The distributed and global nature of data science creates challenges for evaluating the quality, import and potential impact of the data and knowledge claims being produced. This has significant consequences for the management and oversight of responsibilities and accountabilities in data science. In particular, it makes it difficult to determine who is responsible for what output, and how such...

In recent decades, along with a deeper integration into the world economy, when Vietnamese enterprises have had to respect and comply with international competitive laws, the issue of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has drawn a lot of attention and become an essential requirement for enterprises today. However, many Vietnamese small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) are still wandering ...

Among the various contemporary schools of moral thinking, consequence-based ethics, as opposed to rule-based, seems to have a good acceptance among professionals such as software engineers. But naïve consequentialism is intellectually too weak to serve as a practical guide in the profession. Besides, the complexity of software systems makes it very hard to know in advance the consequences that ...

In the paper, a simulation-based technique is focused on that defines the boundaries and components of a reconfigurable assembly system according to historical order-streams. Fluctuating production volumes and “end-of-life-cycle” products require frequent revisions of the production structure applied, in order to gain production space and to level between capacity and throughput of the system. ...

The European vehicle industry employs a cascading planning process, for medium-term sales and operations and mediumto shortterm production planning. Due to a lack of coordination and feedback between the different planning phases, costly problems in production arise. This paper describes an integrated planning solution for the harmonisation of sales, purchasing, supply chain and production plan...

We present an evolutionary optimisation technique for stochastic production processes, which is able to find improved production materials workflow processes with respect to arbitrary combinations of numerical quantities associated with the production process. Working from a core fragment of the BPMN language, we employ an evolutionary algorithm where stochastic model checking is used as a fitn...

Is being responsible good enough? Stone (1975) argued that we need corporate moral responsibility because neither law nor market is adequate to forestall harmful effects of business activities. However, it is not possible for businesses to become responsible for all forms of foreseeable, preventable harm that they produce. This is illustrated here by cases from insurance, television programming...