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Enterprises collect data in large volumes and leverage them to drive numerous concurrent decisions and business processes. Their teams deploy multiple applications that often operate concurrently on the same data and infrastructure but have widely differen ...

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A strategic roadmap for noncarbonized fuels is a global priority, and the reduction of carbon dioxide emissions is a key focus of the Paris Agreement to mitigate the effects of rising temperatures. In this context, hydrogen is a promising noncarbonized fue ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2023

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Supply chain agility and resilience are key factors for the success of manufacturing companies in their attempt to respond to dynamic changes. The circular economy, the need for optimized material flows, ad-hoc responses and personalization are some of the ...

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ELSEVIER2021

The Industrialization of Astronomical Instrumentation: An Industrial Systems and Process Engineering Perspective

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SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2020

Laser-induced densification of fused silica using spatially overlapping sub-30fs pulses

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2020

Problem structuring to enable innovation in business/IT projects

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In this paper, we present a problem structuring method in business and IT analysis illustrated with an example. The project describes an IT consulting case done for a Swiss medical society faced with a problem of change management and digital transformatio ...

LUT Scientific and Expertise Publications2020

Extending Business Process Models with Appreciation

Alain Wegmann, Gil Regev, Irina Rychkova

We use homeostasis, the maintenance of steady states in an organism, to explain some of the decisions made by participants in a business process. We use Vickers’ Appreciative System to model the homeostatic states with Harel’s statecharts. We take the exam ...

2019

Five Management Pillars for Digital Transformation Integrating the Lean Thinking Philosophy

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This paper discusses Five Management Pillars for Digital Transformation integrating the Lean Thinking Philosophy. It proposes a "Digital Lean Transformation Framework" where its five management pillars - (Digital) Strategic Management, Processes (Re-)Engin ...

IEEE2019

A Novel Approach to Modeling Enterprise Services Leveraging Object Cloning and Multilevel Classification

Alain Wegmann, Lam Son Lê

Object-oriented modeling is concerned with capturing common properties of objects. The dominant thinking in this realm is to classify objects that share certain properties into what is called a class, which in turn enables us to instantiate additional obje ...

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Three Problems of Liquidity under Asymmetric Information

Sylvain Jean Pascal Carré

This thesis develops models for three problems of liquidity under asymmetric information. In the chapter "Disclosures, Rollover Risk, and Debt Runs" I build a model of dynamic debt runs without perfect information in order to understand the impact of asset ...

EPFL2019

GeoFarmer: A monitoring and feedback system for agricultural development projects

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2019

From Goal-Achievement to the Maintenance of Relationships: Extending Business Process Models with Homeostasis and Appreciation

Gil Regev, Irina Rychkova

We use homeostasis, the maintenance of steady states in an organism, to explain some of the decisions made by participants in a business process. We use Vickers’s Appreciative System to model the homeostatic states with Harel’s statecharts. We take the exa ...

CEUR Workshop Proceedings2018

Digital Information Asset Evaluation: A Case Study in Manufacturing

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2018

A Scale-out Blockchain for Value Transfer with Spontaneous Sharding

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Beyond Activities: Business Process Models from a Knowledge Management Perspective

Gil Regev

When conducting workshops with business people, there is a significant risk to become bogged down in the details of the underlying business process rather than seeing the big picture of the value provided by the process to its stakeholders. In this paper, ...

2017

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Palgrave Macmillan2017

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Acad Management2017

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Rémy Glardon, Souleïman Naciri, Min-Jung Yoo, Yvonne Badulescu

This paper presents a methodology for eliciting the behavioural model of purchasers' decision-making in a supply chain environment. The objective of the work is to explicitly describe the relationship between a human user's behaviour and the resulting perf ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2017

Equilibrium analysis in multi-echelon supply chain with multi-dimensional utilities of inertial players

Naoufel Cheikhrouhou, Matthias Gurtner, Gajanan Bhanudas Panchal

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Palgrave Macmillan Ltd2017