Data reconciliation is a model-based technique that reduces measurement errors by making use of redundancies in process data. It is largely applied in modern process industries, being commercially available in software tools. Based on industrial applications reported in the literature, we have identified and tested different configuration settings providing a numerical assessment on the perform...

Within the last decade there has been considerable national attention focused upon hospital quality and patient safety performance. Improvements in performance have been realized, but the rate of improvement has been slow. There is an increasing consensus that new ideas and national strategies are needed to accelerate improvement efforts in addressing quality/safety issues. Currently, within th...

A data reconciliation module, based on the measurements from the hydraulic network, has been recently developed and implemented in the supervisory system of the Société du Canal de Provence SCP . The software has initially been used daily to check the measured flow on the main canal. The data reconciliation occurs just after the measurement process. The measurement network on the hydraulic syst...

Four national healthcare organizations - Accreditation Canada, the Canadian Institute for Health Information, the Canadian Patient Safety Institute and the Institute for Safe Medication Practices Canada - recently collaborated to better understand and share comprehensive information about medication reconciliation in Canada. This article summarizes the key findings of their joint report titled ...

Schema matching is the process of establishing correspondences between the attributes of schemas, for the purpose of data integration. Schema matching is often performed in a pair-wise setting, in which two given schemas are matched again each other by automatic tools. In this thesis, we instead approach the schema matching problem in a network setting, in which the two schemas to be matched do...

We describe a mediator designed specifically for an intranet rather than an internet. Our intranet mediator allows data reconciliation and integration to be completed long before the query is executed. This is because information about the data sources is known and a combined schema can be defined prior to the query. On the internet, source schemas are not available so integration cannot occur ...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to characterize reconciliation among the plan-driven, agile, and free/open source software models of software development. Design/methodology/approach: An automated quasi-systematic review identified 42 papers, which were then analyzed. Findings: The main findings are: there exist distinct – organization, group and process – levels of reconciliation; few st...

Multicore main-memory databases only obtain parallel performance when transactions do not conflict. Conflicting transactions are executed one at a time in order to ensure that they have serializable effects. Sequential execution on contended data leaves cores idle and reduces throughput. In other parallel programming contexts—not serializable transactions— techniques have been developed that ca...

It often happens that different references (i.e. data descriptions), possibly coming from different heterogeneous data sources, concern the same real world entity. In such cases, it is necessary: (i) to detect, through reconciliation methods, whether different data descriptions refer to the same real world entity and (ii) to fuse them into a unique representation. Here we assume the reference r...

Two parameter estimation methods are presented for online determination of parameter values using a simple charge/discharge model of a Sony 18650 lithium ion battery. Loss of capacity and resistance increase are both included in the model. The first method is a hybrid combination of batch data reconciliation and moving-horizon parameter estimation. A discussion on the selection of tuning parame...