The transition from object technology to component technology involves taking into consideration an increasing number of new attributes, representing the multiple facets not only of execution-time, but also of development-time entities. A consequence of this is that the definition of the software process is now becoming a central and critical problem. As a contribution to this area, this paper ...

Concentrating solar collectors of low concentration ratio can supply hot water or process heat at intermediate temperatures, i.e. 80 to 180 C, where flat plate collectors are not effective, and for which there are a number of industrial, domestic and rural applications. This paper studies the potential applications of this technology and presents case studies to prove its feasibility.

The present paper emphasizes the potentialities of the industrial use of three-dimensional mathematical modelling of glass melting tanks for optimization of working conditions, design and control of indusaial furnaces. A short review of related recent relevant works is presented and industrial needs and requirements in modelling are discussed. A modelling procedure to solve the heat and mass tr...

Contemporary information systems (e.g., WFM, ERP, CRM, SCM, and B2B systems) record business events in so-called event logs. Business process mining takes these logs to discover process, control, data, organizational, and social structures. Although many researchers are developing new and more powerful process mining techniques and software vendors are incorporating these in their software, few...

The paper refers to an intermediate stage of the running international project ProDaCTool which aims to develop the decision-support tool for operators of complex industrial processes. It should help to guarantee stable highest quality of product by optimal settings of machinery. The main idea of the project is to extract valuable information from a huge amounts of process data and to store it ...

The operation of a production facility has a major effect on the efficiency; therefore it is of upmost importance to find the best possible schedule. Due to the high practical expediency, the topic of batch process scheduling has gained growing interest in the last two decades and many approaches have been published to solve a wide variety of scheduling problems. In the present work first the d...

In this paper, we will give our view of the role of TCAD in the industrial technology development process, as well as of the division of labor between industrial TCAD, vendors of commercial TCAD software, and academia. Furthermore a list of model shortcomings is presented that we feel still prevent broad productive use of TCAD in industrial technology development. In the end we will define our ...

In this demonstration we present the EnEffCo project as a showcase for the JIAC V agent framework. EnEffCo addresses the problem of optimising energy consumption in industrial production processes. As the optimisation of the processes is handled by JIAC V agents, the project profits from a number of industry-grade software features of the JIAC V framework, such as stability, reliable communicat...