Management Guides for Insemination and Replacement Decisions

Replacement Decisions for Evolving Software

E-type software, software implementing real world computer applications, must be continually evolved to maintain user satisfaction, generally over several years and releases. It is likely that the responsible organisation will, sooner or later, consider its replacement through redevelopment or acquisition. This paper discusses elements believed to be relevant in the context of replacement decis...

Optimal Replacement Decisions

Optimal insemination and replacement decisions to minimize the cost of pathogen-specific clinical mastitis in dairy cows.

Mastitis is a serious production-limiting disease, with effects on milk yield, milk quality, and conception rate, and an increase in the risk of mortality and culling. The objective of this study was 2-fold: (1) to develop an economic optimization model that incorporates all the different types of pathogens that cause clinical mastitis (CM) categorized into 8 classes of culture results, and acc...

Content Management for Mobile Multimedia Art Guides

This paper discusses issues about content management in mobile multimedia art guides elaborating on experiences made in three exhibitions held at Ca’ Foscari University since Spring 2009. A family of mobile art guides on Apple iPod touch devices have been designed, featuring rich multimedia content and simple interaction styles. The guides are based on the Webkit run-time system wrapped by an i...

Integration of the Decisions Associated with Maintenance Management and Process Control for a Series Production System

This paper studies a series production system through the integration of the decisions associated with Maintenance Management (MM) and Statistical Process Control (SPC). Hence, the primary question of the paper can be stated as follows: In a series production system, how can the decisions of MM and SPC be coordinated? To this end, an integrated mathematical model of MM and SPC is developed. Usi...