Dozens of processors control every performance aspect of today’s automobiles, and not a single feature of the “vehicle experience” remains untouched by technology. Whether it’s climate control, engine control, or entertainment, there has been constant evolution of capabilities in manufacturer offerings over the last decade. One of the forces behind this evolution, the rapidly increasing perform...

The policy and institutional dimensions addressed in this symposium were diverse and somewhat diffuse. Each panel was developed to include a political, policy, and institutional perspective. Some of these perspectives were shared from a policy-maker’s point of view, others from the view of scientific and technical managers with responsibility for integrating science into planning and management...

With the development of behavioral operational management, human behavior such as altruism, fairness and trust has received considerable attention. This paper studies the effect of altruism on retailer’s and manufacturer’s pricing strategy in two classic dual-channel supply chains by presenting Stackelberg game models. The analysis shows that the player’s altruism preference strongly affects th...

A. Robustness concern has been long reflected in the decision models under uncertainty since the maxmin expected utility theory. All the models set the degree of robustness concern as fixed across all the payoff profiles. However, a decision maker’s robustness concern may well changes when the certainty part or the unit scale of a payoff profile changes. This paper introduces formally a ...

The goal of OWL (Object-Oriented Workplace Laboratory) is to provide an object-oriented and component-based framework that supports the engineering of applications for the design, simulation, construction, and operation of buildings with more efficient use of building facilities. OWL is based on a software architecture using a combination of web and object technology. It offers location transpa...

The purpose of this study is to determine the type failures, causes, as well efforts and proposed actions that can be taken improve performance pneumatic system CNC milling machines. Failure Mode Effect Analysis (FMEA) method used find priority problems through Risk Priority Number (RPN) for components machine. results critical component analysis were a leakage occurs in valve component, which ...

OBJECTIVES The application of software in the Medical Device (MD) domain has become central to the improvement of diagnoses and treatments. The new European regulations that specifically address software as an important component of MD, require complex procedures to make software compliant with safety requirements, introducing thereby new challenges in the qualification and classification of MD...

Information sharing is an important component of cooperation in supply chain management. This paper presents a study to evaluate the impact of information sharing on inventory and expected cost in a two-level supply chain with multiple retailers. Three levels of information sharing are given and the optimal inventory policy under each level is derived. We show that both the inventory level and ...