A manufacturing strategy is a critical component of the firm's corporate and business strategies, comprising a set of well-coordinated objectives and action programs aimed at securing a long-term, sustainable advantage over the firm's competitors. A manufacturing strategy should be consistent with the firm's corporate and business strategies, as well as with the other managerial functional stra...

Designing autonomous systems to perform reconnaissance and surveillance missions is especially challenging. Platforms must coordinate, to make on-line decisions about what to sense, what to communicate and how to manoeuvre to achieve their mission goals. A first step in achieving consistent, coordinated decision making is to provide a means for rapid and efficient distribution of information be...

Parallel thinking is a mindset that enables computer scientists to think about and implement systems that allow activities to happen concurrently. This mindset is needed in designing and implementing a wide range of computer systems involving coordinated components (e.g., parallel, distributed, and multi-user systems). No matter what the coordinated component is, whether human or computer, the ...

This study focuses on the performance of Ag/Al2O3 catalysts for hydrocarbon selective catalytic reduction (HC-SCR) of NOx under lean conditions, using complex hydrocarbons as reductants. The aim is to elucidate the correlation towards the silver loading and morphology, with respect to the nature of the reductant. Ag/Al2O3 samples with either 2 or 6 wt% silver loading were prepared, using a sol–...

The national coordinated care trials have been a vehicle for health reform in Australia, driven by escalating health care costs and projections of an ageing population. The first round of trials conducted between 1997 and 1999 set the trials a challenge to reduce financial and system barriers to enable health professionals in all sectors and consumers to develop service delivery models which wo...

Designing coordinated robot behaviors in uncertain, dynamic, real-time, adversarial environments, such as in robot soccer, is very challenging. In this work we present a case-based reasoning approach for cooperative action selection, which relies on the storage, retrieval, and adaptation of example cases. We focus on cases of coordinated attacking passes between robots in the presence of the de...

The aim of investigating the coordination of the complex system constituted by resources, environment, ecology, economy and society subsystems (CSR3ES), is to achieve sustainable development by: (1) describing the complicated relationships of the inner-subsystems and inter-systems; (2) designing the calculation method of the coordination degree for CSR3ES; (3) analyzing its developing trends fr...