Currently, in the digital planning process of a manufacturing plant several industry partners are typically involved. Usually, the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) commissions the main contractor to carry out the whole digital planning of e.g. a manufacturing plant. In turn, the main contractor involves several subcontractors for particular sub-domains. During their collaboration, all part...

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The proposed reduction in and recent negotiations, discussions and lobbying concerning the R&D budget of the Office of the Chief Scientist (OCS) at the Ministry of Industry and Trade highlight the importance of approaching the question of government policy in support of R&D not only in a more systematic and analytic fashion than has been the case up to now in Israel but also through adoption of...

An original equipment manufacturer (OEM) produces new products and often faces a dilemma when determining the level of interchangeability in its product design. The interchangeability is considered as a degree to which the product can be disassembled without force, and thus an increasing degree of interchangeability would decrease the OEM’s production cost, but it would also lower a remanufactu...

This paper out l ines an approach toward computa t i ona l l y invest igat ing the processes involved in reasoning about the knowledge states of other cogn i t i ve agents. The approach is Fregean and is compared with the work of McCarthy and Creary. We describe how the formalism represents the knowing o f intensional i nd iv idua ls , c o r e f e r e n t i a l i t y , i t e r ated propos i t i...

We characterize the set of all n-ary quasigroups of order 4: every n-ary quasigroup of order 4 is permutably reducible or semilinear. Permutable reducibility means that an n-ary quasigroup can be represented as a composition of k-ary and (n− k +1)-ary quasigroups for some k from 2 to n−1, where the order of arguments in the representation can differ from the original order. The set of semilinea...

OF DISSERTATION Nicole Denise Dobransky