Integrating Systems Safety into Systems Engineering during Concept Development

Integrating Systems Safety into Systems Engineering during Concept Development

Safety should be designed into systems from their very conception, which can be achieved by integrating powerful hazard analysis techniques into the general systems engineering process. The primary barrier to achieving this objective is the lack of effectiveness of the existing analytical tools during early concept development. This paper introduces a new technique, which is based on a more pow...

Integrating Ontologies into Multiagent Systems Engineering

Multiagent systems have received much attention in recent years due to their advantages in complex, distributed environments. A number of methodologies have been proposed for engineering multiagent systems, however, these methodologies do not adequately address the information domain of the system, which is an integral part of designing proper system execution. Previous work at the Air Force In...

Closing gaps: integrating food safety management systems into the veterinary curriculum, as a tool to improve food quality and trade

Integrating Component-Based Web Engineering into Content Management Systems

Popular content management systems such as WordPress and Drupal offer a plug-in mechanism that allows users to extend the platform with additional functionality. However, plug-ins are typically isolated extensions defining their own data structures, application logic and user interface, and are difficult to combine. We address the fact that users may want to configure their applications more fr...

On Integrating Architecture Design into Engineering Agile Software Systems

Agile software system development approaches have become popular since the late 1990s. Agile method has been increasingly adopted by big players in software industry such as IBM, Microsoft, Nokia and Philips with a view to improving quality and productivity. Such quality improvement goals must be measured during system development to validate the approach, and there is a need for more qualitati...