This paper introduces the Co-Factored User-Subject Embedding based Personalized EDM Subject Generation Framework (COUPES), a model for creating personalized Electronic Direct Mail (EDM) subjects. COUPES adapts to individual content and style …

At the wake of independence in several African countries in the 1960s, there was a high optimism on the emancipation of Africans from socio-economic and political crisis imposed upon the continent by the colonial powers. Despite the emergence of …

The movement of a single vehicle is a fundamental building block in traffic modeling. A single vehicle can significantly impact the performance of a traffic stream. Consider an on-ramp vehicle entering a busy freeway at a low speed: it can cause …

Detaild, realistic knowledge of the weather effects on building materials is essential to efficiently maintain and manage historical buildings. The main aim of this study is to model the long-term weathering behavior of stone materials under …

In addition to the processes and plants for producing man-made fibers and filaments described in Chapters 2 and 4, new products and processes are continuously being developed to meet particular requirements related to polymers, production or the …

The goal of approaches to automatic text summarization is to construct summaries while extracting the essential information from one or more input texts. Large models could be trained thanks to the ability to examine text non-sequentially, which …

Through four brief fragments, this chapter establishes a cause, an approach, and a context for an aesthetic inquiry into student rooms as places of transitory dwelling and materialisations of an art of temporary living. First, based on the notion …

This chapter examines the characteristics of intra-firm work organization and labor in Hyundai Motor’s agile production system. Hyundai Motor’s production process is characterized by flexible automation and skill-saving work organization. While …

„Schönheit liegt im Auge des Betrachters. Dieses aber darf geschult werden.“ So der Architekt und Designexperte Hans-Ulrich von Mende. Aber auch das Auge der Designer darf hier und da geschult werden. Dass sich hässliche Produkte, namentlich …

In this chapter, the continuities and differences across the cases that are analysed in this book are discussed. There are certain continuities across the different cases that validate the theory of this book and help to understand which findings …

Wenn es die Zielgruppe gibt und sie auch groß genug ist, bleibt die Frage: Wer sind die zukünftigen Käufer? Kommen sie vom Wettbewerb oder von der eigenen Marke? Oder einer anderen Marke des eigenen Unternehmens? Diese Frage wird häufig übersehen …