A manager would like to have a dashboard of his company without manipulating data. Usually, statistics have solved this challenge, but nowadays, data have changed (Jensen, 1992); their size has increased, and they are badly structured (Han & Kamber, 2001). A recent method—data mining—has been developed to analyze this type of data (Piatetski-Shapiro, 2000). A specific method of data mining, whi...

AngloGold Ashanti is an international gold mining company that has recently implemented an information security awareness program worldwide at all of their operations. Following the implementation, there was a normal business need to evaluate and measure the success and effectiveness of the program. A measuring tool that can be applied globally and that addressed AngloGold Ashanti’s unique requ...

BACKGROUND Tanzania has a young mining history with several operating open pit and underground mines. No prevalence studies of noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) have been conducted among mine workers to provide an impetus for the development of comprehensive hearing protection programmes. AIMS To determine the prevalence of NIHL and associated factors among miners in a major gold mining compa...

The paper aims at evaluating the effects of heavy groundwater withdrawal and artificial groundwater recharge of an exmining pond to the aquifer system of the Langat Basin through the three-dimensional (3D) numerical modeling. Many mining sites have been left behind from the massive mining exploitations in Malaysia during the England colonization era and from the last few decades. These sites ar...

Digital photography combined with three dimensional models of topography, mining operations and restoration plans can lead to extremely realistic images and animations of the current and future states of a mine or quarry. The amount of work and the time required for the successful modelling of a mine and its restoration plan are surprisingly low nowadays. All these mean that the visual impact o...

The rapid progress of internet business makes organizations and companies to accumulate vast amounts of web data. It is a tremendous challenge to extract valuable information from vast amounts of these data. Generally, traditional data analysis tools and techniques are unable to process of such a large amount of web data effectively and accurately. In addition, given the complexity of web data ...

O spills are a characteristic risk of oil drilling and production. There are safety regulations set to reduce the risk of technological failures and human error. It is the oil company’s decision to follow such laws and the government’s decision to enforce them. Companies are balancing between safety efforts and production competition with other companies. To our knowledge, no previous research ...

Dynamic growth of digitized information creates space for systematic collection of data related to business processes. Extraction of this data is an enormous challenge because many systems exist, which store data in many different formats. With the use of advanced analytics techniques, it is possible to present collected data in an “as-is” view of processes and find bottlenecks, loops, delays o...