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aCollection of Articles - Book I [free] see
Author: J. Manuel Feliz-Teixeira et al.
May 2010

(167 pages).
This is the first compiled collection of my articles, some of them published together with other authors. The work is also register under the Portuguese Society of Authors, and most of the articles have been previously published in conferences or in the Internet.

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Flexible Supply Chain Simulation [for sale] see
Author: J. Manuel Feliz-Teixeira
Type: Doctoral thesis
Publisher: Publindustria
ISBN: 972-8953-04-6
(271 pages). This Doctoral thesis, based on some hypotheses of flexibility, intends to expose the ideas behind the development of a Flexible Supply Chain Simulator, from the bibliographic review and the study of conceptual issues on Supply Chain systems and trends of simulation, to the final conception and development of a practical simulator written in C++ with which some results and conclusions have been obtained.
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Proceedings of the European Simulation and Modelling Conference (ESM2005) [for sale]
Editors: J.Manuel Feliz-Teixeira, A. E. Carvalho Brito
Publisher: EUROSIS
ISBN: 90-77381-22-8
(599 pages). ESM2005 was the international conference on the state of the art of modelling and simulating, held at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, Portugal. Invited personalities at the event were: the keynote Michael Pidd, and the invited speakers Eugene Kindler, from Czech Republic, Piet Kommers (not present), from the Netherlands, and Renate Sitte, from Australia.

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fubutec Proceeding of the FUBUTEC'2008 - ECEC'2008 European Conference
April 9-11, 2008, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

Edited by:
Antonio Carvalho Brito and J.Manuel Feliz-Teixeira

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ISBN: 978-90-77381-39-7
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Softbound, 141 pages). Covers Data Management, Performance Estimation and Forecasting, Scheduling Methodology, Emergency, Risk and Safety Critical Systems, Structures, Architectures and Models, Workflow Simulation, Logistics Applications and Case Studies.

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Simulação por Computador [for sale]
Author: J. M. Feliz-Teixeira
Co-author: A. E. Carvalho Brito 
Publisher: Publindustria
ISBN: 972-98726-2-7
(273 pages) (only available in portuguese, at the moment). Didactic-technical book on discrete simulation. It treats in detail the activity approach, the event approach, the process approach and the three phase approach, giving the reader a wider view on simulation perspectives. Examples on how to create models and their implementation by means of a general procedure language and C and C++. This book may be an important instrument to those who expect to develop their own models.
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Simulação Visual de Armazéns Automáticos [free]
Author: J. M. Feliz-Teixeira
Supervisor: A. E. Carvalho Brito
Type: Masters Thesis
 
(141 pages) (only available in portuguese, at the moment). O trabalho aqui descrito representa uma parte de um projecto mais vasto no âmbito da simulação de armazéns automáticos desenvolvida de raiz em C++, parte esta que diz respeito à modelação dos vários elementos envolvidos (estanteria, veículos, tapetes, etc.), assim como ao desenvolvimento da respectiva interface do utilizador. Não se poderá, por isso, considerar este trabalho um trabalho acabado, havendo ainda que conceber e implementar vários conceitos aqui não descritos. No entanto, como utilidade futura, pretende-se que este software possa vir a ser usado na avaliação de performances, quer para apoio a acções de ‘marketing’ quer na ajuda ao planeamento de recursos e configuração de instalações. De facto, algumas instalações industrias da EFACEC foram analizadas com recurso a este simulador.
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Could Electricity be a Gravitational Effect? [free] y
Author: J. Manuel Feliz-Teixeira
Date: March 2012
(9 pages). Although electricity and electrical forces have for a  long time been used by mankind as natural resources, it is interesting to notice that in fact no one knows exactly what they are. Some curious-minded people have asked themselves if electric forces could result from gravitational interaction between subatomic particles. The usual argument to avoid such an hypothesis is based on the computation of the gravitational force by means of Newton's equation, to verify that the force between a proton and an electron is nearly 10⁴⁰ times weaker than the electrical force computed by Coulomb’s equation. In this article we ponder on such an argument, since we have the impression that Newton's gravitational force does not hold at very small distances, and probably also not in highly eccentric orbits. By analysing the cases of Halley's and Elenin's comets (Elenin is now very close to Earth), and proposing the use of an orbital constant (G0) alongside the universal constant (G), we will later question if the gravitational force in Bohr's atom could perhaps turn out to be of the same magnitude as that of the electrical force obtained by Coulomb's equation. And this naturally leads us to wonder whether electricity could result from some kind of gravitational effect propagating through certain types of materials, like a pressure wave, for example. If in fact gravitational forces would be much stronger at very small distances than what is usually accepted, the need for a “dark matter” concept to justify the overall cohesion of our universe would perhaps be unnecessary too.


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The Perfect Time for the Perfect Democracy? [free] y
Author: J. Manuel Feliz-Teixeira
Date: March 2012
(4 pages). Due to its exceptional characteristics of intelligence and creativity, a modern human society should be an emergent system, not the result of the wish or dictatorship of some. Such a society should be for all those who may be interested in it. Not just for some. Although this may sound slightly utopian, these are the main lines of thought followed in the wiki-system of law and governance which draft we propose in the present text. Such a system, based on the continuous participation of free and well identified citizens in the proposal, the drawing, discussion and referendum of all the laws of their State (inspired by the excellent achievements reached from citizen's collaboration in wikipedia.org project) would probably extend the activity of “politician” to everyone of us.


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Authored & no-patent [free] y
Author: J. Manuel Feliz-Teixeira
Date: January 2012
(2 pages). The aim of this text is basically to explain the meaning of the no-patent” and the authored & no-patent” symbols that for some time we have been using in our texts and ideas. It is based on the belief that the author of an idea or system may want to offer that idea or system to the public domain and thus to humanity in general, while obviously keeping the moral rights as an author, frequently associated with copyright, for example. We believe that such a system, which can at the same time be used with industrial and intellectual works, contributes to a much better dissemination of knowledge throughout society, since it obviously forbids the possibility of anyone owning a certain idea or work and obstructing it from others, as exclusive publishing and patents commonly do. Anyone can freely use this symbol, since it is itself “authored & no-patent”.


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Concept: Arc-­in-­tension Bridge [free] y
Author: J. Manuel Feliz-Teixeira
Date: August 2011
(1 page). When an arc of a big bridge is being built, everyone is impressed by the extraordinary amount of mass being elevated against gravity in that process. There are several methods for achieving this in practice, but most of them rely on a continuous process of measuring and compensating the torque induced in the structure at each phase, in order that the net result will always be null, at any instant of time. Arc bridges can be loaded in basically two ways: into compression, or into tension, as next figures suggest. This characterizes the way the bridge's deck is to be suspended from the ground. In the first case the weight of the deck (and its traffic) is transferred into the arc by means of a compression process, while in the second case it is done by means of a process of tension.



a The Geometric Law of Motion [free] y
Author: J. Manuel Feliz-Teixeira
Date: July 2011
(15 pages). In a previous article, related to the discussion on the centrifugal force, we presented the Geometric Law of Motion1 which has naturally emerged from expressing motion based on the fundamental entities position, mass and velocity, and the proposal that the torque equation be generalised to the inner product operation. This automatically leads to a new equation describing the radial energy of the system. Motion would therefore take place in a kind of continuous exchange of energy between the angular and the radial dimensions of the space, relative to an observer. This article is solely dedicated to such a law, which we now present with more detail and with some extra remarks, in a bid to also place it alongside previous proposals and, in particular, the Quantum Mechanical description. We will also try to travel from the infinitely large world into the infinitely small world, while never abandoning the Geometric Law of Motion.

a Apparently Deriving Fictitious Forces [free] y
Author: J. Manuel Feliz-Teixeira
Date: June 2011
(8 pages). Since neither Galileo's Law of Inertia nor Newton's Second Law hold true in an accelerating frame of reference (which here we call the “accelerated world”), several challenges arise when trying to describe the movement of bodies in such a type of referential. In simple cases, mainly when the acceleration of the referential is a constant vector in the “inertial world”, that is, when there is no acceleration on the acceleration, things become simple because such a vector can be seen by the accelerating observer as coming from a “fictitious” external force in the opposite direction to the force he feels. Why fictitious? Simply because he does not know where it is coming from or what causes it. But, in cases where this referential is subject to an acceleration that accelerates, when seen from the inertial space, things get much more complex to interpret, and all sorts of “fictitious” forces are usually evoked to explain the physics of the accelerating world. Perhaps the case with most academic debate since olden times is the spinning world, from which the concepts of centrifugal, Coriolis and Euler forces result. These are usually considered “fictitious” forces, in order that the laws of physics can be minimally understood from the point of view of the two worlds. This article is not only a discussion on these concepts but also an effort to explain them better, and reclassify them as real and not fictitious. We also argue that the centripetal force which spins the accelerated world is, in fact, a fictitious force.


a In Defence of the Centrifugal Force and the Geometric Law of Motion [free] y
Author: J. Manuel Feliz-Teixeira
Date: June 2011
(8 pages). After a brief introductio and some discussion on the academic conflict that has forever surrounded the idea of a centrifugal force, there will be presented in this text the mathematical concepts that may lead us to believe in the real existence of this force. Some of the probable implications arising from this fact are then addressed, in particular the possibility of describing the laws of motion as a single Geometric Law of Motion.


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Home Noise and Electric Grid Induced Ultrasounds [free] y
Author: J. Manuel Feliz-Teixeira
Date: June 2011
(11 pages). For some years now we have been trying to identify and localise the sources of several ultrasound signals that we have detected in the building in which we live, and inside our individual rooms. These signals were first detected while preparing a lesson for students about sound mixing. We had chosen a very simple but reliable open source application named “Audacity” to record, mix and analyse some sounds. But when these signals were spectral analysed we were surprised by the amount of ultrasonic energy we may often, silently, be living under. We have detected them also in other places, even in our classrooms. After nearly two years of investigation to determine their probable origins, and an unfruitful session of contacts, both with the Electrical Company (EDP) and the public institution responsible for tcommunication and regulation of spectra (ANACOM), we decided to simply publish this article in order to let the subject be exposed to the public domain and conscience. Herein, we present several aspects of the issue, which we think should be addressed by public health officers as a probable long term threat to citizens health, noting that a significant amount of these ultrasounds are probably due in part to the new low consumption gas filled light bulbs along with ultrasonic repellents of animals and people.


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Some Facts and Comments on the Strange Clouds
People Around the World Call “Chemtrails”, and Their
Probable Relation to the HAARP System
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Author: J. Manuel Feliz-Teixeira
Date: March 2011
(17 pages). Near 10 years have passed since my eyes could for the first time observe one of those abnormal trails crossing the entire sky. It was a clean day of a wonderful blue sky. And, over our heads, a first line of a constant width hundreds of kilometres in length was splitting such a blue ceiling into two parts. Only a single flight did it, in the dozens of flights crossing our skies on that day. It seemed almost absurd, and an abuse, at the time. It was around the beginning of the Autumn of either 1998 or 1999, I don't recall exactly. Until then, our eyes used to find the skies naturally either clean and of a transparent blue or with clean normal clouds. It could rain or be a sunny day, no matter the atmospheric conditions, the trails of the aircraft had always been of the same kind: a little white tail of around 10 or 20 times the aircraft length, which in some seconds would dissipate into the atmosphere, leaving the sky completely clean as before. Curiously, since that day, the number of flights leaving abnormal trails have slowly been increasing, and, along the last 10 years, we have also seen many things degrading from the sea water which slowly started to frequently exhibit a sort of bad smelling foam fluctuating along the coast, to the falling of thousands of bees dead before our feet, the sudden weakening and darkening of certain trees, which frequently died, like the pine and the eucalyptus, for example, to the mass deteriorating of citizens' health due to persistent respiratory problems and “strange” illnesses. In 2007, near 30% of the population of my country were already suffering chronic rhinitis1. In this article we give a testimony of our own empirical observations and comment on some aspects that may be related to the phenomenon. We hope this may be seen as a contribution to those in the Sciences of Health and Environment who probably might like to investigate the issue by means of a truly scientific perspective. In that sense, we will also make some references to the project known as High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP), which many people on the  Internet suspect of also being related to such abnormal aircraft trails.


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“Solar-­dam”: for Retrieving Energy from the Sun [free] y
Author: J. Manuel Feliz-Teixeira
Date: May 2010
(5 pages). A very simple solar engine is described herein. Since it is a mechanical device, with moving parts, its practical usefulness may perhaps be low, at least compared with the modern systems based on semiconductor solar cells. Nevertheless, due to its extreme simplicity, and as it is easy to build in several formats and dimensions, it deserves to be mentioned and described. It should be considered more as a concept than a completely tested device. At least as a curiosity and as a didactic model we hope it will interest someone. Some home-made versions of the solar-dam concept have been built using day-to-day  materials, and then minimally tested in order to verify their correct operation. Most of the times those models were behaving as self-oscillating devices, which were automatically starting to operate in the morning, with  sunrise, and stopping only at sunset, in the evening. We believe, nevertheless, they may also enter into a complete cycle if properly adjusted. Such a machine may also be used as a dynamic element of architecture, for instance, and surely as a good example of the conversion of sunlight into mechanical energy at ambient temperatures.

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aDeducing Kepler and Newton from
Avicenna (‫ ,(ابن سینا‬Huygens and Descartes
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Author: J. Manuel Feliz-Teixeira
Date: April 2010
(9 pages) With the advent of  Einstein's Theory of Relativity and  Quantum Mechanics, the interest in Classical Mechanics, as a field of research and philosophy, has naturally declined and almost vanished, being now practically reduced to its didactic relevance and a powerful tool for engineering. However, a fascination for the primordial questions of Physics has compelled me as a justification for once again looking at those principles regulating the movement of bodies, and to deduce from them the laws of gravitation and celestial dynamics. This time, however, this was done without the help from either Kepler or Newton. In effect, one may even say that Newton and Kepler are derived from the conceptual and mathematical manipulations presented herein, based on very simple and universal truths, some of them which have been perceived since at least the time of Avicenna. Then, both the deduced gravitational force and the laws governing the planets will be compared with Newton's gravity and Kepler's laws. Finally, some considerations are drawn about Newton's gravitational constant G and proposed an orbital constant G0 and a gravitation force dependent on 1/r3.

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a Almost a Flying Saucer [free] y
Author: J. Manuel Feliz-Teixeira
Date: September 2009
(6 pages). One of the most fascinating subjects on our way to the understanding of the laws of the Universe is the almost delirious search for the ability to levitate (ourselves and objects), which in modern times also became associated with some anti-gravity purported effects, fantastic space ships, as well as with what is commonly known as flying saucers. A significant number of proposals for achieving such abilities claimed as anti-gravity are focused on the gyroscopic effect observed when a fly wheel is suddenly forced to move out of its initial plane of rotation [1]. The law of Physics for the conservation of angular momentum results here in the appearance of what some explain as 'apparent' forces, which give the observer the illusion that it is close to achieving the goal of building an anti-gravity device. This article deals with some of the thoughts usually behind such claims, proposals and experiments, and has the intention of contributing to a better understanding of the mechanical effects involved in these gyroscope based devicess.
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a Wind-Splash-Turbine [free] y
Author: J. Manuel Feliz-Teixeira
Date: July 2009
(7 pages). Designing a turbine usually implies the assumption that the turbine aerodynamics somehow have to blend well into the fluid flow, in order to obtain good efficiency and a low pressure operation of the overall system. The solution presented in this article points to the opposite, since it is based on the splash effect observed when a drop of liquid falls down on a perfectly elastic surface. Although only a small model of a wind turbine has been constructed to validate the concept, here we present and discuss such a proposal by means of mixing some Physics with some exercises of intuition.
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a HyperTurbine: a Wind Machine From Another World [free] y
Author: J. Manuel Feliz-Teixeira
Date: June 2009
(9 pages).  The wind power mindset has lately been substantially affected by the confrontation between expectations and reality. It has been systematically shown that in practice the amounts of energy produced are much smaller than what seemed to be calculated by technicians who strongly promoted such an idea. We have to say we feel deluded too. The problem has to do with the lack of a clear interpretation of what wind speed means, in practice, in terms of available energy, and also the lack of analysis of the transference of energy along all the parts of the wind system, including its electrical components. A final observation that inverters operate on a basis of 50% efficiency when transferring power, in effect reduces the performance of a wind system claimed to be 30% efficient as half of this. This led us to estimate that most wind systems would be operating with no more than around 15% efficiency, which is a poor figure, specially for small wind turbines. The other aspect is to realize that systems in the market are rated at wind speeds around 10m/s, which in effect means “strong wind”, therefore for situations occurring infrequently, in most places. Nevertheless, here we present our latest conception of a wind turbine, which we decided to name hyperturbine due to the fact that it is based on a completely new strategy for collecting the wind energy, and on a design we consider even more interesting that the superturbine proposed in a previous article.
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a SuperbWind: An Artistic Wind System Praising the Wind Energy Mindset [free]
Author: J. Manuel Feliz-Teixeira
Date: Sep 2008
(7 pages). Herein we present a wind system for lowmedium power, developed with the intent of joining arts and lowcost technology. Since both aspects are nowadays easily accessible to the common person, and since the production of energy has already been opened to the private generation of electric power by means of renewable energies, we think that the time has come to motivate people to develop and use their own systems, which sometimes may start with an innocent artistic project. In a certain sense, technology is still being presented to the public as a kind of myth, so, this article may also be seen as a contribution to the popularization of knowledge, against such a myth. We believe that societies would be much more prolific if not trapped in such obstructive practices. Here we present a real artistic technological system which is now being tested in a real house of a real family. One of the innovative aspects of it is the fact that the generator is located on the roof of the house, instead of on the top of the mast. We expected to be capable of generating electricity for direct injection into the public network and, since the system is located near the seaside, where winds are usually very generous to achieve between 1 and 1,5 KWatt of wind power, in special circumstances.
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a Circles Model for Metro Light Rail Analysis [free] see
Author: J. Manuel Feliz-Teixeira
Date: Sep 2007
(6 pages). The present article shows a way of transforming a Metro Light Rail simulation model into a more abstract model, based on circles. This sort of representation, which goes into the abstract domain, is made to run in parallel with the common dynamic representation of the rail network during the simulation process, and gives the user precious information concerning the harmony with which the overall system is performing. Frequently, a simple look into this running circles model is enough to let the user identify or understand certain traffic effects associated with the accuracy of the vehicle scheduling, for example. Although abstract, this is an interesting representation to help study the dynamics of Metro Light Rail networks, together with other methods like sensitive analysis or the common train schedule or time-space diagrams. We also present some results obtained by simulating a didactic representation of the Metro Light Rail of Brussels, since it is a well-known and modern European Union (EU) light rail facility.
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a scMod/Sim.exe, For Supply Chain Modelling and Simulation [free]
Author: J. Manuel Feliz-Teixeira
Date: Mar 2007
(7 pages). In this paper we present an application dedicated to modelling and simulating Supply Chain systems (scMod/Sim.exe), developed with C++, with which a wide number of structures and policies can be analysed. The model construction is based on primitives resembling the real objects involved in these systems, like trucks, transport paths, retailers, factories, warehouses, stocks, etc. The result is a very simple environment for representing the Supply Chain in a wide range of situations. The simulator application, with its various tools for automatically representing the relevant metrics, gives the analyst an excellent opportunity for studying the behaviour of his/her Supply Chain, from the operational basis to the level of strategic decisions. In addition, the simulator includes a tool for helping to create the rigidity matrix of the Supply Chain (Feliz-Teixeira & Brito, 2004), with which the analyst can get an idea about how much his/her system will be flexible to demand variations.
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a Bicycle Wheel: A Surprising Wind Turbine [free]
Author: J. Manuel Feliz-Teixeira
Date: December 2006
(7 pages). This is the third of a group of articles about the concept of convergence in turbines, in particular in those used for wind power capture. Herein we present a discussion and some conclusions about the design of the bicycle wheel converted into an easy to build convergent wind turbine. The results observed in practice have been so promising that we suggest that this is perhaps an excellent design for a wind turbine. We also expect once more to promote renewable energies for that they definitely become a strong alternative for electrical power generation. A short video of a small bicycle wheel running with the wind can be seen: video.
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a Double Convergent Wind Turbine:To Follow the Wind Direction [free]
Author: J. Manuel Feliz-Teixeira
Date: November 2006
(6 pages). Here we present a double turbine for wind power capture which uses the concept of convergency and naturally has the ability of aligning itself with the direction of the wind flow. Although the model presented here is an experimental prototype, it has been observed that it operates with very promising performances. In this article we show the turbines’ structure and present a first model of a rotor a metre in diameter. One may get a better idea of how this system performs by watching the two short videos: video1, video2.
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a Low-cost Convergent Turbine for Wind Power Usage [free]
Author: J. Manuel Feliz-Teixeira
Date: November 2006
(9 pages). Here we expose the concepts of “divergent” and “convergent” turbines, and use them to support the introduction of a new turbine for wind power capture. This is a low-cost turbine which can easily be built with ordinary materials. Mainly due to the simple construction, the low-cost of its materials and the surprising performance observed in practice, this system may be seen as an interesting alternative to the expensive wind turbines presently offered in the market. This is, however, a proposal which has not yet been characterized by accurate scientific measures in order to be compared with the performances achieved by the usual turbine design.
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a Roda-de-Vento, a Proposal for an Ex-libris [free]
Author: J. Manuel Feliz-Teixeira
Date: May 2006 
(5 pages). The idea described herein is a proposal for an artistic-technological installation on the coastline of Porto, Portugal. The aim is to install in a seaside esplanade a giant bicycle wheel (Roda-de-Vento) which will turn with the wind. This element will be both an architectural construction praising those who often use the esplanade for riding bicycles, roller-skating, wind-cars, etc., as well as a wind electrical generator, aimed to directly promote to citizens the potential hidden in renewable energies.
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a HiperJanela, an Upper Dimension for the Society of Information [free] y
Author: J. Manuel Feliz-Teixeira
Date: May 2006
(6 pages). This article describes an idea for achieving a higher level of global visibility of certain events and for improving and stimulating citizens (in this first approach, European citizens) for a higher level of consciousness of the diversity of European reality. The proposal presented in this article, named “HiperJanela”, aims to bring citizens to an upper level of on-time-real-information across the entire European space, by means of a global network of public video-interfaces which we call the HiperJanelas (notice that “Janela” is the Portuguese word for window).
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a Holistic Metrics, a Trial on Interpreting Complex Systems [free] see
Author: J. Manuel Feliz-Teixeira, António E. S. Carvalho Brito
Date: April 2006
(5 pages). In this article is proposed a simple method for estimating or characterize the behaviour of complex systems. Usual ways of treating the complex output data obtained from the activity (real or simulated) of such a kind of systems, in many cases analysed in the time domain, is herein substituted by the idea of representing such data in the frequency domain, somehow like what is commonly done in Fourier Analysis and in Quantum Mechanics. This is expected to give the analyst a more holistic perspective on the system’s behaviour, as well as letting him/her choose almost freely the complex states in which such behaviour is to be projected. We hope this will lead to simpler processes in characterizing complex systems.
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a Comparing a Standard and a Naïve Stock Refill Policies by Means of Simulation[free]
Authors: J. Manuel Feliz-Teixeira, António E. S. Carvalho Brito
Date: October 2004
(6 pages). This article compares by simulation two different stock refill policies applied to the same in-lined one-product Supply Chain. The first method is the Japanese KANBAN, and the second is a naïve method named by the authors the “BanKan”. The surprising results obtained show an obvious operational advantage of the naïve method, at least under the conditions of the present Supply Chain configuration. This method does not make use of any criteria dependent on the actual stock level at the facility, and it was also observed that the materials flow through the Supply Chain as in a “river without dams”, with extremely low local inventory, as defended by Taiichi Ohno, the father of just-in-time (JIT) systems, in the 1980s.
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a Using Simulation to Analyse the Procurement of Additives for Lubricants in the Oil Refinery of Porto, Portugal [free]
Authors: J. Manuel Feliz-Teixeira, António E. S. Carvalho Brito
Date: September 2004
(7 pages). Data in this article results from a study of simulation about the procurement of additives for lubricants in the Oil Refinery of Porto (Portugal). Here we describe the real case under study as well as the method we have chosen to board it by means of simulation. Costs including transportation, holding and stockouts have been considered during the simulation as well as in the final conclusions, which led us recommend a more frequent reordering of materials at the lubricants plant. This we expect to result in the saving of around 0.3M€/year in global costs.
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a On Measuring the Supply Chain Flexibility [free] see
Authors: J. Manuel Feliz-Teixeira, António E. S. Carvalho Brito
Date: February 2004
(6 pages). This paper presents some lines of thinking related with the establishment of a concrete mathematical basis to measure the flexibility of a Supply Chain. A theory of flexibility directed to demand variations is presented and commented, as well as some results achieved by dynamic simulation.
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a Distributed Application for Supply Chain Management Training [free]
Authors: J. Manuel Feliz-Teixeira, António E. S. Carvalho Brito
Date: June 2004
(5 pages). Here we present a computer application to be used as an interactive tool for Supply Chain Management Training. Implemented with Visual C++, this application embeds the “Cranfield Blocks Game” (Richard Saw , 2002) network structure, and uses precisely the same demand patterns as the manual version of the game. The present application substitutes the classroom table by the computer screen, and can run in AUTOPLAY mode, meaning the game can also be played with only one player or even automatically, with no players at all.
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a An Approach for Dynamic Supply Chain Modelling [free]
Authors: J. Manuel Feliz-Teixeira, António E. S. Carvalho Brito
Date: October 2003
(8 pages). This paper presents some concepts related to the development of a “model generator” for simulating supply chain systems. Such concepts arise not only from the object point of view taken over this system, but also from our intention to synthesise the behaviour of these kinds of systems based in a Costumer Supplier Unit (CSU), whith wich events and activities related to suppliers, factories, warehouses, retailers, and even the last customers, can be modelled.
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a Visual C++ software for warehouse simulation (an overview) [free]
Authors: J. Manuel Feliz-Teixeira, António E. S. Carvalho Brito
Date: February 1999
(6 pages). This article presents an overview of a visual and interactive warehouse simulator developed with Visual C++. This simulator have been designed under an object oriented programming approach and looks to the warehouse in an hierarchic point of view, which allows an interesting separation of the responsibilities on the system.
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a Introduction to a warehouse visual simulator [free]
Authors: J. Manuel Feliz-Teixeira, António E. S. Carvalho Brito
Date: September 1999
(8 pages). Here we present an introduction to the work we have developed about a Visual and Interactive Simulator Modeller for warehouse simulation. In the approach presented here, the different elements in a warehouse, as well as the processes they are related to, were based on the warehouse and control systems used by the Portuguese company EFACEC S.A.
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a Warehouse visual simulation applied to a practical layout (Iran) [free]
Authors: J. Manuel Feliz-Teixeira, António E. S. Carvalho Brito
Date: July 1998
(6 pages). In this article we present the results of a case study made on warehouse characterisation by means of computer simulation techniques. In this study three different layout solutions are considered, one proposed by the ultimate Iranian client, and the other two designed and proposed by the Portuguese company EFACEC with the intention of achieving better performance and price than those on the client's proposal.
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a Warehouse visual simulation applied to a practical layout (Brasil) [free]
Authors: J. Manuel Feliz-Teixeira, António E. S. Carvalho Brito
Date: July 1998
(6 pages). This article presents a simulation study made for the project of a warehouse layout designed by the Portuguese company EFACEC with the purpose of installing it in Brasil. The case have been analysed using Visual and Interactive Modelling, conceiving the elements and processes in the warehouse with the same base philosophy of management and control that this Portuguese enterprise uses for building automated warehouses.





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