Daniel J. Bradley, J. Vegh, Chung-Shing Lee, Renzhi Cao, Leong Chan
{"title":"Assessment of Water Purification Technologies in Developing Countries","authors":"Daniel J. Bradley, J. Vegh, Chung-Shing Lee, Renzhi Cao, Leong Chan","doi":"10.23919/PICMET.2018.8481981","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/PICMET.2018.8481981","url":null,"abstract":"According to United Nations, there has been drinking water crisis in many developing countries. Aside from the direct impact of diminishing health and living condition, there are secondary impacts on poor education. To combat these issues, there are multiple technological innovations to solve this crisis. This research has identified six candidate technologies that are utilizing different methods for filtration and disinfection of harmful agents to create safe drinking water. In order to effectively choose and weight the criteria, we utilized both research and industry articles that we leveraged in the gap analysis. Multi-criteria Decision Analysis approach has been applied to evaluate the identified technologies. The findings of this research can assist communities in developing countries to select the appropriate water purification technologies to improve people's health conditions. The research also provides decision support for organizations and governments on which technology to choose for water purification.","PeriodicalId":444748,"journal":{"name":"2018 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET)","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114299407","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}
Xuanting Ye, Defang Yang, Jian Zhang, Yun Liu, Jingru Yin
{"title":"The Evolution of China's LED Industry from the View of Disruptive Technology Innovation","authors":"Xuanting Ye, Defang Yang, Jian Zhang, Yun Liu, Jingru Yin","doi":"10.23919/PICMET.2018.8481818","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/PICMET.2018.8481818","url":null,"abstract":"The unique technical principals and superior technical performance make LED lighting achieve the disruption of traditional lighting. This paper conducts an analytical framework of \"technology-market-policy\" to reveal the internal mechanism and key driving factors of LED as a disruptive technology, from the sprout of science and technology to become a new generation of lighting technology replacing the traditional lighting. By studying the growth path of China's LED industry and excavating the influencing factors and important impetus in its growth process are enable us to recognize the characteristics and incentives of emerging industries based on disruptive technology innovation.","PeriodicalId":444748,"journal":{"name":"2018 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET)","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125076107","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":"Strategy in 3D Printing of Food","authors":"H. Steenhuis, Xin Fang, Tolga Ulusemre","doi":"10.23919/PICMET.2018.8481817","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/PICMET.2018.8481817","url":null,"abstract":"Additive manufacturing was developed in the 1980s and for a long time, it had limited applications. In recent years additive manufacturing has found increasing uses in a variety of industries such as the medical field and the construction industry. One industry in particular that has received increasing attention is that of 3D printing food. One of the parties that is interested in this is NASA as 3D printing improves the ability for space exploration. In this study, we examine the current technological developments in the 3D food printing industry. The focus is on describing the main technologies that are applied in this industry, the materials that are being printed, and the main companies and business strategy. It is concluded that the industry is very young and that most of the commercialization is based on the application of only one of the seven additive manufacturing technologies.","PeriodicalId":444748,"journal":{"name":"2018 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET)","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115141874","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}
Nathan Kosylo, John Smith, Matthew Conover, Leong Chan, Hongtao Zhang, Hanfei Mei, Renzhi Cao
{"title":"Artificial Intelligence on Job-Hopping Forecasting: AI on Job-Hopping","authors":"Nathan Kosylo, John Smith, Matthew Conover, Leong Chan, Hongtao Zhang, Hanfei Mei, Renzhi Cao","doi":"10.23919/PICMET.2018.8481823","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/PICMET.2018.8481823","url":null,"abstract":"Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies have been successfully applied to many fields, such as object detection and speech recognition. Among these applications, few consider cases where some feature values are missing or unreliable, such as in the prediction of job-hopping patterns where many profiles are incomplete, even though these missing features may be important for businesses (e.g. human resources and management). In this paper, we propose a novel AI technology, Sequential Optimization of Naive Bayesian (SONB), which not only makes predictions, but also learns the underlying pattern and automatically estimates missing or unreliable feature values. We analyzed several important job-hopping features and applied it to predict job-hopping patterns on many incomplete profiles. Our experiment shows SONB accurately estimates missing values and achieves state-of-the-art performance. In addition, the accuracy of deep learning is improved by 3% on the new dataset generated by SONB over the raw data. In summary, we introduce a novel AI technology for forecasting, which could also be used to estimate missing values in the input data. It is applied to a large (20,185,365 employee profiles) dataset and successfully predicts job-hopping patterns for employees based on their profiles, which could be a valuable resource for businesses.","PeriodicalId":444748,"journal":{"name":"2018 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115162806","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":"Cross-Level Effect of Team Paternalistic Leadership and Team Challenge Stressor on Employee's In-Role Performance","authors":"Yang Qiu, Li Zhang, Eryue Teng, Taisi Lai","doi":"10.23919/PICMET.2018.8481806","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/PICMET.2018.8481806","url":null,"abstract":"Most previous studies investigated the impact of paternalistic leadership and challenge stressor on employee's in-role performance in the individual level. In this study, we focused on the impact in group level. Data were collected from 208 employees within 35 research and design work teams of real estate company and architecture design institute in 7 cities of mainland China. Team paternalistic leadership and team challenge stressor were rated by employees whereas in-role performance was assessed by their immediate supervisors. We found that team paternalistic leadership had a cross-level positive effect on employee's in-role performance which was mediated by team challenge stressor. Specifically, in terms of three dimensions of team paternalistic leadership, only team benevolence leadership and team moral leadership showed indirect effects on employee's in-role performance mediated by team challenge stressor.","PeriodicalId":444748,"journal":{"name":"2018 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET)","volume":"89 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128001396","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":"Ethical Confrontations at Mbloom Ventures LLC: Hawaii's First Early-Stage Technology Fund","authors":"P. Ensign","doi":"10.23919/PICMET.2018.8481923","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/PICMET.2018.8481923","url":null,"abstract":"This case study examines the inaugural venture capital financing effort by mbloom Ventures, LLC (mbloom), a ten million dollar early-stage technology investment partnership between the Hawaii Strategic Development Corporation (HSDC) and Rosemont Seneca Technology Partners (Rosemont), a private hedge fund. Following an announcement of the two recipients of funding—$500,000 each to Flikdate and Ozolio—information circulated that these two startups had been established by mbloom's two general partners. Allegations of conflict of interest and lack of transparency soon surfaced.","PeriodicalId":444748,"journal":{"name":"2018 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET)","volume":"113 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133664635","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":"Blockchain in Healthcare: A New Technology Benefit for Both Patients and Doctors","authors":"Tran Le Nguyen","doi":"10.23919/PICMET.2018.8481969","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/PICMET.2018.8481969","url":null,"abstract":"With the underlying technology of Bitcoin or other crypto-currencies and its rapid growth nowadays, many places have begun accepting Bitcoin payments in hot debate. It is hardly to deny the emerging success of the creation Blockchain platform behind of Bitcoin in the field of mathematics, finance, banking, and healthcare. The paper aims to create a diagrammatic conceptual model of medical app using Blockchain technology to manage all database of patients and doctors when they have a surgery. The model is built based on the gap of previous models which are mostly using Blockchain in banking and finance sector. Focusing on the development of mission space conceptual models, this paper will continue to propose a simulation space conceptual models in current studies, especially in the context of very few models applied blockchain in healthcare. After creation of this model, an app on smartphone using Bitcoin in payment could be created to facilitate doctors' management of all their patients directly and effectively as well as helping patients have a good comparison of cost, procedure or preparation of pre and post-surgery. Hopefully this paper will contribute to the given field the conceptual model for medical stakeholders including researcher, public health authorities, etc. to participate in the network as Blockchain \"miners\", to synthesize anonymous data as mining rewards, in return for sustaining and securing the network via Proof of Work.","PeriodicalId":444748,"journal":{"name":"2018 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET)","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114207678","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":"Research for Reuse of Unused Patents by Analysis of Transferred Patents","authors":"Yosuke Towata, Yoshitoshi Tanaka","doi":"10.23919/PICMET.2018.8481867","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/PICMET.2018.8481867","url":null,"abstract":"Intellectual property rights must be acquired at the stage of R & D and product planning, without guarantee that the invention will be used in the future. It is difficult to decide about this investment. From the viewpoint of effectively utilizing capital, it is preferable to monetize a patent that has not been finally commercialized, by assigning or licensing it. In practice, however, it tends to be handled by abandonment or keep on holding. As a result, the number of unused patents owned by companies continues to increase. On the other hand, sharing services via the Internet have become widespread in recent years. Various assets such as houses, and cars are not owned but utilized by sharing, and items that are no longer needed are transferred to those who need it. In other words, if a patent that is not in use is also transferred to the person who needs it, it will show new value. Therefore, it is the significance of this research to analyze the transferred patents, to know what type and characteristic rights are transferred, and to use it for reuse of unused patents.","PeriodicalId":444748,"journal":{"name":"2018 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET)","volume":"147 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115001056","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}
Ummaraporn Pora, N. Thawesaengskulthai, N. Gerdsri, Sipat Triukose
{"title":"Data-driven Roadmapping Turning Challenges into Opportunities","authors":"Ummaraporn Pora, N. Thawesaengskulthai, N. Gerdsri, Sipat Triukose","doi":"10.23919/PICMET.2018.8481975","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/PICMET.2018.8481975","url":null,"abstract":"A number of organizations are struggling with roadmap implementation. While some companies implement it successfully, many cannot effectively apply the roadmap to their strategic operations. Keeping an up-to-date roadmap to reflect changes in the business environment is considered a major challenge in the field. The main focus of this explorative study extends the understanding of roadmap implementation and addresses the opportunities and challenges for future research by illustrating four case studies from both the private and public sectors. Semi-structured interviews with top management were conducted to obtain common critical components. The findings from this study highlight and confirm the major challenges involved in keeping the roadmapping process alive, as represented in previous studies. The results of case studies reflect the challenges and opportunities with integrating big data and transforming existing processes into data-driven roadmapping. This paper proposes a conceptual design for a system to help keep the roadmap alive—accurately reflecting current economic and business conditions, based on insights constantly obtained from various streams of information sources. Comprehensive analyses of existing data could help to detect the ongoing changes and indicate economic, social, and technological tendencies. Supervised learning, unsupervised learning, time series, and text mining are suggested techniques for providing useful insight and substantial information from the multitude of data. This approach can be integrated into the decision support system, based on an algorithmic, semi-automatic evaluation of roadmap status.","PeriodicalId":444748,"journal":{"name":"2018 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET)","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115274101","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}
Y. Yamaguchi, J. Fujimoto, Akira Yamazaki, Takehiko Koshiyama
{"title":"A Study of the Factors Influencing Industry-Academia Collaboration Activities in Private Universities","authors":"Y. Yamaguchi, J. Fujimoto, Akira Yamazaki, Takehiko Koshiyama","doi":"10.23919/PICMET.2018.8481773","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/PICMET.2018.8481773","url":null,"abstract":"It is imperative that industry-academia collaboration activities are implemented successfully to achieve open innovation, and such awareness has grown in recent years. Private companies and universities are organizations with very different purposes and characteristics; it is therefore generally difficult for them to cooperate with each other. We focused on industry-academia collaboration activities and factors influencing them in private universities. This study aims to reveal which factors influence industry-academia collaboration activities in private universities and to what extent. Based on the case of Japanese private universities, the data on industry-academia collaboration activities and candidates for influencing factors of 136 private universities, including 62 private universities with engineering faculties, were collected, and individual and comprehensive relationships were analyzed. As a result, the positive factors influencing the 136 universities and 62 universities were identified as follows: number of graduate students, and number of research papers or amount for grants-in-aid for scientific research. On the other hand, the negative factor influencing the 62 universities was number of undergraduate students. Consequently, it is necessary to expand graduate schools, reinforce basic research, and increase the number of researchers corresponding to the number of undergraduate students. We hope these results are useful for considering university management and for planning policy measures.","PeriodicalId":444748,"journal":{"name":"2018 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET)","volume":"294 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122979993","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}