Integrating products and services through life: an aerospace experience

Towards Trustworthy Aerospace Systems: An Experience Report

Building modern aerospace systems is highly demanding. They should be extremely dependable. They must offer service without interruption (i.e., without failure) for a very long time — typically years or decades. Whereas ”five nines” dependability, i.e., a 99.999 % availability, is satisfactory for most safety-critical systems, for on-board systems it is not. Faults are costly and may severly da...

Integrating Process and Services through Meta-models

The service conceptualization within a SOA/BPM methodology reduces the gap between the business process life cycle and their executable versions. The SOA/BMP methodology supporting this article, proposes a set of steps; interactions between such steps require the definition of mechanisms that can be formalized. This paper is based on the use of metamodels as a means to define the language synta...

Integrating mental health services: the Finnish experience

The aim of this paper is to give a short description of the most important developments of mental health services in Finland during the 1990s, examine their influences on the organisation and provision of services, and describe shortly some national efforts to handle the new situation. The Finnish mental health service system experienced profound changes in the beginning of the 1990s. These inc...

Aerospace Products Signal Chain Guide

Integrating Biological Research through Web Services

A t present, compatibility problems prevent researchers from cooperating in using bioinformatics to solve important biological problems. Web services might be a way to solve this integration problem. Web technology provides a higher layer of abstraction that hides implementation details from applications so that each organization can concentrate on its own competence and still leverage the serv...