The efficient deployment of resources in home-based care is considered crucial for the
sustainability of health and social care systems worldwide. The aim of this study was to …

Due to customer pressure and growing competition, industrial companies are increasingly
moving towards providing integrated offerings of products and services (PSS). Despite this …

There has been an increased interest in resilient supplier selection in recent years, much of
it focusing on forecasting the disruption probabilities. We conceptualize an entirely different …

Abstract As Building Information Modeling evolves into becoming the central mean for
coordinating project design and planning activities, we notice a few limitations/opportunities …

The evolution of the wind industry in the last decade has not only seen growth in the
installed capacity of turbines and innovation within the industry, but has also seen an …

Communication and information processes are vital in any company. The use of lean
manufacturing concepts applied to the communication and information process aims to …

Big data has caused the scientific community to re-examine the scientific research
methodologies and has triggered a revolution in scientific thinking. As a branch of scientific …

Accident causation models can provide a framework of reference to help understand and
explain how an accident occurs. The role of information flow (IF) in accident causation is …

The stiffness (K) and slenderness factor (λ) of a steel plate-based damper has been studied
on the basis of elastic-inelastic-plastic buckling (EIP) modes and flexural/shear/flexural …

To propose a mathematical model of consciousness and will, we first simulated the inverted
qualia with a toy model of a neural network. As a result, we confirmed that there can be an …