Migration Planning Research Articles

Configuration and optimization of migration planning in global production networks

Uncoordinated decisions in production networks lead to inefficient structures that endanger a company’s competitiveness. To stay competitive in the future, manufacturing companies must focus their production and migrate their production network into agile structures. This paper presents a methodology for migration planning of production networks. First, strategic priorities and capabilities for the production network are formulated. To develop these priorities and capabilities, production resources are identified and combined to desired network configurations. Second, these configurations are transferred into a stochastic- dynamic optimization model to identify a cost-optimal migration strategy. The approach has been validated in the automation industry.

Impact of pretreatment second look 18FDG-PET/CT on stage and treatment changes in head and neck cancer

BackgroundPatients diagnosed with locoregionally advanced head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (LAHNSCC) regularly undergo staging with 18F-FDG PET/CT in our center. In cases of delays in radiotherapy (RT) planning CT more than 4 weeks after initial PET/CT or clinically suspected progress, PET/CT is repeated for restaging and as an RT planning reference. Our aim was to determine the impact of second-look PET/CT on stage migration, treatment change and RT planning. MethodsConsequent treatment changes were categorized as minor and major. Minor changes were defined as PET/CT-based modifications of RT plans, e.g., the addition of anatomical compartments, changes in high- and low-risk dose levels or both. Major changes included changes from curative to palliative treatment intent and alterations of interdisciplinary treatment plans, such as the addition of induction chemotherapy, switch to primary surgery, no treatment and/or the necessity of additional diagnostic work-up resulting in the postponement or cancellation of treatment. ResultsThirty-two newly diagnosed LAHNSCC patients who were treated between 2014 and 2018 underwent second-look PET/CT (median interval 42.5 days). Second-look PET/CT led to locoregional and distant upstaging in 3/32 and 1/32 patients, respectively. In 1/32 patients (3%), second-look PET/CT led to a palliative approach with systemic treatment. New lymph node metastases were discovered in 16 patients, 6 of whom also showed significant progression of the primary tumor, resulting in minor changes in 16 of the remaining 31 patients (52%) who were treated curatively. ConclusionIf RT treatment planning of LAHNSCC was delayed by more than 4 weeks after initial PET/CT staging or when progression was clinically suspected, a second look at 18FDG-PET/CT was performed. This led to changes in treatment planning in more than half of the cases, which is expected to directly influence oncologic outcomes.

Software Architectural Migration

Software architectural designs are usually changed over time to support emerging technologies and to adhere to new principles. Architectural migration is an important activity that helps to transform the architectural styles applied during a system’s design with the result of modernising the system. If not performed correctly, this process could lead to potential system failures. This article presents an automated approach to refactoring architectural design and to planning the evolution process. With our solution, the architectural design can be refactored, ensuring that system functionality is preserved. Furthermore, the architectural migration process allows the system to be safely and incrementally transformed. We have evaluated our approach with five real-world software applications. The results prove the effectiveness of our approach and identify factors that impact the performance of architectural verification and migration planning. An interesting finding is that planning algorithms generate migration plans that differ in term of their relative efficiency.

Perancangan Enterprise Architecture Pada PT Vitapharm Menggunakan Framework TOGAF

PT Vitapharm is a leading cosmetic company in Indonesia that produces cosmeticproducts. In its operational activities, PT Vitapharm still has several obstacles in its business processes, one of the main problems is that some processes still use manual systems and have not yet integrated one process with another because there is no adequate information technology support. Thus, the business processes within the company have not been able to support the company to achieve organizational goals. Therefore, PT Vitapharm requires an Enterprise Architecture design so that the company's business goals can be achieved with the help of information technology. To solve the problems faced by PT Vitapharm can be completed by designing an Enterprise Architecture with the TOGAF framework. TOGAF framework was chosen because it can design and solve problems faced by PT Vitapharm. The stages of designing an Enterprise Architecture with the TOGAF framework start from the preliminary phase, requirements management, architecture vision, business architecture, information system architecture, technology architecture, opportunities and solutions, and migration planning. This study does not use the implementation governance and architecture change management stages. Research using the TOGAF framework produces an enterprise architecture design that can answer the needs of PT Vitapharm in order to adapt to the Information System/Information Technology strategic planning. The results of this study are designs that can be used by PT Vitapharm and become PT Vitapharm's reference in compiling business process improvements so that they can improve the company's internal business processes and can improve operational activities, and can achieve company goals.

PERENCANAAN ARSITEKTUR ENTERPRISE BERBASIS CLOUD COMPUTING MENGGUNAKAN TOGAF (Studi Kasus: PT. XYZ)

ABSTRACT
 PT. XYZ is a manufacturing company engaged in the production of tires. Good business strategy isnecessary for the company to compete with local competitors as well as with other companies in thegroup XYZ. Business strategy is also needed in order to achieve its goal in providing the best servicesfor customers. Support the implementation of information systems and information technology isneeded to support the company's business strategy. Planning of the Enterprise Architecture isnecessary for the company to run its business processes. Enterprise architecture is composed of theBusiness Architecture, Data Architecture, Application Architecture and Technology Architecture.Business processes and organizational activities executed using the data collected, managed,secured and distributed using applications, both custom applications and common applications thatrun over the technology infrastructure and computer networks. The research report in this thesisdiscusses about planning the Enterprise Architecture of Manufacturing Information SystemArchitecture Based Cloud Computing using TOGAF, a case study in PT.XYZ. In planning thisarchitecture using the TOGAF-ADM to pass the following stages: Defining planning the ArchitectureVision, Planning the Business Architecture, Planning the Information System Architecture, Planningthe Technology Architecture, Solutions and Opportunities, Migration Planning, ImplementationManagement, and Change Management Architecture. The research process is done by looking at thebusiness strategy on the manufacturing process and products distribution from PT. XYZ. The resultsof this study are planning the enterprise architecture of manufacturing information system at PT.XYZ to support the implementation of enterprise information systems as a whole, to solve theintegration problems of information systems, and improve effectiveness and efficiency in theimplementation of information technology infrastructure.

Урбанизация российских городов в контексте миграционных процессов

The article reveals the relationship between migration processes and the state of social and engineering infrastructure in the cities of modern Russia. It is noted that the continuing outflow of the population from the regions of the Far North, Siberia and the Far East to the central and southern European parts of Russia creates very serious problems both for the cities where migrants move and for those places from where they leave. The necessity of a radical change in the migration and urban planning policy is substantiated.

SLA-aware multiple migration planning and scheduling in SDN-NFV-enabled clouds

In Software-Defined Networking (SDN)-enabled cloud data centers, live migration is a key approach used for the reallocation of Virtual Machines (VMs) and Virtual Network Functions (VNFs). Using live migration, cloud providers can address their dynamic resource management and fault tolerance objectives without interrupting the service of users. However, performing multiple live migrations in arbitrary order can lead to service degradation. Therefore, efficient migration planning is essential to reduce the impact of live migration overheads. In addition, to prevent Quality of Service (QoS) degradations and Service Level Agreement (SLA) violations, it is necessary to set priorities for different live migration requests with various urgency. In this paper, we propose SLAMIG, a set of algorithms that composes deadline-aware multiple migration grouping algorithm and on-line migration scheduling to determine the sequence of VM/VNF migrations. The experimental results show that our approach with reasonable algorithm runtime can efficiently reduce the number of deadline misses and has a good migration performance compared with the one-by-one scheduling and two state-of-the-art algorithms in terms of total migration time, average execution time, downtime, and transferred data. We also evaluate and analyze the impact of multiple migrations on QoS and energy consumption.

Analysis and Designing Enterprise Architecture of PT. Adigas Jaya Pratama on Sales and Service Function Using TOGAF Framework

PT. Adigas Jaya Pratama is a company that distributes various products of Pertamina, which focus on delivering LPG (Liquefied Petroleum Gas) to the distributors. There are still various problems occurred in term of service level agreement (SLA), which in many case merely based on promise, while at the same time there are also the incapability of monitoring and checking for updating items in the inventory and the storages. Meanwhile, the process of handling customer complaints often causes the decreasing in the level of satisfaction and loyalty to the services provided. To overcome these problems, the solution made must take explicit concern to the harmony between business and information technology aspects. It is necessary to design an enterprise architecture (EA) with the TOGAF framework to provide a suitable blueprint for the development of sales and service function that can present respective ability for the company to have well performance leading to the growth and profit. This research provide the respective artefacts from every design stage including preliminary phase to the migration planning, which is expected to be applied in accordance with the business needs of the company to provide solutions for the existing problems.

Challenges of the Health System in Preventing Non-Communicable Diseases; Systematized Review.

Background:The basis of prevention of non-communicable diseases is the identification of primary risk factors and the prevention and control of these factors. The purpose is to prevent the spread of the disease and to control it as much as possible. If population growth continues at this rate, by 2030, 52 million people will die from these diseases each year. The aim of this study was to evaluate the challenges of preventing non-communicable diseases.Methods:The present study was a systematic review that conducted in July 2020 and the articles related to prevention of non-communicable diseases on databases of web of science, PubMed, Scopus, science direct, Ovid, Pro Quest and Google Scholar. Strategy for searching and selecting the articles was PRISMA Guidelines.Results:Challenges of non-communicable disease prevention, in 4 main codes, including infrastructure, economic, demographic and management and 12 sub-codes that include, lack of preventive infrastructure, restrictions on access to medicine, restrictions on primary health care, restrictions on access to Technology, disease-oriented disease, unsustainable financial resources, failure to implement poverty reduction projects, increase in aging population, migration, rapid and unplanned urban planning, hasty planning and lack of internal and external coordination were classified.Conclusions:To reduce non-communicable diseases, strengthen global capacities, reduce risk factors for NCDs and place social determinants by creating health-promoting environments, strengthen health systems to implement prevention and control of NCDs, and place determinants Social can play an effective role through people-centered primary health care.

Energy Aware Metaheuristic Approaches to Virtual Machine Migration in Cloud Computing

In mandate to drop the power utilization, virtual machine migration is utilized for cloud computing. At present many algorithms are there, that diminishing the energy consumption with the assistance of virtual machine migration and power proficient planning of VMs. The target to migrate the virtual machine from one under-burden server to other over-burden server is to have ideal outcomes. Over-burden or Under-burden host detection strategy utilized as a part of proposed work is Inter Quartile Range. After detection of an Over-burden or Under-burden host, the following stage is to pick the specific virtual machines to relocate from one under-burden host to the over-burden host. VM choice arrangements Minimum Migration Time (MMT) along with various Meta heuristic optimizations are executed. For assessing proposed algorithm, CloudSim is used to assess and look at the execution of proposed algorithm. To analyze the effectiveness of planned system seven parameters the power utilization, standard deviation of host, standard deviation of virtual machine placement, standard deviation of virtual machine migration, SLA performance degradation due to migration, and total SLA violation are considered.

Marsh Migration, Climate Change, and Coastal Resilience: Human Dimensions Considerations for a Fair Path Forward

Coastal regions worldwide will be dramatically reshaped by the impacts of sea-level rise. Of particular concern are impacts on coastal wetlands, the loss of which would have consequences for both human and ecological communities. The future of many coastal wetlands will depend greatly on their capacities to migrate into uplands. Coastal resilience work within wetland sciences has increasingly focused on developing strategies to promote marsh migration into rural uplands; however, less attention has been given to the impacts that migrating marshes have on people in these landscapes. In this paper, we share rural perspectives and experiences with marsh migration through three case-studies from collaborative research with rural, low-lying communities on the Chesapeake Bay, USA. These case-studies demonstrate the complexities of the challenges facing rural communities as a result of marsh migration, and reveal important issues of equity and injustice that need attention in future coastal resilience work. We draw upon a socio-ecological systems (SES) approach to highlight potential human-ecological misalignments that emerge with marsh migration and to offer future research questions to inform socially-just and resilient wetland migration planning in rural coastal areas.

Migration and family planning in the state with highest total fertility rate in India

BackgroundThis study examined the relationship between male out-migration and family planning (FP) behaviour of women in rural Bihar.MethodsData was collected from 937 currently married women aged 15–34 years from two districts of Bihar, namely Nawada and Gopalganj. Respondents were selected through a multi-stage systematic sampling and were recruited from both low and high male out-migration blocks. Differences in FP outcomes—use of modern contraceptive methods, intention to use contraceptives in next 12 months and access to FP services—were assessed by volume of migration, husband’s migration status, frequency of return, and duration of husband’s stay at home during visits.ResultsWomen with migrant husbands were about 50% less likely to use modern contraceptive methods. Further, the odds of using modern contraceptives was about half among women with migrant husbands if they resided in high out-migration areas (HMA) than low out-migration areas (LMA) (15% vs 29%, AOR: 0·50, p = 0·017). A higher proportion of women with migrant husbands, specifically from HMA, reported greater intention of using contraceptives in next 12 months than their counterparts (37% vs 23%, AOR: 1·83, p = 0·015). Similarly, access to FP services was negatively associated with the volume of male out-migration, specifically for women with migrant husbands.ConclusionsThe migratory environment as well as the migration of husbands affect contraceptive use and access to FP services among women. Given that a significant proportion of married males leave their home states for work, it is imperative that FP programs in migration affected areas plan and implement migration-centric FP implementation strategies.

Environmental Migration and Regional Livelihood Planning: A Livelihood Planning Approach to Circular Migration

Climate change is causing people to migrate, affecting developing countries' regional development and disproportionately impacting economically vulnerable communities. Low socioeconomic status and ...

Correlation between Population Migration and Regional Planning Based on Urbanization of Coastal Cities

Correlation between Population Migration and Regional Planning Based on Urbanization of Coastal Cities

Construction of Horizontal Networks on “Migrant” Russian-Language Digital Platforms

The article discusses the Russian-language “migrant” groups in the social networking service “Vkontakte.” The author analyses mechanisms of constructing horizontal networks in these groups uniting Russian-speaking immigrants in the Russian Federation, their role in migration planning and solving everyday household, legal and moral problems. The article uses the language of describing mobility by J. Urry: we consider “migrant” digital platforms to be the space in which thematic network “nodes” are created, which allow accumulating the information resources of several horizontal networks needed to solve a particular current problem. The article also formulates a hypothesis about the existence of a “migrant” meta-network consisting of people who are part of migration flows, and who service or exploit them. We assume that the digital platforms under consideration significantly simplify the integration process by being a space that allows the formation of local, “thematic” nodes of the “migrant” meta-network that accumulate a social capital and information

Designing the Smart Health Function towards Puskesmas (Citizen Health Centre) based on Smart City Concept

According to Regional Regulation No.23 of 2014 Article 386 until 390 which requires all institutions to adopt architectural designs to bring up architectural innovations. A smart city is a concept of the application, development, and implementation of technology that is applied to a region (especially urban area) as a complex interaction between the various systems in it. One important development area to be developed is the health sector. In Indonesian constitution of article 28 H and 28 I that the state must guarantee the lives of all its citizens, include by providing appropriate services such as health services. This study aims to design an enterprise architecture in health functions within Citizen Health Centre management system based on the Smart City based on the TOGAF ADM framework, so that it is expected to help the city government work program in realizing smart city and business activities that currently run can be supported by information systems so as to increase satisfaction Bandung City communities. Based on the results of research on public health functions at the Bandung City Health Office obtained a design or blueprint that focuses on the preliminary phase, architecture vision, business architecture, system architecture, information technology, opportunities and solutions, and migration planning.

Evolutionary gaming approach for decision making of Tier‐3 Internet service provider networks migration to SoDIP6 networks

SummaryWith the increasing number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, current networking world is suffering in terms of management and operations with lack of IPv4 addresses leading to issues like network address translation (NAT) proliferation, security and quality of services. Software‐defined networking (SDN) and Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) are the new networking paradigms evolved to address related issues of legacy IPv4 networking. To adapt with global competitive environment and avoid all existing issues in legacy networking system, network service providers have to migrate their networks into IPv6 and SDN‐enabled networks. But immediate transformations of existing network are not viable due to several factors like higher cost of migration, lack of technical human resources, lack of standards and protocols during transitions, and many more. In this paper, we present the migration analysis for proper decision making of network transition in terms of customer demand, traffic engineering, and organizational strength with operation expenditure for network migration using evolutionary gaming approach. Joint migration to SDN‐enabled IPv6 network from game theoretic perspective is modeled and is validated using numerical results obtained from simulations. Our empirical analysis shows the evolutionary process of network migration while different internal and external factors in the organization affect the overall migration. Evolutionary game in migration planning is supportive in decision making for service providers to develop suitable strategy for their network migration. The proposed approach for migration decision making is mostly applicable to fairly sustained service providers who lack economics, regulation/policy, and resources strengths.

The Analysis of the Ecosystem Capacity of Semirom County in the direction of Return Migration Planning

Purpose- Return migration acts as a driving force of development and a key incentive of prosperity in rural areas by fulfilling their potentials. Rapid population displacement in developing countries including Iran, reveals the necessity of return migration planning. Semirom is a county in Isfahan province with the highest rate of emigration based on the 2011 Census enjoying sufficient potentials to change this trend. The overall purpose of this study is to analyze the ecosystem capacity of Semirom in order to develop a return migration planning. Design/methodology/approach- The research method is descriptive-analytical. As such, this study can be categorized as an applied research. The environmental, social, economic, and managerial aspects are hereby considered. The questionnaire of Semirom situation assessment was analyzed using inferential statistics (t-test) by SPSS. Content analysis was conducted by interviewing officials using Atlas.ti software. Internal and external factors evaluation matrix and SOAR model were used to offer strategies. In the end, adaptive strategic alternatives are prioritized using the QSPM planning approach and policies for the realization of the return migration. Statistical population consists of the residents and authorities of Semirom county. Findings- The findings indicate that the most important factors affecting return migration are reinforcement of gardening, related industries and tourism attractions, improving the quality of welfare services, fostering the sense of belonging, and the availability of fertile soil and sufficient irrigation water. Accordingly, the strategy of appropriate management of tourism and environmental spaces for proper utilization of natural should be given priority. It is also suggested that proper utilization of natural resources and tourism along with the potential of eco-tourism can offer a great opportunity for sustainable employment. This requires efficient management of new approaches and providing a secure environment for investment and entrepreneurship. In other words, considering the potentials of tourism will improve the quality of amenities, infrastructure services and employment, which in turn can boost their quality of local life, and their willingness to stay permanently in their rural residence, which ultimately encourages immigrants to return to their homeland.

How Eritreans plan, fund and manage irregular migration, and the extent of involvement of ‘organised crime’

The increased government, media and public focus on migration from Africa to the EU in the past few years has led to an explosion in reporting from governments, NGOs, academics and quasi-academia. Within this context, there are a number of basic assumptions and discourses in relation to these migratory processes from Africa. The first assumption, often put forward by the media, is that migrants from Africa intend to cross the Mediterranean Sea in an effort to reach Western European countries. The second assumption is that in their effort to cross the Mediterranean, African migrants are facilitated by ‘criminal networks’. The third (and extremely popular in the last few years) assumption is that information and communication technologies have been instrumental in the planning of irregular migration and identifying smugglers to facilitate migration. The final assumption, which has also garnered increasing attention in recent years, is that understanding human smuggling finances can inform policies specifically targeting migrant smuggling. This article, which is based on in-depth interviews with Eritreans, who have migrated illegally in Egypt, aims to add to the understanding about how Eritrean people plan, fund and manage irregular migration journeys. In the process, it will attempt to debunk some of the common assumptions around irregular migration.

IT Roadmap to Improve Business Strategy using TOGAF ADM: A Case Study of Government-Owned Electricity Company

Service industry in Indonesua has applied IT to conduct and establish their business process through automation and integration in order to achieve effectiveness and efficiency, especially in the industry of electricity. However, there is still no alignment between business strategy and IT assets. Thus, it is necessary to implement Enterprise Architecture to have appropriateness between the organizational’s goal and the strategy’s execution in the field. This research identifies various components in the respected industry by implement TOGAF ADM as the framework through observation and interview, with begin with preliminary phase until migration planning. The purpose is to create IT Roadmap in the form of recommendation for the electricity company in order to achieve their short and long term objectives.