With evolutions of wireless technologies and advances in mobile services, ubiquitous devices have huge acquired and storing data which requires metadata for user to handle easily. For this purpose, this paper introduces Smart PIN a novel performance and cost-oriented, context-aware personal information network. Smart PIN architecture includes network components, service components and managemen...

In reliability engineering, component importance measures are used to prioritise components in a system for purposes such as reliability improvement and maintenance planning. Existing importance measures have paid little attention to the costs incurred by maintaining a system and its components within a given time period. Cost-effectiveness analysis, however, is critically important in increasi...

OBJECTIVE Research demonstrates that interventions targeting multiple settings within a child's life are more effective in treating or preventing conduct disorder. One such program is the Incredible Years Series, which comprises three treatment components, each focused on a different context and type of daily social interaction that a child encounters. This article explores the cost-effectivene...

The deal for industrial companies is to satisfy their customers with the best quality, the most reliable lead times, and the lowest costs. One of the keys to achieve it is in the inventory control in the Supply Chain. Moreover, it is mandatory to possess necessary components in order to produce the requested products by the due date. But, as the components lead time is an unpredictable paramete...

Abstract Current research has shown that the costs of manufacturing parts by selective laser melting (SLM) process are higher than production using conventional techniques. This paper aims to extend a cost analysis method for metallic based on CAD data including hot isostatic pressing as heat treatment in SLM technique. The proposed includes all pre- and post-processing steps linked allows dete...

A high-performance, durable and low-cost PEM electrolyser that can be produced almost entirely with coated stainless steel parts.

In this paper we use wavelet coherency and phase-difference analysis to classify all Spanish provinces based on Monthly Total Mortgage data in each province and Quarterly Gross Domestic Product data in Spain. The information obtained using wavelet analysis leads us to propose two different classifications for the fifty-two Spanish provinces. First, we use the wavelet coherency level between two...