Sustainability is a common concern in intermodal transport. Collaboration among carriers may help reducing emissions. In this context, work establishes collaborative planning model for transport and uses eco-labels (a series of different levels emission ranges) to reflect shippers’ sustainability preferences. A mathematical an Adaptive Large Neighborhood Search heuristic are proposed fuzzy set ...

Autonomous unmanned systems and robots must be able to actively leverage all available information sources — including imprecise but readily semantic observations provided by human collaborators. This work develops validates a novel active collaborative human–machine sensing solution for robotic gathering optimal decision making problems, with an example implementation of dynamic target search ...

Projects in the building industry are extremely dynamic, driven by external conditions, modified user requirements and frequently changing business partners. Therefore, common principles should be established throughout the construction industry, which flexibly support the management of construction project information and processes. New members should be supported to easily join and leave the ...

Integration of GIS and Multicriteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) in the Web environment has recently gained much attention in participatory (collaborative) spatial decision making. This research trend has focused on the development and use of Web-based collaborative spatial MCDA (SMCDA) systems. The systems are often based on the views of the experts (planning practitioners, analysts) and provide ...

The current study, setting a two-fold goal, attempted to see whether the preemptive focus on form (FonF) under either planned or unplanned conditions could contribute to increasing lexical diversity in written narratives and, second, to find whether there was a trade-off between the lexical diversity and accuracy. To this end, 32 beginner learners were selected following a Quick Oxford Placemen...

The influence of pre-retirement leisure activity patterns on retirement planning and attitudes toward retirement was investigated. Sixty male retirees answered a questionnaire designed to collect data regarding sociodemographic variables, the degree of preretirement planning, the type and extent of leisure participation before and after retirement, and attitudes about retirement. The results sh...

We present a new approach to the multi-robot path planning problem, where a number of robots are to change their positions through feasible motions in the same static environment. Rather than the usual decoupled planning, we use a coordinated approach. As a result we can show that the method is probabilistically complete, that is, any solvable problem will be solved within a nite amount of time...

Design and production of small series for specific customer target groups in collaborative networks can help companies to increase their competitiveness. This paper aims to describe a new framework of services for collaborative networking for on-demand productions. After describing the business processes that need to be supported by innovative tools for partner search and collaborative producti...

In this paper, we analyze the impact of a transportation disruption on supply chain performance by using system dynamics simulation. Performances of three different supply chains with Internet e-collaboration tools are compared with the assumption that a transportation disruption occurs within two echelons in a five-echelon supply chain. Numerical results are shown to reveal that from Non-colla...

A natural language collaborative consultation system must take user preferences into account. This paper presents two strategies: one for dynamically recognizing user preferences during the course of a collaborative planning dialogue and another for exploiting the model of user preferences to detect suboptimal solutions and suggest better alternatives. By modeling and utilizing user preferences...