Is it possible to support the engineering processes with intelligent product models when the knowledge and information work is very complex? This paper describes how IT-supported product configuration can support the complex engineering activities carried out in the quotation processes. The research has been carried out at the Centre for Industrialisation of Engineering at the Technical Univers...

At a meeting recently a friend of mine produced the following quotation from J. J. Rousseau. " Si quelquefois les savants ont moins de prejuges que les autres hommes, ils tiennent en revanche, encore plus fortement i ceux qu'ils ont." This is applicable to our vaccination policies. If I may translate "savants" as " doctors and scientists" the quotation could read: " If doctors and scientists ha...

This work evaluates quotation finding approaches in the context of ancient Greek documents. We explore the notion of quotation as relevant to the first centuries of our era, and we discuss the efficiency and usability of unsupervised approaches, both statistical and semantic, used in more modern cases. We also discuss some characteristics of our corpus relatively to performance metrics. MOTS-CL...

This paper examines a type of quotation – ‘hybrid quotations’ – that has received quite a bit of attention from philosophers, semanticists and pragmaticists over the last dozen years or so. Theoretical debates have centred on the question whether the contribution to content of such quotations is semantic in essence, or pragmatic. After presenting prototypical examples of ‘mixed quotation’ and ‘...

The present writer has counted 224 direct citations introduced by a definite formula indicating the writer purposed to quote. To these must be added seven cases where a second quotation is introduced by the conjunction “and,” and 19 cases where a paraphrase or summary rather than a direct quotation follows the introductory formula. We may further note at least 45 instances where the similarity ...

We consider supply chain networks composed of several centrally managed production facilities as well as external suppliers. We design effective heuristics for inventory positioning, order sequencing, and short and reliable due date quotation for this supply chain. We perform extensive computational testing to assess the effectiveness of our algorithms, and we explore the impact of supply chain...