The rapid growth of e-commerce increases the need for larger warehouses and their automation, thus using robots as assistants to human workers becomes a priority. In order to operate efficiently and safely, robot assistants or the supervising system should recognize human intentions. Theory of mind (ToM) is an intuitive conception of other agents’ mental state, i.e., beliefs and desires, and ho...

Abstract E-commerce, new retail, and other changes have highlighted the requirement of high efficiency accuracy in logistics service. As an important section supply chain management, warehouses need to respond positively increasing requirement. The “smart warehouse” system, which is equipped with emerging warehousing technologies, increasingly attracting attention industry technology giants as ...

In Rail Automation, planning future projects requires the integration of business-critical data from heterogeneous data sources. As a consequence, data quality of integrated data is crucial for the optimal utilization of the production capacity. Unfortunately, current integration approaches mostly neglect uncertainties and inconsistencies in the integration process in terms of railway specific ...

Testing data-centric applications is always a challenging and a time consuming task. The goal of this paper is to present a test automation framework for testing data warehouse and business intelligence applications using an open source test automation tool. An Implementation methodology for multithreaded test execution is be explained that brings down the test execution time significantly. It ...

In recent times, the interest in using radio frequency identification (RFID) technology in supply chain activities has increased due to potential benefits in customer responsiveness and inventory and logistical costs reduction. RFID technology offers tremendous opportunities for those companies trying to reduce cycle times through automation, lower operational risks, improve return on investmen...

The paper discusses automated substation data integration and analysis. Recorded data collected from various substation IEDs is stored into a substation data warehouse that utilizes standardized file formats and database interface. The data warehouse allows different software agents to convert raw data to useful information and represents an interface for functional integration of different app...

Data warehousing is gaining importance day by day in enterprises, as it helps them to improve their business intelligence. The process of creating a data warehouse needs to be automated so that the transactional sources are generated in least time, with maximum accuracy and with minimum dependability on users. This automation proves its worth particularly when working with small and medium ente...