It has been widely argued in the literature that security concerns should be integrated with software engineering practices. However, only recently work has been initiated towards this direction. Most of this work, however, only considers how security can be analysed during the development lifecycles and not how the security of an information system can be tested during the analysis and design ...

Supply-hubs, supported by information sharing technologies, are being used by contract manufacturers in hi-tech industries to streamline their supply-side inventory management, in response to shortening product lifecycles and the necessity of configuring goods to order. In this paper, we develop a linear programming model for integrated planning and scheduling of supply hub activities. We assum...

It has been proposed that the impact of moisture on atmospheric eddy circulations can be approximated using a reduced effective stratification defined in terms of a parameter λ, which quantifies the asymmetry between upward and downward motions. Here λ is analyzed for the midlatitude regime using baroclinic lifecycles computed with the Weather Research and Forecast model. Vertical velocities ar...

For the design of new applications in the information and communication technology (ICT) area with ever shorter lifecycles, the availability of the most recent knowledge is mandatory. The intervals within the acquired knowledge bases therefore have to be updated, become shorter and shorter. In this paper we present a new interactive webbased training system supported by the European Union to st...

This paper extends an epistemologically grounded biological theory of organization and knowledge based on Karl Popper's evolutionary epistemology and three worlds ontology, amalgamating concepts from evolutionary biology, emergence and hierarchy theory, autopoiesis, and military affairs. We discuss how this body of theory is being used to guide and inform KM research and development in a geogra...

This chapter is aimed at presenting a review of evolutionary design paradigms, which determine the end user’s role in IT (Information Technology) projects across recent decades. This review covers different perspectives starting from technology-oriented sequential software development lifecycles, through user-centred approaches, ending finally in contemporary service design approaches supported...

In recent years Cloud Resolving Models (CRMs) have become an increasingly important tool for the study of convective phenomena. CRMs should not be regarded as simply providing surrogates for observations; rather, they allow idealized but realistic simulations to be produced which provide a laboratory for the careful diagnostic analysis of generic convective systems. Such analysis is a distincti...

This paper examines the possible causes of collapse of a primary school in San Giuliano, Italy, in the 2002 Molise earthquake, which killed 27 students and one teacher. It also considers the general sources of seismic vulnerability of school buildings in Italy prior to the introduction of new seismic zonation and new seismic codes in 2003. In addition to incomplete seismic zonation and inadequa...

Product development has become a relatively expensive and high-risk process, that is characterized by increasingly shorter lifecycles and higher degrees of competitiveness. To maximize the efficiency and success of their product development initiatives many companies have adopted and implemented a NPD process. These NPD processes range from the semi-structured to the structured, and typically i...

Both alcohol abuse and infection with hepatitis viruses can lead to liver disease, including chronic hepatitis. Alcohol and hepatitis viruses have synergistic effects in the development of liver disease. Some of these involve the cellular membranes and particularly their functionally active domains, termed lipid rafts, which contain many proteins with essential roles in signaling and other proc...