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SUMMARY:Kshitij Kumar (BITS Pilani) interim presentation - Kshitij Kumar (
 BITS Pilani)
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CONTACT:Philip Woodall
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Manufacturing companies often only have very limited
  visibility into their highly complex and global supply networks. While fi
 rst tier suppliers are known\, suppliers on sub-tiers (and their inter-dep
 endencies) remain unknown. This obscures risks and might lead to a false s
 ense of security. Furthermore\, more complete models of the supply network
  would help predict and possibly mitigate supply chain disruptions.\nThe a
 im of this workstream (within the research project VIPr) is to develop a s
 ystem that can reconstruct any company’s supply network from public data
 . The DIAL seminar will cover the motivation for this project as well as s
 how our current approach and first results. There will also be time to dis
 cuss limitations and ideas for future development. Methods we use are Natu
 ral Language Processing\, Machine Learning and Human Computation (Amazon M
 echanical Turk). This seminar is an interim presentation with the objectiv
 e of scrutinising our approach and collecting feedback.\n\nSpeaker: Kshiti
 j Kumar is an undergraduate Computer Science Engineering student from BITS
  Pilani in India. He joined DIAL as a visitor for two months to work on th
 e VIPr research project under the supervision of Pascal Wichmann and Dr Ph
 ilip Woodall. He has a background in Data Mining and Machine Learning.\n
LOCATION:Seminar room 2\, Institute for Manufacturing\, Cambridge
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