society in Turbulent Environments, held in Ofir, Portugal, from 25th to 27th of June, 2008. The main motive of the meeting was the growing awareness of the importance of the sustainability issue. This importance had emerged from the growing uncertainty of the market behaviour that leads to the characterization of the market, i.e. environment, as turbulent. Actually, the characterization of the environment as uncertain and turbulent reflects the fact that the traditional technocratic and/or socio-technical approaches cannot effectively and efficiently lead with the present situation. In other words, the rise of the sustainability issue means the quest for new instruments to deal with uncertainty and/or turbulence. The sustainability issue has a complex nature and solutions are sought in a wide range of domains and instruments to achieve and manage it. The domains range from environmental sustainability (referring to natural environment) through organisational and business sustainability towards social sustainability. Concerning the instruments for sustainability, they range from traditional engineering and management methodologies towards “soft” instruments such as knowledge, learning, creativity. The papers in this book address virtually whole sustainability problems space in a greater or lesser extent. However, although the uncertainty and/or turbulence, or in other words the dynamic properties, come from coupling of management, technology, learning, individuals, organisations and society, meaning that everything is at the same time effect and cause, we wanted to put the emphasis on business with the intention to address primarily the companies and their businesses. From this reason, the main title of the book is “Business Sustainability” but with the approach of coupling Management, Technology and Learning for individuals, organisations and society in Turbulent Environments. Concerning the First International Conference on BUSINESS SUSTAINABILITY, its particularity was that it had served primarily as a learning environment in which the papers published in this book were the ground for further individual and collective growth in understanding and perception of sustainability and capacity for building new instruments for business sustainability. In that respect, the methodology of the conference work was basically dialogical, meaning promoting dialog on the papers, but also including formal paper presentations. In this way, the conference presented a rich space for satisfying different authors’ and participants’ needs. Additionally, promoting the widest and global learning environment and participativeness, the Conference Organisation provided the broadcasting over Internet of the Conference sessions, dialogical and formal presentations, for all authors’ and participants’ institutions, as an innovative Conference feature. In these terms, this book could also be understood as a complementary instrument to the Conference authors’ and participants’, but also to the wider readerships’ interested in the sustainability issues. The book brought together 97 authors from 10 countries, namely from Australia, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Portugal, Russia, Serbia, Sweden and United Kingdom. The authors “ranged” from senior and renowned scientists to young researchers providing a rich and learning environment. At the end, the editors hope and would like that this book will be useful, meeting the expectation of the authors and wider readership and serving for enhancing the individual and collective learning, and to incentive further scientific development and creation of new papers. Also, the editors would use this opportunity to announce the intention to continue with new editions of the conference and subsequent editions of accompanying books on the subject of BUSINESS SUSTAINABILITY, the second of which is planned for year 2011.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Aeronautical engineering: A continuing bibliography with indexes (supplement 259)

This bibliography lists 774 reports, articles, and other documents introduced into the NASA scientific and technical information system in November, 1990. Subject coverage includes: design, construction and testing of aircraft and aircraft engines; aircraft components, equipment and systems; ground support systems; and theoretical and applied aspects of aerodynamics and general fluid dynamics

Traitement automatique de rapports d’incidents et accidents : application à la gestion du risque dans l’aviation civile

Тoзи реферат описва приложението на автоматичната обработка на естествен език (ОЕЕ) в контекста на управлението на риска в гражданското въздухоплаване. В тази област докладването на инциденти и разследването на произшествия генерират голямо количество информация, главно под формата на текстови описания на необичайни събития. На първо време описваме раличните типове (текстови) данни, които секторът произвежда. Анализираме самите документи, методите за съхраняването им, как са организирани, както и техните употреби от екперти по сигурността. Показваме, че съвремените парадигми за съхраняване и организация не са добре приспособени към реалната употреба на този тип данни и установяваме проблемните зони, в които ОЕЕ е част от решението. Две приложения, отговарящи прецизно на нуждите на експерти по авиационна сигурност, са имплементирани: автоматична класификация на доклади за инциденти и система за проучване на на колекции, основаваща се върху текстовото сходство. Въз основа на наблюдения на реалната употреба на приложенията, предлагаме няколко метода за обработка на доклади за инциденти и произшествия и обсъждаме в дълбочина как ОЕЕ може да бъде проложено на различни нива в информационнo-обработващите структури на един високорисков сектор. Оценявайки методите показваме, че трудностите свързани с многоизмерността и изменимостта на човешкия език могат да бъдат ефективно адресирани и предлагаме надеждни възходящи методи за справяне със свръхизобилието на доклади за инциденти в текстови форматThis thesis describes the applications of natural language processing (NLP) to industrial risk management. We focus on the domain of civil aviation, where incident reporting and accident investigations produce vast amounts of information, mostly in the form of textual accounts of abnormal events, and where efficient access to the information contained in the reports is required. We start by drawing a panorama of the different types of data produced in this particular domain. We analyse the documents themselves, how they are stored and organised as well as how they are used within the community. We show that the current storage and organisation paradigms are not well adapted to the data analysis requirements, and we identify the problematic areas, for which NLP technologies are part of the solution. Specifically addressing the needs of aviation safety professionals, two initial solutions are implemented: automatic classification for assisting in the coding of reports within existing taxonomies and a system based on textual similarity for exploring collections of reports. Based on the observation of real-world tool usage and on user feedback, we propose different methods and approaches for processing incident and accident reports and comprehensively discuss how NLP can be applied within the safety information processing framework of a high-risk sector. By deploying and evaluating certain approaches, we show how elusive aspects related to the variability and multidimensionality of language can be addressed in a practical manner and we propose bottom-up methods for managing the overabundance of textual feedback dataCette thèse décrit les applications du traitement automatique des langues (TAL) à la gestion des risques industriels. Elle se concentre sur le domaine de l'aviation civile, où le retour d'expérience (REX) génère de grandes quantités de données, sous la forme de rapports d'accidents et d'incidents. Nous commençons par faire un panorama des différentes types de données générées dans ce secteur d'activité. Nous analysons les documents, comment ils sont produits, collectés, stockés et organisés ainsi que leurs utilisations. Nous montrons que le paradigme actuel de stockage et d’organisation est mal adapté à l’utilisation réelle de ces documents et identifions des domaines problématiques ou les technologies du langage constituent une partie de la solution. Répondant précisément aux besoins d'experts en sécurité, deux solutions initiales sont implémentées : la catégorisation automatique de documents afin d'aider le codage des rapports dans des taxonomies préexistantes et un outil pour l'exploration de collections de rapports, basé sur la similarité textuelle. En nous basant sur des observations de l'usage de ces outils et sur les retours de leurs utilisateurs, nous proposons différentes méthodes d'analyse des textes issus du REX et discutons des manières dont le TAL peut être appliqué dans le cadre de la gestion de la sécurité dans un secteur à haut risque. En déployant et évaluant certaines solutions, nous montrons que même des aspects subtils liés à la variation et à la multidimensionnalité du langage peuvent être traités en pratique afin de gérer la surabondance de données REX textuelles de manière ascendant

CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY IN ROMANIA

The purpose of this paper is to identify the main opportunities and limitations of corporate social responsibility (CSR). The survey was defined with the aim to involve the highest possible number of relevant CSR topics and give the issue a more wholesome perspective. It provides a basis for further comprehension and deeper analyses of specific CSR areas. The conditions determining the success of CSR in Romania have been defined in the paper on the basis of the previously cumulative knowledge as well as the results of various researches. This paper provides knowledge which may be useful in the programs promoting CSR.Corporate social responsibility, Supportive policies, Romania

Modélisation de documents et recherche de points communs - Proposition d'un framework de gestion de fiches d'anomalie pour faciliter les maintenances corrective et préventive

The daily practice of an activity generates a set of knowledge that results in a know-how, a mastery, a skill a person gains over time. In order to take advantage of this experience, capitalization of knowledge has become an essential activity for companies. Our research work aims to model and implement such a system that extracts and formalizes knowledge from defects that occur in the context of industrial production, and to integrate it into a framework in order to facilitate corrective and preventive maintenance. This framework organizes the knowledge in the form of defects' groups. These groups can be compared to patterns: they represent a problem to which one or more solutions are related. They are not defined a priori; the analysis of past defects generates relevant groups, which may change with the addition of new defects. To identify these patterns, a complete process of knowledge extraction and formalization is adopted, Knowledge Discovery in Databases, well known in the domain of knowledge management. This process has been applied in very diversified fields. In this work, we give a new dimension to this process, the processing of defects, especially those that occur during industrial production processes. The generic steps that compose it, from the simple data selection to the interpretation of patterns that support knowledge, are considered. A specific processing, relevant to our applicative context, is assigned to each of these steps.La pratique quotidienne d'une activité génère un ensemble de connaissances qui se traduisent par un savoir-faire, une maîtrise, une compétence qu'une personne acquiert au cours du temps. Pour les préserver, la capitalisation des connaissances est devenue une activité essentielle dans les entreprises. Nos travaux de recherche ont pour objectif de modéliser et mettre en œuvre un système afin d'extraire et de formaliser les connaissances issues des anomalies qui surviennent dans un contexte de production industrielle et de les intégrer dans un framework facilitant la maintenance corrective et préventive. Ce framework structure la connaissance sous la forme de groupes d'anomalies. Ces groupes peuvent être rapprochés des patterns : ils représentent un problème auquel une ou plusieurs solutions sont associées. Ils ne sont pas définis a priori, c'est l'analyse des anomalies passées qui génère des groupes pertinents, qui peuvent évoluer avec l'ajout de nouvelles anomalies. Pour identifier ces patterns, supports de la connaissance, un processus complet d'extraction et de formalisation de la connaissance est suivi, Knowledge Discovery in Databases. Ce processus a été appliqué dans des domaines très variés. Nous lui donnons ici une nouvelle dimension, le traitement d'anomalies et plus particulièrement celles qui surviennent au cours de processus de production industrielle. Les étapes génériques qui le composent, depuis la simple sélection des données jusqu'à l'interprétation des patterns qui supportent les connaissances, sont considérées pour affecter à chacune un traitement spécifique pertinent par rapport à notre contexte applicatif

Modélisation de documents et recherches de points communs : propositions d'un framework de gestion de fiches d'anomalie pour faciliter les maintenances corrective et préventive

La pratique quotidienne d'une activité génère un ensemble de connaissances qui se traduisent par un savoir-faire, une maîtrise, une compétence qu'une personne acquiert au cours du temps. Pour les préserver, la capitalisation des connaissances est devenue une activité essentielle dans les entreprises. Nos travaux de recherche ont pour objectif de modéliser et mettre en œuvre un système afin d'extraire et de formaliser les connaissances issues des anomalies qui surviennent dans un contexte de production industrielle et de les intégrer dans un framework facilitant la maintenance corrective et préventive. Ce framework structure la connaissance sous la forme de groupes d'anomalies. Ces groupes peuvent être rapprochés des patterns : ils représentent un problème auquel une ou plusieurs solutions sont associées. Ils ne sont pas définis a priori, c'est l'analyse des anomalies passées qui génère des groupes pertinents, qui peuvent évoluer avec l'ajout de nouvelles anomalies. Pour identifier ces patterns, supports de la connaissance, un processus complet d'extraction et de formalisation de la connaissance est suivi, Knowledge Discovery in Databases. Ce processus a été appliqué dans des domaines très variés. Nous lui donnons ici une nouvelle dimension, le traitement d'anomalies et plus particulièrement celles qui surviennent au cours de processus de production industrielle. Les étapes génériques qui le composent, depuis la simple sélection des données jusqu'à l'interprétation des patterns qui supportent les connaissances, sont considérées pour affecter à chacune un traitement spécifique pertinent par rapport à notre contexte applicatif.The daily practice of an activity generates a set of knowledge that results in a know-how, a mastery, a skill a person gains over time. In order to take advantage of this experience, capitalization of knowledge has become an essential activity for companies. Our research work aims to model and implement such a system that extracts and formalizes knowledge from defects that occur in the context of industrial production, and to integrate it into a framework in order to facilitate corrective and preventive maintenance. This framework organizes the knowledge in the form of defects' groups. These groups can be compared to patterns: they represent a problem to which one or more solutions are related. They are not defined a priori; the analysis of past defects generates relevant groups, which may change with the addition of new defects. To identify these patterns, a complete process of knowledge extraction and formalization is adopted, Knowledge Discovery in Databases, well known in the domain of knowledge management. This process has been applied in very diversified fields. In this work, we give a new dimension to this process, the processing of defects, especially those that occur during industrial production processes. The generic steps that compose it, from the simple data selection to the interpretation of patterns that support knowledge, are considered. A specific processing, relevant to our applicative context, is assigned to each of these steps

Energy: A continuing bibliography with indexes, issue 13

This bibliography lists 1036 reports, articles, and other documents introduced into the NASA scientific and technical information system from January 1, 1977 through March 31, 1977