UK aerospace: Eager for orders

Eager for Distinctness

I provide evidence that the interpretation of disjunctive sentences is sensitive to the linear order of the disjuncts. I argue that the asymmetry is rooted in informational redundancies that are present in one order that are not present in the other. I propose a constraint that ensures informational distinctness between earlier and later disjuncts. The constraint is checked at a surprising poin...

Lean New Product Introduction: a UK Aerospace Perspective

Purpose Lean thinking has revolutionised the approach to manufacturing and there are indications that it can do the same for New Product Introduction [NPI] processes. This paper explores the question “Is the application of Lean principles to NPI sufficient for best/good practice and has this been proven by the work of the UK Lean Aerospace Initiative [UK LAI]?” Focussing on the eight years of r...

Eager Acquisition

In most operating systems, operations such as dynamic memory allocation can be very expensive. The time it takes for memory allocations via operations like "malloc" depends on the implementation of the operations. If the telecommunication application is supposed to run on a non-real-time operating system, the time to execute malloc will vary even if the same size of memory is to be acquired. Ru...

Eager Class Initialization for Java

We describe a static analysis method on Java bytecode to determine class initialization dependencies This method can be used for eager class loading and initialization It catches many initialization circularities that are missed by the standard lazy implementation Except for contrived examples the computed initialization order gives the same results as standard lazy initialization

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