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  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,559 Views
14 Pages

Productivity Benchmarking Using Analytic Network Process (ANP) and Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA)

  • Shanta Mazumder,
  • Golam Kabir,
  • M. Ahsan Akhtar Hasin and
  • Syed Mithun Ali

Measuring productivity is the systematic process for both inter- and intra-organizational comparisons. The productivity measurement can be used to control and facilitate decision-making in manufacturing as well as service organizations. This study&rs...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,045 Views
20 Pages

Model Calibration of Stochastic Process and Computer Experiment for MVO Analysis of Multi-Low-Frequency Electromagnetic Data

  • Muhammad Naeim Mohd Aris,
  • Hanita Daud,
  • Khairul Arifin Mohd Noh and
  • Sarat Chandra Dass

19 May 2020

An electromagnetic (EM) technique is employed in seabed logging (SBL) to detect offshore hydrocarbon-saturated reservoirs. In risk analysis for hydrocarbon exploration, computer simulation for subsurface modelling is a crucial task. It can be expensi...

(This article belongs to the Collection Process Data Analytics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
9,455 Views
17 Pages

20 January 2016

This research proposes a hierarchical aggregation approach using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) for indicators. The core logic of the proposed approach is to reflect the hierarchical structures of indicators and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
65 Citations
7,406 Views
16 Pages

4 December 2018

Today, business organizations are facing increasing pressure from a variety of sources to operate using sustainable processes. Thus, most companies need to focus on their supply chains to enhance sustainability to meet customer demands and comply wit...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of Optimization in Production, Logistics, Inventory, Supply Chain Management and Block Chain)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,368 Views
13 Pages

24 August 2023

Air pollution is prevalent throughout the entire world due to the release of various gases such as NOx, PM, SO2, tropospheric ozone (O3), etc. Ground-stage ozone is the predominant issue in smog and is the product of the interplay between sunlight an...

(This article belongs to the Topic Accessing and Analyzing Air Quality and Atmospheric Environment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,675 Views
17 Pages

1 November 2019

The evaluation of vegetable production process efficiency is of great significance for energy saving and waste reduction in production processes. However, few studies have considered the effect of greenhouse vegetable production process efficiency on...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Green Technologies for Production Processes)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,344 Views
18 Pages

28 February 2023

This paper examines the efficiency of tourist farms in Slovenia by adopting an approach using a framework of non-parametric programming—Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), combining the two because the DEA anal...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Management Science in the Context of Sustainability in Agrifood)
  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
8,523 Views
35 Pages

14 June 2018

In the market economy, competition is typically due to the difficulty in selecting the most suitable supplier, one that is capable to help a business to develop a profit to the highest value threshold and capable to meet sustainable development featu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fuzzy Techniques for Decision Making 2018)
  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
5,587 Views
18 Pages

22 October 2021

Future food supply will become increasingly dependent on edible material extracted from insects. The growing popularity of artisanal food products enhanced by insect proteins creates particular needs for establishing effective methods for quality con...

(This article belongs to the Section Analytical Chemistry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,681 Views
21 Pages

9 August 2022

With the increase of bridge-required demolition/dismantling for reconstruction or modification, the early warning of construction emergencies is greatly needed for monitoring the structural safety of bridges under construction. In this paper, based o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Construction Process Monitoring and Structural Damage Identification for Buildings and Bridges)
  • Review
  • Open Access
426 Citations
45,976 Views
23 Pages

An Overview of IoT Sensor Data Processing, Fusion, and Analysis Techniques

  • Rajalakshmi Krishnamurthi,
  • Adarsh Kumar,
  • Dhanalekshmi Gopinathan,
  • Anand Nayyar and
  • Basit Qureshi

26 October 2020

In the recent era of the Internet of Things, the dominant role of sensors and the Internet provides a solution to a wide variety of real-life problems. Such applications include smart city, smart healthcare systems, smart building, smart transport an...

(This article belongs to the Section State-of-the-Art Sensors Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,281 Views
26 Pages

New Approach to the Analysis of Manufacturing Processes with the Support of Data Science

  • Martin Krajčovič,
  • Vsevolod Bastiuchenko,
  • Beáta Furmannová,
  • Milan Botka and
  • Dávid Komačka

23 February 2024

This article introduces process mining as an innovative approach to enterprise data analysis, offering a systematic method for extracting, analyzing, and visualizing digital traces within information systems. The technique establishes connections wit...

(This article belongs to the Topic Modern Technologies and Manufacturing Systems, 2nd Volume)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,232 Views
30 Pages

Comparative Performance Analysis of Large Language Models for Structured Data Processing: An Evaluation Framework Applied to Bibliometric Analysis

  • Maryam Abbasi,
  • Paulo Váz,
  • José Silva,
  • Filipe Cardoso and ,
  • Filipe Sá and
  • Pedro Martins
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

8 January 2026

The proliferation of Large Language Models (LLMs) has transformed natural language processing (NLP) applications across diverse domains. This paper presents a comprehensive comparative analysis of three state-of-the-art language models—GPT-4o,...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,747 Views
18 Pages

This research focuses on a software application providing opportunities for the processing and analysis of data generated by a saccade sensor with human eye movements. The main functional opportunities of the developed application are presented as we...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers in Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
48 Citations
12,864 Views
12 Pages

31 July 2014

In electrochemical sensing, a number of voltammetric or amperometric curves are obtained which are subsequently processed, typically by evaluating peak currents and peak potentials or wave heights and half-wave potentials, frequently after background...

(This article belongs to the Section Chemical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,482 Views
17 Pages

Identification of Precursors in InSAR Time Series Using Functional Data Analysis Post-Processing: Demonstration on Mud Volcano Eruptions

  • Matteo Fontana,
  • Mara Sabina Bernardi,
  • Francesca Cigna,
  • Deodato Tapete and ,
  • Alessandra Menafoglio and
  • Simone Vantini
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

28 March 2024

One of the most promising applications of satellite data is providing users in charge of land and emergency management with information and data to support decision making for geohazard mapping, monitoring and early warning. In this work, we consider...

(This article belongs to the Section Engineering Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,835 Views
15 Pages

PyPore3D: An Open Source Software Tool for Imaging Data Processing and Analysis of Porous and Multiphase Media

  • Amal Aboulhassan,
  • Francesco Brun,
  • George Kourousias,
  • Gabriele Lanzafame and ,
  • Marco Voltolini,
  • Adriano Contillo and
  • Lucia Mancini
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

In this work, we propose the software library PyPore3D, an open source solution for data processing of large 3D/4D tomographic data sets. PyPore3D is based on the Pore3D core library, developed thanks to the collaboration between Elettra Sincrotrone...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Present and the Future of Imaging)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,684 Views
17 Pages

27 January 2016

Data Farming, network applications and approaches to integrate network analysis and processes to the data farming paradigm are presented as approaches to address complex system questions. Data Farming is a quantified approach that examines questions...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,413 Views
20 Pages

13 December 2022

This manuscript considers that the composition of Manzanilla and Hojiblanca fats are compositional data (CoDa). Thus, the work applies CoDa analysis (CoDA) to investigate the effect of processing and packaging on the fatty acid profiles of these cult...

(This article belongs to the Section Food Biotechnology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,172 Views
18 Pages

4 March 2024

In the context of Iraq’s evolving transportation landscape and the strategic implications of the Belt and Road Initiative, this study pioneers a comprehensive framework for optimizing multimodal transportation systems. The study implemented a d...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence and Complex Systems Analysis in Transportation and Maintenance)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
9,424 Views
14 Pages

31 January 2018

The recently available Landsat Analysis Ready Data (ARD) are provided as top of atmosphere (TOA) and atmospherically corrected (surface) reflectance tiled products and are designed to make the U.S. Landsat archive for the United States straightforwar...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Science of Landsat Analysis Ready Data)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,166 Views
26 Pages

20 December 2022

The purpose of this study was to enhance the accuracy of the calorific value estimation of coal by applying data preprocessing methods in laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS). The Savitzky–Golay (SG)-smoothing and SG derivative preproces...

(This article belongs to the Section Optics and Lasers)
  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,033 Views
21 Pages

Educational process data offers valuable opportunities to enhance teaching and learning by providing more detailed insights into students’ learning and problem-solving processes. However, its large size, unstructured format, and inherent noise...

(This article belongs to the Section Special and Inclusive Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,251 Views
15 Pages

Analysis and Prediction of the Leaching Process of Ionic Rare Earth: A Data Mining Study with Scarce Data

  • Zhenyue Zhang,
  • Jing Yang,
  • Wenda Guo,
  • Ling Jiang and ,
  • Wendou Chen,
  • Defeng Liu,
  • Hanjun Wu and
  • Ruan Chi
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

6 June 2024

To unveil the impact of each condition variable on the leaching efficiency index during the heap leaching process of rare earth ore and establish a prediction model for leaching conditions and efficiency, common parameters in the heap leaching proces...

(This article belongs to the Section Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,879 Views
16 Pages

Statistical Analysis and Data Envelopment Analysis to Improve the Efficiency of Manufacturing Process of Electrical Conductors

  • Marco Antonio Zamora-Antuñano,
  • Jorge Cruz-Salinas,
  • Juvenal Rodríguez-Reséndiz,
  • Carlos Alberto González-Gutiérrez and ,
  • Néstor Méndez-Lozano,
  • Wilfrido Jacobo Paredes-García,
  • José Antonio Altamirano-Corro and
  • José Alfredo Gaytán-Díaz
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

21 September 2019

The main focus of this research was to develop an approach using statistical tools and Data envelopment analysis (DEA) to tackling productivity measurements and benchmarking problems in electrical conductor manufacturing environment. In the present w...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Design and Optimization of Production Lines)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,463 Views
21 Pages

20 September 2024

In business process management, business process change analysis is the key link to ensure the flexibility and adaptability of the system. The existing methods mostly focus on the change analysis of a single business process from the perspective of c...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,696 Views
22 Pages

Statistical Analysis and Optimisation of Data for the Design and Evaluation of the Shear Spinning Process

  • Sandra Puchlerska,
  • Krzysztof Żaba,
  • Jarosław Pyzik,
  • Tomasz Pieja and
  • Tomasz Trzepieciński

15 October 2021

This work proposes a research method that is a scheme that can be universally applied in problems based on the selection of optimal parameters for metal forming processes. For this purpose, statistical data optimisation methods were used. The researc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Forming Technologies and Mechanical Properties of Advanced Materials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,644 Views
21 Pages

14 October 2021

In this study, we investigated participants’ reactions to supportive and anomalous data in the context of population dynamics. Based on previous findings on conceptions about ecosystems and responses to anomalous data, we assumed a tendency to confir...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Scientific Reasoning in Science Education: From Global Measures to Fine-Grained Descriptions of Students’ Competencies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
8,768 Views
19 Pages

Plastic Injection Molding Process Analysis: Data Integration and Modeling for Improved Production Efficiency

  • Jose Isidro Hernández-Vega,
  • Luis Alejandro Reynoso-Guajardo,
  • Mario Carlos Gallardo-Morales,
  • María Ernestina Macias-Arias and ,
  • Amadeo Hernández,
  • Nain de la Cruz,
  • Jesús E. Soto-Soto and
  • Carlos Hernández-Santos
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

8 November 2024

This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of the plastic injection molding process through the integration of data acquisition technologies and classification models. In collaboration with a company specializing in plastic injection, data were ext...

(This article belongs to the Section Applied Industrial Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
7,018 Views
37 Pages

Material removal processes, or machining (encompassing milling, turning, and drilling), constitute an indispensable facet of manufacturing. To attain optimal machining performance—characterized by a high material removal rate, minimal tool wear...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
7,137 Views
22 Pages

Content Analysis Using Specific Natural Language Processing Methods for Big Data

  • Mironela Pirnau,
  • Mihai Alexandru Botezatu,
  • Iustin Priescu,
  • Alexandra Hosszu and ,
  • Alexandru Tabusca,
  • Cristina Coculescu and
  • Ionica Oncioiu
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Researchers from different fields have studied the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and published their results in peer-reviewed journals indexed in international databases such as Web of Science (WoS), Scopus, PubMed. Focusing on efficient methods f...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Future Trends of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Big Data)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,783 Views
25 Pages

8 March 2023

UAVs have recently become a very popular tool for acquiring geospatial data. Photographs, films, images, and results of measurements of various sensors from them constitute source material for generating, among other things, photographic documentatio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
155 Views
22 Pages

Quantitative Analysis of Four Active Components in Wine-Processed Scutellaria baicalensis by Data Fusion Strategy Coupled with Multivariate Statistical Analysis

  • Shengsheng Wang,
  • Xulong Peng,
  • Tian Yao,
  • Qingzhao Wan and ,
  • Tulin Lu,
  • Jing Zhu and
  • Yaqi Wang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Wine-processed Scutellaria baicalensis is a processed Chinese herbal product obtained by wine-processing of raw S. baicalensis. Flavonoids are its core pharmacodynamic constituents with heat-clearing, anti-inflammatory, hepatoprotective and other bio...

(This article belongs to the Topic AI in Optical Spectroscopy Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,313 Views
17 Pages

21 November 2024

Mineral processing is a crucial stage in the mining process, involving comminution and concentration stages. Comminution is modeled using various ore variables and operational parameters, representing a complex system. An alternative to simplifying t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mine Automation and New Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,290 Views
18 Pages

3 January 2023

The quality of road pavements is highly impacted by environmental variables, such as temperature, humidity, and weather; and construction-related variables, such as material quality and time. In this paper, an advanced data collection and analysis sy...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in the IoT and Smart Cities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,864 Views
13 Pages

In the realm of manufacturing processes, equipment failures can result in substantial financial losses and pose significant safety hazards. Consequently, prior research has primarily been focused on preemptively detecting anomalies before they manife...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Pattern Recognition and Sensor Fusion Solutions in Intelligent Sensor Systems, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,521 Views
25 Pages

Time-Shifted Maps for Industrial Data Analysis: Monitoring Production Processes and Predicting Undesirable Situations

  • Tomasz Blachowicz,
  • Sara Bysko,
  • Szymon Bysko,
  • Alina Domanowska and ,
  • Jacek Wylezek and
  • Zbigniew Sokol
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

24 May 2025

The rapid advancement of computing power, combined with the ability to collect vast amounts of data, has unlocked new possibilities for industrial applications. While traditional time–domain industrial signals generally do not allow for direct...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Design and Integration of Sensors for Control, Planning and Deployment in Robotic Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,618 Views
33 Pages

Data-Driven Analysis of Contracting Process Impact on Schedule and Cost Performance in Road Infrastructure Projects in Colombia

  • Adriana Gómez-Cabrera,
  • Sebastián Cortés,
  • Juan Rojas,
  • Omar Sánchez and
  • Andrés Torres

17 October 2025

This study examines cost and schedule deviations in secondary road infrastructure projects in Colombia, with a focus on the influence of public procurement characteristics. Despite the construction sector’s importance to national development, l...

(This article belongs to the Section Construction Management, and Computers & Digitization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,238 Views
27 Pages

14 August 2025

This article presents an analysis of a logistics process using process mining methods. Additionally, it highlights the possibilities of analyzing industrial process data using the process mining tools available in the ProM software 6.12. The paper ex...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,264 Views
17 Pages

Parametric Analysis of the Mandrel Geometrical Data in a Cold Expansion Process of Small Holes Drilled in Thick Plates

  • Jose Calaf-Chica,
  • Marta María Marín,
  • Eva María Rubio,
  • Roberto Teti and
  • Tiziana Segreto

8 December 2019

Cold expansion technology is a cold-forming process widely used in aeronautics to extend the fatigue life of riveted and bolted holes. During this process, an oversized mandrel is pushed through the hole in order to yield it and generate compressive...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Special Issue of the Manufacturing Engineering Society 2019 (SIMES-2019))
  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
6,484 Views
14 Pages

26 June 2015

At present, many cloud services are managed by using open source software, such as OpenStack and Eucalyptus, because of the unification management of data, cost reduction, quick delivery and work savings. The operation phase of cloud computing has a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Dynamical Equations and Causal Structures from Observations)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,123 Views
16 Pages

29 July 2024

Using multi-source observation data including automatic stations, radar, satellite, new detection equipment, and the Fifth Generation European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts Reanalysis (ERA-5) data, along with the Hybrid Single-Particle La...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Data Assimilation for Predicting Hurricane, Typhoon and Storm (2nd Edition))
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
15,791 Views
18 Pages

Principal Component Analysis of Process Datasets with Missing Values

  • Kristen A. Severson,
  • Mark C. Molaro and
  • Richard D. Braatz

6 July 2017

Datasets with missing values arising from causes such as sensor failure, inconsistent sampling rates, and merging data from different systems are common in the process industry. Methods for handling missing data typically operate during data pre-proc...

(This article belongs to the Collection Process Data Analytics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,802 Views
38 Pages

CRISP-NET: Integration of the CRISP-DM Model with Network Analysis

  • Héctor Alejandro Acuña-Cid,
  • Eduardo Ahumada-Tello,
  • Óscar Omar Ovalle-Osuna,
  • Richard Evans and ,
  • Julia Elena Hernández-Ríos and
  • Miriam Alondra Zambrano-Soto
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

To carry out data analysis, it is necessary to implement a model that guides the process in an orderly and sequential manner, with the aim of maintaining control over software development and its documentation. One of the most widely used tools in th...

(This article belongs to the Topic AI and Computational Methods for Modelling, Simulations and Optimizing of Advanced Systems: Innovations in Complexity, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
52 Citations
17,737 Views
25 Pages

Analysis of OpenStreetMap Data Quality at Different Stages of a Participatory Mapping Process: Evidence from Slums in Africa and Asia

  • Godwin Yeboah,
  • João Porto de Albuquerque,
  • Rafael Troilo,
  • Grant Tregonning and ,
  • Shanaka Perera,
  • Syed A. K. Shifat Ahmed,
  • Motunrayo Ajisola,
  • Ornob Alam,
  • Navneet Aujla and
  • Rita Yusuf
  • + 45 authors+ 40 authors

This paper examines OpenStreetMap data quality at different stages of a participatory mapping process in seven slums in Africa and Asia. Data were drawn from an OpenStreetMap-based participatory mapping process developed as part of a research project...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue OpenStreetMap as A Multi-Disciplinary Nexus: Perspectives, Practices and Procedures)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,369 Views
19 Pages

Hybrid Methods’ Integration for Remote Sensing Monitoring and Process Analysis of Dust Storm Based on Multi-Source Data

  • Yanjiao Wang,
  • Jiakui Tang,
  • Zili Zhang,
  • Wuhua Wang and ,
  • Jiru Wang and
  • Zhao Wang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

20 December 2022

Dust storms are of great importance to climate change, air quality, and human health. In this study, a complete application frame of integrating hybrid methods based on multi-source data is proposed for remote sensing monitoring and process analysis...

(This article belongs to the Section Atmospheric Techniques, Instruments, and Modeling)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,062 Views
28 Pages

20 November 2023

Farm data license agreements are legal documents that play an important role in informing farmers about farm data processing practices such as collection, use, safeguarding, and sharing. These legal documents govern the exchange, access, and dissemin...

(This article belongs to the Section Agricultural Economics, Policies and Rural Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,589 Views
21 Pages

Wavelet-Based Kalman Smoothing Method for Uncertain Parameters Processing: Applications in Oil Well-Testing Data Denoising and Prediction

  • Xin Feng,
  • Qiang Feng,
  • Shaohui Li,
  • Xingwei Hou and ,
  • Mengqiu Zhang and
  • Shugui Liu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

13 August 2020

The low-distortion processing of well-testing geological parameters is a key way to provide decision-making support for oil and gas field development. However, the classical processing methods face many problems, such as the stochastic nature of the...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,817 Views
34 Pages

EverAnalyzer: A Self-Adjustable Big Data Management Platform Exploiting the Hadoop Ecosystem

  • Panagiotis Karamolegkos,
  • Argyro Mavrogiorgou,
  • Athanasios Kiourtis and
  • Dimosthenis Kyriazis

3 February 2023

Big Data is a phenomenon that affects today’s world, with new data being generated every second. Today’s enterprises face major challenges from the increasingly diverse data, as well as from indexing, searching, and analyzing such enormou...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information for Business and Management–Software Development for Data Processing and Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,127 Views
23 Pages

Building Advanced Web Applications Using Data Ingestion and Data Processing Tools

  • Šimun Šprem,
  • Nikola Tomažin,
  • Jelena Matečić and
  • Marko Horvat

Today, advanced websites serve as robust data repositories that constantly collect various user-centered information and prepare it for subsequent processing. The data collected can include a wide range of important information from email addresses,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Web Applications)

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