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Record Nr.

UNINA9910585940603321

Autore

Puigjaner Luis

Titolo

Expanding the Horizons of Manufacturing: Towards Wide Integration, Smart Systems and Tools

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basel, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2022

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (446 p.)

Soggetti

History of engineering and technology

Technology: general issues

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

This research topic aims at enterprise-wide modeling and optimization (EWMO) through the development and application of integrated modeling, simulation and optimization methodologies, and computer-aided tools for reliable and sustainable improvement opportunities within the entire manufacturing network (raw materials, production plants, distribution, retailers, and customers) and its components. This integrated approach incorporates information from the local primary control and supervisory modules into the scheduling/planning formulation. That makes it possible to dynamically react to incidents that occur in the network components at the appropriate decision-making level, requiring fewer resources, emitting less waste, and allowing for better responsiveness in changing market requirements and operational variations, reducing cost, waste, energy consumption and environmental impact, and increasing the benefits. More recently, the exploitation of new technology integration, such as through semantic models in formal knowledge models, allows for the capture and utilization of domain knowledge, human knowledge, and expert knowledge toward comprehensive intelligent management. Otherwise, the development of advanced technologies and tools, such as cyber-physical systems, the Internet of Things, the Industrial Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Cloud Computing, Blockchain,



etc., have captured the attention of manufacturing enterprises toward intelligent manufacturing systems.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910255111703321

Autore

Teixeira Pedro

Titolo

Rethinking the Public-Private Mix in Higher Education : Global Trends and National Policy Challenges / / by Pedro Teixeira, Sunwoong Kim, Pablo Landoni, Zulfiqar Gilani

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Rotterdam : , : SensePublishers : , : Imprint : SensePublishers, , 2017

ISBN

9789463009119

9463009116

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (CLXXXVI, 14 p.)

Collana

Education Series

Disciplina

370

Soggetti

Education

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material / Pedro Teixeira , Sunwoong Kim , Pablo Landoni and Zulfiqar Gilani -- Private Higher Education / Pedro Teixeira -- The Rise of Private Higher Education / Pedro Teixeira and Pablo Landoni -- Understanding the Public-Private Mix of Higher Education / Sunwoong Kim -- Public-Private Mix in Higher Education in Pakistan / Zulfiqar Gilani -- Regulatory Changes and the Public-Private Mix in Portuguese Higher Education / Pedro Teixeira -- Public-Private Mix of Higher Education in South Korea / Sunwoong Kim -- Diversification and Isomorphism / Pablo Landoni -- Changing the Public-Private Mix in Higher Education / Pedro Teixeira , Sunwoong Kim , Zulfiqar Gilani and Pablo Landoni -- References / Pedro Teixeira , Sunwoong Kim , Pablo Landoni and Zulfiqar Gilani.

Sommario/riassunto

In recent decades, we have seen the emergence of private higher education as a global reality. Although there are specific reasons for its appearance in each system, there is also a significant degree of commonality in the context and purposes surrounding the rise of private higher education as an important factor in many systems. The analysis of private higher education has tended to be focused at the



national level, often highlighting national peculiarities and variations. In this volume the authors move forward by proposing a unifying and coherent, but flexible, theoretical framework that may be applied in different countries and diverse systems. Hence, the overall goal of this book is to provide a framework for a better understanding of the public-private mix of higher education and a set of policy guidelines in dealing with the expansion of private higher education from a comparative perspective. This analytical framework will be applied to four case-studies (Pakistan, Portugal, South Korea and Uruguay). These cases illustrate the diversity of contexts in the development of private higher education, though they also highlight important commonalities. Based on that analysis, we present some general recommendations to build a more effective policy-framework that takes advantage of the private sector in order to fulfill better the missions of the higher education system.