Using the resource-based view and the learning organization as its theoretical framework, this study hypothesized that organizations which possessed not only the technical capabilities for automation but also the ability to learn and share information would be most likely to automate their supply chain processes. An empirical study with the top suppliers of a major airline supported this hypoth...

Greenhouse automation is one of the main advances in modern agriculture, this subject being included in many agricultural engineering and applied control curricula. This study presents the development of a web-based remote control laboratory using a greenhouse scale model for teaching greenhouse climate control techniques using different hardware and software platforms. 2005 Wiley Periodicals, ...

This paper presents a web-based environment that was designed and implemented in order to support the office automation courses of the Journalism & Mass Communication Department, at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Special issues relating to these courses as taught in the traditional way, together with the given computer and communications infrastructure, pose various design sp...

In order to provide dependable healthcare services for the elderly, it is necessary to have a patient-centric system in which service automation dominates through the use of context-awareness. Healthcare service automation has the virtues to overcome the disadvantages arising from the disabilities that are inherent in the elderly population, physically challenged, and those who live in remote a...

An important advantage of satellite transmission is their inherent capability to broadcast data to large audiences. The standard application is thereby to send data streams (i.e. TV) to wide audiences using fixed satellite receivers. An extension to this approach is broadcast to mobile receivers, especially cars. This has been realised in the U.S. by XM-Radio and Sirius. All these system have i...

The constant emergence and change of technologies in the form of digital products and services can cause certain groups of the population to feel excluded, older adults represent one such group. We investigate how to combine applied research on computational models of argument and human-centric computing to impact the way in which older adults interact with broadcast debates. This paper describ...

Neurologic Music Therapy (NMT) can improve deficiencies in speech, motor, and cognitive skills. This paper introduces the field to computer scientists by explaining the rationale behind NMT techniques and identifies aspects suitable for automation. UTC has developed a web-based system implementing a subset of the NMT therapy.

The increased presence of diagram-type student work in higher education has recently attracted researchers to look into the automation of diagram marking. This paper intro duces web-based diagram drawing and marking tools for a new (semi-automatic) assessment approach. The approach reduces the number of diagram components marked by the human marker and provides individualised and detailed feedb...