Publications

The surge in global demand for – and limited supply of – semiconductors during the recent economic recovery has led to bottlenecks for manufacturing firms. Although chip shortages pose constraints for several producers in Europe, so far there is very limited evidence concerning the effects of semiconductor shortages on price developments along the pricing chain.

Beekeepers face the situation that the health state of honey bee colonies is inherently difficult to observe without stressing the bees by opening the hive. We address this problem by proposing an approach that relies on a sensor setup to gather multisensory data inside the bee colony and focus on the detection of outliers in the data stream as indicators of critical situations during the colony’s development.