Proceedings of 2013 IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics

We present an ongoing research on an Integrated Real-time Mobility Assistant (IRMA). IRMA is a software system that targets the personal mobility in a near future scenario, based on green, shared and public transports. IRMA handles end-to-end itineraries that may involve multiple transport systems, and encompasses both commuter mobility and visitor mobility. The objective of IRMA is to make practi... View full abstract»

Service delivery using geographically distributed delivery locations has emerged as a mature methodology of service delivery. The fragile nature of business environments at the delivery locations has resulted Business Continuity Planning methodology in becoming a key differentiator between service delivery organizations. Increasingly, these organizations are actively seeking to allocate funds for ... View full abstract»

In IT Service Delivery organizations, Quality Analysts (QAs) are responsible for analyzing sets of service tickets to detect exceptional trends, launch investigations and identify and remove defects in the IT environment, thereby bringing down the volume of incidents over time. The large scale of operation (thousands of tickets), hard to detect temporal variations, mix of structured and unstructur... View full abstract»

In this paper, a control strategy is presented to coordinately control the switches of lamps and projectors in offices, especially for those offices with multiple meeting rooms. Firstly, it detects and collects the lamps and projects usage status through some devices, such as embedded sensors. Secondly, it analyzes the historical usage records of projectors and lamps and identifies several pattern... View full abstract»

Video detection is one of the primary collection means of traffic states in Parallel traffic Management Systems (PtMS). In order to accurately and automatically obtain road areas in highway surveillance videos, this paper presents an automatic detection algorithm based on the frequency-domain information of video images. This algorithm uses the frequency-domain feature that is produced by the vehi... View full abstract»

Information feedback is very important in traffic systems. Real-time information feedback can improve traffic flow with existing facilities. This paper proposes a real-time information feedback strategy named improved mean number feedback strategy. Based on a two-route scenario, simulation results show that the strategy is much more effective in different length of roads or in different percentage... View full abstract»

The most time-consuming operation in the Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) calculation is scalar multiplication. Scalar multiplication plays a major role in ECC. Currently, there are several optimization algorithms for point scalar multiplication which have either high computational complexity or additional storage requirement. They are all unsuitable for further applying. In this paper, we presen... View full abstract»

With the acceleration of China's urbanization, more and more unexpected disasters in big cities make a severe challenge to city emergency traffic management. Under this background, we present a heuristic implementation of urban emergency traffic evacuation in this paper. Firstly, we refer to a popular evacuation demand generation model to generate the evacuation demand. When solving the path selec... View full abstract»

The vehicle queue length detection, specially based on video, is an important and practical research area of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). It has promising application prospect in such areas as urban traffic control, highway toll system etc. In this paper, by analyzing the video sequence obtained from the fixed-camera, the vehicle movements of each road lane, such as left turn, go stra... View full abstract»

The core competence of the supply chain originates in the effective knowledge sharing among the member enterprises, and the knowledge sharing among the member enterprises is influenced by preferences of the member enterprises. The latest economic research result shows that human beings have a variety of preferences like selfishness and altruism. Based on the views of biogenetics, the various kinds... View full abstract»

Loyal customers are important for any company, and how to cultivate their loyalty by marketing tactics such as price, relation, promotion and etc. is crucial. We establish a consumer cognitive simulation model based on ACT-R cognitive framework to research the influence of price stability on consumer loyalty in this paper. The model uses three variables price stability, price, and the urgency of t... View full abstract»

Under the situation of m-learning, mobile learners can't be aware of other collaborative learners' information and can't effectively communicate with them due to small screens of mobile devices, small storage and the limitation of data-processing ability. In this paper, the author puts forwards a middleware structure based on multi-agent system in order to allow mobile learners to visit the existi... View full abstract»

To check the Time-on-Target shooting method could attack the moving objects effectively, an analysis method that divided the errors into two group was applied. Firstly, give the Fire control model of Time-on-Target Shooting method by discussing the mechanism of multiple hit system. Set the hitting probability as the firing efficiency index. Then build the effectiveness analysis method by dividing ... View full abstract»

As an important part of general transportation system, road transportation industry plays an important role in Chinese modernization procedure. In the background of changing economy increasing mode, road transportation industry of China should change from pure resource factor input growth pattern to growth pattern emphasizing on quality and efficiency, so the precise mastery of industry operation ... View full abstract»

The state-owned enterprises play a very important role in China. The financing behavior and efficiency of state-owned enterprises not only have a great influence on its own operation competition, but also relate closely to the development and stability of the whole national economy and social economic efficiency. 51 listed companies which have performed IPO(initial public offering) in 2010 have be... View full abstract»

Cloud storage offers great convenience to users. However, the data security concerns may impede cloud storage wide adoption. Although there are many schemes to solve the problem, they mostly focus on an aspect of data security. They have not a detailed discussion about the data security in cloud. In this paper, we proposed approach provides a scheme to allow users to check the integrity of their d... View full abstract»

This paper uses the questionnaire survey and structural equation model to evaluate the influence of nine indicators from the national macro environment, industry environment and internal environment to the resources reallocation in failure projects through the AMOS statistical analysis method, and analyses the degree of attention to the reallocation of financial resources, human resources and mate... View full abstract»

The aim of this paper is to examine the correlation between CO2 emissions and technical efficiency of logistics sector. In doing so, a one-step Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) approach is employed based on panel data from 25 provincial logistics sector in China. Besides CO2 emissions, rail mileage, highway mileage, inland waterway mileage and the progress degree of provinc... View full abstract»

Embedded subject service has become a new trend of library subject service under ubiquitous knowledge environment, and it's a personalized service initiative of libraries. This paper summarizes the embedded subject service of libraries in the world, and points out that embedded subject service contains embedded information literacy education and embedded science research, which means librarians em... View full abstract»

To promote manufacturers to adopt green supply chain, we propose in this paper a model for evaluating the performance of green supply chain, which covers three important indicators on finance, operation, and environment. We also adopt AHP and Fuzzy comprehensive evaluation approaches to evaluating the model, and apply this model to a practical manufacturer to verify its feasibility and effectivene... View full abstract»

Horticultural therapy is the emerging service industries in China. This article summarizes the concept, the applicable objects, the target, the characteristics and the efficacy of the horticultural therapy. And explains the basic composition of horticultural therapy activities as well as the famous Japanese horticultural therapy rehabilitation facility, comfort garden Azomino for example. It also ... View full abstract»

The study of information dissemination based on users' relationship under socialization networking environment is of important significance. This article focuses on the issue of information dissemination mechanism. It started with the analysis of development of information dissemination mode, including non-linear dissemination based on users' relationship, dissemination of low threshold and equali... View full abstract»

Aiming at Eucalyptus plantation project with long-term, uncertainty, stage and other characteristics, this article using option pricing theory, made up the defect that the traditional investment decision-making method with the net cash flow as the core can not evaluate the uncertainty value of the project. The study showed that, relative to traditional cash-flow theory, the uncertainty value of th... View full abstract»

The control of internal transport system of large complex building which focuses on the convenience and comfort for pedestrians, is greatly different from urban traffic. Effective control of the overall internal transport system is essential to enhance the safety and convenience. However, ongoing changes in population coupled with the economic development, mean that most of the control and managem... View full abstract»

The paper attempts to analyze the relationship between co-creation customer experience, customer co-created value and behavioral intention in non-trading virtual community. Customer co-created value defined by the help of literature research in non-trading virtual community. And Literature research and qualitative research of focus group interview were applied to determine the dimensions of custom... View full abstract»