VAPS to bridge gap between Institute & Automotive Industry

ELRA contribution to bridge the gap between industry and academia

The European Language ResourcesAssociation (ELRA) was created in February 1995 to handle all issues related to Language Resources. ELRA’s missions and activities include the collection, distribution, validation of speech, text, terminology resources and tools. Very recently ELRA has launched a new activity regarding the evaluation (of technologies, systems, prototypes, services, etc.). After fi...

Metamodels to Bridge the Gap Between Modeling and Decision Support.

Relationship between Smoking and Hearing Impairment of Automotive Industry Workers Exposed to Noise

Introduction: Working in noisy environments may cause hearing loss. Studies have shown that some factors along with noise are independently involved in hearing loss, one of which is cigarette smoking. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of smoking on hearing loss in workers exposed to occupational noise. Materials and Methods: The workers’ hearing loss was measured through a tona...

Technological Vision in Automotive Industry and Presenting a Model For the Iranian Automotive Industry

This article aims at strategic vision to technology and suggests a strategic planning for this purpose. The main emphasis in this article is on strategic report compilation in the framework of strategic vision and covers issues such as identification of strategic planning dimensions and strategic vision levels, technology priority setting, environment monitoring, focus on costumer needs, method...

An Integration Challenge to Bridge the Gap Among Industry-Inspired RoboCup Leagues

Manufacturing industries are changing rapidly towards more flexibility and autonomy. The RoboCup Logistics League (RCLL) and RoboCup@Work tackle research questions in this domain focusing on automated reasoning and planning, and mobile manipulation respectively. However, future scenarios will require both aspects (and more) and will most likely operate with more heterogeneous systems. In this p...