Pub Date : 2014-05-01DOI: 10.1109/ICAdLT.2014.6864085
Chen Wang, B. David, R. Chalon
The SMART CITY is an important field for ubiquitous computing (UC), ambient intelligence (AmI), connected vehicles (CV), and new styles of User Interfaces, mainly mobile. Data vitalization related to in-city data collection and their appropriate diffusion to city actors (private and professional) and their services (applications) is one issue. In a more precise and specific context of a dynamic lane allocation system, which is presented in this paper, we describe the use of Location-Based services and Internet of Things in this system, as well as User Interfaces proposed. A simulation environment allows us to conduct an initial validation of the system and to study acceptability of User Interfaces before in-the-field deployment.
{"title":"Dynamic road lane management: A smart city application","authors":"Chen Wang, B. David, R. Chalon","doi":"10.1109/ICAdLT.2014.6864085","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICAdLT.2014.6864085","url":null,"abstract":"The SMART CITY is an important field for ubiquitous computing (UC), ambient intelligence (AmI), connected vehicles (CV), and new styles of User Interfaces, mainly mobile. Data vitalization related to in-city data collection and their appropriate diffusion to city actors (private and professional) and their services (applications) is one issue. In a more precise and specific context of a dynamic lane allocation system, which is presented in this paper, we describe the use of Location-Based services and Internet of Things in this system, as well as User Interfaces proposed. A simulation environment allows us to conduct an initial validation of the system and to study acceptability of User Interfaces before in-the-field deployment.","PeriodicalId":166090,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Conference on Advanced Logistics and Transport (ICALT)","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128166704","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 : 2014-05-01DOI: 10.1109/ICAdLT.2014.6864074
Selem Charfi, H. Ezzedine
The evaluation of user interfaces is a rich theme in terms of concepts, approaches, and tools. The related tools are numerous that they are mainly classified into two categories. The first one includes the tools based on expert analysis techniques. These tools require a designer and/or an evaluator during the evaluation process. The second category issued tools require user participation in the evaluation process. In this article, we focus on the second category related tools. These tools are so numerous that we estimate that it is interesting to study them. They are based on user action data capture, study, and analysis in order to evaluate user interfaces. This paper aims at drawing up the features, the limitations, and the perspectives of existing user interface evaluation tools based on user participation techniques.
{"title":"Evaluation tools through user participation techniques: Features, limitations, and new perspectives","authors":"Selem Charfi, H. Ezzedine","doi":"10.1109/ICAdLT.2014.6864074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICAdLT.2014.6864074","url":null,"abstract":"The evaluation of user interfaces is a rich theme in terms of concepts, approaches, and tools. The related tools are numerous that they are mainly classified into two categories. The first one includes the tools based on expert analysis techniques. These tools require a designer and/or an evaluator during the evaluation process. The second category issued tools require user participation in the evaluation process. In this article, we focus on the second category related tools. These tools are so numerous that we estimate that it is interesting to study them. They are based on user action data capture, study, and analysis in order to evaluate user interfaces. This paper aims at drawing up the features, the limitations, and the perspectives of existing user interface evaluation tools based on user participation techniques.","PeriodicalId":166090,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Conference on Advanced Logistics and Transport (ICALT)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128073737","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 : 2014-05-01DOI: 10.1109/ICAdLT.2014.6866322
Ezzeddine Fatnassi, Jouhaina Chaouachi Siala
Personal Rapid Transit is a futuristic and innovative transportation system in which passengers travel using a set of automated driverless vehicles. This work presents lower bounds for the offline problem of routing PRT vehicles with limited battery capacity. In this paper, we demonstrate that this problem generalizes the NP-hard asymmetric distance constrained vehicle routing problem. More specifically, this paper introduces a partial integer lower bounding strategy. Tests using a structured PRT system demonstrate the quality of the method, as we find an average error relative to an upper bound of 0.709%.
{"title":"A lower bound for minimizing the total energy consumption in a statically routed Personal Rapid Transit system","authors":"Ezzeddine Fatnassi, Jouhaina Chaouachi Siala","doi":"10.1109/ICAdLT.2014.6866322","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICAdLT.2014.6866322","url":null,"abstract":"Personal Rapid Transit is a futuristic and innovative transportation system in which passengers travel using a set of automated driverless vehicles. This work presents lower bounds for the offline problem of routing PRT vehicles with limited battery capacity. In this paper, we demonstrate that this problem generalizes the NP-hard asymmetric distance constrained vehicle routing problem. More specifically, this paper introduces a partial integer lower bounding strategy. Tests using a structured PRT system demonstrate the quality of the method, as we find an average error relative to an upper bound of 0.709%.","PeriodicalId":166090,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Conference on Advanced Logistics and Transport (ICALT)","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128083908","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 : 2014-05-01DOI: 10.1109/ICAdLT.2014.6866324
Hon. Causa, W. Brauers
The problem posed is a problem of location theory. A port authority wishes to install a container terminal. Five alternatives are possible: 1) alternative A, with the installation in land at a riverside. The possibility to bring the huge container ships so far inland is an important advantage of this project. 2) Project B comparable to A but installed behind locks with the necessity to foresee locks and docks. 3) Project C is located at the seaside but behind locks. 4) Project D with a terminal also immediately near the sea but in open docks. This means fast delivery of the goods but with a severe problem of salinity, caused by the open dock system at the seaside. 5) Project E would mean a terminal on an island in sea. Conflicts may arise between local and national authorities and between the protagonists for a more commercial port against those for a rather more industrial one. Finally, more and more port planning has to take into consideration ecological conditions. With other words port planning is concerned with many objectives but mostly expressed in different units, which means a problem of normalization. In addition, port planning attempts to reach optimization. In order to escape from the subjectivity of the traditional multi-objective methods, a ratio system, under the name of MOORA, is developed, in which normalization is not needed. Using MOORA, a minmax metric with a Reference Point forms a second approach to test the first outcome.
{"title":"Location of a seaport by MOORA optimization","authors":"Hon. Causa, W. Brauers","doi":"10.1109/ICAdLT.2014.6866324","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICAdLT.2014.6866324","url":null,"abstract":"The problem posed is a problem of location theory. A port authority wishes to install a container terminal. Five alternatives are possible: 1) alternative A, with the installation in land at a riverside. The possibility to bring the huge container ships so far inland is an important advantage of this project. 2) Project B comparable to A but installed behind locks with the necessity to foresee locks and docks. 3) Project C is located at the seaside but behind locks. 4) Project D with a terminal also immediately near the sea but in open docks. This means fast delivery of the goods but with a severe problem of salinity, caused by the open dock system at the seaside. 5) Project E would mean a terminal on an island in sea. Conflicts may arise between local and national authorities and between the protagonists for a more commercial port against those for a rather more industrial one. Finally, more and more port planning has to take into consideration ecological conditions. With other words port planning is concerned with many objectives but mostly expressed in different units, which means a problem of normalization. In addition, port planning attempts to reach optimization. In order to escape from the subjectivity of the traditional multi-objective methods, a ratio system, under the name of MOORA, is developed, in which normalization is not needed. Using MOORA, a minmax metric with a Reference Point forms a second approach to test the first outcome.","PeriodicalId":166090,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Conference on Advanced Logistics and Transport (ICALT)","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129368507","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 : 2014-05-01DOI: 10.1109/ICAdLT.2014.6866316
T. Chaari, S. Chaabane, N. Aissani, D. Trentesaux
In real-world scheduling problems, several kinds of hard-to-predict risk must be considered. Scheduling under uncertainty allows these kinds of risks to be taken into account. This paper provides an overview of the state of the art in scheduling under uncertainty, including a survey on modeling techniques of uncertainty and a survey of the existing positioning typologies and contributions. A new classification scheme for the different approaches to scheduling under uncertainty is proposed and discussed. Several areas for future research are suggested.
{"title":"Scheduling under uncertainty: Survey and research directions","authors":"T. Chaari, S. Chaabane, N. Aissani, D. Trentesaux","doi":"10.1109/ICAdLT.2014.6866316","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICAdLT.2014.6866316","url":null,"abstract":"In real-world scheduling problems, several kinds of hard-to-predict risk must be considered. Scheduling under uncertainty allows these kinds of risks to be taken into account. This paper provides an overview of the state of the art in scheduling under uncertainty, including a survey on modeling techniques of uncertainty and a survey of the existing positioning typologies and contributions. A new classification scheme for the different approaches to scheduling under uncertainty is proposed and discussed. Several areas for future research are suggested.","PeriodicalId":166090,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Conference on Advanced Logistics and Transport (ICALT)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132133292","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 : 2014-05-01DOI: 10.1109/ICAdLT.2014.6864079
Aida Ben Chehida Douss, Ryma Abassi, S. Fatmi
Ad hoc networks are very useful when it is difficult to deploy an infrastructure. In fact, Ad hoc Network is a collection of nodes having no fixed topology and co-operating with each other in order to route packets. This routing is made through special routing protocols. Paradoxically, these characteristics can be the cause of several security problems such as the unauthorized access control. Moreover, most recent Ad hoc network researches have focused on providing routing services without considering security. In this paper, we propose to remedy to this lack by proposing a novel solution securing an Ad hoc routing protocol, AODV, based on the concept of “One Time Password” and baptized OTP_AODV. OTP_AODV allows nodes authentication through the use of OTP and prevents replay attack as well as non repudiation of exchanged control messages. The integrity of the exchanged data control is handled by the use of electronic signatures.
{"title":"A novel secure Ad hoc routing protocol using one time password","authors":"Aida Ben Chehida Douss, Ryma Abassi, S. Fatmi","doi":"10.1109/ICAdLT.2014.6864079","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICAdLT.2014.6864079","url":null,"abstract":"Ad hoc networks are very useful when it is difficult to deploy an infrastructure. In fact, Ad hoc Network is a collection of nodes having no fixed topology and co-operating with each other in order to route packets. This routing is made through special routing protocols. Paradoxically, these characteristics can be the cause of several security problems such as the unauthorized access control. Moreover, most recent Ad hoc network researches have focused on providing routing services without considering security. In this paper, we propose to remedy to this lack by proposing a novel solution securing an Ad hoc routing protocol, AODV, based on the concept of “One Time Password” and baptized OTP_AODV. OTP_AODV allows nodes authentication through the use of OTP and prevents replay attack as well as non repudiation of exchanged control messages. The integrity of the exchanged data control is handled by the use of electronic signatures.","PeriodicalId":166090,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Conference on Advanced Logistics and Transport (ICALT)","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116294246","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 : 2014-05-01DOI: 10.1109/ICAdLT.2014.6866323
Olfa Chebbi, Jouhaina Chaouachi Siala
Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) is a taxi-like transportation system in which automated driverless vehicles transport people directly from one station to another without any intermediate stops. In this work, we focus on a static problem related to PRT where we aim to minimize the energy consumption and number of PRT vehicles. This paper proposes and analyzes a multi-objective genetic algorithm that assigns rank and fitness values to solve the PRT problem. This algorithm is applied to a set of randomly generated test instances, and produces very promising solutions.
{"title":"An elitist multi-objective genetic algorithm for minimizing vehicle numbers and energy consumption in the context of Personal Rapid Transit","authors":"Olfa Chebbi, Jouhaina Chaouachi Siala","doi":"10.1109/ICAdLT.2014.6866323","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICAdLT.2014.6866323","url":null,"abstract":"Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) is a taxi-like transportation system in which automated driverless vehicles transport people directly from one station to another without any intermediate stops. In this work, we focus on a static problem related to PRT where we aim to minimize the energy consumption and number of PRT vehicles. This paper proposes and analyzes a multi-objective genetic algorithm that assigns rank and fitness values to solve the PRT problem. This algorithm is applied to a set of randomly generated test instances, and produces very promising solutions.","PeriodicalId":166090,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Conference on Advanced Logistics and Transport (ICALT)","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116358568","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 : 2014-05-01DOI: 10.1109/ICAdLT.2014.6864112
Mohamed Sahbi Miled, C. Fiore
The complexity of the international supply chain, diversity and increasing number of stakeholders requires a wider range of resources, knowledge, experience, skills and technology that private company can't alone possess. Moreover, after the increase of various threats and risks to international supply chains especially after the nine eleven, firms became more responsible and accountable to their respective government for providing specific information regarding the imported or exported products. Penalties for non-compliance can be severe and may result in fines, jail time or loss of markets. That's why we saw appear new configurations at the international supply chain that give more importance to certain non-profit public sector actors, such as Customs. This new form of cooperation and / or public - private partnership for example, through the status of the Authorized Economic Operator “AEO” increase the challenge of piloting and securing flows throughout the international supply chain. Based on the theory that achievement of an integrated international supply chain depends not only on the integration of private companies that form the links in this chain but also the other category of stakeholders such as customs of export country, customs of import country, border protection police, sanitary control authorities, the port authority, this work aims to develop new management ideas for the international supply chain. In fact the importance of international supply chain continues to increase with the globalization of the economy and the growth of international trade and consequently the risk and vulnerability. The purpose of this work is to study the impact of this new integration processes throughout the supply chain such as customs procedures facilitations and in particular through “AEO” certification for a continuous flow of goods and information in the global supply chain and by so to the competitively and performance of firms.
{"title":"The “Authorized Economic Operator” certification and firm performance","authors":"Mohamed Sahbi Miled, C. Fiore","doi":"10.1109/ICAdLT.2014.6864112","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICAdLT.2014.6864112","url":null,"abstract":"The complexity of the international supply chain, diversity and increasing number of stakeholders requires a wider range of resources, knowledge, experience, skills and technology that private company can't alone possess. Moreover, after the increase of various threats and risks to international supply chains especially after the nine eleven, firms became more responsible and accountable to their respective government for providing specific information regarding the imported or exported products. Penalties for non-compliance can be severe and may result in fines, jail time or loss of markets. That's why we saw appear new configurations at the international supply chain that give more importance to certain non-profit public sector actors, such as Customs. This new form of cooperation and / or public - private partnership for example, through the status of the Authorized Economic Operator “AEO” increase the challenge of piloting and securing flows throughout the international supply chain. Based on the theory that achievement of an integrated international supply chain depends not only on the integration of private companies that form the links in this chain but also the other category of stakeholders such as customs of export country, customs of import country, border protection police, sanitary control authorities, the port authority, this work aims to develop new management ideas for the international supply chain. In fact the importance of international supply chain continues to increase with the globalization of the economy and the growth of international trade and consequently the risk and vulnerability. The purpose of this work is to study the impact of this new integration processes throughout the supply chain such as customs procedures facilitations and in particular through “AEO” certification for a continuous flow of goods and information in the global supply chain and by so to the competitively and performance of firms.","PeriodicalId":166090,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Conference on Advanced Logistics and Transport (ICALT)","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114880880","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 : 2014-05-01DOI: 10.1109/ICAdLT.2014.6866320
M. Roth, S. Mutke, Axel Klarmann, Bogdan Franczyk, André Ludwig
Driven by rising competitive constraints companies began to outsource at least parts of their internal activities to specialized external logistics providers in terms of contracts. Thereby, new business models like the fourth party logistics provider evolved, who acts like coordinator of the emerging logistics networks. The main tasks of the provider are the planning, monitoring and measurement of such networks. In this contribution a holistic method to integrate process modeling and their simulation within the planning phase is introduced. Furthermore, an integrated approach to support the planning with real-time information to overcome the challenges from simulation is outlined. Due to this approach, the simulation generates more reliable results and contemporary reduces the effort using simulation techniques. Therefore, complex event processing is used to gather real-time information about process executions and provides this information as service profiles for simulation.
{"title":"Real-timeservice profiling for the efficient simulation of logistics networks","authors":"M. Roth, S. Mutke, Axel Klarmann, Bogdan Franczyk, André Ludwig","doi":"10.1109/ICAdLT.2014.6866320","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICAdLT.2014.6866320","url":null,"abstract":"Driven by rising competitive constraints companies began to outsource at least parts of their internal activities to specialized external logistics providers in terms of contracts. Thereby, new business models like the fourth party logistics provider evolved, who acts like coordinator of the emerging logistics networks. The main tasks of the provider are the planning, monitoring and measurement of such networks. In this contribution a holistic method to integrate process modeling and their simulation within the planning phase is introduced. Furthermore, an integrated approach to support the planning with real-time information to overcome the challenges from simulation is outlined. Due to this approach, the simulation generates more reliable results and contemporary reduces the effort using simulation techniques. Therefore, complex event processing is used to gather real-time information about process executions and provides this information as service profiles for simulation.","PeriodicalId":166090,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Conference on Advanced Logistics and Transport (ICALT)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129053976","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 : 2014-05-01DOI: 10.1109/ICAdLT.2014.6864117
K. Grondys, M. Kadłubek, M. Starostka-Patyk
The purchase and storage of a real inventory plays an important role in carrying out the main manufacturing processes in an industrial enterprise. To optimize its level, with adhering to the rules of reducing the maintenance costs and carrying out production in uninterrupted manner, is a major challenge for manufacturing entities. The volume of stored maintenance part inventories is largely due to the method of using and maintaining the production equipment; therefore, for the effective management of the spare part flow it is essential to define the strategy of repairs of machinery and equipment. The selection of the equipment operation strategy and the resultant repair activities have a significant impact on the spare part purchasing process, which may be varying in character. The aim of the paper is to assess the method of managing spare part inventories in Polish industrial enterprises. The survey covered micro-, small-, medium-sized and large production enterprises (identified by the number of employees), based on the presumption that each of these types of entities, due to conducted operation processes, uses various technical facilities and it is possible to identify the management of that equipment in association with the flow of spare part. Based on the survey results, the paper discusses basic issues related to the consequences of the unavailability of parts, the preparation and structure of spare part orders, and the type of inventories that need to be considered when planning the storage of spare parts.
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