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Automated business goal extraction from e-mail repositories to bootstrap business understanding
The Cross-Industry Standard Process for Data Mining (CRISP-DM), despite being the most popular data mining process for more than two decades, is known to leave those organizations lacking operational data mining experience puzzled and unable to start their data mining projects. This is especially apparent in the first phase of Business Understanding, at the conclusion of which, the data mining goals of the project at hand should be specified, which arguably requires at least a conceptual understanding of the knowledge discovery process. We propose to bridge this knowledge gap from a Data Science perspective by applying Natural Language Processing techniques (NLP) to the organizations' e-mail exchange repositories to extract explicitly stated business goals from the conversations, thus bootstrapping the Business Understanding phase of CRISP-DM. Our NLP-Automated Method for Business Understanding (NAMBU) generates a list of business goals which can subsequently be used for further specification of data mining goals. The validation of the results on the basis of comparison to the results of manual business goal extraction from the Enron corpus demonstrates the usefulness of our NAMBU method when applied to large datasets.Algorithms and the Foundations of Software technolog
Book of abstracts of the 10th International Chemical and Biological Engineering Conference: CHEMPOR 2008
This book contains the extended abstracts presented at the 10th International Chemical and Biological
Engineering Conference - CHEMPOR 2008, held in Braga, Portugal, over 3 days, from the 4th to the 6th of
September, 2008. Previous editions took place in Lisboa (1975, 1889, 1998), Braga (1978), PĂłvoa de
Varzim (1981), Coimbra (1985, 2005), Porto (1993), and Aveiro (2001).
The conference was jointly organized by the University of Minho, “Ordem dos Engenheiros”, and the IBB -
Institute for Biotechnology and Bioengineering with the usual support of the “Sociedade Portuguesa de
QuĂmica” and, by the first time, of the “Sociedade Portuguesa de Biotecnologia”.
Thirty years elapsed since CHEMPOR was held at the University of Minho, organized by T.R. Bott, D. Allen,
A. Bridgwater, J.J.B. Romero, L.J.S. Soares and J.D.R.S. Pinheiro. We are fortunate to have Profs. Bott, Soares
and Pinheiro in the Honor Committee of this 10th edition, under the high Patronage of his Excellency the
President of the Portuguese Republic, Prof. AnĂbal Cavaco Silva. The opening ceremony will confer Prof.
Bott with a “Long Term Achievement” award acknowledging the important contribution Prof. Bott brought
along more than 30 years to the development of the Chemical Engineering science, to the launch of
CHEMPOR series and specially to the University of Minho. Prof. Bott’s inaugural lecture will address the
importance of effective energy management in processing operations, particularly in the effectiveness of
heat recovery and the associated reduction in greenhouse gas emission from combustion processes.
The CHEMPOR series traditionally brings together both young and established researchers and end users
to discuss recent developments in different areas of Chemical Engineering. The scope of this edition is
broadening out by including the Biological Engineering research. One of the major core areas of the
conference program is life quality, due to the importance that Chemical and Biological Engineering plays in
this area. “Integration of Life Sciences & Engineering” and “Sustainable Process-Product Development
through Green Chemistry” are two of the leading themes with papers addressing such important issues.
This is complemented with additional leading themes including “Advancing the Chemical and Biological
Engineering Fundamentals”, “Multi-Scale and/or Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Process-Product
Innovation”, “Systematic Methods and Tools for Managing the Complexity”, and “Educating Chemical and
Biological Engineers for Coming Challenges” which define the extended abstracts arrangements along this
book.
A total of 516 extended abstracts are included in the book, consisting of 7 invited lecturers, 15 keynote,
105 short oral presentations given in 5 parallel sessions, along with 6 slots for viewing 389 poster
presentations. Full papers are jointly included in the companion Proceedings in CD-ROM. All papers have
been reviewed and we are grateful to the members of scientific and organizing committees for their
evaluations. It was an intensive task since 610 submitted abstracts from 45 countries were received.
It has been an honor for us to contribute to setting up CHEMPOR 2008 during almost two years. We wish
to thank the authors who have contributed to yield a high scientific standard to the program. We are
thankful to the sponsors who have contributed decisively to this event. We also extend our gratefulness to
all those who, through their dedicated efforts, have assisted us in this task.
On behalf of the Scientific and Organizing Committees we wish you that together with an interesting
reading, the scientific program and the social moments organized will be memorable for all.Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT
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Assessing the suitability of ship design for human factors issues associated with evacuation and normal operations
Evaluating ship layout for human factors (HF) issues using simulation software such as maritimeEXODUS can be a long and complex process. The analysis requires the identification of relevant evaluation scenarios; encompassing evacuation and normal operations; the development of appropriate measures which can be used to gauge the performance of crew and vessel and finally; the interpretation of considerable simulation data. In this paper we present a systematic and transparent methodology for assessing the HF performance of ship design which is both discriminating and diagnostic. The methodology is demonstrated using two variants of a hypothetical naval ship