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Functional Data Analysis for Optimizing Strategies of Cash-Flow Management
2017
The cash management deals with problem of automating and managing cash-flow processes. Optimization of the management processes greatly reduces overall cash handling costs. The present analysis is an empirical study of cash flows, from and to bank branches, deriving an underlying theoretical framework, which can in a reasonable way be connected with the optimal strategy. Functional data analysis is considered an appropriate framework to analyze the dynamics of the time series behavior of cash flows: since the observations are not equally spaced in time and their number is different for each series, they are converted into a collection of random curves in a space spanned by finite dimensiona…
Adaptative air traffic network: Statistical regularities in air traffic management
2016
Starting from traffic data on flights trajectories-planned and actual ones-in Europe, we build a navigation point network. We study this network which exhibits different features for different European countries. In particular, some countries uses a high number of navpoints, facilitating the planning of the flight plan by air companies at the cost of higher concentrations of traffic in few nodes. Making use of the deviations from the planned trajectories, we find that once again different countries have different control procedures with respect to traffic management. Interestingly, we find that some countries tend to make more deviations when the traffic conditions are low. Moreover, they t…
The BioDICE Taverna plugin for clustering and visualization of biological data: a workflow for molecular compounds exploration
2014
Background: In many experimental pipelines, clustering of multidimensional biological datasets is used to detect hidden structures in unlabelled input data. Taverna is a popular workflow management system that is used to design and execute scientific workflows and aid in silico experimentation. The availability of fast unsupervised methods for clustering and visualization in the Taverna platform is important to support a data-driven scientific discovery in complex and explorative bioinformatics applications. Results: This work presents a Taverna plugin, the Biological Data Interactive Clustering Explorer (BioDICE), that performs clustering of high-dimensional biological data and provides a …
An Intelligent System for Building Bioinformatics Workflows
2012
In this paper a new intelligent system designed to support the researcher in the development of a workflow for bio informatics experiments is presented. The proposed system is capable to suggest one or more strategies in order to resolve the selected problem and to support the user in the assembly of a workflow for complex experiments, using a a Knowledge base, representing the expertise about the application domain, and a Rule-Based system for decision-making activity. Moreover, the system can represent this workflow at different abstraction layers, freeing the user from implementation details and assisting him in the correct configuration of the algorithms. A sample workflow for protein c…
An ontological-based knowledge organization for bioinformatics workflow management system
2012
Motivation and Objectives In the field of Computer Science, ontologies represent formal structures to define and organize knowledge of a specific application domain (Chandrasekaran et al., 1999). An ontology is composed of entities, called classes, and relationships among them. Classes are characterized by features, called attributes, and they can be arranged into a hierarchical organization. Ontologies are a fundamental instrument in Artificial Intelligence for the development of Knowledge-Based Systems (KBS). With its formal and well defined structure, in fact, an ontology provides a machine-understandable language that allows automatic reasoning for problems resolution. Typical KBS are E…
Asiakasraportointiprosessin uudistus finanssiyhtiöissä
2017
Nykyaikaiset liiketoimintaympäristöt ovat dynaamisia ja organisaatioiden pitää jatkuvasti kehittää toimintaansa tarjotakseen asiakkailleen uusia, parempia ja joustavampia palveluja tehokkaammin. Palvelujen laatu, joustavuus ja tehokkuus ovat selkeitä kilpailuetuja markkinoilla. Finanssialan yritysten asiakasraportointi on yksi selkeimmin asiakkaille näkyvistä prosesseista. Tässä tutkielmassa toteutettiin suomalaiselle finanssiyhtiöille uusi asiakasraportoinnin kuukausittaiseen massa-ajoon tarkoitettu sovellus. Tutkielmassa rinnastettiin Business Process Reengineering-malli (BPR) suunnittelutieteellisen tutkimuksen malliin. Näiden mallien avulla uudistusprojekti pystyttiin viemään läpi syste…
CO-Evolution Between CCC-Driven Cash Flow Management and Transformation of R&D : Amazon’S Endeavor
2019
Amazon became the world R&D leader in 2017 by rapidly increasing R&D investment. The company’s extremely large amount of R&D funds is the result of an ample free cash flow generated by sophisticated cash conversion cycle (CCC) management. Increased R&D induced business advancement and lean cost structure construction leading to further increase in cash flow which has stimulated interaction between vendors, customers, and Amazon via the Amazon marketplace. Activated interaction accelerated CCC advancement, a subsequent free cash flow increase, and user-driven innovation, thus accelerated the transformation of routine and periodic alteration activities into significant improvement simultaneou…
THE DEVELOPMENT OF BUSINESS LOGISTICS CONCEPT. FROM OPERATIONAL MANAGEMENT OF LOGISTICS PROCESSES TO THE INTEGRATED FLOW MANAGEMENT WITHIN THE SUPPLY…
2019
Background: Firms constantly search for ways enabling them to achieve and maintain longterm competitive advantage. Among the most significant concepts influencing the achievement of such an advantage by a firm, an important role is played by the business logistics concept. The aim of the chapter is to identify the most important stages of the logistics concept development, ranging from the operational management of logistics processes to the integrated flow management throughout the entire supply network. Methods: The chapter has a conceptual character. A review of significant works devoted to the development of the logistics concept in business was carried out. Within the chapter there is …
Knowledge organization for modelling workflows in Taverna environment
2014
Today Workflow Management Systems (WFMS), like Taverna and Kepler, have a very important place in the everyday work of the scientist. These tools support the access to computational resources and act as interface for building complex data processing chains. The next step is to support decisions of the researcher on autonomously developing workflow parts guided by requirements of the scientist while she/he is working on the high-level goal of the experiment. To this aim, it is necessary an ontology to store the knowledge related to the experiments and tools used, and to make this knowledge available not only to the scientist, but also to a suitable artificial intelligent system. In this pape…