14,195 research outputs found
Simulating business processes for descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics/ Andrew Greasley.
No full textIncludes bibliographical references (pages 336-337) and index.This book outlines the benefits and limitations of simulation, what is involved in setting up a simulation capability in an organization, the steps involved in developing a simulation model and how to ensure model results are implemented. In addition, detailed example applications are provided to show where the tool is useful and what it can offer the decision maker. --Frontmatter -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- About the author -- part 1: Understanding simulation and analytics. Analytics and simulation basics -- Simulation and business processes -- Build the conceptual model -- Build the simulation -- Use simulation for descriptive, predictive and prescriptive analytics -- part 2: Simulation case studies. Case study: a simulation of a police call center -- Case study: A simulation of a "Last Mile" logistics system -- Case Study: A simulation of an enterprise resource planning system -- Case study: A simulation of a snacks process production system -- Case study: A simulation of a police arrest process -- Case study: A simulation of a food retail distribution network -- Case study: A simulation of a proposed textile plant -- Case study: A simulation of a road traffic accident process -- Case study: A simulation of a rail carriage maintenance depot -- Case study: A simulation of a rail vehicle bogie production facility -- Case study: A simulation of advanced service provision -- Case study: Generating simulation analytics with process mining -- Chapter 18. Case study: Using simulation with data envelopment analysis -- Case study: Agent-based modeling in discrete-event simulation -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Index.1 online resource (x, 341 pages)
Father Andrew Mullen 1790-1818: a study in early nineteenth century spirituality
No full textThis thesis is laid out in three parts: Part I. The life and death of Andrew Mullen. The life is based, to a large extent, on a long letter to his mother, Catherine Mullen, dated 7 January 1810. The letter gives a definite insight into his spirituality based on his membership of the Archconfraternity of the Blessed Sacrament. There is a hint that he had a premonition of an early death. Part II. The burial of Andrew Mullen and the immediate cult to him This is based on documentary evidence. Part III. Most of this part is a catalogue of testimonies taken from 1993 onwards. Then there is the conclusion on the popular devotion to Andrew Mullen stressing the theological aspect of the subject. In the course of writing the thesis it was decided to separate the documentary evidence from the oral tradition. This was advantageous in developing the thesis, and the documents provided a secure basis for the oral tradition. Two pieces of information were found in March 1997. They are death notices: 2 January 1819, The Leinster Journal and 7 January 1819, The Car low Morning Post. There is a slight discrepancy between the two on the date of his death. Also this discrepancy shows a slight difference from the date of the tombstone
Simulating business processes for descriptive, predictive and prescriptive analytics
No full textEste libro describe las ventajas y limitaciones de la simulación, lo que implica implementar una capacidad de simulación en una organización, los pasos para desarrollar un modelo de simulación y cómo garantizar la correcta implementación de los resultados. Además, se proporcionan ejemplos de aplicaciones detalladas para mostrar la utilidad de la herramienta y sus beneficios para la toma de decisiones. En «Simulación de Procesos de Negocio para Análisis Descriptivo, Predictivo y Prescriptivo», Andrew Greasley ofrece un análisis exhaustivo de la simulación de procesos de negocio y cómo esta puede potenciar el análisis empresarial. Explica cómo la simulación de procesos de negocio proporciona métricas de velocidad, coste, fiabilidad, calidad y flexibilidad. Incluye estudios de caso industriales, como la mejora de la prestación de servicios y la optimización del uso del personal en organizaciones del sector público, como la policía; la evaluación de la capacidad de las instalaciones de producción planificadas en la industria manufacturera; y la garantía de entregas puntuales en sistemas logísticos. También aborda los últimos avances en simulación de procesos de negocio en relación con la generación de análisis de simulación mediante minería de procesos y modelado del comportamiento humano. Los directivos y responsables de la toma de decisiones aprenderán cómo la simulación ofrece una forma más rápida, económica y segura de observar el rendimiento futuro de un sistema real. El libro también beneficiará al personal ya involucrado en el desarrollo de simulaciones, al proporcionar una perspectiva empresarial sobre la gestión del proceso de simulación, asegurando que los resultados de la simulación se implementen y que se mejore el rendimiento.This book outlines the benefits and limitations of simulation, what is involved in setting up a simulation capability in an organization, the steps involved in developing a simulation model and how to ensure that model results are implemented. In addition, detailed example applications are provided to show where the tool is useful and what it can offer the decision maker. In Simulating Business Processes for Descriptive, Predictive, and Prescriptive Analytics, Andrew Greasley provides an in-depth discussion of Business process simulation and how it can enable business analytics How business process simulation can provide speed, cost, dependability, quality, and flexibility metrics Industrial case studies including improving service delivery while ensuring an efficient use of staff in public sector organizations such as the police service, testing the capacity of planned production facilities in manufacturing, and ensuring on-time delivery in logistics systems State-of-the-art developments in business process simulation regarding the generation of simulation analytics using process mining and modeling people’s behavior Managers and decision makers will learn how simulation provides a faster, cheaper and less risky way of observing the future performance of a real-world system. The book will also benefit personnel already involved in simulation development by providing a business perspective on managing the process of simulation, ensuring simulation results are implemented, and that performance is improved
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
author-bios-SRD-19-0063.R1 – Supplemental material for The Network Structure of Police Misconduct
No full textSupplemental material, author-bios-SRD-19-0063.R1 for The Network Structure of Police Misconduct by George Wood, Daria Roithmayr and Andrew V. Papachristos in Socius</p
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Andrew Field papers
No full textAndrew Field (1938- ) is a scholar, translator, and author, who has published translations of Russian literature, critical studies, biographies, fiction, essays, and travel articles. He holds degrees from Columbia University as well as a Ph.D. from the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. From 1977 to 1979, he was a professor at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia. Dr. Field's papers consist of materials relating to the writing of his 1983 study of the life and work of Djuna Barnes, Djuna: the Formidable Miss Barnes (alternately entitled Djuna: The Life and Times of Djuna Barnes). Included in the collection are correspondence, manuscripts, research notes, clippings related to the book's publication and reception, and photographs. Also included is a handwritten manuscript of a poem by Barnes
Ep. #185 - Andrew Blum
No full textThis recording and transcript form part of a collection of podcasts conducted by the Cultures of Energy at Rice University. Cultures of Energy brings writers, artists and scholars together to talk, think and feel their way into the Anthropocene. We cover serious issues like climate change, species extinction and energy transition. But we also try to confront seemingly huge and insurmountable problems with insight, creativity and laughter.Co-host Cymene reminisces this week about being the first intern hired by Wired magazine waaaay back in the day. Then (14:42) we are joined by journalist Andrew Blum (https://www.andrewblum.net)—the celebrated author of Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet—to talk about his new book, The Weather Machine (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2019). We dive deep into it, beginning with our “golden age” of meteorology, and its improved computer simulations. We talk about human presence within massive information infrastructures, his interest in place philosophy, balancing attentions to weather and climate, comparing weather banality vs. weather catastrophe; and, Andrew explains to us the different ways of interpreting the history of weather forecasting. From there we turn to the intersection of war and weather, how Cold War rivalry and internationalism helped shape the weather machine as a global cooperative project, and whether private corporations like Google and IBM will control the future of forecasting. Chemtrails and other weather conspiracies make an appearance, as does the secret Nazi invasion of Canada to build a weather station. We close talking about weather and sympathy and sharing storm stories
Servants, Aestheticism, and "The Dominance of Form"
No full textThe fictional representation of domestic servants reveals the relationship between aesthetic form and social domination in the work of aesthetes from Wilde to Henry James and beyond. Tracing the sources of Wilde's An Ideal Husband and Dorian Gray and James' The Ambassadors in French decadence and situating them within the history of service, I show that aestheticist depictions of servants recall, through literary form, the aesthete's dependence on servants' labor. I suggest that modernism shared this socially self-conscious concept of aesthetic form with aestheticism, precisely because it too pursued aesthetic autonomy.Published in ELH, copyright The Johns Hopkins University Press.Peer reviewe
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