Exploring emergent relations between data-producing individuals and their data products, this study aims to contribute the ongoing scholarly discussion on agencies in practices. It focuses shifts surveillance structure era of Big Data, which individual becomes both a subject an object production surveillance. Drawing concept ‘dividual’, analyses practices for tracing system invented by South Ko...

The problem of determining an optimal benchmark to inefficient decision-making units (DMUs) is important issue in the field performance analysis. Previous methods for projection points DMUs have only focused on one objective and other features been ignored. This paper attempts determine best point each DMU when inputs outputs data are stochastic form presents alternative definition by consideri...

A new deformable shape model is defined with the following properties: (1) A-priori knowledge describes shapes not only by statistical variation of a fixed structure like active shape/appearance model but also by variability of structure using a production system. (2) Multi-resolution description of shape structures enable more constrained statistical variation of shape as the model evolves in ...

This paper presents the framework of our intelligent video production, which has functions for multimodal data acquisition, accumulation to a database, and intelligent video editing. Since multimodal approach is most e ective and promising for semi-/automatic video production, we rst developed a prototype of multimodal acquisition system and database in which human behaviors are recorded in a m...

The design of a manufacturing systems is a complex and critical activity entailing decisions with an impact on a long time horizon and a major commitment of financial resources. Indeed, the modelling, simulation and evaluation of manufacturing systems are relevant activities both in the design and the operational phases of a factory. This paper grounds on the results of the Virtual Factory Fram...

Since the 1940s, the widespread adoption of synthetic fertilizers has reduced the need for manure as a nutrient source in crop production. This has led to separation of crop and animal production, increased use of imported feeds, and a growth in animal numbers relative to land area on dairy and other livestock farms. A net flow of nutrients into areas with a concentration of dairies is now comm...

Without question, the adoption of FAS 133 will have an impact on the way firms use derivatives. One application that will certainly be affected is the use of currency swaps in conjunction with funding in a currency other than the functional currency. In the past, synthetic instrument accounting ruled. Under that regime, the accounting did not distinguish between issuing fixed rate debt directly...

This paper proposes a two-dimensional efficiency decomposition (2DED) of profitability for a production system to account for the demand effect observed in productivity analysis. The first dimension identifies four components of efficiency: capacity design, demand generation, operations, and demand consumption, using Network Data Envelopment Analysis (Network DEA). The second dimension decompos...

Sensor technology, which benefits from high temporal measuring resolution, real-time data transfer and high spatial resolution of sensor data that shows in-field variations, has the potential to provide added value for crop production. The present paper explores how sensors and sensor networks have been utilised in the crop production process and what their added-value and the main bottlenecks ...

Agrochemical is evolved by the contraction and combination of words agricultural and chemical, and is a generic term used for the various chemical products typically used in agriculture. Agrochemicals essentially help in intensifying crop production and to reduce the effects of pests and parasites on farm animals. Agrochemical basically refers to the broad range of pesticides and fertilizers. A...