Restaurants are an important area of the hospitality industry. This industry sector has not only experienced severe consequences recent lockdowns, but it also seen rise digital technologies. As known from other industries, transformation impacts products, processes and business models alike. Starting classical distinction a restaurant's front- back-of-the-house processes, this paper presents ov...

Driven by the wireless handset market the GaAs industry has seen an immense growth in recent years. The wireless markets will continue to grow. In addition an emerging mmW market with applications in automotive, defense and optoelectronics will further drive the demand for GaAs components. The two biggest European GaAs foundries, Filtronic and UMS, are very well positioned to address globally t...

An integrated part of modern design practice in both engineering and industry is simulation and optimization. Significant challenges still exist, though huge progress has been made in the last few decades. This 5th workshop on Computational Optimization, Modelling and Simulation (COMS 2014) at ICCS 2014 will summarize the latest developments of optimization and modelling and their applications ...

During the past three decades, the insurance industry has developed from a virtually nonexistent industry to a large, open industry. This fast growing economy coupled with the largest population in the world, rising personal income, and economic system reform could not only explain the rapid growth of China's insurance industry, but also foretell the increasing importance of China's insurance m...

This paper focusses on recent developments and on-going research related to parallel and distributed approaches for crashworthiness simulation, using the PAM-CRASH code from ESI as an example. The developments described here relate directly to the take-up in the automotive industry of the latest High Performance Computing (HPC) technology, since crash and safety analysis is well established in ...

the water and waste-water industry, as an infrastructure industry, has wide interactions with the public by having more than 20 million subscribers (27 million units). one of these interactions is the collection of debt considering the nature of the obligation sales and service rendered. collection of debt and the costs imposed as a result of the qualitative and quantitative services offered to...

The 3rd IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2005) industry track program is intended to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners from industry and academia to exchange ideas, share experiences, and foster new initiatives that can advance web services technologies to the next level. The industry adoption of web services has led to many new challenges, and the need to cap...

BACKGROUND With increasing restrictions placed on physician-industry interactions, industry marketing may target other health professionals. Recent health policy developments confer even greater importance on the decision making of non-physician clinicians. The purpose of this systematic review is to examine the types and implications of non-physician clinician-industry interactions in clinical...

The “open source development process” has received considerable attention. It means that loosely co-ordinated, geographically dispersed developers collaborate. While in prototypical open source projects developers are unpaid volunteers, the involvement of commercial firms has recently increased enormously. There are some areas of open source software where indeed most contributions come from co...

Scientific Contributions: Recent developments in the automotive industry point to a new emerging domain of vehicular wireless networks, which include not only vehicle-to-vehicle communications but also vehicle-to-infrastructure communications. Vehicular networks are envisioned to be a critical component of future large-scale, heterogeneous Internet architecture which not only covers traditional...