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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

Co-Design Optimisation of Morphing Topology and Control of Winged Drones

Dario Floreano, Valentin Wüest

The design and control of winged aircraft and drones is an iterative process aimed at identifying a compromise of mission-specific costs and constraints. When agility is required, shape-shifting (morphing) drones represent an efficient solution. However, m ...

IEEE2024

A model for the consolidation of hybrid textiles considering air entrapment, dissolution and diffusion

Véronique Michaud, Vincent Werlen

A new model is proposed for the consolidation of hybrid textiles, in which air entrapment and dissolution are considered. One of the key parameters is tow permeability, which is described by the analytical model of Gebart and validated at very high fibre v ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2023

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

Impact of Interface Traps in Floating-Gate Memory Based on Monolayer MoS2

Andras Kis, Guilherme Migliato Marega

Two-dimensional materials (2DMs) have found potential applications in many areas of electronics, such as sensing, memory systems, optoelectronics, and power. Despite an intense experimental work, the literature is lacking of accurate modeling of nonvolatil ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

Deep Domain Adaptation in Earth Observation

Devis Tuia, Benjamin Alexander Kellenberger

When applied to new datasets, acquired at different time moments, with different sensors or under different acquisition conditions, deep learning models might fail spectacularly. This is because they have learned from the data distribution observed during ...

Wiley2021

The Industrialization of Astronomical Instrumentation: An Industrial Systems and Process Engineering Perspective

Jean-Paul Richard Kneib, Mohamed Bouri, Luzius Gregor Kronig, Ricardo Jorge Araùjo Pereira, Loïc Grossen

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey V (SDSS-V) is an all-sky spectroscopic survey of > 6 million objects, designed to decode the history of the Milky Way, reveal the inner workings of stars, investigate the origin of solar systems, and track the growth of superma ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2020

Five Management Pillars for Digital Transformation Integrating the Lean Thinking Philosophy

Myrna Fatima Flores Pineda

This paper discusses Five Management Pillars for Digital Transformation integrating the Lean Thinking Philosophy. It proposes a "Digital Lean Transformation Framework" where its five management pillars - (Digital) Strategic Management, Processes (Re-)Engin ...

IEEE2019

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

A Novel Approach to Modeling Enterprise Services Leveraging Object Cloning and Multilevel Classification

Alain Wegmann

Object-oriented modeling is concerned with capturing common properties of objects. The dominant thinking in this realm is to classify objects that share certain properties into what is called a class, which in turn enables us to instantiate additional obje ...

IEEE2019

Digital Information Asset Evaluation: A Case Study in Manufacturing

Gianluigi Viscusi

The article discusses a model for information value assessment based on the concepts of information capacity, information utility, and information management costs. Notwithstanding that both state-of-the-art researchers and practitioners consider informati ...

2018

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

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

Positioning Autonomy of a Fixed-Wing UAV through VDM/INS Integration with Experimental Results

Jan Skaloud, Mehran Khaghani

In this paper, practical realization of a previously proposed VDM based integrated navigation for UAVs is presented. This method utilizes the vehicle dynamic model (VDM) fed by autopilot control commands as main process model within the navigation filter a ...

2017

No data left behind: real-time insights from a complex data ecosystem

Anastasia Ailamaki, Manolis Karpathiotakis

The typical enterprise data architecture consists of several actively updated data sources (e.g., NoSQL systems, data warehouses), and a central data lake such as HDFS, in which all the data is periodically loaded through ETL processes. To simplify query p ...

2017

Design guidelines for remote laser welding in automotive assembly lines

Jumyung Um, Ian Anthony Stroud

Remote laser welding which has benefits for both productivity and energy saving is receiving increased attention for automotive assembly lines. Introducing this innovative equipment requires a redesign process for assembly elements, for example to substitu ...

Springer London Ltd2017

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

A Directional Modifier-Adaptation Algorithm for Real-Time Optimization

Dominique Bonvin, Grégory François, Sean Costello

The steady advances of computational methods make model-based optimization an increasingly attractive method for process improvement. Unfortunately, the available models are often inaccurate. The traditional remedy is to update the model parameters, but th ...

Elsevier2016

Linking Models and Experiments

Dominique Bonvin, Diogo Filipe Mateus Rodrigues, René Uwe Schneider

This position paper gives an overview of the discussion that took place at FIPSE 2 at Aldemar Resort, east of Heraklion, Crete, in June 21-23, 2014. This is the second conference in the series "Future Innovation in Process Systems Engineering" (http://fi-i ...

Amer Chemical Soc2016

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