In the current collaborative and extended-enterprise environment, product definition must be exchanged between original equipment manufacturers (OEM) and other partners who contribute to the evolution of product definition. In many cases, an information package, which is associated with other objects in the DMU, must thus be extracted from the OEM’s Digital Mock -up (DMU) and be sent to partner...

In this study, we present the M-PDCA governance model that is constructed and deployed within the scope of Engineering Performance Enhancement (EPE) Project conducted at FNSS Savunma Sistemleri A.Ş. Having experienced a rapid growth in the number of concurrent projects and business volume, the major aim of the firm in undertaking the EPE project was to avoid schedule and cost overruns. In this ...

Dissatisfaction with property-liability insurance is widespread and seems to be growing. Insurance availability and affordability have become major issues in election campaigns nationwide, and Congress is threatening to impose new federal regulations. This unusual amount of attention seems to reflect fundamental changes in the nature of insurance and insurance markets. Insurers maintain that th...

Dialogue breakdown detection is a promising technique in dialogue systems. To promote the research and development of such a technique, we organized a dialogue breakdown detection challenge where the task is to detect a system’s inappropriate utterances that lead to dialogue breakdowns in chat. This paper describes the design, datasets, and evaluation metrics for the challenge as well as the me...

FORM, which was developed at Pohand University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) in South Korea, is a systematic method that looks for and captures commonalities and variabilities of a product line in terms of “features”. The results of the analysis are used to develop reusable product line assets (architectures and components). This method includes techniques and tools for product line engin...

In this paper we aim to clarify that participants of conversation can predict whether an utterance includes grammatical terminal elements, which have been referred to as the utterance-final elements (UFEs) in Japanese. We carried out perceptual experiments with Japanese utterances missing a part close to their end. The results showed that subjects distinguished whether an UFE follows at the ver...

We propose extracting information about characters and actions from a self-contained story, such as news reports. This information is stored in structure patterns called situations. We show how these situation patterns can be constructed by unifying the constituents of sentence analysis with knowledge previously stored in Typed Feature Structures. These situations can be in turn used subsequent...

For rehabilitation of damaged concrete structures, the durability of repair overlay is a very important issue. Self-compacting concretes (SCC) are known as a suitable repair overlay materials. In this study, the durability of different self-compacting lightweight aggregate concretes (LWSCC) and effect of lightweight aggregate type on them is investigated. 3 mix designs of LWSCC containing three...

We develop the first agent-based model (ABM) that can compete with benchmark VAR and DSGE models in out-of-sample forecasting of macro variables. Our ABM for a small open economy uses micro data from national accounts, sector input–output tables, government statistics, census business demography data. The incorporates all economic activities as classified by European System Accounts (ESA 2010) ...