in order to meet the significantly increased metal demand of the world market, it has been decided to expand the capacity of the existing alumina refineries and to set up new plants (more than 2 mt/a each). the selection among the bauxite sources is based on previous exploration data, such as: tonnage, grade, mineralogy, etc., the geographical position of the deposit, existing natural and const...

A new method for the multiband segmentation of a spectroscopic line data cube is presented. This method is intended to help astronomers to handle complex spectroscopic line data cubes where the inspection of the channel and moment maps is difficult. Due to the Hughes phenomenon, the number of input images for the segmentation process is limited. Therefore, the spectrum of each pixel is fitted w...

Application The Needs and Benefits of Applying Textual Data Mining within the Product Development Process Rakesh Menon1,∗,†, Loh Han Tong1,2, S. Sathiyakeerthi2, Aarnout Brombacher1,3 and Christopher Leong4 1Design Technology Institute, 10 Kent Ridge Crescent, Singapore 119260 2Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore 119260 3Technische Universitait Eind...

This paper applies the construct of task uncertainty to study relationships between product development project characteristics and project outcomes. We characterize product development projects in terms of their technology novelty and project complexity levels. This characterization is based on product development literature and organizational information processing theory. We hypothesize that...

Early phases of design process still lacks of the computer support due to informal and highly complex data that has to be managed. Appropriate structure of data is therefore needed for optimal support and connection of conceptual design with downstream application of the product development process. Paper introduces an approach towards a feature-based product model incorporating representation ...