http://www.ifac-papersonline.net/ en Copyright 09:58 PM Tuesday 09, 2010 IFAC-PapersOnline http://www.ifacpapersonline.com 09:58 PM Tuesday 09, 2010 09:58 PM Tuesday 09, 2010 ET webmaster@ifac-papersonline.net webmaster@ifac-papersonline.net http://www.ifac-papersonline.net/Detailed/38807.html 04:00 PM Wednesday 31, 1969 The changing aging structure in the industrialized countries as well as the ongoing growth of the population in the threshold and especially in the developing countries are embedded in the overall problematic nature of the sustainable further evolution of the globalized society the author is strongly dealing with [2-4]. Therefore, a discrete algorithm for the evaluation of the time-variant aging structure of population was derived. The functionality of the resulting discrete dynamic model is illustrated on the basis of a block diagram. The test of the detailed population model is based on the comparison of measurement and computation, that means of statistically recorded and simulated population distributions. The different population growth in "Germany", "China" and "India" is considered in the past and future. The aimed results and the countermeasures, urgently required, are reflecting back indirectly to a reduction of the technical/economic momentum within the industrialized nations, mainly caused by automation, for details see chapter 4.2 as well as [2,3]. http://www.ifac-papersonline.net/static/luna/images/ifac/icon-download.gif http://www.ifac-papersonline.net/Detailed/38791.html 04:00 PM Wednesday 31, 1969 This paper briefly reviews difficulties in the way scientists and engineers reason about the relationship between human and machine. It argues that there is a polarisation between technically-oriented reasoning on the one hand, and socially-oriented reasoning on the other. It draws on the application of manufacturing business systems to health-care in order to unpack some of these polarities. The paper proposes a re-assessment of human-centred systems (HCS) thinking as a way to address these polarities, and seek a more equitable balance between the social and the technical. http://www.ifac-papersonline.net/static/luna/images/ifac/icon-download.gif http://www.ifac-papersonline.net/Detailed/38828.html 04:00 PM Wednesday 31, 1969 Human resources are one of the main sources of flexibility. In many manufacturing systems human resources are the most expensive, but also the most flexible factors. Therefore, the optimal utilization of human resources is an important success factor contributing to long-term competitiveness. Thus, how to build a knowledge-oriented human resource system and form an appropriate culture, which is suitable for knowledge management, has become one of the most important issues for a company. This paper proposes a fuzzy multicriteria decision making (FMCDM) model to solve the problem of evaluating the knowledge based human resource flexibility. http://www.ifac-papersonline.net/static/luna/images/ifac/icon-download.gif http://www.ifac-papersonline.net/Detailed/38840.html 04:00 PM Wednesday 31, 1969 The paper discusses the questions posed by Distance Education today, using the model of the All-Armenian Internet University (AAIU). This university is to serve the Armenians living all over Asia and the Pacific regions, by means of the Internet. Here Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) exemplifies the possible uses of emerging information and communication technologies (ICT) in education. The use of these technologies should support Distributed Cognitive Work in distance education leading to new Communities of Learners. At AAIU, instructional designers are presently in the early stages of exploring the common themes and differences between varieties of CSCL and ICT applications. http://www.ifac-papersonline.net/static/luna/images/ifac/icon-download.gif http://www.ifac-papersonline.net/Detailed/38841.html 04:00 PM Wednesday 31, 1969 The European Students of Industrial Engineering and Management (ESTIEM) established themselves as an all-European association in 1990, at Darmstadt, Germany. Since 2001, one of their main activities has been the Summer Academy SAC: two weeks of self-organised learning activities through the summer, outside any University courses. This ESTIEM SAC puts into practice the learning approach of the university as the community of learners and teachers on equal terms where education takes place as an integrated all-day process. The Summer Academy may, thus, be considered the model of university education in a nutshell, specifically for future industrial leaders. http://www.ifac-papersonline.net/static/luna/images/ifac/icon-download.gif http://www.ifac-papersonline.net/Detailed/38819.html 04:00 PM Wednesday 31, 1969 It becomes important to model and analyse the enterprise processes with regard to both human and material resources. This paper presents a method developed in the frame of an industrial project, to integrate individual and collective competence to estimate the performance of an activity of a process. http://www.ifac-papersonline.net/static/luna/images/ifac/icon-download.gif http://www.ifac-papersonline.net/Detailed/38848.html 04:00 PM Wednesday 31, 1969 Health organizations are complex and the health networks add to this complexity. Their evaluation is both a necessity and an obligation but raises methodological difficulties. The number and variety of the actors and their interactions make this evaluation difficult and important. Our study approaches the evaluation of the activities in a network while using a functional and dysfunctional analysis. We identified obstacles to the functioning of these activities; then incorporated them in an organizational model. More particularly, we will relate the research concerning those obstacles to the use of good practice guidelines in an oncology network. http://www.ifac-papersonline.net/static/luna/images/ifac/icon-download.gif http://www.ifac-papersonline.net/Detailed/38822.html 04:00 PM Wednesday 31, 1969 Enterprises in the automotive industry are facing new challenges from increasing product diversification, decreasing product life cycle times and permanent need for cost reduction. The ramp-up as linking phase between development phase and production phase has a crucial role for the success of a project. The performance of a ramp-up depends on the maturity of the product and manufacturing process. Knowledge management is an extraordinary driver for maturity of both. The existing solutions for knowledge management show insufficient results. The new approach bases on the cycle of organizational learning. The cycle consists of four phases: socialization, externalization, combination and internalization. It provides opportunities to improve ramp-up performance in the automotive industry. Part of the new approach is a sophisticated concept for a solution using Information Technology as enabler for Knowledge management. http://www.ifac-papersonline.net/static/luna/images/ifac/icon-download.gif http://www.ifac-papersonline.net/Detailed/38862.html 04:00 PM Wednesday 31, 1969 This study deals with the development of an assisting tool, which helps the decision-making taking into account the human aspect of the decision-maker preferences. The proposed method is applied to the multicriteria optimisation of a reactive extrusion process. http://www.ifac-papersonline.net/static/luna/images/ifac/icon-download.gif http://www.ifac-papersonline.net/Detailed/38829.html 04:00 PM Wednesday 31, 1969 The use of advanced manufacturing technologies, especially flexible manufacturing systems, offers a great potential for improving manufacturing performance to compete in the global markets. This paper proposes a decision model based on fuzzy linear regression and optimization for flexible manufacturing system (FMS) selection. Fuzzy regression is introduced in the model to assess the vagueness of functional relationships among decision variables and to account for inexact data. A comprehensive example is presented to illustrate the application of the model developed in this paper. http://www.ifac-papersonline.net/static/luna/images/ifac/icon-download.gif http://www.ifac-papersonline.net/Detailed/38834.html 04:00 PM Wednesday 31, 1969 In spite of the large variety of technological means available today to obtain and share knowledge needed by the progress of our Society, the relation between the knowledge produced and the knowledge required is not sufficiently facilitated. This paper aims to provide a partial answer to this issue. It proposes a NIAM/ORM formalization of exchanges between producers and users of knowledge. The resulting model is used to analyse and to discuss the deficiencies of the current technologies as well as to outline some ways of evolutions for better collaborative knowledge exchanges. http://www.ifac-papersonline.net/static/luna/images/ifac/icon-download.gif http://www.ifac-papersonline.net/Detailed/38855.html 04:00 PM Wednesday 31, 1969 This paper presents a Self-Learning Decisional Information System for Security (SL-D.I.S.S.) dedicated to the Human Space Exploration Mission. The objective is to conceive a decisional information system for human long duration space flight (> 950 days) which will be realise in entire autonomy in the solar system. This article describes the importance of the ontological and epistemological context for designing an open multi-agent and reliable system able for self-adapt in dangerous and unforeseen situations. We present in link with our research, the limits of the empirical analytical paradigm and several paths of research lead by the nascent paradigm of enaction. The strong presumption is that classical ways of modelisation could not respond and challenge the security of a technical system which will support human exploration missions. http://www.ifac-papersonline.net/static/luna/images/ifac/icon-download.gif http://www.ifac-papersonline.net/Detailed/38817.html 04:00 PM Wednesday 31, 1969 In this paper, 103 countries investigated by World Economic Forum in order to specify their global competitiveness level are analyzed and compared according to Knowledge-Specific Criteria. Under the "Knowledge Specific Criteria" heading, two basic criteria group, are taken into consideration, namely; "technology: innovation and diffusion" and "human resource, education and labor". The countries are clustered to find their relative position in terms of knowledge specific level and the basic factors underlying this position are revealed by using artificial neural network. http://www.ifac-papersonline.net/static/luna/images/ifac/icon-download.gif http://www.ifac-papersonline.net/Detailed/38852.html 04:00 PM Wednesday 31, 1969 This paper reviews the theoretical bases of the barrier modelling analysis, and introduces a novel risk analysis approach by stressing the barrier concept. In this approach, the barriers are modelled according to their effects on the different parts of the system. By defining danger zones, based on fuzzy set concept, the consequence of presence of a target into a danger zone is evaluated and in this manner the static and dynamic risk indexes for the human body organs are calculated. This model is used to develop a risk analysis workbench in an industrial design application system. http://www.ifac-papersonline.net/static/luna/images/ifac/icon-download.gif http://www.ifac-papersonline.net/Detailed/38850.html 04:00 PM Wednesday 31, 1969 Our research relates to the drug usage process in the Observation Unit, integral part of the Emergency Department of the University Hospital of Nancy. We carried out an analysis of the impact of this process compared to the patient taking care process using the FMECA (Failure Mode Effects and Criticality Analysis) methodology. This method resulting from industrial organizations is confronted with a retrospective study concerning the same field. We propose to enrich the results of the FMECA with the enterprise model of three decision levels: strategic, tactical and operational. http://www.ifac-papersonline.net/static/luna/images/ifac/icon-download.gif http://www.ifac-papersonline.net/Detailed/38821.html 04:00 PM Wednesday 31, 1969 This paper presents the analysis of two surveys, one academic and one industrial. The goal was to provide research perspectives in the field of change management for industrial systems. This communication is the result of multi-disciplinary study (ADESI project) launched by the National Centre of Scientific Research, CNRS. The "raison d'être" of this work, is to answer the strong need to coordinate both academic and industrial communities as well as the necessity of multi-disciplinary approaches for decision-aids applied to change management. http://www.ifac-papersonline.net/static/luna/images/ifac/icon-download.gif http://www.ifac-papersonline.net/Detailed/38809.html 04:00 PM Wednesday 31, 1969 In this paper, the purpose is to adapt classical interactive methods to multicriteria combinatorial problems in order to explore the non-dominated solutions set. We propose an interactive procedure alternating a calculation stage determining the current best compromise solution and a dialogue stage allowing decision maker to specify his/her preferences. For the calculation stage, we propose an efficient procedure which relies on algorithms providing k-best solutions of a scalarized version of the problem. Moreover, we show how to exploit previous iterations to speed-up the interactive process. We provide numerical experiments of our method on multicriteria shortest path and spanning tree problems. http://www.ifac-papersonline.net/static/luna/images/ifac/icon-download.gif http://www.ifac-papersonline.net/Detailed/38793.html 04:00 PM Wednesday 31, 1969 Ubiquitous Computing is an information-view of the world, measuring physical phenomena and human behaviour with intelligent sensors everywhere and hidden procedures of reasoning, judgments and categorisations. We will introduce a concept focusing on visible action as a consequence of concrete continuation of real phenomena into virtuality and vice versa and discuss some conseq uences for human skills and knowledge. http://www.ifac-papersonline.net/static/luna/images/ifac/icon-download.gif http://www.ifac-papersonline.net/Detailed/38813.html 04:00 PM Wednesday 31, 1969 Industrial knowledge is complex, difficult to formalize and very dynamic by reason of the continuous development of techniques and technologies. Verification and validation of knowledge bases at the time of theirs elaborations is not sufficient. To be exploitable, knowledge must then be able to be used under conditions (slightly) different from conditions in which it was formalized. So, it becomes vital for the company to permanently evaluate the quality of the industrial knowledge implemented in the system. This evaluation is founded on the concept of robustness of knowledge formalized by conceptual graphs. The evaluation method is supported by a computerized tool. http://www.ifac-papersonline.net/static/luna/images/ifac/icon-download.gif http://www.ifac-papersonline.net/Detailed/38797.html 04:00 PM Wednesday 31, 1969 Interoperability is key to ensuring that a global supply chain operates as seamlessly as a vertically integrated organization. Much research has been accomplished and is on-going related to the technical, organisational and scientific issues concerning interoperating dissimilar enterprise systems and languages. However, there are significant issues concerning interoperating information across the barriers of cultures and national languages. This paper presents the key drawbacks regarding the cultural and language barriers to true exchange of knowledge. The paper then presents an example enterprise model in light of these identified issues. http://www.ifac-papersonline.net/static/luna/images/ifac/icon-download.gif http://www.ifac-papersonline.net/Detailed/38801.html 04:00 PM Wednesday 31, 1969 A model of reliability shaping of man - device set has been considered in the paper. Authors have been concentrated at hybrid man-device process control system with paying attention on man-operator that is endangered at external influences with stress character. The system has been described by the stress differential equation set. http://www.ifac-papersonline.net/static/luna/images/ifac/icon-download.gif http://www.ifac-papersonline.net/Detailed/38805.html 04:00 PM Wednesday 31, 1969 The Human-centred technology design is considered as a typical instance of invention able to become a widely diffused innovation replacing the machine-centred one. A tentative dialectical system of measures that could help its promoters attain more use of it is suggested. Absorption capacity, innovation promotion and diffusion are combined. http://www.ifac-papersonline.net/static/luna/images/ifac/icon-download.gif http://www.ifac-papersonline.net/Detailed/38789.html 04:00 PM Wednesday 31, 1969 http://www.ifac-papersonline.net/static/luna/images/ifac/icon-download.gif http://www.ifac-papersonline.net/Detailed/38786.html 04:00 PM Wednesday 31, 1969 http://www.ifac-papersonline.net/static/luna/images/ifac/icon-download.gif http://www.ifac-papersonline.net/Detailed/38811.html 04:00 PM Wednesday 31, 1969 The resolution of complex decision situations usually requires input from different disciplines and fields of expertise. Contributing to transparency and traceability of decisions and taking into account the preferences of decision makers, multicriteria decision analysis is suitable to bring together existing knowledge. In practice, a decision making process is subject to various sources of uncertainty. This paper describes a Monte Carlo approach to cope with the preferential uncertainties of the decision makers aiming at facilitating the process of weight elicitation and at comprehensibly visualizing and communicating the impact of the uncertainties on the results of the analysis. http://www.ifac-papersonline.net/static/luna/images/ifac/icon-download.gif