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In nowadays competing market, companies are constantly challenged to reduce the lead time for new products design process by diminishing the time response that goes from the arise of the market opportunity to the satisfaction of the customer need. Simultaneously, companies and networked organizations face a growing number of product configurations, lower product volumes, a continuously growing appetence for personalized products, pressing the decision makers into adopting more efficient product development processes. The present paper addresses the main collaborative product development issues by proposing a responsive and efficient use of knowledge on networked environments through a lean-based framework for collaborative networks. In particular, this work describes the main lean concepts and tools that are enhancers of an efficient and distributed customizable product development process in networked environment.

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Organisations have been striving to account for the resources they've been allocating to Social Media integration and management, essentially because this integration has been occurring without a previously designed content strategy, which will foster the desired fan engagement. In order to establish a comparison of social media strategies between HEIs, we developed a seven category model, encompassing the fundamental communication areas of focus for higher education service providers. Then, we performed a classification of these HEI posts in Facebook, according to our model. For this step, we used six of the most promising, and prominent, classifiers to obtain a predicted category for each post. Combining all posts from each HEI according to the model we get the HEI's editorial strategy. By clustering the overall social media strategies and corresponding response rate we discover the sector's monitoring HEI and, through a benchmarking process, we retrieve useful inputs for the design of social media strategies for HEI.

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Pure operation-based (op-based) Conflict-free Replicated Data Types (CRDTs) are generic and very efficient as they allow for compact solutions in both sent messages and state size. Although the pure op-based model looks promising, it is still not fully understood in terms of practical implementation. In this paper, we explain the challenges faced in implementing pure op-based CRDTs in a real system: the well-known in-memory cache key-value store Redis. Our purpose of choosing Redis is to implement a multi-master replication feature, which the current system lacks. The experience demonstrates that pure op-based CRDTs can be implemented in existing systems with minor changes in the original API. © 2016 Copyright held by the owner/author(s).

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We introduce a new class of integer-valued self-exciting threshold models, which is based on the binomial autoregressive model of order one as introduced by McKenzie (Water Resour Bull 21:645-650, 1985. doi:. Basic probabilistic and statistical properties of this class of models are discussed. Moreover, parameter estimation and forecasting are addressed. Finally, the performance of these models is illustrated through a simulation study and an empirical application to a set of measle cases in Germany.

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This paper presents how the ICT infrastructure developed in the European ENCOURAGE project, centered around a message oriented middleware, enabled energy savings in buildings and households. The components of the middleware, as well as the supervisory control strategy, are overviewed, to support the presentation of the results and how they could be achieved. The main results are presented on three of the pilots of the project, a first one consisting of a single household, a second one of a residential neighborhood, and a third one in a university campus.

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One of the problems of current software development lies on the existence of solutions to address properly the code portability for the increasing number of platforms. To build abstract models is one efficient and correct way to achieve this. The Model-Driven Software Engineering (MDSE) is a development methodology where models are the key for all project lifecycle, from requisites gathering, through modelling and to the development stage, as well as on testing. Pervasive computing demands the use of several technical specifications, such as wireless connections, advanced electronics, and the Internet, as well as it stresses the need to adjust the user interface layer to each one of the platforms. Using a model-driven approach it is possible to reuse software solutions between different targets, since models are not affected by the device diversity and its evolution. This paper reports on a tool, which is highly parameterizable and driven to support Model-2-Model and Model-2-Code transformations. Also, instead of using a predefined technology, the tool was built to be scalable and extensible for many different targets and also by addressing the user interface layer generation. © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016.