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Traditional centralized manufacturing structures were found inadequate to face the challenging requirements of flexibility and re-configurability. Lately, several manufacturing paradigms were introduced to face this challenge, being unified in the objective of providing decentralized control over distributed entities. In spite of their potential benefits, some important questions are far from been answered, namely how control structures are dynamically formed and evolved and how to combine adaptation and optimization. This paper introduces the main principles for re-configurable manufacturing systems that answers to these questions, based on the ADACOR holonic architecture and incorporating mechanisms inspired in other areas of science, notably biology, nature, theory of complexity and artificial life.

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The current paper proposes a new parametric local color correction technique. Initially, several color transfer functions are computed from the output of the mean shift color segmentation algorithm. Secondly, color influence maps are calculated. Finally, the contribution of every color transfer function is merged using the weights from the color influence maps. The proposed approach is compared with both global and local color correction approaches. Results show that our method outperforms the technique ranked first in a recent performance evaluation on this topic. Moreover, the proposed approach is computed in about one tenth of the time.

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Although Optical Music Recognition (OMR) has been the focus of much research for decades, the processing of handwritten musical scores is not yet satisfactory. The efforts made to find robust symbol representations and learning methodologies have not found a similar quality in the learning of the dissimilarity concept. Simple Euclidean distances are often used to measure dissimilarity between different examples. However, such distances do not necessarily yield the best performance. In this paper, we propose to learn the best distance for the k-nearest neighbor (k-NN) classifier. The distance concept will be tuned both for the application domain and the adopted representation for the music symbols. The performance of the method is compared with the support vector machine (SVM) classifier using both real and synthetic music scores. The synthetic database includes four types of deformations inducing variability in the printed musical symbols which exist in handwritten music sheets. The work presented here can open new research paths towards a novel automatic musical symbols recognition module for handwritten scores. © 2011 IEEE.

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The design, production and distribution of small series of health fashionable goods for specific target groups of wide impact in terms of market for the European industry as elderly, disables, diabetics and obese people represents a challenging opportunity for European companies which are asked to supply the demand with affordable price and eco-compatible products. Added to this challenge, textile, clothing and footwear manufactures seek for innovative collaborative networking solutions that could provide an entire digital life-cycle for the products and services required by the market. Aligned with this need, the EU CoReNet project aims to design and develop a new smart collaborative consumer-driven framework with the related services and components. This paper addresses the multidisciplinary complexity of customer-oriented and eco-friendly networks for health fashionable goods in particular addressing business requirements analysis, value chain issues, co-planning production and co-design topics in collaborative business processes tailored for high variability of the consumers demand and expectations.

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This study seeks to understand the consequences of this phenomenon in the relocation of human resources from other countries to Portugal and to evaluate the impact of immigrants in northern Portugal, including help to clarify the mechanisms for determining the measures of economic policy (sectors most wanted, integration, interactions in organizations). With decolonization and later integration into the European Union, the social and cultural fabric has undergone profound changes. Portugal has become a host country.