Blockchain-enabled logistics finance execution platform for capital-constrained E-commerce retail

2020 ◽  
Vol 65 ◽  
pp. 101962 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ming Li ◽  
Saijun Shao ◽  
Qiwen Ye ◽  
Gangyan Xu ◽  
George Q. Huang
Keyword(s):  
Execution Platform

scholarly journals On Rapid Development of Reactive Wireless Sensor Systems

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 574-582
Author(s):  
Paweł Gburzyński ◽  
Elżbieta Kopciuszewska
Keyword(s):  
Operating System ◽  
Software Development ◽  
Programming Language ◽  
Independent Living ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Sensors And Actuators ◽  
Execution Platform ◽  
Small Footprint ◽  
Set Up

AbstractWe present a software platform for designing and testing wireless networks of sensors and actuators (WSNs). The platform consists of three components: an operating system for small-footprint microcontrollers (dubbed PicOS), a software development kit (SDK) amounting to a C-based, event-oriented (reactive) programming language, and a virtual execution platform (VUE2) capable of emulating complete deployment environments for WSNs and thus facilitating their rapid development.1 Its most recent incarnation introduced in the present paper is a component of the WSN lab being currently set up at Vistula in collaboration with Olsonet Communications Corporation.2 We highlight the platform’s most interesting features within the context of a production WSN installed at independent-living facilities.

Architectural Styles for Distributed Interoperability

2013 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 40-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
José C. Delgado
Keyword(s):  
Distributed Applications ◽  
Current Data ◽  
Structural Support ◽  
Architectural Styles ◽  
Execution Platform ◽  
Media Types ◽  
Description Languages ◽  
Structural Compliance ◽  
Service Interface ◽  
Resource Structure

SOA and REST are the two main architectural styles used for distributed applications. Current SOA implementations use Web Services, which have a flexible service interface but lack resource structure. Current REST implementations use HTTP, with good structural support (through URIs) but fixed service interface, leading to a significant mismatch in modeling some application artifacts. In addition, current data description languages support distributed interoperability by schema sharing (XML) or predefined media types (JSON). This paper makes two main proposals: an architectural style, Structural Service, capable of combining resource structure with flexible services, and a distributed interoperability mechanism, based on structural compliance and conformance, which supports partial interoperability and reduces coupling between interacting services while ensuring that the interoperability requirements of the application are satisfied. Since current technologies do not readily support these proposals, the author developed a language and its execution platform that supports structural services and compliance and conformance.

Role of Digital Microfluidics in Enabling Access to Laboratory Automation and Making Biology Programmable

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (5) ◽  
pp. 411-426 ◽  
Author(s):  
Varun B. Kothamachu ◽  
Sabrina Zaini ◽  
Federico Muffatto
Keyword(s):  
Low Cost ◽  
Digital Microfluidics ◽  
Enabling Technology ◽  
Fully Integrated ◽  
Liquid Handling ◽  
Design Build ◽  
Execution Platform ◽  
Handling Technique ◽  
Screening Assays

Digital microfluidics (DMF) is a liquid handling technique that has been demonstrated to automate biological experimentation in a low-cost, rapid, and programmable manner. This review discusses the role of DMF as a “digital bioconverter”—a tool to connect the digital aspects of the design–build–learn cycle with the physical execution of experiments. Several applications are reviewed to demonstrate the utility of DMF as a digital bioconverter, namely, genetic engineering, sample preparation for sequencing and mass spectrometry, and enzyme-, immuno-, and cell-based screening assays. These applications show that DMF has great potential in the role of a centralized execution platform in a fully integrated pipeline for the production of novel organisms and biomolecules. In this paper, we discuss how the function of a DMF device within such a pipeline is highly dependent on integration with different sensing techniques and methodologies from machine learning and big data. In addition to that, we examine how the capacity of DMF can in some cases be limited by known technical and operational challenges and how consolidated efforts in overcoming these challenges will be key to the development of DMF as a major enabling technology in the computer-aided biology framework.

Requirements and Concept for a Manufacturing Service Management and Execution Platform for Customizable Products

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ursula Rauschecker ◽  
Matthias Stöhr ◽  
Daniel Schel
Keyword(s):  
Flexible Manufacturing ◽  
Service Management ◽  
Cloud Manufacturing ◽  
Use Cases ◽  
It Infrastructure ◽  
Production Networks ◽  
Special Regard ◽  
Execution Platform ◽  
Manufacturing Resources ◽  
Internet Marketplace

Cloud manufacturing provides solutions for a number of tasks concerning the integration of manufacturing resources and production networks. Through it, new possibilities also arise for increasing product individualization. The paper describes how cloud manufacturing concepts allow an Internet marketplace to be established for flexible manufacturing services, which can be used to provide customized products. To do this, first of all use cases related to an appropriate IT infrastructure are analyzed with special regard to the management of manufacturing services which are used to represent manufacturing resources from a technical, financial, logistical, and contractual perspective. Furthermore, requirements on the platform which have to be fulfilled during execution of manufacturing services in a manufacturing cloud are explained and concepts and an architecture for realization of both are described.

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