In this paper, we are considering the Web-based services related to product brands, so-called brand services, more closely, and propose a framework for the provision of such services. The framework is suited to the pa...
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(纸本)9780769526645;0769526640
In this paper, we are considering the Web-based services related to product brands, so-called brand services, more closely, and propose a framework for the provision of such services. The framework is suited to the particular needs of such services, in particular for supporting brand protection against forgeries, as well as the sustainability of market competition by covering product quantity and quality related information. Main idea is the separation between an application service, and a brand service guarding service. With the addition of storing information in a logo or scheme by Gestalt based information hiding, entailment and control over the distributed information can be achieved. For the user, the framework appears seemless, as he just delivers a product identifier found on the purchased product, and receives corresponding information
For many years discrete-event simulation has been used to analyze production and logistics problems in manufacturing and defense. In the early 1980s, visual interactive modelling environments were created that support...
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(纸本)9781424405015
For many years discrete-event simulation has been used to analyze production and logistics problems in manufacturing and defense. In the early 1980s, visual interactive modelling environments were created that supported the development, experimentation and visualization of simulation models. Today these environments are termed commercial-off-the-shelf simulation packages (CSPs). With the advent of distributed simulation and, later, the high level architecture, the possibility existed to link together these CSPs and their models to simulate larger problems within enterprises (e.g. multiple production lines) and across supply chains. However, the problem of standardizing the use of the HLA and its constituent parts in this domain exists. The solution of this problem is the work of the CSP interoperability product development group (CSPI PDG). The purpose of this paper is to introduce the CSPI PDG and to review the suite of standards proposed by the group and current progress
Food-allergic people need comprehensible, complete, reliable, and personalized information about food products. Today, such integrated information is not available mainly because of different interests of the stakehol...
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ISBN:
(纸本)0769522777
Food-allergic people need comprehensible, complete, reliable, and personalized information about food products. Today, such integrated information is not available mainly because of different interests of the stakeholders in the food value chain. Within this paper we introduce an approach to providing mobile assistance for product-specific on-site advice in a supermarket. A revenue-model is discussed and finally a prototype is introduced.
The evolution of wireless network technology has led to an increasing number of applications for mobile use. In addition, the paradigm of service-oriented architectures allows a composition of applications based on di...
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ISBN:
(纸本)0769524087
The evolution of wireless network technology has led to an increasing number of applications for mobile use. In addition, the paradigm of service-oriented architectures allows a composition of applications based on distributed web services. By using registries it becomes possible to choose the appropriate services at runtime. It needs to be considered that services for mobile use may have different scopes. For instance, routing or weather services may be dedicated to a specific region so that they may be useless if a user's area of interest does not match the service's scope. It is hence necessary to identify and use those services with a scope that corresponds to the relevant context such as a user's location. Moreover, if the context changes, it is desirable to automatically switch between different equivalent service instances to provide a user with a continuous connection to a desired service. We denote this mechanism as service roaming. This paper presents the major concepts needed for service roaming as well as a roaming model based on n-dimensional context spaces.
The analysis of Fault Trees (FTs) is usually performed by transformation into Binary Decision Diagrams (BDDs). The size of a BDD depends heavily on the order of its variables. Different approaches exist to optimise th...
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Email communication in work groups and organizations suffers from ill-composed messages. In this paper we introduce two approaches aiming to improve the overall quality of email communication by means of reflection. F...
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ISBN:
(纸本)1595932232
Email communication in work groups and organizations suffers from ill-composed messages. In this paper we introduce two approaches aiming to improve the overall quality of email communication by means of reflection. For this purpose, we determine, rate and classify quality problems as encountered in today's email communication. Subsequently, we derive criteria to rate the quality of email communication, both objectively as well as subjectively. The results of these ratings are then presented to the authors of email messages to encourage them to improve their email communication behaviour. Preliminary results suggest that our approach might have the potential to overcome problems of email communication caused by ill-composed messages. Copyright 2005 ACM.
This paper introduces a novel approach to fault detection and diagnosis (FDD) of building control strategies for air-handling systems using a mathematical model that links linear algebra analysis and psychrometric ana...
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This paper introduces a novel approach to fault detection and diagnosis (FDD) of building control strategies for air-handling systems using a mathematical model that links linear algebra analysis and psychrometric analysis. The analysis of the psychrometric processes associated with each HVAC system component, which are obtainable from simulation using the program TRNSYS, leads to an assessment of the thermodynamic efficiency of the airhandling unit process governed by the control sequence under investigation. The proposed method allows for the elimination of potential faults of the control strategies in the design phase as well as for the evaluation of control strategies in existing buildings in order to make system operation more energy efficient, more economical, and more reliable.
In this contribution a robot assistant for handling and assembly tasks is presented. The main emphasis of PowerMate was to create a robot assistant that works together with a human worker that is conform to safety cat...
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This paper describes a new sensor application that provides measuring the pressure in abdominal aorta aneurisms (AAA). Using a foldable prothesis to treat AAA, leakages can occur. Therefore, we invented a batteryless ...
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