Lean Ergonomics—are relevant synergies of digital human models and digital twins defining a new emerging subdiscipline?

Emergence of Digital Twins

momentum because it may offer real-time transparency. Rapid diffusion of digital duplicates faces hurdles due to lack of semantic interoperability between architectures, standards and ontologies. The technologies necessary for automated discovery are in short supply. Progression of the field depends on convergence of information technology, operational technology and protocol-agnostic telecommu...

Defining a Digital Earth System

In a 1998 speech before the California Science Center in Los Angeles, then US VicePresident Al Gore called for a global undertaking to build a multi-faceted computing system for education and research, which he termed “Digital Earth.” The vision was that of a system providing access to what is known about the planet and its inhabitants’ activities – currently and for any time in history – via r...

From Traditional to Digital Environment: An Analysis of the Evolution of Business Models and New Marketing Strategies

This paper analyzes the major trends in the business environment that shaped the business models adopted by companies and their new marketing strategies. It adopts a desktop research methodology by collecting data from previous academic papers, statistical, and analytical reports. It starts by analyzing the globalization trend that forced most of the emerging economies to liberalize and privati...

Digital Human Models for Ergonomics

Parallelization of Rich Models for Steganalysis of Digital Images using a CUDA-based Approach

There are several different methods to make an efficient strategy for steganalysis of digital images. A very powerful method in this area is rich model consisting of a large number of diverse sub-models in both spatial and transform domain that should be utilized. However, the extraction of a various types of features from an image is so time consuming in some steps, especially for training pha...