OEE improvement of thermoforming machines through application of TPM at Tibaldi Australasia
- Chundhoo, Vickram, Chattopadhyay, Gopinath, Gunawan, Indra, Ibrahim, Yousef
- Authors: Chundhoo, Vickram , Chattopadhyay, Gopinath , Gunawan, Indra , Ibrahim, Yousef
- Date: 2017
- Type: Text , Conference proceedings , Conference paper
- Relation: 2017 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, IEEM 2017; Singapore, Singapore; 10th-13th December 2017 p. 929-933
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- Description: Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) evaluates quantitatively how effectively a manufacturing operation is utilised. Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) was considered by Tibaldi, a leading food manufacturer in Australia for achieving OEE. This research project has identified performance gaps, developed plan and implemented it in Thermoforming area of the business. The developed methodology helped Tibaldi in improving productivity and quality through TPM involving machines, equipment, processes, and employees. This paper demonstrates how this can be achieved by reducing lead time and establishing lean environment. Productivity improvement through the devised methodology led to further enhancement of competitiveness of the organisation for domestic and international markets of processed food manufactured by Tibaldi Australia. Lessons learned from application of TPM in Thermoforming, a key asset area, is rolled out to other sections of the plat and results from this pilot study are presented in this paper.
- Authors: Chundhoo, Vickram , Chattopadhyay, Gopinath , Gunawan, Indra , Ibrahim, Yousef
- Date: 2017
- Type: Text , Conference proceedings , Conference paper
- Relation: 2017 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, IEEM 2017; Singapore, Singapore; 10th-13th December 2017 p. 929-933
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- Description: Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) evaluates quantitatively how effectively a manufacturing operation is utilised. Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) was considered by Tibaldi, a leading food manufacturer in Australia for achieving OEE. This research project has identified performance gaps, developed plan and implemented it in Thermoforming area of the business. The developed methodology helped Tibaldi in improving productivity and quality through TPM involving machines, equipment, processes, and employees. This paper demonstrates how this can be achieved by reducing lead time and establishing lean environment. Productivity improvement through the devised methodology led to further enhancement of competitiveness of the organisation for domestic and international markets of processed food manufactured by Tibaldi Australia. Lessons learned from application of TPM in Thermoforming, a key asset area, is rolled out to other sections of the plat and results from this pilot study are presented in this paper.
Productivity improvement though OEE measurement : a TPM case study for meat processing plant in Australia
- Chundhoo, Vickram, Chattopadhyay, Gopinath, Parida, Aditya
- Authors: Chundhoo, Vickram , Chattopadhyay, Gopinath , Parida, Aditya
- Date: 2019
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop and Congress on eMaintenance: eMaintenance: Trends in Technologies & methodologies, challenges, possibilites and applications p. 81-87
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- Description: Fluctuating demands and increased competition in Australia and Asian countries have been putting more pressure on plants for packaged meat products in Australia. Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) was seen a solution and is currently being implemented within a major meat processing facility in Melbourne, Australia for achieving high Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE). Concerns were raised by board of directors due to OEE targets not meant. TPM was initially applied in key areas of the business, thermoforming and packaging for reducing wastes and further enhancing productivity and quality. It is now being rolled out to other sections of the plant. Data collected from fifty-two weeks of production has been analysed and recommendations made to achieve OEE targets for the R145 production line. Risk based maintenance was applied to control adverse effects of packaging quality which significantly influences shelf life. Shelf life of a modified atmosphere packaged product assures safety for consumption of meat products by consumers. Risk based maintenance considered asset failure probabilities, impacts on quality and availability of spare parts. Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM) resulted in a Risk score for each maintenance activity and as a component was used for TPM program. Findings from this study have been passed on to the meat processing facility for implementation in the entire plant.
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- Authors: Chundhoo, Vickram , Chattopadhyay, Gopinath , Parida, Aditya
- Date: 2019
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop and Congress on eMaintenance: eMaintenance: Trends in Technologies & methodologies, challenges, possibilites and applications p. 81-87
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- Description: Fluctuating demands and increased competition in Australia and Asian countries have been putting more pressure on plants for packaged meat products in Australia. Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) was seen a solution and is currently being implemented within a major meat processing facility in Melbourne, Australia for achieving high Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE). Concerns were raised by board of directors due to OEE targets not meant. TPM was initially applied in key areas of the business, thermoforming and packaging for reducing wastes and further enhancing productivity and quality. It is now being rolled out to other sections of the plant. Data collected from fifty-two weeks of production has been analysed and recommendations made to achieve OEE targets for the R145 production line. Risk based maintenance was applied to control adverse effects of packaging quality which significantly influences shelf life. Shelf life of a modified atmosphere packaged product assures safety for consumption of meat products by consumers. Risk based maintenance considered asset failure probabilities, impacts on quality and availability of spare parts. Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM) resulted in a Risk score for each maintenance activity and as a component was used for TPM program. Findings from this study have been passed on to the meat processing facility for implementation in the entire plant.
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Improving risk grouping rules for prostate cancer patients with optimization
- Churilov, Leonid, Bagirov, Adil, Schwartz, Daniel, Smith, Kate, Dally, Michael
- Authors: Churilov, Leonid , Bagirov, Adil , Schwartz, Daniel , Smith, Kate , Dally, Michael
- Date: 2004
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at the 37th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Big Island, Hawaii : 5th January, 2004
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- Description: Data mining techniques provide a popular and powerful toolset to address both clinical and management issues in the area of health care. This paper describes the study of assigning prostate cancer patients into homogenous groups with the aim to support future clinical treatment decisions. The cluster analysis based model is suggested and an application of non-smooth non-convex optimization techniques to solve this model is discussed. It is demonstrated that using the optimization based approach to data mining of a prostate cancer patients database can lead to generation of a significant amount of new knowledge that can be effectively utilized to enhance clinical decision making.
- Description: E1
- Description: 2003000846
- Authors: Churilov, Leonid , Bagirov, Adil , Schwartz, Daniel , Smith, Kate , Dally, Michael
- Date: 2004
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at the 37th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Big Island, Hawaii : 5th January, 2004
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- Description: Data mining techniques provide a popular and powerful toolset to address both clinical and management issues in the area of health care. This paper describes the study of assigning prostate cancer patients into homogenous groups with the aim to support future clinical treatment decisions. The cluster analysis based model is suggested and an application of non-smooth non-convex optimization techniques to solve this model is discussed. It is demonstrated that using the optimization based approach to data mining of a prostate cancer patients database can lead to generation of a significant amount of new knowledge that can be effectively utilized to enhance clinical decision making.
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- Description: 2003000846
Multiple Aboriginal place names in Western Victoria, Australia
- Authors: Clark, Ian
- Date: 2008
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at Twenty-third International Congress of Onomastic Sciences, Toronto, Canada : 17th-22nd August 2008
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- Description: In a recent paper on transparency versus opacity in Australian Aboriginal place names, linguist Michael Walsh (2002: 47) noted that in ‘Aboriginal Australia it is relatively common for a given place to have multiple names’. In providing an overview of multiple naming practices Walsh (2002: 47) stated the ‘simplest case is one place having two names. Such doublets can be intralectal or crosslectal. For intralectal doublets where there are two names for the one place in the same lect, both placenames may be opaque, both transparent, or one opaque and one transparent. … The same applies to crosslectal doublets where two names for the one place come from different lects’. Walsh (2002) observed that he was unclear on how multiple naming works and what its function is. Other than some case studies (Schebeck 2002 re Flinders Ranges, Sutton 2002 re the Wik region, Cape York, and Tamisari 2002), we are yet to gain a comprehensive picture for Aboriginal Australia. This paper adds to this discussion through a consideration of multiple naming in western Victoria using the results of research conducted by Clark and Heydon (2002) into Victorian Aboriginal place names. The paper also considers the policy implications of multiple indigenous naming for place name administration in Victoria. Victoria has adopted a dual naming policy that recognises a non-indigenous and an indigenous toponym for the one place but is yet to accept multiple indigenous naming.
- Description: 2003007363
- Authors: Clark, Ian
- Date: 2008
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at Twenty-third International Congress of Onomastic Sciences, Toronto, Canada : 17th-22nd August 2008
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- Description: In a recent paper on transparency versus opacity in Australian Aboriginal place names, linguist Michael Walsh (2002: 47) noted that in ‘Aboriginal Australia it is relatively common for a given place to have multiple names’. In providing an overview of multiple naming practices Walsh (2002: 47) stated the ‘simplest case is one place having two names. Such doublets can be intralectal or crosslectal. For intralectal doublets where there are two names for the one place in the same lect, both placenames may be opaque, both transparent, or one opaque and one transparent. … The same applies to crosslectal doublets where two names for the one place come from different lects’. Walsh (2002) observed that he was unclear on how multiple naming works and what its function is. Other than some case studies (Schebeck 2002 re Flinders Ranges, Sutton 2002 re the Wik region, Cape York, and Tamisari 2002), we are yet to gain a comprehensive picture for Aboriginal Australia. This paper adds to this discussion through a consideration of multiple naming in western Victoria using the results of research conducted by Clark and Heydon (2002) into Victorian Aboriginal place names. The paper also considers the policy implications of multiple indigenous naming for place name administration in Victoria. Victoria has adopted a dual naming policy that recognises a non-indigenous and an indigenous toponym for the one place but is yet to accept multiple indigenous naming.
- Description: 2003007363
Teacher culture & teacher change: Insights from a meta-theoretical perspective
- Cooper, Maxine, Ling, Lorraine, Stewart, Joan
- Authors: Cooper, Maxine , Ling, Lorraine , Stewart, Joan
- Date: 2010
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: World Federation of Teacher Education Associations
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- Description: One of the challenges and opportunities for university academics working in teacher education programs in the current global/glocal context is to work in close partnership with schools and systems to enable new and experienced teachers and principals to manage change, to work with new pedagogies, new curriculum initiatives for learning in dynamic creative learning spaces. This study develops a meta-theorectical framework drawing on the work of Kardos et al (2001) which articulates three distinct teacher cultures which are referred to as veteran oriented professional cultures, novice-oriented professional cultures and integrated professional cultures. This is synthesised with the work of Robertson (2000) who claims that there are three levels of experience into which teacher change can be classified. These are 'the world of events' , conjuctural time' and the 'longue duree' (p7) and all are interpreted within glocalised and cosmopolitan world....
- Authors: Cooper, Maxine , Ling, Lorraine , Stewart, Joan
- Date: 2010
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: World Federation of Teacher Education Associations
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- Description: One of the challenges and opportunities for university academics working in teacher education programs in the current global/glocal context is to work in close partnership with schools and systems to enable new and experienced teachers and principals to manage change, to work with new pedagogies, new curriculum initiatives for learning in dynamic creative learning spaces. This study develops a meta-theorectical framework drawing on the work of Kardos et al (2001) which articulates three distinct teacher cultures which are referred to as veteran oriented professional cultures, novice-oriented professional cultures and integrated professional cultures. This is synthesised with the work of Robertson (2000) who claims that there are three levels of experience into which teacher change can be classified. These are 'the world of events' , conjuctural time' and the 'longue duree' (p7) and all are interpreted within glocalised and cosmopolitan world....
Measuring soil strain using fibre optic sensors
- Costa, Susanga, Kahandawa, Gayan, Chen, Jian, Xue, Jianfeng
- Authors: Costa, Susanga , Kahandawa, Gayan , Chen, Jian , Xue, Jianfeng
- Date: 2019
- Type: Text , Conference proceedings , Conference paper
- Relation: 8th International Congress on Environmental Geotechnics, ICEG 2018; Hangzhou, China; 28th October-1st November 2018; part of the Environmental Science and Engineering book series p. 43-50
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- Description: Monitoring subsurface soil movement is important in many geotechnical engineering applications such as stability of slopes, road embankments and settlement in foundations. Soil displacement measurement is also helpful in understanding the formation of shrinkage cracks. Clay soils undergo shrinkage during drying and experience substantial stresses and strains, which results in shrinkage cracks. This paper presents a novel approach to measure soil strain using Fibre Bragg grating (FBG) sensors. In the experiments described, FBG sensors have been used to investigate the strain development in clay during drying. FBG sensors are fabricated in the core region of specially fabricated single mode low-loss germanium doped silicate optical fibres. The grating is the laser-inscribed region with a periodically varying refractive index, which reflects a specific light wavelength. Due to the applied strain, ε, there is a change in the wavelength which can be measured and is directly proposal to strain. Kaolin clay, mixed with water close to the liquid limit, was allowed to dry under room temperature. The specimens were prepared in thin, long linear shrinkage moulds. FBG sensors were placed inside soil at the centre of the specimen. The strain development during drying underwent four phases moving from compression to tension. An oscillating nature of strain was also observed throughout the drying process. Results obtained are useful to develop analytical solutions to describe stress-strain behavior of drying soil. © Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019.
- Authors: Costa, Susanga , Kahandawa, Gayan , Chen, Jian , Xue, Jianfeng
- Date: 2019
- Type: Text , Conference proceedings , Conference paper
- Relation: 8th International Congress on Environmental Geotechnics, ICEG 2018; Hangzhou, China; 28th October-1st November 2018; part of the Environmental Science and Engineering book series p. 43-50
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- Description: Monitoring subsurface soil movement is important in many geotechnical engineering applications such as stability of slopes, road embankments and settlement in foundations. Soil displacement measurement is also helpful in understanding the formation of shrinkage cracks. Clay soils undergo shrinkage during drying and experience substantial stresses and strains, which results in shrinkage cracks. This paper presents a novel approach to measure soil strain using Fibre Bragg grating (FBG) sensors. In the experiments described, FBG sensors have been used to investigate the strain development in clay during drying. FBG sensors are fabricated in the core region of specially fabricated single mode low-loss germanium doped silicate optical fibres. The grating is the laser-inscribed region with a periodically varying refractive index, which reflects a specific light wavelength. Due to the applied strain, ε, there is a change in the wavelength which can be measured and is directly proposal to strain. Kaolin clay, mixed with water close to the liquid limit, was allowed to dry under room temperature. The specimens were prepared in thin, long linear shrinkage moulds. FBG sensors were placed inside soil at the centre of the specimen. The strain development during drying underwent four phases moving from compression to tension. An oscillating nature of strain was also observed throughout the drying process. Results obtained are useful to develop analytical solutions to describe stress-strain behavior of drying soil. © Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019.
Building partnerships through discovery - collaborative online teaching and learning
- Authors: Counsel, Rose
- Date: 2001
- Type: Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at Revelling in Reference 2001: Reference and Information Services Section Symposium Proceedings, Melbourne, Victoria : 12th-14th October 2001 p. 23-30
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- Authors: Counsel, Rose
- Date: 2001
- Type: Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at Revelling in Reference 2001: Reference and Information Services Section Symposium Proceedings, Melbourne, Victoria : 12th-14th October 2001 p. 23-30
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The political economy R & D
- Authors: Courvisanos, Jerry
- Date: 2006
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at the International Symposium Knowledge, Finance and Innovation 2006, Dunkerque, France : 26th - 30th September, 2006
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- Description: This paper aims to examine the political economy role of R & D in the context of the innovation dilemma between its roles as a knowledge generating processes and the entrenched power that such knowledge creates.
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- Description: 2003001826
- Authors: Courvisanos, Jerry
- Date: 2006
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at the International Symposium Knowledge, Finance and Innovation 2006, Dunkerque, France : 26th - 30th September, 2006
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- Description: This paper aims to examine the political economy role of R & D in the context of the innovation dilemma between its roles as a knowledge generating processes and the entrenched power that such knowledge creates.
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- Description: 2003001826
Innovation for regional communities : A research framework
- Authors: Courvisanos, Jerry
- Date: 2003
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at SEGRA 2003: Seventh National Conference, Brisbane : 15th - 17th September, 2003
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- Description: The paper outlines a research framework that can serve as a guide to regional research. This is an inter-disciplinary framework allowing all researchers from any discipline to focus on the regional problematic with the objective of serving a regional community. No research can begin without a perspective on the broad issue for study and deliberation. This presentation begins with the “vulnerability/inability” problematic of the domestic regional (non-urban) situation and the innovation strategy required in addressing the factors underlying this problematic. The framework around this problematic-strategy dimension is an economic model by Micha
- Description: E1
- Description: 2003000578
- Authors: Courvisanos, Jerry
- Date: 2003
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at SEGRA 2003: Seventh National Conference, Brisbane : 15th - 17th September, 2003
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- Description: The paper outlines a research framework that can serve as a guide to regional research. This is an inter-disciplinary framework allowing all researchers from any discipline to focus on the regional problematic with the objective of serving a regional community. No research can begin without a perspective on the broad issue for study and deliberation. This presentation begins with the “vulnerability/inability” problematic of the domestic regional (non-urban) situation and the innovation strategy required in addressing the factors underlying this problematic. The framework around this problematic-strategy dimension is an economic model by Micha
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- Description: 2003000578
The ontology of innovation : Human agency in the pursuit of novelty
- Authors: Courvisanos, Jerry
- Date: 2006
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at the HETSA 2006, Ballarat, Victoria : 4th July, 2006 p. 164-181
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- Description: There is a lack of ontology in the study and explication of innovation. Does this matter? It matters because ‘innovation’ has become an important word in the 21st Century, reflecting all that is modern, progressive and exciting in a complex world. This is reflected in every phase of daily existence in modern capitalist economies. Firms are urged to be innovative to gain or sustain a ‘competitive edge’, consultants advertise their strategic advice as the essence of innovation, local communities’ survival depend on the capacity building that comes from innovation, schools are exalted to have innovation in their curriculum, universities promote themselves as leaders in innovation. Politicians respond to the need for supporting all the above through policies for enhancing such innovation in the nation.
- Description: E1
- Description: 2003001806
- Authors: Courvisanos, Jerry
- Date: 2006
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at the HETSA 2006, Ballarat, Victoria : 4th July, 2006 p. 164-181
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- Description: There is a lack of ontology in the study and explication of innovation. Does this matter? It matters because ‘innovation’ has become an important word in the 21st Century, reflecting all that is modern, progressive and exciting in a complex world. This is reflected in every phase of daily existence in modern capitalist economies. Firms are urged to be innovative to gain or sustain a ‘competitive edge’, consultants advertise their strategic advice as the essence of innovation, local communities’ survival depend on the capacity building that comes from innovation, schools are exalted to have innovation in their curriculum, universities promote themselves as leaders in innovation. Politicians respond to the need for supporting all the above through policies for enhancing such innovation in the nation.
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- Description: 2003001806
Developing policy for Australia's small towns : From anthropology to sustainability
- Courvisanos, Jerry, Martin, John
- Authors: Courvisanos, Jerry , Martin, John
- Date: 2005
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at the Centre for Sustainable Regional Communities (CSRC) 2nd National Conference on the future of Australia's Country Towns, Latrobe, Bendigo : 11th February, 2005
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- Description: Over the last three decades the way in which public policy analysts learn about the structure and function of Australia’s small towns has shifted from the intensive, in-depth analysis provided by the anthropologist living in the community (called “community studies”) to a more empirically oriented, demographic-based research carried out at a distance from these places (called “sustainability studies”). Rather than just understanding the functioning of small towns through case studies, recent research emphasis has centred on the more “aggregative” question of small town sustainability in all it forms. This alters the way in which small towns are viewed and complicates the current policy approaches to small town development and change. This paper identifies the two different methodologies implied by these divergent approaches and examines what this means to understanding of small towns and the policy implications that emerge. By reviewing the community studies approach to learning about small towns popular in the 1960s and 1970s, and contrasting this approach with recent, more aggregative approaches to learning about the sustainability of towns; this paper aims to find points of alignment and suggest a broader research framework that incorporates both approaches. This provides a comprehensive understanding of small towns, leading to a more effective development of public policies for these communities.
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- Description: 2003001308
- Authors: Courvisanos, Jerry , Martin, John
- Date: 2005
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at the Centre for Sustainable Regional Communities (CSRC) 2nd National Conference on the future of Australia's Country Towns, Latrobe, Bendigo : 11th February, 2005
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- Description: Over the last three decades the way in which public policy analysts learn about the structure and function of Australia’s small towns has shifted from the intensive, in-depth analysis provided by the anthropologist living in the community (called “community studies”) to a more empirically oriented, demographic-based research carried out at a distance from these places (called “sustainability studies”). Rather than just understanding the functioning of small towns through case studies, recent research emphasis has centred on the more “aggregative” question of small town sustainability in all it forms. This alters the way in which small towns are viewed and complicates the current policy approaches to small town development and change. This paper identifies the two different methodologies implied by these divergent approaches and examines what this means to understanding of small towns and the policy implications that emerge. By reviewing the community studies approach to learning about small towns popular in the 1960s and 1970s, and contrasting this approach with recent, more aggregative approaches to learning about the sustainability of towns; this paper aims to find points of alignment and suggest a broader research framework that incorporates both approaches. This provides a comprehensive understanding of small towns, leading to a more effective development of public policies for these communities.
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- Description: 2003001308
Innovation policy framework for sustainable development in regional economies : An Australian perspective
- Authors: Courvisanos, Jerry
- Date: 2008
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at 2008 Pacific Northwest Regional Economic Conference : Spirit of Innovation III Forum, Tacoma, Washington, USA : 14th-16th May 2008
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- Description: The paper develops a broad macroeconomic innovation policy framework for ecologically sustainable economic development that can be applied to regional economies, from the perspective of Australia. Australia is one of the three huge per capita greenhouse emitting nations in the world. The increased frequency of drought and dramatic storms, together with mounting international scientific evidence, has raised the spectre of greenhouse gas emissions significantly deteriorating the economic viability of regional communities. Up until now from a regional perspective, ecological concerns of pollution and resource depletion have generally been part of the overall management approach to agriculture and regional economic development – more successful in some places and some time periods than others, but still part of the existing economic paradigm. Greenhouse is “the inconvenient truth” that now faces all regional communities, but its existing economic paradigm is clearly inappropriate for responding effectively and timely to this ecological concern. A completely different economic framework, based on economic activity that is satisficing (under conditions of ecological uncertainty) rather than optimising (under conditions of calculable risk) is required to address the ecological concerns of the future. An “eco-sustainable framework” is developed in this paper which sets out an innovation policy aimed at satisficing towards sustainable regional development from an Australian high-emission economy perspective. The framework is based on the work of two economists, Micha
- Description: 2003006404
- Authors: Courvisanos, Jerry
- Date: 2008
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at 2008 Pacific Northwest Regional Economic Conference : Spirit of Innovation III Forum, Tacoma, Washington, USA : 14th-16th May 2008
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- Description: The paper develops a broad macroeconomic innovation policy framework for ecologically sustainable economic development that can be applied to regional economies, from the perspective of Australia. Australia is one of the three huge per capita greenhouse emitting nations in the world. The increased frequency of drought and dramatic storms, together with mounting international scientific evidence, has raised the spectre of greenhouse gas emissions significantly deteriorating the economic viability of regional communities. Up until now from a regional perspective, ecological concerns of pollution and resource depletion have generally been part of the overall management approach to agriculture and regional economic development – more successful in some places and some time periods than others, but still part of the existing economic paradigm. Greenhouse is “the inconvenient truth” that now faces all regional communities, but its existing economic paradigm is clearly inappropriate for responding effectively and timely to this ecological concern. A completely different economic framework, based on economic activity that is satisficing (under conditions of ecological uncertainty) rather than optimising (under conditions of calculable risk) is required to address the ecological concerns of the future. An “eco-sustainable framework” is developed in this paper which sets out an innovation policy aimed at satisficing towards sustainable regional development from an Australian high-emission economy perspective. The framework is based on the work of two economists, Micha
- Description: 2003006404
Political aspects of innovation
- Authors: Courvisanos, Jerry
- Date: 2007
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at Sixth Australian Society of Heterodox Economist Conference, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia : 10th-11th December 2007 p. 93-102
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- Description: This paper aims to identify within capitalism the “political aspects” that enhance, but also can undermine, the positive transformational power of innovation policies. As such, this paper follows the approach of Micha
- Description: 2003005192
- Authors: Courvisanos, Jerry
- Date: 2007
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at Sixth Australian Society of Heterodox Economist Conference, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia : 10th-11th December 2007 p. 93-102
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- Description: This paper aims to identify within capitalism the “political aspects” that enhance, but also can undermine, the positive transformational power of innovation policies. As such, this paper follows the approach of Micha
- Description: 2003005192
In search of New Atlantis : What can HET on innovation reveal about the path out of the 2009 great recession?
- Authors: Courvisanos, Jerry
- Date: 2009
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at 22nd Conference of the History of Economic Thought Society of Australia, University of Notre Dame, Fremantle, Western Australia : 14th-17th July 2009
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- Description: The 2009 “Great Recession” has created a severe collapse of business expectations to coincide with severe financial overexposure. In this economic climate there is the tendency for the private sector to withdraw from investing in the future and for the public sector to seek to protect the major institutions of capitalism. Both lead to the exclusion of innovation and the concomitant deterioration of the accumulation process. In this context, there have been calls by some prescient economists and politicians to recognise this severe downturn as the opportunity for the generation and implementation of new knowledge. Innovation needs to be generated - particularly eco-innovation into sustainable development - and supported with a large public and private accumulation programme. In about 1623, Francis Bacon wrote a fable about a secret undiscovered island, Bensalem, in which scientific progress through innovation (Bacon’s “instauration”) created an idyllic economy where humanity was in concert with nature. This Bacon juxtaposed with another island, Atlantis, which gained wealth and prominence through its domination over nature, until nature took its revenge. From Adam Smith onwards writings on economics have recognised the power of innovation to drive an economy. Using Bensalem as the ideal, this paper appraises visions of innovation and accumulation from various HET schools (especially Neoclassical, Austrian, Schumpeterian, Post-Keynesian, Ecological) to assess what these schools can contribute to development of an ecologically sustainable economic trajectory out of the 2009 Great Recession.
- Description: 2003007361
- Authors: Courvisanos, Jerry
- Date: 2009
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at 22nd Conference of the History of Economic Thought Society of Australia, University of Notre Dame, Fremantle, Western Australia : 14th-17th July 2009
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- Description: The 2009 “Great Recession” has created a severe collapse of business expectations to coincide with severe financial overexposure. In this economic climate there is the tendency for the private sector to withdraw from investing in the future and for the public sector to seek to protect the major institutions of capitalism. Both lead to the exclusion of innovation and the concomitant deterioration of the accumulation process. In this context, there have been calls by some prescient economists and politicians to recognise this severe downturn as the opportunity for the generation and implementation of new knowledge. Innovation needs to be generated - particularly eco-innovation into sustainable development - and supported with a large public and private accumulation programme. In about 1623, Francis Bacon wrote a fable about a secret undiscovered island, Bensalem, in which scientific progress through innovation (Bacon’s “instauration”) created an idyllic economy where humanity was in concert with nature. This Bacon juxtaposed with another island, Atlantis, which gained wealth and prominence through its domination over nature, until nature took its revenge. From Adam Smith onwards writings on economics have recognised the power of innovation to drive an economy. Using Bensalem as the ideal, this paper appraises visions of innovation and accumulation from various HET schools (especially Neoclassical, Austrian, Schumpeterian, Post-Keynesian, Ecological) to assess what these schools can contribute to development of an ecologically sustainable economic trajectory out of the 2009 Great Recession.
- Description: 2003007361
Review of the roadmap for implementing the SDGs in Timor-Leste: Achievements and limitations
- Courvisanos, Jerry, Boavida, Matias
- Authors: Courvisanos, Jerry , Boavida, Matias
- Date: 2018
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Timor-Leste Studies Association's 'New Research on Timor-Leste' conference, Sixth TLSA, 29th- 30th June, 2017 p. 186-193
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- Description: On 23 September 2015 under Government Resolution No34/2015, the Timor-Leste Government (RDTL) adopted the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for attainment by 2030. The ‘roadmap’, as set up by the Prime Minster (PM), His Excellency Dr Rui Maria de Araújo and his SDG Working Group, specified the need to ‘harmonise’ the SDGs in the context of its strong commitment to the 2011-2030 Strategic Development Plan (SDP). This ‘roadmap’ approach was endorsed by the RDTL (2017). This paper reviews the roadmap by asking the following question: How has the RDTL been able to harmonise the SDGs with the existing SDP that currently guides policy in the economy? Based on an ‘eco- sustainable framework’ originally developed in Courvisanos (2005), this paper identifies both achievements and limitations of this roadmap. A deep six-month country-wide field-based method was undertaken for this review. Elements of a transition path towards an alternative sustainable development economic development for this fledgling nation are noted at the end.
- Authors: Courvisanos, Jerry , Boavida, Matias
- Date: 2018
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Timor-Leste Studies Association's 'New Research on Timor-Leste' conference, Sixth TLSA, 29th- 30th June, 2017 p. 186-193
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- Description: On 23 September 2015 under Government Resolution No34/2015, the Timor-Leste Government (RDTL) adopted the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for attainment by 2030. The ‘roadmap’, as set up by the Prime Minster (PM), His Excellency Dr Rui Maria de Araújo and his SDG Working Group, specified the need to ‘harmonise’ the SDGs in the context of its strong commitment to the 2011-2030 Strategic Development Plan (SDP). This ‘roadmap’ approach was endorsed by the RDTL (2017). This paper reviews the roadmap by asking the following question: How has the RDTL been able to harmonise the SDGs with the existing SDP that currently guides policy in the economy? Based on an ‘eco- sustainable framework’ originally developed in Courvisanos (2005), this paper identifies both achievements and limitations of this roadmap. A deep six-month country-wide field-based method was undertaken for this review. Elements of a transition path towards an alternative sustainable development economic development for this fledgling nation are noted at the end.
Evaluating human-like explanations for robot actions in reinforcement learning scenarios
- Cruz, Francisco, Young, Charlotte, Dazeley, Richard, Vamplew, Peter
- Authors: Cruz, Francisco , Young, Charlotte , Dazeley, Richard , Vamplew, Peter
- Date: 2022
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2022, Kyoto, Japan, 23-27 October 2022, 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) Vol. 2022-October, p. 894-901
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- Description: Explainable artificial intelligence is a research field that tries to provide more transparency for autonomous intelligent systems. Explainability has been used, particularly in reinforcement learning and robotic scenarios, to better understand the robot decision-making process. Previous work, however, has been widely focused on providing technical explanations that can be better understood by AI practitioners than non-expert end-users. In this work, we make use of human-like explanations built from the probability of success to complete the goal that an autonomous robot shows after performing an action. These explanations are intended to be understood by people who have no or very little experience with artificial intelligence methods. This paper presents a user trial to study whether these explanations that focus on the probability an action has of succeeding in its goal constitute a suitable explanation for non-expert end-users. The results obtained show that non-expert participants rate robot explanations that focus on the probability of success higher and with less variance than technical explanations generated from Q-values, and also favor counterfactual explanations over standalone explanations. © 2022 IEEE.
- Authors: Cruz, Francisco , Young, Charlotte , Dazeley, Richard , Vamplew, Peter
- Date: 2022
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2022, Kyoto, Japan, 23-27 October 2022, 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) Vol. 2022-October, p. 894-901
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- Description: Explainable artificial intelligence is a research field that tries to provide more transparency for autonomous intelligent systems. Explainability has been used, particularly in reinforcement learning and robotic scenarios, to better understand the robot decision-making process. Previous work, however, has been widely focused on providing technical explanations that can be better understood by AI practitioners than non-expert end-users. In this work, we make use of human-like explanations built from the probability of success to complete the goal that an autonomous robot shows after performing an action. These explanations are intended to be understood by people who have no or very little experience with artificial intelligence methods. This paper presents a user trial to study whether these explanations that focus on the probability an action has of succeeding in its goal constitute a suitable explanation for non-expert end-users. The results obtained show that non-expert participants rate robot explanations that focus on the probability of success higher and with less variance than technical explanations generated from Q-values, and also favor counterfactual explanations over standalone explanations. © 2022 IEEE.
Perceptions of engineering from female, secondary college students in regional Victoria
- Darby, Linda, Hall, Stephen, Dowling, Kim, Kentish, Barry
- Authors: Darby, Linda , Hall, Stephen , Dowling, Kim , Kentish, Barry
- Date: 2003
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at Engineering Education for a Sustainable Future 2003, Melbourne : 29th September - 1st October, 2003
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- Description: Survey and focus group interviews with female students in regional Victoria resulted in identification of four perceived barriers that influence them to exclude engineering as a career choice. These barriers were identified as a lack of interest in the perceived image, a lack of knowledge, a traditionally male-dominated industry, and limited recognisable role models. This paper reports on what Year 10 females are saying about the barriers and, consequently, how engineering can be promoted to overcome these barriers.
- Description: E1
- Description: 2003000550
- Authors: Darby, Linda , Hall, Stephen , Dowling, Kim , Kentish, Barry
- Date: 2003
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at Engineering Education for a Sustainable Future 2003, Melbourne : 29th September - 1st October, 2003
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- Description: Survey and focus group interviews with female students in regional Victoria resulted in identification of four perceived barriers that influence them to exclude engineering as a career choice. These barriers were identified as a lack of interest in the perceived image, a lack of knowledge, a traditionally male-dominated industry, and limited recognisable role models. This paper reports on what Year 10 females are saying about the barriers and, consequently, how engineering can be promoted to overcome these barriers.
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- Description: 2003000550
Analysis of end-to-end delay characteristics for various packets in IEC 61850 substation communications system
- Das, Narottam, Ma, Wu, Islam, Syed
- Authors: Das, Narottam , Ma, Wu , Islam, Syed
- Date: 2015
- Type: Text , Conference proceedings , Conference paper
- Relation: 25th Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference, AUPEC 2015, Wollongong, Australia; 27th-30th September 2015 p. 1-5
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- Description: Substation plays an important role in power system communications for safe and reliable operation of entire power networks. Substation communication networks are connected with various substation intelligent electronic devices (IEDs), which is substation systems lifeblood and the system availability is decided by its real-Time performance. International Electro-Technical Commission (IEC) has been developed the standards based on object-oriented technologies for substation automation. IEC 61850 protocol has been applied widely in substation communication applications. It presents new challenges to realtime performance simulation and testing of protective relays. In this paper, an optimized network engineering tool (OPNET) or Riverbed modeler simulation tool/ software has been used for the modeling of IED in substation level network. Based on the simulation results, different types of data stream have been discussed, such as, periodic data stream, random data stream and burst data steam. The typical studies using these models, to construct substation automation system (SAS) network on the OPNET modeler or Riverbed modeler was made to reveal the impact of each affecting parameter or factor to the real-Time performance of substation communications system, which is also incorporated in this report.
- Description: 2015 Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference: Challenges for Future Grids, AUPEC 2015
- Authors: Das, Narottam , Ma, Wu , Islam, Syed
- Date: 2015
- Type: Text , Conference proceedings , Conference paper
- Relation: 25th Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference, AUPEC 2015, Wollongong, Australia; 27th-30th September 2015 p. 1-5
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- Description: Substation plays an important role in power system communications for safe and reliable operation of entire power networks. Substation communication networks are connected with various substation intelligent electronic devices (IEDs), which is substation systems lifeblood and the system availability is decided by its real-Time performance. International Electro-Technical Commission (IEC) has been developed the standards based on object-oriented technologies for substation automation. IEC 61850 protocol has been applied widely in substation communication applications. It presents new challenges to realtime performance simulation and testing of protective relays. In this paper, an optimized network engineering tool (OPNET) or Riverbed modeler simulation tool/ software has been used for the modeling of IED in substation level network. Based on the simulation results, different types of data stream have been discussed, such as, periodic data stream, random data stream and burst data steam. The typical studies using these models, to construct substation automation system (SAS) network on the OPNET modeler or Riverbed modeler was made to reveal the impact of each affecting parameter or factor to the real-Time performance of substation communications system, which is also incorporated in this report.
- Description: 2015 Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference: Challenges for Future Grids, AUPEC 2015
Using a model of technology activity in the primary classroom
- Authors: Davis, Robert
- Date: 2005
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at Technology Education: A future in technology 2005, Christchurch, New Zealand : 1st October, 2005
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- Description: E1
- Description: 2003001335
- Authors: Davis, Robert
- Date: 2005
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at Technology Education: A future in technology 2005, Christchurch, New Zealand : 1st October, 2005
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The technological narrative of a teaching and learning space
- Davis, Robert, Rogers, Pauline
- Authors: Davis, Robert , Rogers, Pauline
- Date: 2008
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at 5th Biennial International Conference on Technology Education Research: Exploring Technology Education: Solutions to issues in a Globalised World, Crowne Plaza Hotel, Surfers Paradise, Queensland : 27th-29th November 2008
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- Authors: Davis, Robert , Rogers, Pauline
- Date: 2008
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at 5th Biennial International Conference on Technology Education Research: Exploring Technology Education: Solutions to issues in a Globalised World, Crowne Plaza Hotel, Surfers Paradise, Queensland : 27th-29th November 2008
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