{"title":"MapReduce based Betweenness Approximation Engineering in Large Scale Graph","authors":"Xiaolong Deng, Yuxiao Li","doi":"10.1016/j.sepro.2012.04.026","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.sepro.2012.04.026","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>With increased emergency cases in the world, the government has realized that it is necessary to manage and control the information spreading in social network. Recently with the rapid increase of information in society activities, distributed information system engineering such as MapReduce based cloud computing distributed system is becoming more and more important in large scale social network data computing in emergency case management. In this article, a novel MapReduce based SNA (Social Network Analysis) system was proposed on layered distributed system. According to independent identically distributed probability statistics of node Betweenness Centrality, a more efficient betweenness approximation computation method was proposed in this article in very large scale SNA graph from emergency case management with better accuracy.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101207,"journal":{"name":"Systems Engineering Procedia","volume":"5 ","pages":"Pages 162-167"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.sepro.2012.04.026","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73223979","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chaos and Organizational Emergence: Towards Short Term Predictive Modeling to Navigate a Way Out of Chaos","authors":"Sami A. Houry","doi":"10.1016/j.sepro.2011.11.025","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.sepro.2011.11.025","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Organizational emergence from chaotic events has often been described as unpredictable and random, at least when observed over the long term. Through a literature review this paper paves the path for the possible development of a forecasting model for making short term predictions during chaotic events so as to assist business practitioners in navigating their way out of chaos, thereby facilitating organizational emergence. As such, the paper builds on chaos and complexity theory, as its foundational theory, and identifies the most important factors and mechanisms cited in current literature that influence organizational emergence so as to potentially incorporate the factors in the future development of a short term forecasting model.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101207,"journal":{"name":"Systems Engineering Procedia","volume":"3 ","pages":"Pages 229-239"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.sepro.2011.11.025","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74782116","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On Debt Maturity Structure of Listed Companies in Financial Engineering","authors":"Zhang Qiuyan, Zhang Qian, Gan Jingjing","doi":"10.1016/j.sepro.2011.11.050","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.sepro.2011.11.050","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We know that the debt maturity structure can influence the intrinsic value of listed companies. That's to say, if we want to price the capital asset, we should study the debt maturity structure of listed companies indirectly. In this paper, we employ financial engineering approach to test the influencing factors of debt maturity structure with the data of 202 listed companies distributed in 11 industries, by the simulation of single equation models and simultaneous equation model, using stepwise multiple regression analysis, and then got the result that, the endogenous relationship between capital structure and debt maturity structure matters a lot. Therefore, when the companies consider this relationship, the short-term debt maturity will not be an effective way to solve the problem of insufficient investment. In contrast, growth opportunity and leverage rate are significant negative correlation. With the role of leverage, growth opportunity will indirectly affect debt maturity structure.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101207,"journal":{"name":"Systems Engineering Procedia","volume":"4 ","pages":"Pages 61-67"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.sepro.2011.11.050","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78026389","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Research on design management based on green remanufacturing engineering","authors":"Wu Xiaoyan","doi":"10.1016/j.sepro.2012.01.009","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.sepro.2012.01.009","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>With the popularization of the concept of “Product Multi-lifecycle” and “Extended Producer Responsibility”, many manufacturers put the concept of green remanufacturing engineering into practice and begin to think about how to do the design management based on green remanufacturing engineering. This paper firstly analyses the concept of the remanufacturability, then explores the design content for new products’ remanufacturability, and builds up the evaluation model of a used product's remanufacturability, in which the remanufacturability index of a used product is the product of the technological index and the economical index.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101207,"journal":{"name":"Systems Engineering Procedia","volume":"4 ","pages":"Pages 448-454"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.sepro.2012.01.009","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85582444","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Bi-objective Evacuation Routing Engineering Model with Secondary Evacuation Expected Costs","authors":"Liu Na , Shao Xueyan , Qi Mingliang","doi":"10.1016/j.sepro.2012.04.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.sepro.2012.04.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The recent nuclear leakage accidents have made evacuation a leading issue in engineering emergency management. Evacuation routing is one of key problems for helping people move to safety. In this paper, a bi-objective model is proposed to optimize the engineering route assignment, with the possibilities of secondary evacuation in consideration. This model is aimed to minimize the maximum travel time and minimize the secondary evacuation expected costs simultaneously. An approximation algorithm with polynomial complexity is designed to solve this model. Finally, a numerical example is given to demonstrate the actual significance of our model the validity of this algorithm.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101207,"journal":{"name":"Systems Engineering Procedia","volume":"5 ","pages":"Pages 1-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.sepro.2012.04.001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81187127","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Spatial Knowledge Spillovers: “New 3-Zone Interaction Engineering”","authors":"Dong Yingnan , Lu Yuduo , Qin Xiongfei","doi":"10.1016/j.sepro.2011.11.034","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.sepro.2011.11.034","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>By using the knowledge filter system and entrepreneurship theory, the paper focused on the relationship of university-specific R&D spillovers and innovative growth based on the modified knowledge production function (KPF). Taking “New 3-Zone Interaction Engineering” as the example, the results demonstrated that the entrepreneurship could penetrate the knowledge filter system and stimulate the commercialization of the knowledge, consequently promoted the contribution of the spatial knowledge spillovers to the regional economic growth. “New 3-Zone Interaction Engineering” referred to the project of co-operation and interaction of the university, the science park and the community, which had been recently launched in Dalian High-technology Zone.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101207,"journal":{"name":"Systems Engineering Procedia","volume":"3 ","pages":"Pages 307-311"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.sepro.2011.11.034","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86028241","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rent-seeking Behaviors analysis in Engineering Supervision based on the Game Theory","authors":"Zheng Shurong, Peng Miao","doi":"10.1016/j.sepro.2012.01.010","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.sepro.2012.01.010","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Based on the theory of rent-seeking, this paper analyzes the behaviors and relationships between the owner, supervision and contractor in engineering supervision. The paper establishes a game model of the engineering rent-seeking behavior and relationship. Based on the game equilibrium solution, a conclusion is drawn that owner should improve the monitoring efficiency and make powerful punishment to rent-seeking behaviors in order to effectively restrain the rent-seeking behaviors in engineering supervision.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101207,"journal":{"name":"Systems Engineering Procedia","volume":"4 ","pages":"Pages 455-459"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.sepro.2012.01.010","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73159439","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Emergency Scenario Similarity Measures in Emergency Rescue Planning Based on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets","authors":"Xiuming Mo , Xiaoguang Zhou , Yuantao Song","doi":"10.1016/j.sepro.2012.04.027","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.sepro.2012.04.027","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>These years, emergency management is a research hotspot in System engineering. This paper aims to develop a decision-making tool that can be used by government agencies in emergency rescue, when they need to match present situation to one of the fittest scenario described in emergency plan. As clear disaster date in emergency rescue could hardly be gotten, we study the scenario matching with uncertain data IFSs. Intuitionistic fuzzy sets (IFSs), proposed by Atanassov, have gained attention from researchers for their applications in various fields, IFSs data is easier to get and fit for emergency rescue.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101207,"journal":{"name":"Systems Engineering Procedia","volume":"5 ","pages":"Pages 168-172"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.sepro.2012.04.027","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73290583","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Implementing Mass Customization in Garment Industry","authors":"Bo Dong, Hongmei Jia, Zheng Li, Kangcheng Dong","doi":"10.1016/j.sepro.2011.10.059","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.sepro.2011.10.059","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Mass customization (MC), as a completely new product mode; combine the advantages of both mass production and customized production. MC provides customized product which satisfies increased consumer awareness of quality and functionality demands with low cost and short lead time. Obviously garment industry provides necessary commodities. On the other hand these goods include diverse fashionable elements, and thus end customers have various choices among brands, drapes, fabrics and colours. This paper will explore how the mode of mass customization integrates the custom-made goods on a mass scale with good quality, low price, high productivity and efficiency to achieve by the economies of scale in mass production engineering.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101207,"journal":{"name":"Systems Engineering Procedia","volume":"3 ","pages":"Pages 372-380"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.sepro.2011.10.059","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82082471","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Condition Based Maintenance Evaluation Model on On-post Vacuum Circuit Breaker","authors":"Cui Yanbin , Cui Bo","doi":"10.1016/j.sepro.2011.11.064","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.sepro.2011.11.064","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The safe operation of power supply equipments is closely related to the security of electric network. The planned maintenance of existing power equipments o cannot meet the needs of development of power system. To solve the problems in maintenance for vacuum circuit breaker, this paper build the equipment condition and risk assessment index system and bring out the outdoor on-post vacuum circuit breaker condition based maintenance evaluation model which based on Rough Set and Support Vector Machine according to the real condition. To prove the high accuracy of this method, a research which about the data of 100 Box-type substation in the distributing network of one power supply company is conducted in this paper.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101207,"journal":{"name":"Systems Engineering Procedia","volume":"4 ","pages":"Pages 182-188"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.sepro.2011.11.064","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82501789","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}