{"title":"A Cognitive Planning Model for Transport and Logistics","authors":"NengSheng Zhang, B. Ma, Wenjing Yan, J. Zhu","doi":"10.1109/INDIN.2006.275781","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INDIN.2006.275781","url":null,"abstract":"It is known that human teams assisted by a computer software system can make planning more accurately and quickly in uncertain situations than teams of just people. Therefore, there are a lot of planning systems developed based on the traditional theories such as rational choice theories and rule-based expert systems which mainly focused on human intelligence. However, these systems could not emulate and explain well that people are prompted to make different decisions for actions according to a same plan based on different emotional feelings in uncertain conditions. These human factors are diverse and could be categorized into biological, social and/or cognitive ranging from the feelings such as happy, fear, anger, interest, curiosity, stress and so on. Rather than continue in the traditional methods, this paper presents a novel approach to research and development of a more realistic computational planning model to simulate planning process by extending traditional planning model with human factor in the context of transport and logistics.","PeriodicalId":120426,"journal":{"name":"2006 4th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics","volume":"102 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133522052","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Designing Robust Wireless Communications for Factory Floors","authors":"P. Neelakanta","doi":"10.1109/INDIN.2006.275685","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INDIN.2006.275685","url":null,"abstract":"Summary form only given. The tutorial is aimed at teaching the underlying aspects of short-range, wireless RF-links (of WLAN and WPAN specifications) that are considered in the state-of-the-art factory informatic communication applications. Such wireless links on industrial floors may prevail across a variety of end-entities such as computer hosts, robots, sensor-mounted autonomous moving units (in production series), and roaming workers with PDAs. Ideally, relevant connectivity should conform to robust performance despite of harsh electromagnetic environment and mutual interference (due to co-location) inherent to industrial floors. At the same time, these connections should be economically viable and operate on low-power budgets. Based on service classes, their range is specified -from a meter to 100 meters. Interoperability with other communication (wireline or wireless) systems and feasibility of extension into inter- and/or intra networking of the factory could be another set of desirable features. Retrofit considerations, compact size of the radio units, portability and ad hoc networking are other aspects of forward-looking factory communication perspectives. Starting from the aforesaid underlying concepts, a step-by-step tracing of working principles of these RF links vis- -vis factory communications will be aimed at in the tutorial lectures. The associated prospects of the upcoming technology conceived to bring about the existence of a broad range of interoperable factory-based devices through open-industry specifications on unlicensed, untethered peripheral and control unit that operate on low-cost and low-power budgets and enabling communications between complaint devices anywhere in and around an indoor factory environment will be elaborated. Hence the RFI compatibility issues and design aspects of making the links robust via diversity techniques will be indicated.","PeriodicalId":120426,"journal":{"name":"2006 4th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116641409","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Wireless Communication Technology Based on Bluetooth and Its Application to a Manipulator","authors":"Yabin Liu, Shouqian Yu, Weihai Chen, Wei Li","doi":"10.1109/INDIN.2006.275819","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INDIN.2006.275819","url":null,"abstract":"Based on Bluetooth technology, this paper introduces a method of wireless communication between a manipulator and PC. A RS232 interface is connected between PC and Bluetooth module, and the manipulator controller and Bluetooth module are connected by UART. PC detects, communicates and initializes the Bluetooth module using software designed for it, and manipulator communicates with the Bluetooth module using Host Controller Interface program. Via this approach, the paper realizes the communication between a manipulator and PC. The paper first introduces the Bluetooth technology, then the methods of hardware and software designs for the system are proposed. Finally, through an experiment, the paper verifies the wireless communication between PC and a manipulator via two Bluetooth modules is feasible.","PeriodicalId":120426,"journal":{"name":"2006 4th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132384462","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Issues and Approaches to Dynamic, Service-oriented Multi-enterprise Collaboration","authors":"P. Tan, A.E.S. Goh, S.S.G. Lee, E.W. Lee","doi":"10.1109/INDIN.2006.275833","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INDIN.2006.275833","url":null,"abstract":"Businesses today form dynamic business alliances to meet short-term business goals. However, in traditional business-to-business integration (B2Bi), the connections are typically long term and static. This paper discusses the potential of service-oriented architecture (SOA) and Web services in overcoming the issues and challenges of dynamic business partnerships. Some outstanding issues and challenges include the formulation of business processes for B2Bi at different levels of granularity and the dynamic composition, matching, selection and invocation of relevant services.","PeriodicalId":120426,"journal":{"name":"2006 4th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132536053","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Towards the Software Life Cycle Cost for Integrated Software Product Line Systems","authors":"Makoto Yoshida, N. Iwane","doi":"10.1109/INDIN.2006.275698","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INDIN.2006.275698","url":null,"abstract":"Quality, cost and delivery are the most crucial factors to be managed in developing software systems in the industry. The management of these software systems includes not only resolving the necessarily technical problems but also the organizational problems and the business problems. Companies depending upon their environments decide their own strategies to solve these problems. This paper describes the way we experimented in these several years to reduce the cost for software systems at the company to meet some software development solutions. The efforts of web-based application developments by the toolkit, the source code generator we developed, are evaluated. The toolkit extended to the software product line systems is described. And, the cost for the software life cycle is estimated.","PeriodicalId":120426,"journal":{"name":"2006 4th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131719883","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Development of a Distributed Process Mining System for Reactive Ion Etching Enhancement","authors":"K. Tsang, H. Lau, S. Kwok","doi":"10.1109/INDIN.2006.275794","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INDIN.2006.275794","url":null,"abstract":"A Distributed Process Mining System (DPMS) is discussed in this paper which aims to optimize the process in order to offer shorter production time, easier quality defect identification and higher customer satisfaction. This proposed system is equipped with the idea of \"distributed process mining\" discovering the hidden relationships between each working decision in distributed manner. This method incorporates the On-line Analytical Processing (OLAP) and the decision tree-based Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) algorithms into decision making for ensuring \"doing the right things\" within the process and relevant workflow. A case study of using Reactive Ion Etching (RIE) in a magnetic head manufacturer is included.","PeriodicalId":120426,"journal":{"name":"2006 4th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132961666","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Applying the handler-based execution model to IEC 61499 basic and composite function blocks","authors":"N. Hagge, B. Wagner","doi":"10.1109/INDIN.2006.275711","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INDIN.2006.275711","url":null,"abstract":"We defined the so-called \"handler-based execution model\" as a real-time capable execution model for CNet [H. Wurmus, 2002] [N. Hagge and B. Wagner, 2005]. Traditional controller implementations typically consist of big loops with a fix sequential execution scan order. This was not appropriate for Petri-net based CNet that is characterized by a high degree of concurrency and locality. Our execution model is purely based on events to dynamically schedule the evaluation of firing conditions and avoids unnecessary calculations. There are no global event queues. Event-flow is handled locally which is beneficial for multithreaded and/or distributed platforms. This execution model is part of a full automatic code generator that translates CNet controller models into (real-time) Java code. Examining IEC 61499 revealed that function blocks networks similarly feature concurrency and locality, but that execution environments for function blocks are still developed based on traditional fixed sequential scan approaches. This paper will introduce the main concepts of the \"Handler- based execution model\" and show its possible application to IEC 61499 function blocks for automatic code generation.","PeriodicalId":120426,"journal":{"name":"2006 4th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114066675","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Eco-Design for Product Lifecycle Sustainability","authors":"Q. Yang, B. Song","doi":"10.1109/INDIN.2006.275615","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INDIN.2006.275615","url":null,"abstract":"Eco-design plays a central role in balancing technical, economic, environmental, even social concerns in new product introduction (NPI) to achieve optimized sustainability performance throughout the product lifecycle. Applying eco-design and sustainability principles to the NPI process, this paper presents an integrated sustainable design approach to the modeling, analysis and improvement of product performance in lifecycle cost control, environmental impact reduction, and regulation compliance management. By integrating the sustainability analysis methods (e.g. life cycle assessment and life cycle costing) into product design and development, the approach establishes a methodological framework consisting of lifecycle sustainability metrics, inventory databases, and design support tools for design options comparison and decisions making in improvements of lifecycle sustainability. Use scenarios are discussed in the paper to demonstrate the use of the approach to eco-design of consumer electronic products.","PeriodicalId":120426,"journal":{"name":"2006 4th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128469511","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Image Segmentation based on Tsallis-entropy and Renyi-entropy and Their Comparison","authors":"Y. Li, Xiaoping Fan, Gang Li","doi":"10.1109/INDIN.2006.275704","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INDIN.2006.275704","url":null,"abstract":"Image segmentation is one of the most critical tasks in image processing. The non-extensive (or non-additive) entropy, i.e. Tsallis, is a recent development in statistical mechanics. A threshold segmentation algorithm based on the difference minimum of Tsallis entropy is presented because Tsallis entropy can't be added directly. Tsallis entropy has an additional parameter comparing to other entropies. The additional parameter makes it process more type of image. Tsallis entropy and Renyi entropy have some relationship, so we also provide the threshold segmentation algorithm based on the difference minimum of Renyi. Two methods are compared. The algorithms and other algorithms based on other entropies are experimented. The simulating result shows that this algorithm is better than other algorithms.","PeriodicalId":120426,"journal":{"name":"2006 4th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117124720","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"C-CIS: A Chinese Competitive Intelligence System Based on the Internet","authors":"Wei Li, Jianyi Liu, Yixin Zhong, Lei Li","doi":"10.1109/INDIN.2006.275649","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INDIN.2006.275649","url":null,"abstract":"Faced with an era of knowledge-based economy, more and more enterprisers realize the importance of competitive intelligence (CI), which aims at monitoring a firm's competition environment to obtain information relevant to its decision-making process. In this paper, we propose and implement a Chinese competitive intelligence system based on the Internet, which is called C-CIS. It performs CI cycles (information customization, information acquisition, information refining, and information publishing) on the Web. The initial user study of prototype system demonstrates its high harvest of relevant information, robustness of acquisition, and friendliness of user interface. Therefore, the C-CIS architecture proposed herein is desirable.","PeriodicalId":120426,"journal":{"name":"2006 4th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117229778","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}