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Resource efficiency is a crucial step for manufacturing companies to improve their operations performance and to reduce waste generation. However, there is no guarantee of a zero waste scenario and companies need to look for new strategies to complement their resource efficiency vision. Therefore, it is important to enroll in an industrial symbiosis strategy as a means to maximize industrial value capturing through the exchange of resources (waste, energy, water and by-products) between different processes and companies. Within this, it is crucial to quantify and characterize the waste, e.g. to have clear understanding of the potential industrial symbiosis hot spots among the processes. For such characterization, it is proposed to use an innovative process efficiency assessment approach. This empowers a clear understanding and quantification of efficiency that identifies industrial symbiosis hot spots (donors) in low efficiency process steps, and enables a plausible definition of potential cold spots (receivers), in order to promote the symbiotic exchanges. (C) 2018 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.

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The aims of the TheRoute (Tourism and Heritage Routes including Ambient Intelligence with Visitants’ Profile Adaptation and Context Awareness) project is to conduct studies, research and experimentation around the challenge of automatic generation of routes for visitors. The suggested routes fit the profile of visitors and groups of visitors, including aspects like emotion, mood and personality, and be aware of the context (e.g. weather, security). TheRoute is developed according the Ambient Intelligence perspective. At this point of the project execution we have already developed the full system architecture as a System of Systems approach according to an Ambient Intelligence perspective, to allow the best possible performance in the system utilization for the final user. Intelligent route generation uses user preferences for the categories of points of interest, as well as their personality traits.

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This work proposes a multi-criteria decision making approach to help assessing and selecting suppliers in the olive oil sector. Olive oil is a protected agricultural product, by region and origin certificate. Therefore to select a supplier, it is of utter importance to inspect and test (taste, colour, smell, density, among others) the olive oil in addition to the supplying company. The identification of possible suppliers was done in two stages: firstly, the region of origin from which to choose possible suppliers was identified and then potential suppliers were evaluated on a set of characteristics for which minimum threshold values were set. From this study, which is not part of the research reported here, we were able to identify the suppliers of interest. Due to the several characteristics and characteristic dimensions used to choose a supplier we resort to the Analytic Hierarchy Process to rank them, this way allowing for a better choice. The rank obtained is robust as the top ranked supplier remains the same for any reasonable change in the criteria weighs and in the evaluation of the suppliers on each criterion. The involved company found the results of value, as well as the lessons learned by addressing the supplier evaluation problem using a more systematic approach.

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IDEs are environments specialized in support during the development of programs. They contain several utilities to code, run, debug, and deploy programs quickly. However, they do not provide the automatic assessment of programming exercises, which is required in both learning and competitive programming environment. Therefore, IDEs are often underestimated in these contexts and replaced by basic code editors. Yet, IDEs have unique features which are essential for programmers, such as the debugger or the package explorer. This paper presents Raccode, a plugin for assessment of programming exercises in Eclipse. This plugin integrates with Mooshak to combine the diverse capabilities of an IDE, like Eclipse, with the automatic evaluation of exercises, clarification requests, printouts, balloons, and rankings. It can be used both in competitive and learning environments. The paper describes Raccode, its concept, architecture and design.

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