Frame Replenishment Coding Over Noisy Channels
Frame Replenishment Coding Over Noisy Channels

Author: Liping Zhang

Publisher:

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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In this thesis, we compare the performances of three frame replenishment coding schemes for noiseless and noisy channel transmission. For the noisy channel case, we propose a combined source-channel coding scheme which provides error protection in order to improve the performance. The three frame replenishment coding techniques are: basic frame replenishment coding (BFR), label replenishment coding using vector quantization (LRVQ) and codeword replenishment coding using vector quantization (CWRVQ). Our simulation results demonstrate that for a noiseless channel, the LRVQ and CWRVQ techniques provide better performance, and tolerance to motion in the picture, compared to BFR technique. However, in the presence of channel noise LRVQ and CWRVQ techniques exhibit high sensitivities, resulting in poor performance. We propose to use a combined source-channel coding technique with three different error protection schemes where the bit rates for the source code and channel code are adjusted so as to minimize the mean square error. Simulation results demonstrate that the three error protection schemes provide a significant improvement in performance for LRVQ and CWRVQ without sacrificing transmission bandwidth. (Abstract shortened by UMI.).

Operations Management in Automotive Industries
Operations Management in Automotive Industries

Author: Marco Gobetto

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-10-23

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 9400775938

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This book has proved its worth over the years as a text for courses in Production Management at the Faculty of Automotive Engineering in Turin, Italy, but deserves a wider audience as it presents a compendium of basics on Industrial Management, since it covers all major topics required. It treats all subjects from product development and “make or buy”-decision strategies to the manufacturing systems setting and management through analysis of the main resources needed in production and finally exploring the supply chain management and the procurement techniques. The very last chapter recapitulates the previous ones by analysing key management indicators to pursue the value creation that is the real purpose of every industrial enterprise. As an appendix, a specific chapter is dedicated to the basics of production management where all main relevant definitions, techniques and criteria are treated, including some numerical examples, in order to provide an adequate foundation for understanding the other chapters. This book will be of use not only to Automotive Engineering students but a wide range of readers who wish to gain insight in the world of automotive engineering and the automotive industry in general.

Fundamentals of Business Process Management
Fundamentals of Business Process Management

Author: Marlon Dumas

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-03-23

Total Pages: 546

ISBN-13: 3662565099

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This textbook covers the entire Business Process Management (BPM) lifecycle, from process identification to process monitoring, covering along the way process modelling, analysis, redesign and automation. Concepts, methods and tools from business management, computer science and industrial engineering are blended into one comprehensive and inter-disciplinary approach. The presentation is illustrated using the BPMN industry standard defined by the Object Management Group and widely endorsed by practitioners and vendors worldwide. In addition to explaining the relevant conceptual background, the book provides dozens of examples, more than 230 exercises – many with solutions – and numerous suggestions for further reading. This second edition includes extended and completely revised chapters on process identification, process discovery, qualitative process analysis, process redesign, process automation and process monitoring. A new chapter on BPM as an enterprise capability has been added, which expands the scope of the book to encompass topics such as the strategic alignment and governance of BPM initiatives. The textbook is the result of many years of combined teaching experience of the authors, both at the undergraduate and graduate levels as well as in the context of professional training. Students and professionals from both business management and computer science will benefit from the step-by-step style of the textbook and its focus on fundamental concepts and proven methods. Lecturers will appreciate the class-tested format and the additional teaching material available on the accompanying website.