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Browsing Research Articles (Industrial and Systems Engineering) by Type "Postprint Article"
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De Vries, Marne; Berger, Simone
(Springer, 2017-04)
Enterprise engineering (EE) is emerging as a new discipline that is multi-disciplinary in nature. As highlighted by researchers within the EE discipline, the current status of EE endeavours as taken by several universities ...
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Sharma, Rashi; Darbari, Jyoti Dhingra; Yadavalli, Venkata S. Sarma; Agarwal, Vernika; Jha, P.C.
(Springer, 2020)
In the current scenario, sustainability is asserting a profound effect on the global Food Supply Chain (FSC). It is driven primarily by growing consciousness of consumers who want healthy food and at the same time, they ...
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Wentzel, John Peter; Diatha, Krishna Sundar; Yadavalli, Venkata S. Sarma
(Routledge, 2013-12)
The last 10 years have seen a significant increase in the provision of consumer services through
technology. Computers, mobile phones, the Internet and self-service kiosks are examples of
technology platforms that have ...
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Yadavalli, Venkata S. Sarma; Vaidyanathan, V. S.; Chandrasekhar, P.; Abbas, S.
(Taylor and Francis, 2017-03)
Two-unit warm standby systems have been elaborately dealt within the literature. However, the study of standby systems with more than two units, though very relevant in state-of-the-art practical situations, has received ...
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Doyer, Ilse; Bean, Willemiena Lodewika
(Emerald, 2023-08)
PURPOSE : The purpose of this paper was to develop a quantitative classroom observation method that is able to analyse the school day to identify Time-on-Task losses comprehensively and systematically, at a level of detail ...
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Mokilane, Paul; Debba, Pravesh; Yadavalli, Venkata S. Sarma; Sigauke, Caston
(Natural Sciences Publishing, 2019-03)
The paper presents an application of Bayesian structural time-series model to forecast long-term electricity demand. Accurate trend specification in long-term forecasting is important; otherwise erroneous forecasts could ...
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Djan, Elijah Kwaku Addae Gyedu; De Vries, Marne
(Springer, 2020-04)
Enterprise designers need to continuously re-design their enterprise, re-evaluating the technologies that are available to digitize their operations. Although light-weight agile software development approaches are favored ...
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Bezuidenhout, Saija; Bean, Willemiena Lodewika
(Emerald, 2022-02)
PURPOSE : This paper aims to establish a systematically constructed defence offset technology transfer (TT) process description and to identify the process pain points and critical success factors from the supplier ...
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Joubert, Johannes Willem; De Beer, Dirk Johannes; De Koker, Nico
(Elsevier, 2016-08)
Telemetry devices are generating and transferring increasingly more data, with notable
potential for decision makers. In this paper we consider the accelerometer and speed data
produced by in-vehicle data recorders as a ...
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Machingura, Tinotenda; Adetunji, Olufemi; Maware, Catherine
(Emerald, 2024-09)
PURPOSE : Buoyed by the increasing demand for improved productivity and environmentally conscious manufacturing, research in the area of lean production and green manufacturing has experienced significant growth since Dües ...
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Joubert, Johan W.; Axhausen, Kay W.
(Springer, 2013-05)
We introduce complex network analysis and use a commercial vehicle’s observed trip as a proxy
for a business relation between two facilities in its activity chain. We extract facility locations
by applying density-based ...
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Van Dyk, Liezl; Conradie, Pieter J.
(Emerald, 2007)
Abstract: Purpose – This article seeks to address the interface between individual learning facilitators that use course management systems (CMS) data to support decision-making and course design and institutional ...
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Van der Walt, Estee; Eloff, Jan H.P.; Grobler, Jacomine
(Elsevier, 2018-09)
Social media platforms allow billions of individuals to share their thoughts, likes and dislikes in real-time, without any censorship. This freedom, however, comes at a cyber-security risk. Cyber threats are more difficult ...
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Van Wyk, Estelle; Yadavalli, Venkata S. Sarma; Carstens, Herman
(Springer, 2013)
Somalia, a country situated in Eastern Africa has been struggling
between rival warlords and an inability to deal with famine. Diseases have
resulted to the deaths of up to millions of people. According to a New York
Times ...
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De Vries, Marne
(Springer, 2018-10)
Enterprises of today are faced with rapidly changing technologies and customer needs within unpredictable environments that require a new mindset for creating an agile enterprise. Agile practices gained momentum within ...
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Venter, Anthea; De Vries, Marne
(Springer, 2023-06)
Communication is a powerful, universal, everyday activity that impacts many, if not all, aspects of our lives. The importance and complexities of communication are however still often overlooked. Inadequate communication ...
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Adetunji, Olufemi; Yadavalli, Venkata S. Sarma; AlRikabi, Rafid; Makoena, Sebatjane
(Taylor and Francis, 2020)
Containerization has been said to be one of the most significant innovations of port management in the last century. Some ports usually tend to be more export driven while some others are import driven. This imbalance in ...
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Willemse, Elias J.; Joubert, Johannes Willem
(Elsevier, 2019-05)
In this paper, we extend our previous work on greedy constructive heuristics for the Mixed Capacitated Arc Routing Problem under Time Restrictions with Intermediate Facilities (MCARPTIF) by developing efficient local search ...
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Carstens, Herman; Xia, Xiaohua; Yadavalli, Venkata S. Sarma; Rajan, Arvind
(Elsevier, 2017-09)
A method is presented for reducing the required sample sizes for reporting energy savings with predetermined statistical accuracy in lighting retrofit measurement and verification projects, where the population of retrofitted ...
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De Boer, Andreas; De Vries, Marne
(Springer, 2021-04)
Significant progress has been made in the South-African early childhood and Grade R spheres. However, South-Africa has a long way to go to meet the needs of majority of its children. Institutional capacity (IC) refers to ...