This paper presents a generic and systematic methodology for the generation of sustainable process alternatives with respect to new process design as well as retrofit design. The generated process alternatives are evaluated through sustainability metrics, environmental impact factors as well as inherent safety indices. The process alternatives for new process design as well as retrofit design a...

Market risk exposure plays a key role for financial institutions risk management. A possible measure for this exposure is to evaluate losses likely to incur when the price of the portfolio’s assets declines using Value-at-Risk (VaR) estimates, one of the most prominent measure of financial downside market risk. This paper suggests an evolving possibilistic fuzzy modeling approach for VaR estima...

The David restoration project (started in Florence in 2002) has given several guidelines to the definition and development of innovative solutions to process and visualize 3D data in the framework of Cultural Heritage (CH) applications. Our main goal has been to demonstrate the usefulness of digital 3D models and of visualization tools in the framework of a restoration project. 3D models have b...

A study of 261 accidents involving domino effect has been carried out. The main features have been analyzed: origin, causes, consequences and most frequent sequences. The analysis has shown that the most frequent causes are external events (31%) and mechanical failure (30%). The storage areas (37%) and process plants (27%) are by far the most common places where domino accidents have occurred. ...

On the southeast corner of the Pomona College campus a small community farm and lush oasis is nestled in the suburban jungle of Claremont, California. 'The Farm' is a two-acre food forest that produces a wide variety of annual vegetable crops, fruits, and perennial herbs and berries in a landscape otherwise covered largely in asphalt and lawn. The Inland Empire of California, which Claremont st...

This paper develops two ways of analyzing the humancomputer interaction of a computer application in use in an organization. The techniques, historical analyses and conflicting perspectives analysis, and the interplay between them, are used in providing the basis for a more detailed analysis. Historical analyses focus on the historical development of artifacts and their use. Conflicting perspec...

The collections of historical books are an important source of information, both for the history of previous periods and for the development of the cultural documentation itself. Although to date, there have been made several attempts of digitalization and electronic navigation, there is not an appropriate frame of optical process and analysis of the content of these collections, consequently a...

This paper describes methods of image analysis for historical Japanese book archives with a dominant focus on character segmentation. The segmentation methodology includes stain and smear removal, binarization, character line extraction, and character extraction by region labeling with integration and separation techniques. The experimental results show that the proposed method can segment all ...

This paper presents and explores 3D techniques for analyzing historic textile fragment. The textile fragment piece examined throughout this paper originates from the English National Trust archive held in the collection at Claydon House. The aim is to utilize data collected with a combination of both 2D pattern software and state-of-the-art 3D technology to both recreate and reconstruct a compe...

Healthcare professionals have long been concerned with the assessment of human gait, but only recently were they able to utilize instrumental gait analysis in routine clinical practice for diagnosis, and to guide the selection of treatment methods for complex musculo-skeletal and neurological disorders. The development of motion analysis systems has progressed through several stages from simple...