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There are about 10 million visually impaired people in China nowadays. They desiderate helps from the community. This paper will discuss some key technologies to implement accessible information services and systems for visually impaired people. Shanghai will hold 2010 World Expo. This is a good opportunity to show modern Chinese civilization to the world. Information accessibility is very important,...
This paper describes a hospital information system (HIS) based on world wide web technologies so that its operations located in geographically distant regions can be integrated. The recent information technology would enable operations such as exchanging, standardizing and sharing hospital information through the hierarchical distributed environment. In this paper, we present a coordinated multi-layer...
Nowadays the world-class enterprises are eagerly embracing the service-led business models by taking advantage of their own unique and years marketing, engineering, and application expertise. They shift gears towards creating superior outcomes to best meet their customers’ needs, aimed at creating highly profitable service-oriented businesses. Different from the traditional value chains...
The importance of performance management in supply chains has long been recognized from a variety of functional disciplines. But much of the work has focused on designing performance measures with less concern for the other stages of the entire performance management process. The supply chain operations reference (SCOR) model, developed by the Supply-Chain Council (SCC), is widely accepted as the...
The security performance of mobile agent system has an important influence on the real applications. This paper gives a new idea of "enough security" fitting to real application, proposes an integrated security architecture based on component technology, comes up with a security performance evaluation framework, defines a set of metrics and offers a method to realize the measurement and...
Through analyzing the model about the multi-dimension Data warehouse of medical waste management, this paper concludes the general concepts, methods and steps to design multi-dimensional Data Warehouse. And it also gives an case study of a star-shape model of data analysis which suit for medical waste management in one city to explain its realization.
In this paper, a model of structure semantics of image is proposed. We describe the detailed process of mathematical inference for the whole system. The model applies the knowledge of topology, neural networks, and psychology. The system first builds a structure space T using the structure parameters extracted from an image or video segment, Then T is mapped to a structure information space I<inf>T</inf>by...
In this paper a novel image semantics segmentation algorithm is proposed, which combines edge and region-merged based techniques. First, an edge-preserving statistical noise reduction approach is used as a preprocessing stage in order to compute an accurate estimate of an image gradient. Second, we segment image into primitive regions by applying watershed algorithm on the image gradient magnitude...
The central theme of supply chain management is integration. General System Theory provides the theoretical framework of integration, whereas information integration is the foundation of broader supply chain integration. E-business opens up communication and enlarges networking opportunities and thus tremendously affects information integration. By analyzing one recent trend of e-business, the e-hub,...
E-business changes everything and makes deep impact on the organization and management of enterprise. As an important strategic choice of enterprise in the age of information, E-business challenges the design of IT organization. In order to achieve transformation, integration is an important and effective methoed. Through investigating the theory of integration along with the relevant researches on...
In today's supply chain management, organizations need to address complex interdependencies and create an extended enterprise that looks beyond its manufacturing plants, and cus- tomers increasingly expect companies, suppliers and distributors to provide real time information about their orders. These escalating customer demands are forcing corporations to adopt mobile technology to optimize and streamline...
During the last decades a considerable progress has been made in the design of stabilizing controllers for nonlinear systems with known and unknown model. Feedback linearization approach via coordinate transformation is considered to be useful to tackle the control problem. Usually however, feedback linearization control does not guarantee exact linearization and robustness in the presence of uncertainties...
This article has explored the concepts of coordination and inter-organizational coordination mechanisms. Based on a case of automobile procurement, the evolutional issue of coordination mechanisms in Electronic Commerce has been studied. We establish a framework, which describes how IT impacts on inter-organizational transactions coordination mechanisms according to system science. We conclude that...
Nowadays there are so many huge, complex, and chaotic systems in this world, compared with the situation of several years ago, waiting to be managed intelligently in order to behave as they are expected. But it is quite hard even to find a method for describing such systems clearly and precisely. Because they consist of many parts with the parts having many common and differentiating factors while...
With more and more producer services participating in manufacturing activities, producer services gradually become indispensably value-adding nodes in manufacturing value chain. Compared with the traditional manufacturing value chain, the new one including producer services is based on the new business commerce and information technologies (IT), and its constituents are not limited to the interior...
With the business globalization of the enterprises in the world, the rapidly shifting consumer demands become a big challenge for the enterprises. The success of enterprises depends more on their ability to agile business and IT. Integration of the traditional IT applications and the new IT applications becomes a significant problem in the modern enterprises. The logistics information system, as an...
This paper demonstrates the use of social network theory in understanding the degree of coordination in port supply chains. Three port supply chains are used to illustrate that port supply chains are, in fact, social networks and that their success is strongly influenced by the level of coordination and cohesion in their networks. Of the three port supply chains in this study, those with higher degrees...
Customer satisfaction measurement is an important part of marketing research in industrial organizations since it is the key to formulating customer value strategies and to continuously improving implementation of these strategies. Traditional techniques for modeling the network such as partial least squares (PLS) lack the capability of fitting the nonlinear and asymmetric relationships. This article...
Structural supply chain characteristics like reliable network structures and supply chain partnership are vital elements for the functionality of supply chains. Dependencies between supply chain partners are formed by the way supply chain partners relate to each other. To really understand these dependencies new approaches may prove usefull. After giving a broad overview of supply network reprentations,...
On the basis of the analysis of the characteristics of shipping operation and combination of AI with DSS, the realized objective, basic structure and functions of shipping operation intelligent decision support system are put forward in the paper. The expression of its core optimal model and realization mechanism of knowledge base and methods base are also given here.
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