Pub Date : 2018-12-01DOI: 10.1109/POMS.2018.8629454
Peeyush Vats, G. Soni, A. Rathore, Jayant K. Purohit
Risk pooling is an approach which is majorly supportive for maintaining the safety stock up to a minimum level under uncertain conditions. This pooling method decreases the inventory carrying costs, overhead costs and other costs involved in maintain the facility, Therefore this approach can be suitably implemented in an inventory control model. The major concentration of this study is to develop a multi-product multi-period inventory control model in two stage supply chain network which mainly consists of distributors and retailers. Inventory carrying costs, transportation costs, facility operating cost, ordering costs and facility cost are incorporated for the formulation of inventory control model in objective function under various constraints. A non-linear programming has been originated to solve the proposed mathematical model. The results and the performance parameters can be assessed under various uncertain levels.
{"title":"Risk pooling approach in multi-product multi-period inventory control model under uncertainty","authors":"Peeyush Vats, G. Soni, A. Rathore, Jayant K. Purohit","doi":"10.1109/POMS.2018.8629454","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/POMS.2018.8629454","url":null,"abstract":"Risk pooling is an approach which is majorly supportive for maintaining the safety stock up to a minimum level under uncertain conditions. This pooling method decreases the inventory carrying costs, overhead costs and other costs involved in maintain the facility, Therefore this approach can be suitably implemented in an inventory control model. The major concentration of this study is to develop a multi-product multi-period inventory control model in two stage supply chain network which mainly consists of distributors and retailers. Inventory carrying costs, transportation costs, facility operating cost, ordering costs and facility cost are incorporated for the formulation of inventory control model in objective function under various constraints. A non-linear programming has been originated to solve the proposed mathematical model. The results and the performance parameters can be assessed under various uncertain levels.","PeriodicalId":119869,"journal":{"name":"2018 International Conference on Production and Operations Management Society (POMS)","volume":"106 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122027133","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-12-01DOI: 10.1109/poms.2018.8629459
{"title":"POMS 2018 Reviewer Panel","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/poms.2018.8629459","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/poms.2018.8629459","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":119869,"journal":{"name":"2018 International Conference on Production and Operations Management Society (POMS)","volume":"110 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115459536","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-12-01DOI: 10.1109/POMS.2018.8629493
J. Haresankar, U. Galappaththi, R. L. Perera
The Small and Medium Enterprises’ (SMEs) growth in Sri Lanka is negatively affected by several factors such as lack of financial management, education facilities for the SMEs, less technological support, social issues, obstructive legal policies, limited financial support schemes, and problematic ethical factors. The current study is focusing on the Southern Province of Sri Lanka since it was noticed that the relative dominance of these factors is different compared to the other Provinces in Sri Lanka. This project focuses on evaluating fundamental factors required for developing a strong foundation for emerging sustainable SMEs and comparison of these factors statistically, and qualitatively in SMEs of the Southern Province of Sri Lanka. The coordination of the research was comprised with literature review, questionnaires, interviews and inspection analysis to provide information for solutions. The studies in legal policies, balance maintenance on asymmetrical knowledge, political stability, capital strength, organization morale, technical background were analyzed on countries such as USA, India, and China, and also on well established Western and Central Provinces in Sri Lanka, which eventually provided us with a good contrast. These data were used to investigate the shortcomings of SMEs in the Southern Province and showed an overall result that 53% of SMEs have failed due to above factors. The study can also be expanded to a wider picture to answer factors affecting the sustainability of SMEs in Sri Lanka compared to other nations. The research will provide valuable insights to support the growth of SMEs in the Southern Province of Sri Lanka.
{"title":"Factors Affecting the Sustainability of SME Industries: A Case Study in the Southern Province of Sri Lanka","authors":"J. Haresankar, U. Galappaththi, R. L. Perera","doi":"10.1109/POMS.2018.8629493","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/POMS.2018.8629493","url":null,"abstract":"The Small and Medium Enterprises’ (SMEs) growth in Sri Lanka is negatively affected by several factors such as lack of financial management, education facilities for the SMEs, less technological support, social issues, obstructive legal policies, limited financial support schemes, and problematic ethical factors. The current study is focusing on the Southern Province of Sri Lanka since it was noticed that the relative dominance of these factors is different compared to the other Provinces in Sri Lanka. This project focuses on evaluating fundamental factors required for developing a strong foundation for emerging sustainable SMEs and comparison of these factors statistically, and qualitatively in SMEs of the Southern Province of Sri Lanka. The coordination of the research was comprised with literature review, questionnaires, interviews and inspection analysis to provide information for solutions. The studies in legal policies, balance maintenance on asymmetrical knowledge, political stability, capital strength, organization morale, technical background were analyzed on countries such as USA, India, and China, and also on well established Western and Central Provinces in Sri Lanka, which eventually provided us with a good contrast. These data were used to investigate the shortcomings of SMEs in the Southern Province and showed an overall result that 53% of SMEs have failed due to above factors. The study can also be expanded to a wider picture to answer factors affecting the sustainability of SMEs in Sri Lanka compared to other nations. The research will provide valuable insights to support the growth of SMEs in the Southern Province of Sri Lanka.","PeriodicalId":119869,"journal":{"name":"2018 International Conference on Production and Operations Management Society (POMS)","volume":"604 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116369081","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-12-01DOI: 10.1109/poms.2018.8629464
{"title":"POMS 2018 Keynote Speakers","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/poms.2018.8629464","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/poms.2018.8629464","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":119869,"journal":{"name":"2018 International Conference on Production and Operations Management Society (POMS)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133371936","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-12-01DOI: 10.1109/POMS.2018.8629474
Hasith Gunasekara, J. Gamage, H. Punchihewa
Remanufacturing is the only end-of-life process where used products are brought back to the Original Equipment Manufacturers’ (OEM) performance specification from the customers’ perspective. At the same time, it offers a warranty equal or better to that of corresponding new products. During this process, products are returned to their original state with minimum waste of material and energy. Moreover, the benefits of remanufacturing are not only limited to ecological aspects but also it provides a win-win situation for both the customer and the remanufacturer. Nevertheless, remanufacturing systems are inherited with more complex production planning and control activities due to the difficulties and uncertainties in product take-back compared to traditional manufacturing. The purpose of this review is to identify the main barriers of remanufacturing. Identified barriers are categorised according to the triple helix of the innovation model. The paper also reviews the solutions provided in the rest of the world in addressing the barriers of remanufacturing.
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Pub Date : 2018-12-01DOI: 10.1109/POMS.2018.8629445
Oscar Rincón-Guevara, Jorge A. Samayoa, A. Deshmukh
A recent trend has been to compete in the marketplace by allowing customers to personalize products to best meet their needs and taste. Enhanced customization increases variability and complexity in the manufacturing systems and supply chains supporting the manufacture and delivery of these products. The range or amount of customization practical for a product depends on several factors, such as its architecture, materials, manufacturing processes, supplier capabilities, customer interaction with design architecture, etc. Products can be placed on a spectrum of customization, ranging from Mass-Production (minimal customization), to Mass-Customization (standard design with some degree of customization), to Mass-Individualization (customer involved in the design process to co-create the product). A key question for the organization is to determine which of these levels of customization is best suited for their product, given the customer requirements, the product architecture, and the necessary manufacturing capabilities.This paper reviews the extant literature on personalization and customization. We propose a taxonomy to identify salient characteristics of different customization paradigms. We use this taxonomy to identify what products belong to each customization paradigm. Additionally, we summarize different taxonomies considering their application context, pros, and cons of each. Finally, we apply our taxonomy to three example products, where we consider customer engagement point, product architecture, assembly configuration, and technology flexibility.
{"title":"Taxonomy for Classifying Products on the Customization Spectrum","authors":"Oscar Rincón-Guevara, Jorge A. Samayoa, A. Deshmukh","doi":"10.1109/POMS.2018.8629445","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/POMS.2018.8629445","url":null,"abstract":"A recent trend has been to compete in the marketplace by allowing customers to personalize products to best meet their needs and taste. Enhanced customization increases variability and complexity in the manufacturing systems and supply chains supporting the manufacture and delivery of these products. The range or amount of customization practical for a product depends on several factors, such as its architecture, materials, manufacturing processes, supplier capabilities, customer interaction with design architecture, etc. Products can be placed on a spectrum of customization, ranging from Mass-Production (minimal customization), to Mass-Customization (standard design with some degree of customization), to Mass-Individualization (customer involved in the design process to co-create the product). A key question for the organization is to determine which of these levels of customization is best suited for their product, given the customer requirements, the product architecture, and the necessary manufacturing capabilities.This paper reviews the extant literature on personalization and customization. We propose a taxonomy to identify salient characteristics of different customization paradigms. We use this taxonomy to identify what products belong to each customization paradigm. Additionally, we summarize different taxonomies considering their application context, pros, and cons of each. Finally, we apply our taxonomy to three example products, where we consider customer engagement point, product architecture, assembly configuration, and technology flexibility.","PeriodicalId":119869,"journal":{"name":"2018 International Conference on Production and Operations Management Society (POMS)","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131172596","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-12-01DOI: 10.1109/POMS.2018.8629448
Subodha Dharmapriya, Senevi B. Kiridena, N. Shukla
This paper proposes a multi-agent modelling approach that supports supply network configuration decisions towards sustaining operations excellence in terms of economic, business continuity and environmental performance. Two types of agents are employed, namely, physical agents to represent supply entities and auxiliary agents to deal with supply network configuration decisions. While using the evolutionary algorithm, Non-dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm-II to optimize both cost and lead time at the supply network level, agents are modelled with an architecture which consists of decision-making, learning and communication modules. The physical agents make decisions considering varying situations to suit specific product-market profiles thereby generating alternative supply network configurations. These supply network configurations are then evaluated against a set of performance metrics, including the energy consumption of the supply chain processes concerned and the transportation distances between supply entities. Simulation results generated through the application of this approach to a refrigerator production network show that the selected supply network configurations are capable of meeting intended sustainable goals while catering to the respective product-market profiles.
{"title":"Modelling sustainable supply networks with adaptive agents","authors":"Subodha Dharmapriya, Senevi B. Kiridena, N. Shukla","doi":"10.1109/POMS.2018.8629448","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/POMS.2018.8629448","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a multi-agent modelling approach that supports supply network configuration decisions towards sustaining operations excellence in terms of economic, business continuity and environmental performance. Two types of agents are employed, namely, physical agents to represent supply entities and auxiliary agents to deal with supply network configuration decisions. While using the evolutionary algorithm, Non-dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm-II to optimize both cost and lead time at the supply network level, agents are modelled with an architecture which consists of decision-making, learning and communication modules. The physical agents make decisions considering varying situations to suit specific product-market profiles thereby generating alternative supply network configurations. These supply network configurations are then evaluated against a set of performance metrics, including the energy consumption of the supply chain processes concerned and the transportation distances between supply entities. Simulation results generated through the application of this approach to a refrigerator production network show that the selected supply network configurations are capable of meeting intended sustainable goals while catering to the respective product-market profiles.","PeriodicalId":119869,"journal":{"name":"2018 International Conference on Production and Operations Management Society (POMS)","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124091003","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-12-01DOI: 10.1109/POMS.2018.8629453
T. K. D. Ho, J. Daniel, Simon Peter Nadeem, J. Garza‐Reyes, Vikas Kumar
Warehouses play an important value-adding role to provide a competitive edge, support business growth and efficiency throughout their supply chains. This paper explores warehouse operations (i.e. receiving, put away, picking, packing and shipping) and a series of challenges faced in managing warehouse operations in general and the 3PL industry in particular. Especially, the paper analyses the warehouse and logistics operations of an Australian 3PL company. By utilizing a mixed method approach both qualitative and quantitative data was gathered through in-depth interviews, direct observations and warehouse operations records. The collected data were then analyzed using thematic analysis. The data was screened and coded to further develop major themes to identify the problematic areas. This analysis helped to identify issues in operations related to the receiving process, missing, picking and locating items as well as human errors. While multiple approaches could be utilized to improve the operations, there yet remained a major challenge to manage operations within the planned budgetary limits. This research, therefore, provides some solutions/recommendations to improve the case company’s warehouse operations through staff empowerment, management process improvement, order dispatch and return process improvement, improvement in record keeping, and recruiting more personnel. These recommendations ensure company’s efficiency while balancing its challenges both in operations and budgetary constraints. This study thus provides an evidence to improve the reliability of warehouse operations through systematic process improvement.
{"title":"Improving the Reliability of Warehouse Operations in the 3PL Industry: An Australian 3PL Case Study","authors":"T. K. D. Ho, J. Daniel, Simon Peter Nadeem, J. Garza‐Reyes, Vikas Kumar","doi":"10.1109/POMS.2018.8629453","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/POMS.2018.8629453","url":null,"abstract":"Warehouses play an important value-adding role to provide a competitive edge, support business growth and efficiency throughout their supply chains. This paper explores warehouse operations (i.e. receiving, put away, picking, packing and shipping) and a series of challenges faced in managing warehouse operations in general and the 3PL industry in particular. Especially, the paper analyses the warehouse and logistics operations of an Australian 3PL company. By utilizing a mixed method approach both qualitative and quantitative data was gathered through in-depth interviews, direct observations and warehouse operations records. The collected data were then analyzed using thematic analysis. The data was screened and coded to further develop major themes to identify the problematic areas. This analysis helped to identify issues in operations related to the receiving process, missing, picking and locating items as well as human errors. While multiple approaches could be utilized to improve the operations, there yet remained a major challenge to manage operations within the planned budgetary limits. This research, therefore, provides some solutions/recommendations to improve the case company’s warehouse operations through staff empowerment, management process improvement, order dispatch and return process improvement, improvement in record keeping, and recruiting more personnel. These recommendations ensure company’s efficiency while balancing its challenges both in operations and budgetary constraints. This study thus provides an evidence to improve the reliability of warehouse operations through systematic process improvement.","PeriodicalId":119869,"journal":{"name":"2018 International Conference on Production and Operations Management Society (POMS)","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126848646","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-12-01DOI: 10.1109/POMS.2018.8629449
Vikas Kumar, Shahruzzaman Sabri, J. Garza‐Reyes, Simon Peter Nadeem, A. Kumari, Supalak Akkaranggoon
The importance of green supply chain management has long attracted the interest of both researchers and practitioners in the industry. As environmental concerns are becoming one of the major issues discussed in the 21st century, countries with manufacturing as its principal economy contributor are always on the lookout for innovations and new approaches to balance both environmental considerations and profit making. The UK, being one of the top manufacturing countries in the world already considered green initiatives among their manufacturers. According to reports from the industry, large and international manufacturing companies from the UK have successfully implemented some green initiatives with significant improvements across the supply chain. However, the adoption of green initiatives is mainly focused on large companies rather the real backbone of the UK manufacturing industry, which is the small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). This paper therefore sets out to determine the implementation level of green supply chain among the SMEs. The paper adopts a mixed methods based approach and findings are based on 57 survey responses and 5 semi-structured interviews from UK manufacturing SMEs. The findings show that the level of GSCM implementation among the UK manufacturing SMEs is low compared to large organisations. Cost of implementing GSCM practices emerged as a key challenge faced by the UK manufacturing SMEs which was followed by the lack of knowledge within the organisation. This study thus adds to the limited literature on the manufacturing SMEs and provides evidence from the UK manufacturing sector on the adoption of GSCM practices.
{"title":"The challenges of GSCM implementation in the UK manufacturing SMEs","authors":"Vikas Kumar, Shahruzzaman Sabri, J. Garza‐Reyes, Simon Peter Nadeem, A. Kumari, Supalak Akkaranggoon","doi":"10.1109/POMS.2018.8629449","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/POMS.2018.8629449","url":null,"abstract":"The importance of green supply chain management has long attracted the interest of both researchers and practitioners in the industry. As environmental concerns are becoming one of the major issues discussed in the 21st century, countries with manufacturing as its principal economy contributor are always on the lookout for innovations and new approaches to balance both environmental considerations and profit making. The UK, being one of the top manufacturing countries in the world already considered green initiatives among their manufacturers. According to reports from the industry, large and international manufacturing companies from the UK have successfully implemented some green initiatives with significant improvements across the supply chain. However, the adoption of green initiatives is mainly focused on large companies rather the real backbone of the UK manufacturing industry, which is the small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). This paper therefore sets out to determine the implementation level of green supply chain among the SMEs. The paper adopts a mixed methods based approach and findings are based on 57 survey responses and 5 semi-structured interviews from UK manufacturing SMEs. The findings show that the level of GSCM implementation among the UK manufacturing SMEs is low compared to large organisations. Cost of implementing GSCM practices emerged as a key challenge faced by the UK manufacturing SMEs which was followed by the lack of knowledge within the organisation. This study thus adds to the limited literature on the manufacturing SMEs and provides evidence from the UK manufacturing sector on the adoption of GSCM practices.","PeriodicalId":119869,"journal":{"name":"2018 International Conference on Production and Operations Management Society (POMS)","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134245707","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-12-01DOI: 10.1109/POMS.2018.8629461
Lvk Withanagamage, R. Ratnayake, EJ Wattegama
Agile manufacturing has emerged as an extension to lean manufacturing to increase the quickness, flexibility, responsiveness, and competence of the manufacturing facilities. Agility drivers can be used to investigate the necessity of being agile in the business environment. When agile manufacturing techniques are implemented, existing capabilities of the industry should be identified. Afterwards the missing capabilities can be identified and need to be acquired. The objective of the present study is to develop a conceptual framework to assess whether the industry is required to be agile and capable enough to implement agile manufacturing techniques. In achieving it, a content analysis was performed using available literature and industry experts were interviewed. The propositions that have been introduced by the present study could be tested and validated by future researchers to draw theoretical and managerial implications of the proposed conceptual framework.
{"title":"A Conceptual Framework to assess the Applicability of Agile Manufacturing Techniques","authors":"Lvk Withanagamage, R. Ratnayake, EJ Wattegama","doi":"10.1109/POMS.2018.8629461","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/POMS.2018.8629461","url":null,"abstract":"Agile manufacturing has emerged as an extension to lean manufacturing to increase the quickness, flexibility, responsiveness, and competence of the manufacturing facilities. Agility drivers can be used to investigate the necessity of being agile in the business environment. When agile manufacturing techniques are implemented, existing capabilities of the industry should be identified. Afterwards the missing capabilities can be identified and need to be acquired. The objective of the present study is to develop a conceptual framework to assess whether the industry is required to be agile and capable enough to implement agile manufacturing techniques. In achieving it, a content analysis was performed using available literature and industry experts were interviewed. The propositions that have been introduced by the present study could be tested and validated by future researchers to draw theoretical and managerial implications of the proposed conceptual framework.","PeriodicalId":119869,"journal":{"name":"2018 International Conference on Production and Operations Management Society (POMS)","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131327796","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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