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BPMN process generation and optimization for readability in the context of telemedecine

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Glass-in-glass infiltration for 3D micro-optical composite components

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Design and automated fabrication scenario for a wood shingle-based envelope system

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Real World Bayesian Optimization Using Robots to Clean Liquid Spills

Josephine Anna Eleanor Hughes, Kieran Daniel Gilday

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Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH2020

Extending Business Process Models with Appreciation

Gil Regev, Alain Wegmann, Irina Rychkova

We use homeostasis, the maintenance of steady states in an organism, to explain some of the decisions made by participants in a business process. We use Vickers’ Appreciative System to model the homeostatic states with Harel’s statecharts. We take the exam ...

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For What It’s Worth: A Multi-industry Survey on Current and Expected Use of Big Data Technologies

Gianluigi Viscusi

This article discusses the results of a multi-industry and multi-country survey carried out to understand the needs, requirements, and use of big data and analytics by public and private organizations in decision-making, business processes and emerging bus ...

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From Goal-Achievement to the Maintenance of Relationships: Extending Business Process Models with Homeostasis and Appreciation

Gil Regev, Irina Rychkova

We use homeostasis, the maintenance of steady states in an organism, to explain some of the decisions made by participants in a business process. We use Vickers’s Appreciative System to model the homeostatic states with Harel’s statecharts. We take the exa ...

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Programming by Demonstration for Shared Control with an Application in Teleoperation

Sylvain Calinon

Shared control strategies can improve task-performance in teleoperation. In such systems automation guides or corrects a human operator. The amount of correction or guidance that is provided is denoted the level-of-automation. As the variety of teleoperati ...

2018

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