Manufacturers have seen huge changes in the last 20 to 30 years. There are few aspects of business that have not been affected by information and technology, and the dynamics of product development, deployment, and customer relations have been forever changed. Thirty years ago consumers did not have the option to choose from hundreds of manufacturers and suppliers via the Internet; they had a v...

As noted in the proposal, our first task is to evaluate PSL as process specification interchange standard using Vite as a benchmark application. As for this initial investigation, we have built a sample demonstration using PSL as an interchange format to exchange information between Primavera’s P3 and Vite. (Primavera is a project scheduling software widely used in the construction industry.) P...

Building on Karl Polanyi’s theory of a societal reaction to the unregulated exchange of what he called fictitious commodities—labour, money and land— this paper links the history of sociology to the history of the market. If the first wave of marketization in the nineteenth century dwelt on the commodification of labour, prompting utopian sociologies, and the second wave of marketization of the...

We propose, for the first time, neural space-mapping (NSM) optimization for electromagnetic-based design. NSM optimization exploits our space-mapping (SM)-based neuromodeling techniques to efficiently approximate the mapping. A novel procedure that does not require troublesome parameter extraction to predict the next point is proposed. The initial mapping is established by performing upfront fi...

This paper presents an optimization of the electric power quality by designing a 9 steps multilevel power inverter, which adopts a multi-PWM optimized using genetic algorithms (GA), and minimizing Total Harmonic Distortion (THD) of the first 50 harmonics to about 0%. This optimization is considered an alternative technique because it reduces the expression used to quantify TDH numerically. Part...

Metamaterials (MM), artificial materials engineered to have properties that may not be found in nature, have been widely explored since the first theoretical(1) and experimental demonstration(2) of their unique properties. MMs can provide a highly controllable electromagnetic response, and to date have been demonstrated in every technologically relevant spectral range including the optical(3), ...