Digital Operation Research Articles

Legal Implications of Post-Merger Notification Policy on Digital Companies in Indonesian Competition Law

In any market structure, potential competition violations arising from merger, consolidation, and acquisition (M&A) activities cannot be completely avoided. This holds true for digital markets that involve multi-sided markets, network effects, and significant consumer data. The intricate nature of the digital market poses a challenge for competition authorities in effectively monitoring M&A transactions between digital companies. A notable example is the GoTo merger, which is set to become the largest digital company in Southeast Asia. To address this issue, this legal research aims to discuss the legal implications of the current notification policy based on Law No. 5 of 1999 by conducting contextual research on digital market operations and studying previous violations committed by foreign digital companies. This research follows a normative legal research approach, employing statutory, conceptual, and case analysis to address the problem formulation. The findings indicate that digital companies possess various possibilities to violate competition law, including monopolistic practices and unfair business competition, if the existing post-merger notification policy remains in place. As many countries are already grappling with complex issues such as data ownership thresholds, Indonesia is taking its initial steps towards implementing changes to its merger policy. By adopting a pre-merger notification policy as a reporting obligation, Indonesia will enable the Commission for the Supervision of Business Competition (KPPU) to assess M&A transactions more effectively and provide legal certainty for businesses regarding the lawfulness of their M&A activities.

FACTOR AFFECTING OF MANAGERIAL BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY AND CRYPTOCURRENCY FOR DIGITAL ASSET BUSINESS IN THAILAND

The research intends (1) To study factors affecting of managerial blockchain technology and cryptocurrency for digital asset business in Thailand and (2) To study the perception of using blockchain technology and Cryptocurrency in digital asset business. The researcher uses quantitative research methodology. The questionnaire is the tool for collecting data from related personnel and digital asset business operators. The researcher takes the mean from the data, calculates the Standard Deviation, and data analysis with the severity index. The study found that factors affecting managerial blockchain technology and Cryptocurrency in digital asset business and e-commerce help make electronic commerce more convenient. It was the most important factor that is at a very agreeable level ( = 3.787), the severity index is at SI = 78.811%. Overall, it found that the perception of the stakeholders in the management of Blockchain technology and Cryptocurrency in the digital asset business is at a very agreeable level ( = 3.702) and the severity index is at SI = 77.045%.

Review on intelligent pipeline technologies: A life cycle perspective

The pipeline is one of the important carriers in the petroleum industry, but facing with the development bottlenecks of low efficiency, high cost and high decision risk. With machine learning and advanced sensor, new technological breakthroughs are being opening up for intelligent pipeline systems to benefit. Nowadays, the intelligent transformation of pipeline is still in the initial stage. To accelerate this process, this paper elaborates the research on intelligent pipeline systems from the perspective of the full life cycle of pipeline. The life cycle is divided into six stages, including exploration, feasibility study, design, construction, operation and scrap. In each stage, the related theoretical research and key technologies have been systematically reviewed. It is observed that full digital construction and operation is an inevitable trend. The Internet of Things, big data, and multi-objective optimization are critical technologies. Finally, some future directions are put forward to prompt a pipeline into intelligence.

Digital Twins in the Marine Industry

The ocean holds abundant resources, but the utilization of those resources for the marine economy presents a complex and dynamic industrial situation. Exploring sustainable development in this industry is of practical value, as it involves the rational use of marine resources while protecting the environment. This study provides an innovative review of the current application status of Digital Twins Technology (DTT) in various sectors of the marine industry, including the ship-building industry (SBI), Offshore Oil and Gas Industry, marine fishery, and marine energy industry. The findings reveal that DTT offers robust support for full life cycle management (LCM) in SBI, including digital design, intelligent processing, operation, and error management. Furthermore, this work delves into the challenges and prospects of DTT application in the marine industry, aiming to provide reference and direction for intelligent systems in the industry and guide the rational development and utilization of marine resources in the future.

Analysis the Special Nodes of E-commerce Platforms Based on the Background of "Double Eleven" Marketing

As a result of the recent outbreak, it would appear that the "Double Eleven" shopping festival has entered its mature phase, with consumer behaviors gradually becoming more rationalized and customer enthusiasm gradually decreasing. The purpose of this study was to analyze how Pinduoduo can reform and improve its marketing campaigns in order to better boost the desire of people to buy and move the economy forward in the midst of a slump. This study came to the conclusion that consumers' willingness to buy will be influenced by quality-assured and diverse products, cost-effective prices, easy-to-play and easily accessible offers, and close user relationships. On the other hand, the proliferation of newly emerged content platforms and live e-commerce will further occupy the e-commerce platform market and squeeze users' space. As a consequence of this, the only way to improve a company's reputation and brand image, as well as improve the process of corporate transformation and upgrading, and increase consumer stickiness, is to consistently attract big brands, expand digital operations, and serve a diverse range of consumer wants.

Integrated digital operating room for optimization of head and neck cancer surgery

Integrated digital operating room for optimization of head and neck cancer surgery

The Role of Digital Marketing in Tourism Businesses: An Empirical Investigation in Greece

For the tourism industry, the COVID-19 pandemic has acted as an accelerator towards the 4th industrial revolution by creating new and innovative solutions, which have transformed management, finance, planning and opened new avenues for the introduction of innovative sales and marketing technologies. As the tourism industry in Greece faces significant challenges and opportunities posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, additional needs have arisen for tourism businesses, as confirmed in this research, to adapt faster to digital operations and strengthen digital marketing through multi-channel distribution and use of digital assistants. This study aims to investigate the use of digital marketing tools by tourism companies as well as the overall satisfaction of the companies with its use and the areas of impact of digital marketing from the COVID-19 pandemic, and then to highlight all those features that stand out from those of their competitors, as well as the creation of an appropriate marketing strategy that will ensure the flow of new customers and increased revenue. To meet this purpose, an empirical survey was conducted in tourism companies in order to provide answers to research questions. As tourism businesses have not yet made sufficient use of digital media as a strategic marketing tool, this research is the basis for further research into the use of technology and digital tools to reach customers and create a more personalized experience for them.

Generation of time-varying orbital angular momentum beams with space-time-coding digital metasurface

The recently proposed extreme-ultraviolet beams with time-varying orbital angular momentum (OAM) realized by high-harmonic generation provide extraordinary tools for quantum excitation control and particle manipulation. However, such an approach is not easily scalable to other frequency regimes. We design a space-time-coding digital metasurface operating in the microwave regime to experimentally generate time-varying OAM beams. Due to the flexible programmability of the metasurface, a higher-order twist in the envelope wavefront structure of time-varying OAM beams can be further designed as an additional degree of freedom. The time-varying OAM field patterns are dynamically mapped by developing a two-probe measurement technique. Our approach in combining the programmability of space-time-coding digital metasurfaces and the two-probe measurement technique provides a versatile platform for generating and observing time-varying OAM and other spatiotemporal excitations in general. The proposed time-varying OAM beams have application potentials in particle manipulation, time-division multiplexing, and information encryption.

Digital Connectivity Bridging Digital ASEAN

The world is changing rapidly with the adoption of sophisticated digital technology. The foremost tool for digital technology operation is digital connectivity infrastructure. To unleash the potential of the digital economy in ASEAN countries, the foundation is upgrading its digital connection, which is a key part of making digitalization feasible. This study identified five factors that contributed to the digital connectivity of ten ASEAN countries and used them to calculate the overall score of each country to show its performance in terms of digital connectivity. The competitive analysis results of the five digital connectivity enablers in each country show their respective strengths and shortcomings. Myanmar made the greatest progress in overall digital connectivity, due to its engaging in national regulatory reforms and focusing connectivity developments after realizing the need to improve their ICT infrastructure. There is still much room for improvement in the network performance of ASEAN countries; among all ten countries, only Singapore has reached a very satisfactory level. Striving to narrow the digital connectivity development gap would be an important agenda item for all ASEAN countries.

Impact of resampling interpolation FIR filter in the practical Kramers-Kronig receiver.

The practical Kramers-Kronig (KK) receiver has been a competitive receiving technique in the data-center, medium reach, and even long-haul metropolitan networks. Nevertheless, an extra digital resampling operation is required at both ends of the KK field reconstruction algorithm due to the spectrum broadening caused by adopting the nonlinear function. Generally, the digital resampling function can be implemented by using linear interpolation (LI-ITP), the Lagrange cubic interpolation (LC-ITP), the spline cubic interpolation (SC-ITP), time-domain anti-aliasing finite impulse response (FIR) filter method (TD-FRM) scheme, and fast Fourier transform (FFT)-based scheme. However, the performance and the computational complexity analysis of different resampling interpolation schemes in the KK receiver have not been thoroughly investigated yet. Different from the interpolation schemes of conventional coherent detection, the interpolation function of the KK system is followed by the nonlinear operation, which will broaden the spectrum significantly. Due to the frequency-domain transfer function of different interpolation schemes, the broadened spectrum will have a potential spectrum aliasing, which will cause serious inter-symbol interference (ISI) and further impair the KK phase retrieval performance. We experimentally investigate the performance of different interpolation schemes under different digital up-sampling rates (i.e. the computational complexity) as well as the cut-off frequency, the tap number of the anti-aliasing filter, and the shape factor of the TD-FRM scheme in a 112-Gbit/s SSB DD 16-QAM system over 1920-km Raman amplification (RFA)-based standard single-mode fiber (SSMF). The experimental results involve that the TD-FRM scheme outperforms other interpolation schemes and the complexity is reduced by at least 49.6%. In fiber transmission results, take 20% soft decision-forward error correction (SD-FEC) of 2×10-2 as the threshold, the LI-ITP and LC-ITP schemes only reach 720-km while others can reach up to 1440-km.

Policy for cultural and creative industries in India: the issue of regulation through digital policy

ABSTRACT This article examines the evolution of public policy for cultural and creative industries in the context of building India as a digital nation. How has the rise of digital industries in the building of the country permeated policies related to cultural industries, and what have been the consequences of this trend? It will also explore the tensions regarding the evolution of the role of the State in shaping and regulating such industries in the broader context of culture being increasingly associated with national identity. This article starts by showing that in a context where cultural policies remain centered on heritage, the support to culture by the state has remained limited, both in financial terms as well as regarding the implementation of specific regulations which would require protection from traditional market forces. Then, it analyzes several action plans that have been developed as part of the Digital India government initiative and assesses emerging issues for the cultural and creative industries, which are increasingly associated with the functioning of digital devices and operators. Finally, it discussed recent modalities of state intervention through the transfer of the role of cultural operator to digital platforms and the attempts to control expressions.

Efficient Hashing Method Using 2D-2D PCA for Image Copy Detection

Image copy detection is an important technology of copyright protection. This paper proposes an efficient hashing method for image copy detection using 2D-2D (two-directional two-dimensional) PCA (Principal Component Analysis). The key is the discovery of the translation invariance of 2D-2D PCA. With the property of translation invariance, a novel model of extracting rotation-invariant low-dimensional features is designed by combining PCT (Polar Coordinate Transformation) and 2D-2D PCA. The PCT can convert an input rotated image to a translation matrix. Since the 2D-2D PCA is invariant to translation, the low-dimensional features learned from the translation matrix are rotation-invariant. Moreover, vector distances of low-dimensional features are stable to common digital operations and thus hash construction with the vector distances is of robustness and compactness. Three open image datasets are exploited to conduct various experiments for validating efficiencies of the proposed method. The results demonstrate that the proposed method is much better than some representative hashing methods in the performances of classification and copy detection.

Managing start-up – incumbent digital solution co-creation: a four-phase process for intermediation in innovative contexts

ABSTRACT As incumbents strive to collaborate with start-ups in the pursuit of cutting-edge digital solutions, the complexities posed by disparate partners and their innovative endeavours often lead to intricate tensions. Our research underscores the critical role of innovation intermediaries in enabling a successful digital co-creation, yet a deeper understanding of this novel and evolving context is required. Through a comprehensive study of two innovation intermediaries, five incumbent companies, and eleven start-ups, we shed light on how intermediaries can effectively mitigate the hard-to-manage tensions that emerge. Our analysis uncovers three primary tensions: incompatible digital co-creation cultures, divergent digital innovation operations, and misaligned technical capabilities. We further propose a four-phase process for innovation intermediation, including the establishment of digital co-creation foundations, catalysing digital innovation projects, orchestrating the co-creation process, and scaling the resulting outcomes.

User Experience Evaluation on Production Performance Monitoring System Using Honeycomb Method

In the era of digitalization in industries, companies are implementing the Digital Factory Operating System in various aspects, including monitoring production performance on the sachet line. Previously, operators manually carried out the production performance monitoring process using paper forms, and admins re-entered the data into the system. Although the monitoring process has begun to be carried out digitally using available tablets, its usage still needs improvement. Therefore, it is necessary to evaluate the user experience of the Production Performance Monitoring Information System to determine user satisfaction. The Honeycomb method is used in this study, which assesses seven aspects, namely accessible, credible, desirable, findable, usable, useful, and valuable. The results show the average final score of each aspect assessed, and the highest score of 66.45% is for the accessible and useful aspects. The study shows that the user experience evaluation of the Production Performance Monitoring Information System using the honeycomb method is generally good, but improvements are still needed in some aspects, such as accessibility and desirability.

Digitalisasi PT Pos dalam Meningkatkan Kepuasan Pelanggan PT Pos Indonesia

This study aims to determine the impact of service digitization reform on customer satisfaction in PT Pos Indonesiaa Bandung City Office. This digitization reform will affect PT Pos activities as a whole because technological developments are inevitable. Digital service operations will affect customer satisfaction, with such digitalization, customers can feel satisfied and vice versa. The number of respondents in this study was 100 using random sampling method. This study uses a quantitative method with data collection methods using a Likert scale questionnaire that tests the independent variables and the dependent variable using simple linear regression analysis to measure measurement accuracy using validity and reliability tests. The processing results showed that service digitalization reform and customer satisfaction are in the "good" category. The digitization reform of PT Pos has a good impact and makes customers feel satisfied. This research can be developed by studying other issues related to other reforms carried out in PT Pos Indonesia so that it becomes a new strength for PT Pos Indonesia.

Realizing zero-waste value chains through digital twin-driven S&OP: A case of grocery retail

We posit that the zero-defect mindset from manufacturing is a crucial step in the direction of achieving zero-waste value chains. Using a reflective conversation approach within a food grocery retail case setting, we show how digital twin-supported sales and operations planning (S&OP) may be used as an intervention to predict and detect variabilities across the value chain to prevent and reallocate food surplus, allowing us to bring the zero-waste value chain concept to fruition. The contributions of this study include extending the zero-defect concept to value chains in grocery retail for addressing food waste and proposing the notion of digital twin-enabled planning as a means of improving upon the shortcomings of the traditional S&OP process.

Economic Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Europe’s Supply Chain: Perspectives from Spain, Germany and Italy

In this article, the economic impacts of the coronavirus on Europe's supply chain will be investigated, with a particular emphasis placed on three countries. This article contains an extensive analysis of the significance of supply chain management to the economy of a nation. As a result, it examines the effects in great detail in the introduction, which also contains background information, the research objectives, and a literature review of the entire body of work. This paper continues on to discuss the data and methodology on which during the getaway there was a significant discovery on ways that the supply chain can be improved so that there will be more flexibility in dealing with an event such as a disaster. During the getaway, there was a significant discovery on ways that the supply chain can be improved so that there will be more flexibility in dealing with an event such Risk avoidance, target analysis, digital supply chain operations, supply chain planning, and supply chain risk management are some of the approaches that could be investigated in order to establish a setting that is more favorable for carrying on with life.

Digital Supply Chain Operation Model for Educational Management in Non-Formal Education in Rural Thailand

The objective of this research study were to study and to evaluate digital supply chain operation model for educational management in non-formal education in rural Thailand. The samples in the research study consisted of ten purposively selected experts consisted of three experts on supply chain management, five experts on Digital Technology and two experts on the course. Data were analysed by arithmetic mean and standard deviation. The research findings model seven elements namely main components, Supplier, Manufacturer , Finished product, Customers Satisfaction and Feedback. The ten experts agree that digital supply chain operation model for educational management in non-formal education in rural Thailand was high suitability that show the model is appropriate and applicable to support the tasks.

Digital Supply Chain Operation Model for Educational Management in Non-Formal Education in Rural Thailand

The objective of this research study were to study and to evaluate digital supply chain operation model for educational management in non-formal education in rural Thailand. The samples in the research study consisted of ten purposively selected experts consisted of three experts on supply chain management, five experts on Digital Technology and two experts on the course. Data were analysed by arithmetic mean and standard deviation . The research findings model seven elements namely main components, Supplier, Manufacturer , Finished product, Customers Satisfaction and Feedback. The ten experts agree that digital supply chain operation model for educational management in non-formal education in rural Thailand was high suitability that show the model is appropriate and applicable to support the tasks.

Cyber security training in Finnish basic and general upper secondary education

Cyber security in Finland is part of other areas of comprehensive security, as digital solutions multiply in society and technologies advance. Cyber security is one of the primary national security and national defense concerns. Cyber security has quickly evolved from a technical discipline to a strategic concept. Cyber security capacity building can be measured based on the existence and number of research and developments, education and training programs, and certified professionals and public sector agencies.
 Cybersecurity awareness and the related civic skills play an increasingly important role as our societies become more digitalized. Improving citizens' cyber skills through education is an important goal that would strengthen Finland as a country of higher education and expertise and lay the foundation for the society of the future.
 Pursuant to the Finland’s Cyber Security Strategy (2019) “National cyber security competence will be ensured by identifying requirements and strengthening education and research.” Finland’s Cyber Security Development Programme (2021) necessitates that in basic education ensures young people have sufficient skills to operate in a digital operating environment and that they understand cyber security threats and know how to protect themselves from them. So, cybersecurity is an important subject for everyone, not just industry or public organizations. It’s also vital for our children to understand how to stay safe online, and the need to be aware of any dangers that might come their way. Cybersecurity awareness training is important because it teaches pupils how they can protect themselves from cyber-attacks (MTC, 2021).
 The study of cybersecurity education in Finland was made in autumn 2021 and spring 2022 for the National Cyber Security Director. According to the study, measures are needed so that cyber security becomes an important aspect when planning education and teaching. There are different models to choose from to make training more effective. This paper presents the results of the research focusing basic and general upper secondary education.