Unlike digitally savvy banking and retail industries, oil and natural gas businesses are latecomers to digitization. With large capital investments in complex industrial operations, firms in latecomer industries are seeking ways to cut costs and become responsive to market demands. Executives in oil and natural gas companies are facing unprecedented pressure to cut costs due to market turbulenc...

This paper presents a comparison between recent advances made in the field of non conventionnal imaging techniques for 3D digitization of transparent object. After a large survey, this paper will focus on two recent techniques later called : shape from Visible Fluorescence UV-induced and shape from polarisation in the IR which recently emerged. Results obtained with the technique of Scanning fr...

We present the current status of the Spanish projects for the digitization of the mathematical literature, as well as some related topics. Mathematics Subject Classification (2000). Primary 01A90; Secondary 68-03.

T he increasing digitization of the economy presents both opportunities and challenges for firms. On one hand, digitization can enable more degrees of freedom and sophisticated strategies that target each customer segment or even each customer individually with efficiency. For example, firms can now create rich and customized advertisements with almost laser precision without sacrificing tremen...

The digitization of our society changes the way we live, work, learn, communicate, and collaborate. This disruptive change interacts with all information processes and systems that are important business enablers for the context of digitization since years. Our aim is to support flexibility and agile transformations for both business domains and related information technology and enterprise sys...

Retrieving information from analog seismograms is of great importance since they are considered as the unique sources that provide quantitative information of historical earthquakes. We present an algorithm for automatic digitization of the seismograms as an inversion problem that forms an interactive program using Matlab GUI. The program integrates automatic digitization with manual digitizati...

This paper presents an overview of the different 3D surface digitization technologies commercially available for the measurement of the human body. Complete systems for the digitization of the human body exist since more than ten years. One of the main users of this technology was the entertainment industry. The faces and bodies of actors were digitized and the virtual characters replaced the a...

Digitization has became a mandatory step that media stakeholders have to face up to, in order to cope with the increasingly digital nature of production, archiving and distribution workflows. The Italian public-service broadcaster, RAI, is heavily involved in this step and is trying to automate its digitization operations as much as possible ... whilst guaranteeing the quality of the generated ...

The estimate of digitization costs is a very difficult task. It is difficult to make exact predictions due to the great quantity of unknown factors. However, digitization projects need to have a precise idea of the economic costs and the times involved in the development of their contents. The common practice when we start digitizing a new collection is to set a schedule, and a firm commitment ...