KEY INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES OF INDUSTRY 4.0

Information Technologies and the Transformation of Japanese Industry

Leveraging Information Technologies Applications in the Canadian Aec/fm Industry

The architecture, engineering, construction, and facility management (AEC/FM) industry in Canada has been facing an unprecedented level of competition. To stay competitive in today’s marketplace, the Canadian AEC/FM industry must develop and deploy IT solutions for planning, designing, constructing, and managing facilities, and to perform these tasks in the most effective and productive way. Id...

Inventor networks in emerging key technologies : Information technology vs . semiconductors

We analyze the development of the German knowledge base measured by co-classifications of patents by German inventors and relate this technological development to changes in the structure of the underlying inventor networks. Our central hypothesis states that technologies which become more central to the knowledge base are also characterized by a higher connectedness of the inventor network. We...

Key Technologies for Multilingual Information Processing on WWW

This paper discusses key technologies required to realize a document database which is the multilingual collection of documents typically seen on WWW, and to realize a system which supports easy access to such multilingual information. Specifically, we focus on such techniques as 1) crosslanguage information retrieval (CLIR), which supports conversion of cultural factors such as units, era name...

Industry Innovation, the Key

Over the past few years, international indicators have shown that one of the main weaknesses plaguing Spanish companies is their abysmal competitiveness. In theory, nearly everyone involved agrees that one way to fix the problem would be for companies to make a firm commitment to innovation. However, in practice it is not always easy to distinguish between the different types of innovation, muc...