How to assign colors to occurrences of cars in a car factory ? How to divide fairly a necklace between thieves who have stolen it ? These two questions are addressed in two combinatorial problems that have attracted attention from a theoretical point of view these last years, the first one more by people from the combinatorial optimization community, the second more from the topological combina...

During the COVID-19 epidemic, many industries were hit hard by impact of epidemic. The outbreak first led to factory shutdowns, with virtually all factories worldwide except for China now closed and at least 120 automotive plants temporarily closed. Global car sales have also plummeted in midst epidemic storm people mostly shutting their doors. Yet, under these circumstances, Tesla Motors has a...

W earable computing systems should provide unobtrusive access to the IT infrastructure, so they should be physically unobtrusive, leave users’ hands free, and allow freedom of motion. In an industrial scenario, they must also minimize workers’ cognitive load and avoid distracting them from their primary tasks (see the sidebar “Related Work in Wearable Computing in Industrial Environments”). An ...

In this paper, we argue for the incorporation of architecture analysis techniques in Software Factories. While software factories often rely on a domain-specific (or product-line specific) architecture, frequently there are some architectural alternatives left open. In these situations, architectural analysis, static or dynamic is essential. The paper elaborates these concepts and shows an exam...

Spoken dialogue information retrieval applications are the future trend for mobile users in automobiles, on cellular phones, etc. Due to the limitation of resources in these platforms, it may be advantageous to extract speech features, and compress and transmit them to a central hub where the computation intensive tasks such as speech recognition and speech understanding, etc. can be performed....

Samples of blood, air, dust, soil, vegetation, and tap water were examined between 1973 and 1975 to determine whether a large battery factory (with a smelter) was contributing to lead in the environment and to lead absorption by the local population. Mean blood lead levels in the children of lead workers were about 6 pg/100 ml higher (P <0.001) than in otherwise comparable children. Capillary b...

Whenever an auto manufacturer refreshes an existing car or truck model or builds a new one, the model will undergo hundreds if not thousands of tests before the factory line and tooling is finished and vehicle production beings. These tests are generally carried out on expensive, custom-made vehicles because the new factory lines for the model do not exist yet. The work presented in this paper ...

The article analyses horror stories and legends about a sausage factories and about a woman who killed her children at her lover's insistence, told in a small Estonian town in the 1950s and 1960s. Presenting one’s self and memories is often a strategy for altering data. Certain events or stereotypic stories of fear, dishonouring or shame can be told as first-person narratives on the condition t...