This paper suggests that a major deeciency in computational approaches to manufacturing design is the lack of applicable models of human behavior. Starting with a discrepancy between the practices of lean manufacturing|practices that recommend small interprocess buuer sizes|and the practices of manufacturing simulation|practices that treat human behavior as an uncorrelated, random process, whic...

We study a setting in which firms produce items whose quality is ex-ante unobservable, but learned by customers over time. Firms take customer learning into account when making production decisions. We focus on the effect that the review process has on product quality. Specifically, we compare equilibrium quality levels in the setting described above to the quality that would be produced if cus...

Uncertainities in chemical plants come from numerous sources: internal like fluctuated ®alues of reaction constants and physical properties or external such as quality and flow rates of feedstreams. Accounting for uncertainty in ®arious stages of plant operations was identified as one of the most important problems in chemical plant design and operations. A new approach proposed describes proce...

Human motion analysis methods have received increasing attention during the last two decades. In parallel, data fusion technologies have emerged as a powerful tool for the estimation of properties of objects in the real world. This papers presents a view of human motion analysis from the viewpoint of data fusion. JDL process model and Dasarathy’s input-output hierarchy are employed to categoriz...

Android's intent framework serves as the primary method for interprocess communication (IPC) among apps. The increased volume of intent IPC present in Android devices, coupled with intent's ability to implicitly nd valid receivers for IPC, bring about new security challenges. We propose Intentio Ex Machina (IEM), an access control solution for Android intent security. IEM separates the logic fo...

The term ‘human interpretation’ itself has two interpretations: interpretation by human beings and interpretation of human beings. We are all familiar with both kinds of interpretation in ordinary life. Marie interprets Sam’s remark as a sexual invitation; Joseph interprets the famous guest’s attire as an insult to the host. But as the organizers of our conference point out, we have no systemat...