We propose an innovative approach and its implementation as an expert system to achieve the semiautomatic detection of candidate attributes for scrambling sensitive data. Our approach is based on semantic rules that determine which concepts have to be scrambled, and on a linguistic component that retrieves the attributes that semantically correspond to these concepts. Because attributes cannot ...

Technology improvements are appraised by setting up different forage, animal breed/feed/management systems, cost of production, and associated technology adoption versions of the model to provide simulations with and without the smallholder dairy intensification technologies in Kenya agriculture. As a reminder, technologies currently in practice and considered in this assessment included tradit...

In this paper, we examine the applicability of lean production to knowledge work by investigating the implementation of a lean production system at an Indian software services firm. We first discuss specific aspects of knowledge work—task uncertainty, process invisibility, and architectural ambiguity—that call into question the relevance of lean production in this setting. Then, combining a det...

In order to improve a production system performance, a coalition of production agents is suggested as a way of coordination of agents in multi agents’ environment. A method for creating coalitions and decision making for each agent whether to join coalition or not is proposed in this paper. Some application areas and further research ideas are discussed in conclusion.

Globalization has changed the world as well as how a customer judges the value of a product, which has created a new business focus. Different approaches have been oriented on this direction, such as the lean manufacturing system and the concept of sustainability. However, these two notions are not easy to implement simultaneously; besides several authors have declared doubts with respect to re...

The System of Rice Intensification (SRI) follows a set of principles in rice production management for a more efficient interaction between plants, soil, water and nutrients; creating a congenial environment for the healthy growth of plants and realizing their best potential productive capacity. In brief, SRI involves: • Carefully planting single, young seedlings at optimally wide spacing • Kee...

We present a fully implemented industrial production system that is reconfigured by a multi-agent system and is controlled by standard industrial control technology. We focus on certain design principles that we found to be crucial in such integrations, and the main challenges we faced when interfacing agents with a real-world production system.

Understanding consumers' perceptions of animal welfare is becoming increasingly important to livestock industries as they try to communicate their products. Many questions arise within livestock agriculture when trying to implement production systems that are acceptable socially and financially.

This paper analyses the freeriding behaviour in the case of public finance for R&D activities in enterprises. It will start with a brief discussion about the concept of freeriding and its importance to justify public support measures and offers a review of the methods, indicators and results reflected in the evaluation studies. In the second part of the paper, the impact of the Spanish low inte...

What mechanisms underlie children's language production? Structural priming--the repetition of sentence structure across utterances--is an important measure of the developing production system. We propose its mechanism in children is the same as may underlie analogical reasoning: structure-mapping. Under this view, structural priming is the result of making an analogy between utterances, such t...