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CCE
2004
13 years 9 months ago
Optimal waste reduction and investment planning under uncertainty
Ever-changing production campaigns complicate the management of recovery and treatment options for unavoidable effluents at pharmaceutical plants. Each campaign produces large amo...
Aninda Chakraborty, Andres Malcolm, Richard D. Col...
CORR
2011
Springer
165views Education» more  CORR 2011»
13 years 3 months ago
On the Semantics of Purpose Requirements in Privacy Policies
Privacy policies often place requirements on the purposes for which a governed entity may use personal information. For example, regulations, such as HIPAA, require that hospital ...
Michael Carl Tschantz, Anupam Datta, Jeannette M. ...
WSC
2008
13 years 11 months ago
Lean engineering for planning systems redesign - staff participation by simulation
Lean manufacturing aims at flexible and efficient manufacturing systems by reducing waste in all forms, such as, production of defective parts, excess inventory, unnecessary proce...
Durk-Jouke van der Zee, Arnout Pool, Jakob Wijngaa...
ICDE
2006
IEEE
185views Database» more  ICDE 2006»
14 years 3 months ago
Don't be a Pessimist: Use Snapshot based Concurrency Control for XML
Currently, only few XML data management systems support concurrent access to an XML document, and if they do, they typically apply variations of hierarchical locking to handle XML...
Zeeshan Sardar, Bettina Kemme
SAINT
2006
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Dynamic Configuration of Semantic-Based Service Provisioning to Portable Devices
Context-awareness is starting to emerge as a key driving principle for the design and provisioning of pervasive services in pervasive computing environments. Semantic languages se...
Antonio Corradi, Rebecca Montanari, Alessandra Ton...