Looks at the literature to date which has indicated some successful cases of using traditional economic analysis techniques in justifying factory automation. Points out, however, that strategic implications and integration effects of factory control systems are beyond the scope of currently...

Previously, it was taken for granted that features learned for classification can also be used for ranking. However, ranking problems possess some distinctive properties, e.g., the ordinal class labels, which indicates the necessity of developing new feature learning procedures dedicated for...