This paper presents a model of Multi-Agent System dedicated to the management of a tabletop that detects traceable objects using RFID technology, which are moved on the table by a set of users during application. In a...
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(纸本)9783642123832
This paper presents a model of Multi-Agent System dedicated to the management of a tabletop that detects traceable objects using RFID technology, which are moved on the table by a set of users during application. In addition, virtual objects can interact with tangible objects. We propose a new model (MAM4IT) to manage this kind of object with situated agents (that we call tangible agents) based on the notion of dynamic roles. The roles will be able to evolve during the application and adapt their behaviors according to the environment and the unpredictable actions of users. In this situation the agents are able to compose new roles. A first concrete case study based on road traffic shows the interaction between tangible and virtual agents.
Traditionally, cost estimation methods are used to predict costs only after a product model has been built, and not at an early design stage when there is little data and information available. The traditional cost mo...
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(数字)9783642104305
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(纸本)9783642104299
Traditionally, cost estimation methods are used to predict costs only after a product model has been built, and not at an early design stage when there is little data and information available. The traditional cost models and systems used require a large amount of detailed data before a cost calculation can be made. This research has identified that, one of the main challenges to improve this situation in modelling cost is data identification and collection. The aim of this paper therefore is to discuss the methods of developing an extended-enterprise digital data library, data searching and data transfer mechanisms to support through-life cost estimation in the innovative product development processes. The paper begins with an introduction of relevant research in data modelling in cost estimation. This is followed by a section, which highlights problems of performing cost estimates for innovative low volume products, and subsequently the proposed solutions and example applications.
In the last two decades, enterprise solutions like Enterprise Resource Planning system (ERP), Supply Chain Analytics system (SCA), Manufacturing Execution System (MES), and e-Service have been greatly improving the pr...
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(数字)9783642104305
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(纸本)9783642104299
In the last two decades, enterprise solutions like Enterprise Resource Planning system (ERP), Supply Chain Analytics system (SCA), Manufacturing Execution System (MES), and e-Service have been greatly improving the productivity and operational efficiency in manufacturing. However, a new survey found that, when it comes to the integration of enterprise solutions across the boundaries of enterprises such as the case of supply chain collaboration to support e-Manufacturing, the successful rate of such implementation is extremely low. This paper argues that, while the million-dollar, fancy enterprise solution such as SCA and other e-Manufacturing supporting systems may gain success within an enterprise, it may not be extendable to external organizations due to the complexity of implementation involving different business processes and workflows, different systems and different culture of people. The recommended solution to this problem is to focus on the nature of the integrated business process and workflow instead of fancy software solution. We need to come back to the basics, the nature of the business. A newly created Operation-Over-The-Net (OOTN) architecture, which is a multi-dimensional gateway transmitting events therefore actions along the supply chain horizon and from end-customer directly, is introduced in this paper as a back-to-basic Operation Management (OM) tool. It is demonstrated that a highly effective Operation Meeting Solution (OMS) can easily extend internal OM to manage supply chain collaboration. The solution has been proven by a million-wafer global supply network in semiconductor industry since 2000.
Product quality lies in the eye of the beholder. It is an individual and subjective interpretation of realized product criteria and hence more than the compliance with the customer's expressed performance requirem...
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(数字)9783642104305
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(纸本)9783642104299
Product quality lies in the eye of the beholder. It is an individual and subjective interpretation of realized product criteria and hence more than the compliance with the customer's expressed performance requirements. But the elicitation of delighting quality attributes is both time- and cost-intensive and often still open to interpretation. To successfully differentiate themselves from their competitors, companies have to systematically objectify their customers' quality judgments. The paper presents an integrated approach to structure quality perception from the customer's perspective and to channel the relevant information into the product development process. Key elements are the coordinated survey and specification of perception-relevant product attributes to minimize losses and misinterpretations. This supports the change from an intuitive to a fact-based product development as well as the notion of a resource-conserving value chain.
The Web has been the star service on the Internet, however the outsized information available and its decentralized nature has originated an intrinsic difficulty to locate, extract and compose information. An automati...
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(纸本)9783642124327
The Web has been the star service on the Internet, however the outsized information available and its decentralized nature has originated an intrinsic difficulty to locate, extract and compose information. An automatic approach is required to handle with this huge amount of data. In this paper we present a machine learning algorithm based on Genetic Algorithms which generates a set of complex wrappers, able to extract information from the Web. The paper presents the experimental evaluation of these wrappers over a set of basic data sets.
In this paper an innovative approach to telecommunication network and service management is presented. It tries to solve some of the main challenges in this area by combining distributed intelligent agents with probab...
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(纸本)9783642123832
In this paper an innovative approach to telecommunication network and service management is presented. It tries to solve some of the main challenges in this area by combining distributed intelligent agents with probabilistic techniques. The solution focuses on fault diagnosis but could potentially be extended to other management areas. Moreover, a prototype has been implemented and applied to a specific networking scenario. Finally, an evaluation of the reduction of fault diagnosis time by using this prototype has been conducted, showing significant advantages when compared to traditional manual processes.
To meet the challenge of producing innovative and technologically demanding products economically, companies need the ability of quick and flexible reaction to internal and external disturbances. Increased performance...
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(数字)9783642104305
ISBN:
(纸本)9783642104299
To meet the challenge of producing innovative and technologically demanding products economically, companies need the ability of quick and flexible reaction to internal and external disturbances. Increased performance of a company can be achieved by focusing on improvements to effectiveness and efficiency;principal tasks of modern quality management. Quality management itself must not only face new entrepreneurial challenges;its main task remains consistently providing information for continuous improvements. Based on a new definition of quality, a framework is introduced that faces the entrepreneurial conditions from quality management's point of view and provides an organizational element, which assists in meeting the demand for informational transparency. This element, the quality backward chain, which is responsible for providing the needed information, is then introduced. By means of a modular conception on the operative and the adaptive levels, the backward chain acts as a quick and flexible organizational controller for entrepreneurial quality.
We present in tins paper the OCP middleware for context;information management. More specifically, we focus on the reasoning aspects of the middleware. In order to provide the OCP middleware with reasoning capabilitie...
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(纸本)9783642124327
We present in tins paper the OCP middleware for context;information management. More specifically, we focus on the reasoning aspects of the middleware. In order to provide the OCP middleware with reasoning capabilities, we have integrated a semantic web ontology management APE based on Jena and Pellet, developed in our lab, i.e. the ORE API. We present some projects in which the reasoning capabilities have been applied and some examples trying to show the power of this open source implementation.
This paper describes the experience and the results of using agent-based component patterns for developing mobile robots. The work is based on the open source ICARO-T framework, which provides four categories of compo...
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(纸本)9783642123832
This paper describes the experience and the results of using agent-based component patterns for developing mobile robots. The work is based on the open source ICARO-T framework, which provides four categories of component patterns: agent organization pattern to describe the overall architecture of the system, cognitive and reactive agent patterns to model agent behavior, and resource patterns to encapsulate computing entities providing services to agents. The experimental setting is based on the development of a team of cooperating robots for achieving surveillance tasks. The approached development, illustrated with working examples of the utilization of the patterns, is detailed.
To solve the closed-loop auto-tracking control puzzle of water rushing waste slag in the blast furnace casting house, the paper presented a sort of the Adaptive Control Strategy based on human simulated intelligent co...
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(纸本)9783642148798
To solve the closed-loop auto-tracking control puzzle of water rushing waste slag in the blast furnace casting house, the paper presented a sort of the Adaptive Control Strategy based on human simulated intelligent controller. In the paper, it pointed out the puzzle of implementing closed-loop control in detail, analyzed the character of controlled object, presented a sort of human simulated intelligent control strategy, and structure mode of control algorithm, and adaptive strategy of human simulated task as well as human simulated parameter. By means of the designed industrial computer control system, the experiment of iron making field running was made. The field running effect showed that the uncertainty adaptive auto-tracking system of water rushing waste slag is effective and practicable, and better in robustness, high in control precision. The engineering practice shows that the presented control strategy has important engineering application value.
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