Design becomes more and more the art of bringing together expertise and experts from different domains in creating future products. Synthetical knowledge and hands-on skills in design, especially in industrial design, is often implicit, hardly captured and modeled for remote education. The need of transferring implicit design knowledge using computer mediated learning tools, provides not only t...

This keynote panel will explore different perspectives on software production from three very experienced leaders in large companies in Brasil. The panelists will present a blend of industrial research and industrial development experiences, and their requirements engineering challenges will be discussed. The keynote panel will be moderated by Julio Cesar Leite of PUC-Rio, the General Chair of ...

We present a fully implemented industrial production system that is reconfigured by a multi-agent system and is controlled by standard industrial control technology. We focus on certain design principles that we found to be crucial in such integrations, and the main challenges we faced when interfacing agents with a real-world production system.

The analysis of innovation, industrial dynamics and the evolution of industries has witnessed major progress in several areas. The paper discusses the progress made in the industrial dynamics tradition and in the more recent stream of studies centred on the evolution of sectoral systems. It identifies some key challenges: the analysis of knowledge, actors, demand, networks, institutions and coe...

645 COVER Among the contrasts in scale between academic and industrial chemistry is the latter field's use of raw materials by the trainload. This week's special section, beginning on page 691, elaborates on the challenges and opportunities in industrial chemistry as the field embarks on its second century of development.

The article depicts the situation before Cold War in which developing countries (DCs) and least Developed countries (LDCs) found themselves big loser, as they were deprived from participation in trade negotiation process, leading into establishment of GATT . Therefore, they resorted to UNCTAD  as the sole defender of their interests against Developed Countries in trade negotiations. UNCTAD has ...

Wearable computers like smart glasses or smartwatches enable the use of information systems in application scenarios in which information technology has rarely been used until now. The reason for this is, that users are able to interact with the devices handsfree, e.g. by using voice commands. A hands-free use is in particular relevant for enterprises in the industrial sector, as industrial wor...

Although industrial ecology represents a captivating metaphor and rich repertoire of analytical tools, its impact on environmental policy has been marginal at best. This article examines the insights provided by the studies of three common materials in the U.S. economy—lead, arsenic, and silver—and the ability of such studies to illuminate some larger and looming challenges for future environme...

Industrial Automation has evolved from stand-alone, hard-wired relay panels to a contemporary, networked system that supports flexible manufacturing and enterprise integration. From precision control of machines and robots on the factory floor to flexible coordination of multiple cells of automation, advancements in control technologies have driven the evolution of industrial automation. The co...

things) concept is in the process of developing, maturation, and standardization. This concept aims to interconnect all things from daily life to the Internet as part of the Internet of the Future. IoT concept caught the attention of the industrial environments in order to develop the develop factories of the future. For this reason there were defined the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) an...