DESIGNING COMPLEX SOCIO TECHNICAL SYSTEMS EMPIRICALLY GROUNDED SIMULATIONS AS TOOLS FOR EXPERIENCE B...

Reliability System reliability depends on component reliability but unexpected interactions can cause new types of failure and therefore affect the reliability of the system. Security The security of the system (its ability to resist attack) is a complex property that
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RESEARC H ARTIC LE Open AccessLocked volar plating for complex distal radiusfractures: Patient reported outcomes andsatisfactionRE Anakwe*, LAK Khan, RE Cook, JE McEachanAbstractBackground: Distal radius fractures are common. The increasing prevalence of osteoporosis contributes tofreq[r]

Tool-Based Design and Evaluation of Resilient Flight Control Systems 201 Current flight simulators, however, are considered inadequate for the simulation of many upset conditions as the aerodynamic models are only applicable to the normal flight envelope. Upset co[r]

In many cases however, the machines receive mechanical energy and modify it so that a specific task is carried out, for example a hoist, a bicycle or a hand-winch. This modification or transformation of energy requires a number of machine elements, some small and some large. Machine design[r]

and can be respected in design procedure. One possible improvement would be to insert somefree parameters into this circuit, e.g. optional gain of the memory cells, but this is a topic forfurther research.Sensitivity concept and symbolic analysis are efficient tools for digital fi[r]

switch connecting the 2nd router/firewall with the back-end servers; (g) A set of networksecurity servers, including firewalls, VPN server, IAS (Microsoft’s InternetAuthentication Server), and Radius server; and (h) A test bed of computers, which areequipped with swappable disk units and are connect[r]

RESEARC H ARTIC LE Open AccessLocked volar plating for complex distal radiusfractures: Patient reported outcomes andsatisfactionRE Anakwe*, LAK Khan, RE Cook, JE McEachanAbstractBackground: Distal radius fractures are common. The increasing prevalence of osteoporosis contributes tofreq[r]

Daniel Collado-Ruiz and Hesamedin Ostad-Ahmad-Ghorabi Towards a New Theory for Design Activity Reasoning 79 Denis Choulier Design Process and Cognition 1 87 An Approach to Measuring Metaphoricity of Creative Design 89 Hung-Hsiang Wang and Jung-Hsuan Chan Interrelations be[r]

LDWT. The proposed architecture has a mixed row- and column-wise signal flow, rather than purely row-wise as in traditional 2-D LDWT. Further we propose a new approach, interlaced read scan algorithm (IRSA), to reduce the transpose memory for a 2-D dual-mode LDWT. The proposed 2-D arch[r]

Abstract—In the artificial intelligence field, knowledge representation and reasoning are important areas for intelligent systems, especially knowledge base systems and expert systems. Knowledge representation Methods has an important role in designing the syste[r]

elimination of complex signals embedded in noise. Wideband wireless communication systems are very sensitive to narrowband interference (NBI), which can even prevent the system operating (Giorgetti et al., 2005). For NBI suppression in quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK) spread[r]

project team is usually composed of employees working in different parts of the firm, and the persons involved are often quite satisfied with such an opportunity to discuss what they do, and knowing better what other employees accomplish in other departments or functions. A further step usually deal[r]

10.1 IntroductionSystem-level design (SLD) means many different things to many differentpeople. In our view, SLD is about the design of a whole that consists ofseveral components where specifications are given in terms of functionalityalong with• Constraints on the properties the de[r]

Planning). A basic problem of process alignment is that it often encourages the users to talk in terms of solutions, and not in terms of requirements. This sets unbearable constraints on the final alignment phase and does not allow use of the full potential of the available tools. For[r]

advantage. In fact, as illustrated by the question added by Barney, competitive advantage should also be defined in terms of results: tools like ERP systems, but also many improvement methods widely adopted in industry, like lean manufacturing, 5S, 6 sigma etc., do have a positi[r]

themselves” (pp. 186–187). In his reply, Winograd in turn accused Suchman of blatant over-dramatisation. He poured scorn on her attribution of a sinister motive behind the development of the system. “The sub-text,” he wrote, “is a political drama, in which the villains (corporate managers and their[r]

Why ERPs Disappoint 81 make the decision. Paul, for his part, calls (although discreetly) on a different authority, that of SAP. The issue is clear: which text takes precedence. The authority resides in that office that can choose the right text, and thus effectively “author” it. 5.4.4 The Ro[r]

Campinas-SP, Brazil, http://www.dt.fee.unicamp.br/~mauricio/software.html. Duan, G. R., Irwin, G. W. & Liu, G. P. (1999), Robust Stabilization of Descriptor Linear Systems via Proportional-plus-derivative State Feedback, in Proceedings of the 1999 American Control Conference, San Dieg[r]

compilation of 21 outstanding contributions from industry and academia.The contributions are grouped into three main parts. Part I comprises thecontributions that focus on a key dimension in the design of embedded sys-tems: the performance analysis of real-time behavior based on comput[r]

sequential C reference code, our experience has shown that the paralleliza-tion represents less than one or two person-months of work (for a personalready familiar with the application and the programming model).7.1.2 Characteristics of Parallel Multiprocessor SoC PlatformsWhile our re[r]