2015
Authors
Sousa, JP; Cunha, CR; Morais, EP; Gomes, JP;
Publication
INNOVATION MANAGEMENT AND SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE: FROM REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT TO GLOBAL GROWTH, VOLS I - VI, 2015
Abstract
This paper presents the study of modeling a quality supplier management system, based on a particular case of a Portuguese company in the auto industry that supplies parts to the major automobile manufacturers. For this, a study of a practical case of Supplier Quality Management (SQM) that follow the ISTO/TS 16949 standard was done, to analyze the functioning of their processes. Finally, a model is proposed streamline and automate supplier performance management processes, with the aim of improving the efficiency throughout the supplier chain.
2015
Authors
Sousa, JP; Cunha, CR; Morais, EP; Gomes, JP;
Publication
Proceedings of the 26th International Business Information Management Association Conference - Innovation Management and Sustainable Economic Competitive Advantage: From Regional Development to Global Growth, IBIMA 2015
Abstract
This paper presents the study of modeling a quality supplier management system, based on a particular case of a Portuguese company in the auto industry that supplies parts to the major automobile manufacturers. For this, a study of a practical case of Supplier Quality Management (SQM) that follow the ISTO/TS 16949 standard was done, to analyze the functioning of their processes. Finally, a model is proposed streamline and automate supplier performance management processes, with the aim of improving the efficiency throughout the supplier chain.
2015
Authors
Cunha, CR; Gomes, JP; Morais, EP;
Publication
Proceedings of the 26th International Business Information Management Association Conference - Innovation Management and Sustainable Economic Competitive Advantage: From Regional Development to Global Growth, IBIMA 2015
Abstract
Technologies for contextualization and Recognition of people and situations have made great progresses in the last years. Every time we use the Internet, pass by car in motorways, enter inside a commercial shopping, even when we go on street, there are in-build space mechanisms capable of getting our personal data - video surveillance, our position through the tracking cell phones position or even when we post a message on some Social Network and we have GPS coordinates associated. Basically we share where we are, what we are doing and with time, we reveal our pattern behaviours. But what we get in return by sharing all this Information? Very few, but it could be a lot. That's the start point of this paper, that review the state of art of contextualization and recognition technologies, discuss is business and social potential and finishes with the presentation of an architecture for supporting a user-centered approach for the definition of a rules-engine capable of translating the users' interests and provide enterprises a source of useful information.
2015
Authors
Cunha, CR; Morais, EP; Sousa, JP; Gomes, JP;
Publication
Proceedings of the 26th International Business Information Management Association Conference - Innovation Management and Sustainable Economic Competitive Advantage: From Regional Development to Global Growth, IBIMA 2015
Abstract
This paper reviews the main characteristics of cloud computing, where they are exposed their main components and ways of use. In addition to the technological review that is done, is also carried out a critical analysis of their potential and challenges in the context of SMEs. To understand how cloud computing can lead to a powerful ally of SMEs in the context of organizational competitiveness in a world where the role of information systems for a long time proved decisive, it is a reflection that the SMEs, whose core business is not technology, need to carry out.
2015
Authors
Fachada, N; Lopes, VV; Martins, RC; Rosa, AC;
Publication
PeerJ Computer Science
Abstract
2015
Authors
Couceiro, MS; Fernandes, A; Rocha, RP; Ferreira, NMF;
Publication
ROBOTICA
Abstract
An extension of the well-known Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) to multi-robot applications has been recently proposed and denoted as Robotic Darwinian PSO (RDPSO), benefited from the dynamical partitioning of the whole population of robots. Although such strategy allows decreasing the amount of required information exchange among robots, a further analysis on the communication complexity of the RDPSO needs to be carried out so as to evaluate the scalability of the algorithm. Moreover, a further study on the most adequate multi-hop routing protocol should be conducted. Therefore, this paper starts by analyzing the architecture and characteristics of the RDPSO communication system, thus describing the dynamics of the communication data packet structure shared between teammates. Such procedure will be the first step to achieving a more scalable implementation of RDPSO by optimizing the communication procedure between robots. Second, an ad hoc on-demand distance vector reactive routing protocol is extended based on the RDPSO concepts, so as to reduce the communication overhead within swarms of robots. Experimental results with teams of 15 real robots and 60 simulated robots show that the proposed methodology significantly reduces the communication overhead, thus improving the scalability and applicability of the RDPSO algorithm.
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