This paper gives a survey of the current state of ARTIC – the modern Czech concatenative corpus-based text-to-speech system. All stages of the system design are described in the paper, including the acoustic unit inventory building process, text processing and speech production issues. Two versions of the system are presented: the single unit instance system with the moderate output speech qual...

Empirical research strategies are undisputedly of paramount importance to rigorous and relevant IS research. Employed practices of empirical research in Information Systems, however, are still considered to be problematic. One related problem in this context is the lack of rigorously developed and tested empirical scales inventories that could be used in empirical studies of artefacts relevant ...

Mixed-model assembly systems and modular supply chains are enablers to high product variety. However, as variety gets very high, the assembly and supply processes can become very complex. In assembly systems, the complexity may cause human errors and in turn impacts system performance. The complexity also impacts supply chain configuration and inventory control policy. This paper proposes a uni...

A transformation of the HR function is underway – a transformation from cost center to strategic weapon, from bulwark of bureaucratic inertia to spearhead of global responsiveness. Like prior transformations of functions such as inventory management and customer service, this transformation is enabled by technology. It is driven by the vision of HR as a knowledge organization – a hub for the fl...

A solid board factory produces rectangular sheets of cardboard in two different formats, namely large formats and small formats. The production process consists of two stages separated by an inventory point. In the first stage a cardboard machine produces the large formats. In the second stage a part of the large formats is cut into small formats by a separate rotary cut machine. Due to very la...

This report documents the program and the outcomes of Dagstuhl Seminar 12181 “Quality of Experience: From User Perception to Instrumental Metrics”. As follow-up of the Dagstuhl Seminar 09192 “From Quality of Service to Quality of Experience", it focused on the further development of an agreed definition of the term Quality of Experience (QoE) in collaboration with the COST Action IC1003 “Qualin...

The given research fulfils the evaluation of the efficiency of application of two universal simulation packages ExtendSim 8 and AnyLogic 6.7 for inventory control system simulation. In the study twenty eight evaluating criteria have been developed which are distributed in five groups: general, programming aspects, visualization, simulation and user support. As an object of the simulation the in...

The theory on multi-echelon production/inventory systems is a core theory within supply chain management. It provides useful insights for design of supply chains and may be used for tactical and operational planning decisions. The multi-echelon theory started with the seminal paper of Clark and Scarf in 1960. In this tutorial, we describe for which systems optimal policies are known, which key ...

Improving the Performance of Inventory Systems Subject to Errors by Deploying the RFID Technology Evren Sahin & Yves Dallery To cite this article: Evren Sahin & Yves Dallery (2005) Improving the Performance of Inventory Systems Subject to Errors by Deploying the RFID Technology, Journal of Decision Systems, 14:4, 427-449, DOI: 10.3166/jds.14.427-449 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10...