In this work, we underline the benefit of techniques derived from distributed artificial intelligence, i.e. multi-agent systems, to the study of economical behavior. It aims to focus on the level of individual behaviors, as a bottom-up approach to understand the rise of economical phenomena like price fluctuation within a financial market or volatility within a labor market. In this paper, we p...

Energy, a fundamental entity of modern life, is usually produced using fossil fuels as the primary raw material. A consequence of burning fossil fuels is the emission of environmentally harmful substances. Energy production systems generate steam and electricity that are served to different process customers to satisfy their energy requirement. The improvement of economical and environmental pe...

Biomass, that is carbon neutral and a renewable resource, becomes attractive after the decision of Biomass-Nippon strategy in Japan. We are trying to construct a database concerning utilization of woody biomass. There are many kind of biomass and the conversion technologies are also manifold. Therefore, in this study, biomass-fired power generation was aimed because it has been already substant...

Petrochemical and Petroleum refining sector has become the backbone of the economical development. The costs of all the consumer goods are closely governed by cost of petroleum products. Diesel and petrol are two most widely used liquid fuels in the world. The cost of the fuel depends on the raw material. The optimization of the reaction carried out in these industries can save some cost and ad...

Keratinases are a group of proteolytic enzymes that display the capability of degrading insoluble keratin substrates such as feather resulting as poultry waste. Entrapment of crude/purified enzyme within a matrix is a common method for immobilization. An immobilized enzyme provides increased resistance to changes in conditions such as pH or temperature. It also allows enzymes to be held in plac...

In the modern manufacturing arena, environmental and economical concerns draw considerable attention from both practitioners and researchers towards remanufacturing practices. The success of remanufacturing firms depends on how efficiently the recovery process is executed. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology holds immense potential to enhance the recovery process. The deployment of...

Business process management (BPM) is becoming the dominant management paradigm. Business process modelling is central to BPM, and the resultant business process model the core artefact guiding subsequent process change. Thus, model quality is at the centre, mediating between the modelling effort and related growing investment in ultimate process improvements. Nonetheless, though research intere...