every invention in order to be registered, should have essential conditions and the legal due process should be complied with. the novelty is a traditional qualification of any invention, which must be considered objectively; the applicant’s awareness or his ignorance in regard to it's public release, is not efficient in the maintenance or decline of invention’s novelty. the state of the a...

In order to realize System on a Chip (SoC) designs and to meet Time to Market (TTM) window at the same time, the development of a qualification methodology is necessary because transfer of IP modules is crucial. Since design for reuse (IP) is one possibility, but requires a design to be compliant to certain guidelines. This enables a quick integration of an IP module into a system. Detailed gui...

C ompanies are increasingly using outsourced multivendor qualification services for analytical instrumentation (1). This trend and the advantages of such an approach over other available options can be explained by some historical scene setting, along with descriptions of some of the main qualification approaches available. Like many other industries, the pharmaceutical industry is highly regul...

The qualification problem may be the most fundamental difficulty in formalizing common sense knowledge in general, and in formalizing knowledge about action in particular. This position paper argues that the qualification problem is intrinsicallycomputational as opposed to representational. This does not imply that explicit, formal, knowledge has no role in the production of commonsensical beha...

By analysis of performed spatial data infrastructures (SDIs) in developed countries, it is believed that one of the most important problems which obstacles the implementation of SDI’s objectives, is the lack of enough harmony in different parts. The solution given in management systems for more adaptability is using total quality management (TQM). In this paper, we compare SDI and TQM from adva...