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Oligolithic Cross-task Optimizations across Isolated Workloads

Anastasia Ailamaki, Panagiotis Sioulas, Eleni Zapridou

Enterprises collect data in large volumes and leverage them to drive numerous concurrent decisions and business processes. Their teams deploy multiple applications that often operate concurrently on the same data and infrastructure but have widely differen ...

2024

A blockchain and IoT-based lightweight framework for enabling information transparency in supply chain finance

Jinzhi Lu

Supply Chain Finance (SCF) refers to the financial service in which banks rely on core enterprises to manage the capital flow and logistics of upstream and downstream enterprises. SCF adopts a self-testing and closed-loop credit model to control funds and ...

KEAI PUBLISHING LTD2022

Extending Business Process Models with Appreciation

Alain Wegmann, Gil Regev

We use homeostasis, the maintenance of steady states in an organism, to explain some of the decisions made by participants in a business process. We use Vickers’ Appreciative System to model the homeostatic states with Harel’s statecharts. We take the exam ...

2019

From Goal-Achievement to the Maintenance of Relationships: Extending Business Process Models with Homeostasis and Appreciation

Gil Regev

We use homeostasis, the maintenance of steady states in an organism, to explain some of the decisions made by participants in a business process. We use Vickers’s Appreciative System to model the homeostatic states with Harel’s statecharts. We take the exa ...

CEUR Workshop Proceedings2018

Programming by Demonstration for Shared Control with an Application in Teleoperation

Sylvain Calinon

Shared control strategies can improve task-performance in teleoperation. In such systems automation guides or corrects a human operator. The amount of correction or guidance that is provided is denoted the level-of-automation. As the variety of teleoperati ...

2018

Beyond Activities: Business Process Models from a Knowledge Management Perspective

Gil Regev

When conducting workshops with business people, there is a significant risk to become bogged down in the details of the underlying business process rather than seeing the big picture of the value provided by the process to its stakeholders. In this paper, ...

2017

Non-ablative femtosecond laser exposure of fused silica in the sub-50 fs regime (Conference Presentation)

Yves Bellouard, Benjamin Wesley Mc Millen, Erica Kathleen Block

In the non-ablative regime, femtosecond laser pulse duration is known to affect the nature of the modification induced in the microstructure of fused silica. It has been demonstrated than below 200 fs, two different regimes are found, one at low energy, le ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2017

What Have We Unlearned Since the Early Days of the Process Movement?

Alain Wegmann, Gil Regev

The vision brought forth by Michael Hammer in the late 1980s was to save struggling American companies by getting them to focus on the creation of value for clients by reorganizing their operations and structure around the use of IT systems. This was the B ...

Springer2016

Information Systems for Innovation: A Comparative Analysis of Maturity Models’ Characteristics

Gianluigi Viscusi

Nowadays, virtually all industries are impacted by the digitalization of business enabled by information and communication technologies. Consequently, it is a major challenge to any business to increase its ability to innovate through information systems. ...

Springer International Publishing2016

Architecture and characterization of a calibrator for PMUs operating in power distribution systems

Mario Paolone, Paolo Romano, Marco Pignati, Daniele Colangelo, Lorenzo Zanni

In recent years, the Phasor Measurement Unit (PMU) technology is rapidly evolving towards the potential deployment also in power distribution systems (DSs). In general, this specific field of applications requires PMUs whose accuracy levels are beyond thos ...

IEEE2015

Runtime Prediction for Scale-Out Data Analytics

Adrian Daniel Popescu

Many analytics applications generate mixed workloads, i.e., workloads comprised of analytical tasks with different processing characteristics including data pre-processing, SQL, and iterative machine learning algorithms. Examples of such mixed workloads ca ...

EPFL2015

Model-Based Derivation, Analysis and Control of Unstable Microaerobic Steady-States-Considering Rhodospirillum rubrum as an Example

Timm Faulwasser

Microaerobic (oxygen-limited) conditions are critical for inducing many important microbial processes in industrial or environmental applications. At very low oxygen concentrations, however, the process performance often suffers from technical limitations. ...

Wiley-Blackwell2014

Tracking and synchronization of the yeast cell cycle using dielectrophoretic opacity

Philippe Renaud, Thomas Michael Braschler, Nicolas Demierre, Ana Valero

Cell cycle synchronization is an important tool for the study of the cell division stages and signalling. It provides homogeneous cell cultures that are of importance to develop and improve processes such as protein synthesis and drug screening. The main a ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2011

Multiscale analysis of high resolution digital elevation models using the wavelet transform

Michaël Kalbermatten

At the end of the nineties the emergence of high resolution (1 m) digital elevation models (DEMs) settled the context of high precision geomorphological analysis. These new elevation models permitted to reveal structures that remained heretofore undetectab ...

EPFL2010

DecoCHina, a Chinese-Swiss collaborative network of industrial SMEs

Rémy Glardon, Michel Pouly

Industrial SMEs face new challenges in global markets with customers requiring more complete solutions and ability to source their procurements anywhere in the world. If large companies have erough resources to gain from the new opportunities provided by t ...

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High-Level Design and Analysis of Business Processes. The Advantages of Declarative Specifications

Alain Wegmann, Gil Regev

Business process modeling techniques, such as BPMN, encourage the early specification of the exact order in which the activities of the process will be executed. However, a business process may be exposed to different environments and subjected to many con ...

2008

High-level design and analysis of business processes the advantages of declarative specifications

Alain Wegmann, Gil Regev

2008

Business Process Flexibility through the Exploration of Stimuli

Alain Wegmann, Gil Regev

For organizations to survive and flourish in a changing environment, their business processes need to be flexible. Ashby’s law of requisite variety applied to business processes postulates that a robust process needs to exhibit as much variety in its respo ...

2008

e-Innovation and financial services

The Internet, a classic Schumpeterian innovation, has profoundly altered our lives and influenced the ways we do business. It is now widely accepted by policy makers, scholars, and enterprises that the Internet and related information technologies are the ...

EPFL2008

Using Declarative Specifications in Business Process Design

Alain Wegmann, Gil Regev

2008