In a market where rapid changes in demand, product mix and volumes are now commonplace and where the requirement for a production operation to be reliable in terms of quality and delivery performance is now a baselevel expectation, an appropriate set of response capabilities is critical. This paper presents a link between agility, responsiveness and flexibility in the context of production oper...

We present a general setting for dynarnlc-epistemic logics for communication, which can express announcements of different types (public or private, truthful or not, reliable or not, secure or not etc.), queries of the corresponding types, complex dialogues, dialogue games, strategies (protocols) for communication etc. We analyze some examples, we discuss various properties of dialogues (normal...

Motivation The importance of managers in maintaining high levels of warehouse performance (quality, productivity, flexibility, safety, sustainability, responsiveness) has been shown before in several studies. However, the impact of shop floor workers, specifically forklift drivers, has not been studied so far. As internal transportation is critical in many warehouses, it can be expected that, i...

Organizations are globalizing rapidly for growth. However, with globalization they constantly struggle with the often competing objectives of global scale and responsiveness to local conditions and global trends. Prior research suggests that IT capabilities are critical to achieving organizational goals; however there has been relatively little research that explicitly examines IT capabilities ...

NESS, RALI’s summarization system for the TAC 2008’s update task, brings improvements and continuation to our last year’s “all-symbolic” approach. The most distinctive feature of our system is to rely on the syntactical parser FIPS to extract linguistic knowledge from source documents. NESS selects sentences based on linguistic metrics, especially tf · idf scores that measure the relevance of t...

Two studies investigated how personand situation-related information elicit empathy and subsequent prosocial behaviour. Results show that congruent information (for example, positive emotion after positive event) elicits more empathy than incongruent information (for example, negative emotion after positive event). The extent of prosocial behaviour was observed to be an additive effect of perso...

Problem Drowsiness is a major cause of fatal accidents, in particular in transportation. It is thus critical to develop real-time, automatic drowsiness monitoring systems designed to warn a vehicle operator (and/or an automatic driving system) to take timely safety actions. One of the least intrusive approaches for this is to use one or more cameras mounted in the vehicle, such as in the dashbo...

Introduction. In October 1998, Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) introduced the "Communication of Service Standards for Referring Physicians." The goal of this initiative was to improve the responsiveness ofBWH specialist physicians to the needs of referring physicians (RP's), and to facilitate this communication process. According to the standards, direct communication between BWH specialists...