Application of Blockchain Technology in Value Chain of Procurement in Manufacturing Enterprises

Blockchain technology, as a database which combines encryption algorithm, smart contract, consensus mechanism, time stamp, and other technologies, has received wide attention from all walks of life and can be used to solve such problems as asymmetric, incomplete, and untimely information in both interenterprise transactions and enterprise internal control management as a good solution owing to its characteristics of decentralization, traceability, and tamper-proofness. Consequently, it is worthy of studying how to apply blockchain technology to daily business activities of enterprises. In this paper, some problems existing in the value chain activities of the enterprise internal procurement are analyzed by designing the solutions to requisition, warehousing, and payment based on blockchain technology, in which the Hyperledger Fabric platform is selected as an implementation tool to simulate some purchasing data for testing procedures. After the successful test, the research conclusions and research prospects of this paper are thus proposed, proving the feasibility of applying the blockchain technology to the internal value chain management of the enterprise, which provides reference for the construction of the internal value chain management of the enterprise by the blockchain.

Program for Solving Assignment Problems and Its Application in Lecturer Resources Allocation

This paper proposes program for solving assignment problems by Hungarian method. Assignment problem is one of the most famous problems in linear programming and in combinatorial optimization. It can be solved by using an efficient method which is called Hangarian method. In this problem, commonly, there are a number of agents and a number of tasks. Any agent can be assigned to perform any task. The objective of this problem is to decide the right agent to perform the right task and also the total cost of the assignment is minimized. The manual calculation is time-consuming and prone to mistake. Therefore, this program can help to find the optimal solution with less time. In this approach, computer programming is used as an implementation tool to get the accurate solutions. The program can also be applied with the lecturer allocation for each subject to minimize lecturer’s preparation time and to match the lecturer per individual expertise.

Applying Quality Function Deployment to the Design of Engineering Programs: Approaches, Insights and Benefits

Tertiary programs in a discipline such as engineering must balance the competing needs and requirements of two key stakeholders: the university that designs and delivers the program, and the professional body that accredits the program. Program and curriculum design in universities is traditionally rather bottom-up in nature, with courses designed by individual academics, and assembled into cognate programs. Graduate qualities and accreditation criteria are typically mapped retrospectively onto the program structure. Designing such programs from the top down, driven by the needs of the university and the accreditation body, is a desirable goal. However, without proper support tools, such a top-down design process, balancing competing needs across multiple courses and year levels, is a complex and rarely smooth task. Quality Function Deployment (QFD) was created, in the domain of product and system design, for this precise purpose. Treating the design of a tertiary program the same as the design of a system suggests that QFD, and the implementation tool known as the House of Quality (HoQ), should be ideally suited to this purpose. The aim of this paper is to show how QFD and the HoQ can be applied to the design of an engineering program, creating a specification that accurately reflects the voices of stakeholders, and serves as a benchmark for validating that these needs have been met in the implemented design.

The e-Library of the National Library of Sakha Republic (Yakutia): The general approaches

The upgrade project for the Electronic Library of the National Library of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) is discussed. The goal is to provide remote access to its digital content, to expand and develop library information services in the digital environment. The e-library enables to improve library services of the republican population and to raise the profile of the library in the modern technological world. The elibrary’s new services emerge at the synthesis of new information technologies (implementation tool) and new approaches to traditional library and bibliographic processes. The user-group oriented segments were designed ("School", "Reading since very birth", "Science in Yakutia", "Electronic publishing house") which enables to meet information demands to the fullest extent possible. The options for using personal accounts, statistical performance indicators, e-library document collection, resources selection and systematization, and grouping methods are characterized in brief. The search instrument makes an important performance indicator; it can be used for every segment and collection and is locked to descriptive metadata fields for all types of resources (formats). The concept of creating Single Library and Information Environment based on the National Library of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) provides the organizational and technological prospects for the e-Library.

Affective Neuroscience: The Suitability of a Web App to Monitor Affective States at Work

This work describes in detail the use of a new tool, a web-app, based on the conceptual framework of affective neuroscience, in particular on Panksepp’s 7 basic emotional systems. Affective neuroscience has been used effectively in many areas, but there have been very few applications in the workplace, due to the lack of a smart implementation tool. The novelty of this work does not lie in the new information, but in a new “clinical” approach. There is a theoretical framework that allows data to be interpreted rather than simply described. Furthermore, the knowledge of working realities through the web app is specific and longitudinal. Finally, emotions are detected in hic et nunc, so the role of reflexive-cognitive mediation and recall bias are minor. This “more situated” knowledge can then guide specific leadership strategies. This paper presents the results of the tool’s application in a company in Northern Italy. The findings of our project, which recorded basic affective states and the functioning of several working teams, are detailed herein. The project’s 488 web-app records are summarized in this report, alongside our examination of related mood tags. Through this project, our analysis has enabled to determine affective neuroscience profiles of the teams analyzed, allowing the researchers to identify areas of possible interventions. The data appear very encouraging.