The Covid-19 pandemic and other recent disruptions in the early 2020s led to sections business press blaming just-in-time (JIT) practices for operational failings. Consequently, there are calls moving away from JIT toward holding more inventory as preparation against future disruptions, which is referred just-in-case. academic community also divided. Some scholars argue that not resilient, whil...

Even the best laid plans can fail, and robot plans executed in real world domains tend to do so often. The ability of a robot to reliably monitor the execution of plans and detect failures is essential to its performance and its autonomy. In this paper, we propose a technique to increase the reliability of monitoring symbolic robot plans. We use semantic domain knowledge to derive implicit expe...

While biomass has been recognized as an important renewable energy source which has a range of positive impacts on the economy, environment, and society, the existence of feedstock seasonality and risk of service disruptions at collection facilities potentially compromises the efficiency and reliability of the energy supply system. In this paper, we consider reliable supply chain design for bio...

Intervention policies against COVID-19 have caused large-scale disruptions globally, and led to a series of pattern changes in the power system operation. Analyzing these pandemic-induced patterns is imperative identify potential risks impacts this extreme event. For purpose, we developed an open-access data hub (COVID-EMDA+), open-source toolbox (CoVEMDA), few evaluation methods explore what U...

We describe an incremental, two-stage probabilistic model of human parsing for German. The model is broad coverage, i.e., it assigns sentence structure to previously unseen text with high accuracy. It also makes incremental predictions of the attachment decisions for PP attachment ambiguities. We test the model against reading time data from the literature and find that it makes correct predict...

The Internet is now central to a huge amount of our economy, and yet we are unable to depend on its continued and smooth operation. For some kinds of failures, the Internet has proven to be extremely robust. It has survived hurricanes, earthquakes, tunnel fires, and terrorist attacks with only temporary and partial loss of end-to-end connectivity. At the same time, other, seemingly trivial fail...

The present work proposes a novel probabilistic method to reconstruct a hand shape image from its template. We analyse the degree of similarity between the reconstructed images and the original samples in order to determine whether the synthetic hands are able to deceive hand recognition systems. This analysis is made through the estimation of the success chances of an attack carried out with t...

Although remarkable progress has been made, existing methods for enhancing underexposed photos tend to produce visually unpleasing results due the existence of visual artifacts (e.g., color distortion, loss details and uneven exposure). We observed that this is because they fail ensure perceptual consistency information between source image its enhanced output. To obtain high-quality free these...