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Mabroukah M. A. Abuqadumah, Musab A. M. Ali, Ali Abd Almisreb, B. Duraković

Identifying people based on their footprint has not yet gained enough attention from the researchers. Therefore, in this paper, an investigation of human identification conducted based on the footprint. Transfer Learning used as the main concept of this investigation. The aim of using Transfer Learning is to overcome the need for a large-scale dataset and achieve high accuracy with a low-scale dataset. Five well-known models used, namely, Alexnet, Vgg16, Vgg19, Googlenet, and Inception v3. Each of these models fine-tuned to fit-in the paper’s topic. A dataset of 30 individuals constructed in order to train the models. The right and left footprint of each individual captured with iPhone camera. The models trained and evaluated based on the same settings. The evaluation shows that Inception v3 model achieved the highest accuracy compared to all other four models.

B. Duraković, Amar Čosić

The aim of this paper was to compare two business models, namely business to business and business to customer. The first model is oriented towards the delivery of intermediate goods ordered by an immense foreign market leader that is outsourcing a part of its business. The second model is consumers oriented and is more about innovation and the creation of goods ready to be immediately sold on the market. Bosnia is a developing country, and often a place for establishing B2B businesses. However, we are lacking in innovation, our own know-how, and the creation of challenging business opportunities. It also faces the problem of brain drain; therefore, it is in a need of a plan for retaining the youth within the country. The analysis aimed to show how the boosting jobs and living standards in Bosnia, are affected by the investments, exports, and salaries within the B2B and B2C companies. The results showed that Bosnia has a significant potential for raising living standards, employment and salary, if investments are directed towards innovations, knowledge-intensive and B2C businesses instead of labor-intensive investments.

In past five years, there has been a rapid increase in the publication on additive manufacturing (AM). Many technologies have been introduced in a rapidly growing market. The designers are confronted with many challenges in designing products for additive manufacturing. AM offers significant advantages, but there are also many constraints for AM to be used in its full potential. This paper explores trends, issues and challenges in design for AM, including associated costs, design options, quality considerations. It has been found that AM is in its infancy, there is insufficient understanding of the process, method, strategies, tools applied in design for additive manufacturing process, while process quality and capabilities are continuously improving

The purpose of this paper is to examine gazelles and mice, their transformational leadership style level and its relationship with business performance. The study is a quantitative approach based on survey data collected from business owners and CEOs across Bosnia and Herzegovina. The quantitative results show that gazelles apply more transformational leadership compared to mice. In the long term, we suggest gazelles to improve transformational leadership styles in order to maintain their growth and development. Leaders of mice should be aware that transformational leadership can influence their transformation into gazelles if it is fully implemented. Both gazelles and mice should work on intellectual stimulation that can create and produce proactiveness in the long term, giving them more strength and synergy for being a first mover in the market. The research also draws implications for managers and business owners regarding transformational leadership's effect in creating a growth model for mice to reach gazelles level, while simultaneously suggesting how gazelles should behave in order to retain their current title. This is the first empirical research that examines transformational leadership style's effect on business performance in gazelles and mice.

B. Duraković, Rukiye Demir, Kemal Abat, Celal Emek

Many manufacturing cost reduction initiatives have been introduced over past three decades including lean manufacturing. Waste reduction and efficiency improvement are the main objectives of this initiative. It is developed from a set of tools and techniques and can fit nicely in cost focus or cost leadership competitive advantage strategies. But, keeping competitive advantage under the market circumstances are getting harder with growth of production quantity and product diversity. Therefore, paper's focus is lean manufacturing implementation trends and issues within the various manufacturing sector. Successes and failures of implementation of lean manufacturing in some industries are discussed. It was found that lean principles are good source of competitive advantage, it is applicable for many industries and its expansion and discussion are significantly progressing. The biggest threat in implementing lean is lack of understanding the concept but those who engage consultants were more successful.

Design of Experiments (DOE) is statistical tool deployed in various types of system, process and product design, development and optimization. It is multipurpose tool that can be used in various situations such as design for comparisons, variable screening, transfer function identification, optimization and robust design. This paper explores historical aspects of DOE and provides state of the art of its application, guides researchers how to conceptualize, plan and conduct experiments, and how to analyze and interpret data including examples. Also this paper reveals that in past 20 years application of DOE have been growing rapidly in manufacturing as well as non-manufacturing industries. It was most popular tool in scientific areas of medicine, engineering, biochemistry, physics, computer science and counts about 50% of its applications compared to all other scientific areas.

Performances of two different materials (water and phase change material) were studied as heat storage medium in passive design of buildings. An experimental and numerical simulation method was applied. The experimental study was conducted in the laboratory environment on double glazed window sample. Numerical simulation model was formulated to simulate the transient heat transfer through the window system. The results show that the PCM filled window can be protected from rapid overheating due to latent heat of the phase change material. Numerical model showed good matching with experiment; therefore, the model can be used for the window system performance evaluation as energy storage unit under different configurations. Received 19 May 2016, Revised 26 Oct 2016, Accepted 31 Oct 2016

In this article, temperature-responsive window system based on phase change materials is studied by using experimental and numerical methods. The problem is analyzed for the real case (natural environment) and lab environment. Impact of glazing cavity size on the temperature flattening period and its limitations are determined and mathematically described. The results show that the design is effective in reducing interior air temperature variation by increasing the cavity thickness up to 24 mm, which is limited by solid/liquid volume fraction for particular environment.

The study examines 173 students at the International University of Sarajevo regarding their entrepreneurial intention towards networking and business environment. The methodology is based on a random sample while various statistical analyses are used to acquire the empirical results. Findings of the study revealed that there is a positive relationship between entrepreneurial orientation dimensions and business environment, and networking. Moreover, all entrepreneurial dimensions are affected by either business environment or networking. Practical and educational implications are discussed.

B. Duraković, Hazim Bašić, Haris Muhić

Quality improvement initiatives have positive results in cost reduction, increased productivity and provide competitive advantages in the marketplace. However, the question is whether the concept of quality and innovation are complementary or competing strategies. Are there specific approaches in the implementation of quality systems that provide satisfactory results on both sites? Performances of analyzed companies suggest that quality is necessary but insufficient in business today. The primary purpose of this study is to explore the relationship and mutual influence between quality management practices and innovation performances. The findings suggest that there are areas with positive relationships between these two strategies that managers can focus to improve innovation performance.

Darko Petrovic, Hazim Bašić, B. Duraković, Sanja Prodanović

Many nations are currently adopting a variety of directed strategies to launch and support the development of research parks. Science and technology research parks are seen increasingly as a means to create dynamic clusters that accelerate economic growth and international competitiveness. Technology parks represent the place of SME's development and the place of the most direct technological transfer. Research parks encourage greater collaboration among universities, research laboratories, and SMEs, providing a means to help convert new ideas into the innovative technologies for the market. They are recognized to be a tool to create successful new companies, sustain them and attract new ones, especially in the science, technology, and innovation sector. Universities, in turn, benefit by exposure to the business world. What all these parks have in common is that they are, at heart, knowledge partnerships that foster innovation. University research and science parks provide the launch pad that startup companies need when they are "spun out" from a university or company. The current state of development of technology parks in Bosnia and Herzegovina and possibilities of establishment of a new technology park in Sarajevo (Ilidža) region are analyzed in this paper.

B. Duraković, Hazim Bašić

Maturity of companies, organizational culture and costs are some of the major limiting factors for implementation of cost-effective six sigma methodology in Bosnian companies.  Purpose of this paper is to analyze possibilities of applying six sigma concept in a medium-sized company with 200 employees. Considering all characteristics of the company, in this case, implementation model was proposed and tested. The project included process monitoring using statistical process control charts for two different periods, before and after improvement. Dominant defect and its causes were identified and it was found out that the process was out of control. Implementation of improvement measures, dominant defect was eliminated but the process has remained out of control. As a conclusion, the test indicated that the model is effective but it takes more iteration to achieve the desired state.

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