Complete List of Authors: Georgoulias, Konstantinos; University of Patras, Laboratory for Manufacturing Systems and Automation Papakostas, Nikolaos; University of Patras, Laboratory for Manufacturing Systems and Automation Mourtzis, Dimitris; University of Patras, Laboratory for Manufacturing Systems and Automation Chryssolouris, George; University of Patras, Laboratory for Manufacturing System...

Complete List of Authors: Chen, Hui; Fuzhou University, School of Mechanical Engineering and Automation Liang, Hongxing; Fuzhou University, School of Mechanical Engineering and Automation Xiao, Tianli; Fuzhou University, School of Mechanical Engineering and Automation Du, Heng; Fuzhou University, School of Mechanical Engineering and Automation Shen, Ming; Fuzhou University, College of Mathemati...

Motivation – Automation can fail to deliver the target safety or productivity benefit as intended by those managers and designers advocating its introduction. In a safety critical domain this problem is of significance not only because the unexpected effects of automation might prevent its widespread usage but also because they might turn out to be a contributor to incident and accidents. Origi...

Home automation, as a model of pervasive computing, is progressively becoming substantial for people homed in developed societies. With the proliferation in the usage of household electronic and electrical appliances,numerous data and multifarious controlslevycumbersome burden on residentialhome automation control units, making it expensive and difficult for the users to autonomously install, c...

User perceptions of new technologies may ultimately affect their acceptance of that technology. Recent research has identified a clear connection between user perceptions of Sales Force Automation and their acceptance of Sales Force Automation technologies. Anecdotal evidence suggests that relative to less experienced salespeople, more experienced salespeople tend to have more negative percepti...

Business process automation is an important task in an enterprise business environment software development. The requirements of processing acceleration and automation level of enterprises are inherently different from one organization to another. We present a methodology and system for automation of business process management system architecture by multi-agent collaboration based on SOA. Desi...

The Crew Exploration Vehicle necessitates higher levels of automation than previous NASA vehicles, due to program requirements for automation, including Automated Rendezvous and Docking. Studies of spacecraft development often point to the locus of decisionmaking authority between humans and computers (i.e. automation) as a prime driver for cost, safety, and mission success. Therefore, a critic...

Wireless automation is an emerging field of research, engineering and industrial development that aims at significant savings in installation times and costs of cabling in automation systems, while providing a new level of flexibility for system design, reconfiguration, and agility. It is applicable to both new automation systems and retrofit applications. The use of wireless technologies is ra...

it is essential to use statistical models and theoretical analysis of the data for preparing comprehensive geological and seismic hazard mapping. a cellular automaton consists of an array of cells, each one of which has a finite number of possible states, together with a rule for updating all cells simultaneously based only on the states of neighboring cells. in the present paper, ising cellula...

Antonio Barrientos, Julian Colorado, and Jaime del Cerro Centre for Automation and Robotics, UPM-CSIC, Madrid, Spain Alexander Martinez Centre for Automation and Robotics, UPM-CSIC, Madrid, Spain, and Robotics and Automation Group, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Cali, Colombia Claudio Rossi, David Sanz, and João Valente Centre for Automation and Robotics, UPM-CSIC, Madrid, Spain e-mail: clau...