Delay predictive analytics for airport capacity management

Local delay predictions are crucial for optimizing airport capacity management, enhancing overall resilience, efficiency, and effectiveness of airport operations. This paper delves into the development and comparison of state-of-the-art predictive analytics techniques—spanning rule-based simulations, queuing models, and data-driven approaches—and demonstrates how they can empower informed decision-making toward mitigating the impact of potential delays across the whole spectrum of capacity ma...

Natural Properties Do Not Support Essentialism in Counterpart Theory: A Reflection on Buras’s Proposal

David Lewis may be regarded as an antiessentialist. The reason is that he is said to believe that individuals do not have essential properties independent of the ways they are represented. According to him, indeed, the properties that are determined to be essential to individuals are a matter of which similarity relations among individuals are salient, and salience, in turn, is a contextual matter also determined to some extent by the ways individuals are represented. Todd Buras argues that ...

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Finite element modeling of microstructure evolution and bonding during Friction Stir Extrusion of AA6061 powder at different tool feed rates and rotational speeds

Friction Stir Extrusion (FSE) enhances material properties by producing a fine-grained microstructure, offering improved mechanical strength and eliminating the need for melting, thus reducing potential defects and energy consumption. However, the effects of process parameters on these properties are still under investigation by the research and industrial community. The aim of the present work is therefore to propose a methodology that integrates finite element method (FEM) analysis and anal...