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Recent advances in social media have profound technical and economic implications for innovative product design. With focus on the interface of marketing and engineering design, this paper reviews the emerging trends and key technical issues of incorporating social network effects in product design. Key issues are examined in order to understand how peer influence of one's social networks affects...
In the light of the rapidly changing and benefits brought by cloud computing, the study is to find the critical factors that may hinder the benefits of cloud adoption, with respective measures proposed. It was found that control self-assessment (CSA) can enhance the IS security and improve business value delivery. A research model between CSA, cloud security (CS) and cloud-related business performance...
Human resource plays an essential role in the sustainable development of modern industry, especially the talent-intensive industries. Evaluating the human resource competitiveness is the basis for quantifying industrial competitiveness and shaping development strategies. In this study, an improved Technique for Order Preferences by Similarity to an Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) method is developed to evaluate...
Machine learning is a hot topic recently. For condition monitoring, the machine learning is mainly used to improve the failure diagnosis accuracy, as the machine learning can provide flexible decision function. This paper firstly discusses the advantage and disadvantage of the state of art condition monitoring methods. It figures out the machine learning techniques follow a general procedure and can...
The information of electricity demand forecasting is a base for energy generation enterprise to develop electricity supply system. The purpose of this study is to develop a monthly electricity forecasting model in order to predict electricity demand for energy management. The proposed approach to monthly electricity demand time series forecasting model, describes the trend of the electricity demand...
In this study, we investigated the difference of luxuriousness between real model house and web-based model house. Living room as the most important residential space was targeted as an evaluation object. 6 living rooms and 9 elements contained in each living room were evaluated in terms of luxuriousness. Through independent samples t-test, we could examine that there were statistically significant...
This study proves that as the height of a person increases, his/her sense of power also increases. Moreover, in a population with heavy weight and high socioeconomic status, the height of a person significantly affects his/her sense of power. Findings have confirmed the concept emphasized by embodied cognition theory, i.e., genitive dependence on one's body, which indicates that the psychological...
This study is to explore and assess the investment decision-making of the aesthetic medicine industry in light of uncertain revenues and project investment risks when handling multinational joint ventures. The net present value method is employs to analyze the different strategies used in each decision node of two stages by adopting the state cash flow value and the extended binomial opinions; the...
A series of orthogonal experiments have been carried out to study the effect of different rake angles, cutting depths and spindle speeds on residual stress distribution during turning of 20Cr2Ni4 steel. Four characteristic values are selected from the typical residual stress distribution profile: surface residual stress, the depth of tensile stress, the maximum residual compressive stress and the...
The paper refers to the transport logistics optimization problem solving taking into account the roads state and road traffic congestions. The logistics acts as the hidden resource providing the companies competitive advantage. The investigated papers claim that the route of freight delivery is estimated by the distance passed by a vehicle, but the set of other factors influencing delivery time isn't...
Today's Challenge for many manufacturing companies is how to improve product quality and reduce the production cost of the products offered in the market. Quality improvement must be performed by a company to maintain its product's competitiveness in the market. Quality improvement and cost reduction can be performed by allocating investments to reduce the value of the variance in the component of...
This work considers a Generalized Resource Constrained Multi Project Scheduling Problem integrated with a supply chain planning model. In the model, the projects incorporate a set of activities interrelated by four types of precedence relations with positive/negative time-lags, which require two types of resources to be accomplished. The resources are considered in renewable and non-renewable types...
This paper studies a reliability analysis method for a system which experiences two dependent competing failure processes, including a random degradation process and a random shock process. Whether the soft failure or the hard failure take place, the system will fail. In our model, the arriving shocks can cause damage on degradation process, and the random shock process can be influenced by degradation...
Quantitative accelerated test was divided into two accelerating modes which are accelerated stress level and accelerated the use-rate. In the traditional statistical method, the use-rate and the stress level of the product under normal conditions are set to certain values and then the service life of the product is extrapolated according to the acceleration model. But in fact both of them are variables...
The semi-Markov general probabilistic model of the critical infrastructure operation process without considering the separation of operating environment threats is applied to the identification of the port oil piping transportation system operation process. Further, considering a significant influence of the critical infrastructure operating environment threats on its operation process and safety,...
In this paper, the classical Resource Investment Problem (RIP) is extended to consider time-depended resource cost instead of time-independent resource cost. The problem is named as the Resource Investment Problem with Time-Dependent Resource Cost and Tardiness Penalty (RIP-TDRC). The objective of the problem is to minimize the sum of the resources cost and the tardiness cost. Two versions of this...
The use of thresher machines for threshing rice plants helped farmers in improving agricultural productivity. However, thresher machine design that is currently available has not fairly concerned on the working position and posture of the farmers using it. The working position that was modeled by farmers when operating a thresher machine tent to cause injury because of the dimensions of the engine...
Clustering is a fundamental task in machine learning and data analysis. A large number of clustering algorithms has been developed over the past decades. Among these algorithms, the recently developed spectral clustering methods have consistently outperformed traditional clustering algorithms. Spectral clustering algorithms, however, have limited applicability to large-scale problems due to their...
This paper aims to develop a parameter estimation approach for load-sharing systems subject to continuous degradation. The system consists of multiple components in parallel structure. The components of the system suffer a degradation process, characterized respectively by Wiener process and Inverse Gaussian process. When components fail one by one, the total workload is redistributed among the remaining...
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