Business and Management

0 e This is the proceedings of the first annual symposium of the Safety-critical Systems Club (The Watershed Media Centre, Bristol, 9-11 February 1993), which provided a forum for exploring and discussing ways of achieving safety in computer systems to be used in safety-critical industrial applications.

Computing, despite the relative brevity of its history, has already evolved into a subject in which a fairly large number of subdisciplines can be identified.

One of the most significant developments in computing over the last ten years has been the growth of interest in computer based support for people working together.

Intelligent Manufacturing is part of the Advanced Manufacturing Series edited by Professor D.

Dan, is this book going to provide a substantial, coherent and timely contribution to CSCW or is it just going to be a ragbag of papers from several meetings stuck together?

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Systems, Models and Measures seeks to bridge the gap between the 'classical' and the newer technologies by constructing a systematic measurement framework for both.

The arrival of the information society in Japan has radically altered the industrial structure, work patterns and cultural values of its society.

Parallel Processing in Digital Control is a volume to be published in the new Advances in Industrial Control series, edited by Professor M.

The material presented in this book addresses the analysis and design of learning control systems.

There is now a widely accepted view among manufacturing and service organisations that 'operations' can provide the means of achieving competitive edge.

Effective decision making requires a clear methodology, particularly in complex, globally relevant situations.

In order to satisfy the needs of their customers, network utilities require specially developed maintenance management capabilities.

Offshore wind energy is one of the most promising and fastest growing alternative energy sources in the world.

Environmental Design is becoming an increasingly significant agenda for many manufacturing companies and yet there is no standard to their approaches, strategies or their levels of execution.

Although fossil fuels remain the primary global energy source, developing and expanding economies are creating an ever-widening gap between supply and demand.

In past twenty years or so, information technology has influenced and changed every aspect of our lives and our cultures.

Decision makers in the Renewable Energy sector face an increasingly complex social, economic, technological, and environmental scenario in their decision process.

There are many aspects to consider when evaluating or improving an indoor environment; thermal comfort, energy saving, preservation of materials, hygiene and health are all key aspects which can be improved by passive methods of environmental control.

The Spanish Conference of Industrial Engineering /Ingenieria de Organizacion Industrial (CIO) is an annual meeting promoted by Asociacion para el Desarrollo de la Ingenieria de Organizacion/ Industrial Engineers Association (ADINGOR).

Goal Structuring Notation (GSN) is becoming increasing popular; practitioners use it in the railway, air traffic management and nuclear industries, amongst others.

The analysis of the reliability and availability of power plants is frequently based on simple indexes that do not take into account the criticality of some failures used for availability analysis.

Innovation Design presents an approach to designing shared value for businesses, non-profit organizations, end-users and society.

This important text provides a single point of reference for state-of-the-art cloud computing design and implementation techniques.

With increased globalization and offshore sourcing, global supply chain management is becoming an important issue for many businesses as it involves a company's worldwide interests and suppliers rather than simply a local or national orientation.

Distributed Decision Making and Control is a mathematical treatment of relevant problems in distributed control, decision and multiagent systems, The research reported was prompted by the recent rapid development in large-scale networked and embedded systems and communications.

Recent Advances in System Reliability discusses developments in modern reliability theory such as signatures, multi-state systems and statistical inference.

Classes of socio-technical hazards allow a characterization of the risk in technology innovation and clarify the mechanisms underpinning emergent technological risk.

Limited availability of grid-based electricity is a major challenge faced by many developing countries, particularly the rural population.

Manufacturers worldwide are faced with unprecedented challenges from international competition, changing production processes and technologies, shorter production life-cycles, market globalization and environmental requirements.

The programme for the Second Safety-critical Systems Symposium was planned to examine the various aspects of technology currently employed in the design of safety-critical systems, as well as to emphasise the importance of safety and risk management in their design and operation.

Identification of Multivariable Industrial Processes presents a unified approach to multivariable industrial process identification.

The first volume in a new Springer Series on Shipping and Transport Logistics, Oil Transport Management provides a full historical account of the evolution of the oil transport industry since the 1800's.

Asset Condition, Information Systems and Decision Models, is the second volume of the Engineering Asset Management Review Series.

It is the aim of this study to present a framework for the design of technical systems.

Safety-related computer systems are those which may lead to loss of life, injury or plant and environmental damage.

Text and Context: Document Storage and Processing describes information processing techniques, including those which do not appear in conventional textbooks on database systems.

Managerial and Organisational Integration discusses a wide range of issues considered pertinent to the more effective use of technology.

This second book in our series Artificial Intelligence and Society explores the issues involved in the design and application of human-centred systems in the manufacturing area.

This book of proceedings contains papers for the Second European Workshop on Mobile/Personal Satcoms (EMPS '96), held in Rome, Italy, and hosted by the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche.

Computer supported work is increasingly being done out of the traditional office environment, for example whilst travelling or at home and there is a growing need to support the cooperative aspects of such work.

Safety-critical systems, in the sense of software-based systems used in safety- critical applications, are 'high-tech'.

Competitive edge in today's world markets can only be achieved by an integrated approach to manufacturing.

It is well-known that some 85% of the resources necessary to design and bring to market a product are committed by decisions taken in the first 10% of the design activity.

This proceedings contains some of the papers presented at the Business Object and Implementation Workshops held at OOPSLA'96, OOPSLA'97 and OOPSLA'98.

Joe Engelberger, the pioneer of the robotics industry, wrote in his 1989 book Robotics in Service that the inspiration to write his book came as a reaction to an industry-sponsored forecast study of robot applications, which predicted that in 1995 applications of robotics outside factories - the traditional domain of industrial robots - would amount to less than 1% of total sales.

European competitiveness in a global perspective is a major issue on the agenda of the European Union and European industry.

Parallel Kinematic Machines (PKMs) are one of the most radical innovations in production equipment.