This paper presents a systems concurrent engineering approach for the conception of a hybrid vehicle. Traditional approaches focus on the product development organization and product concepts of operation (CONOPS). In traditional approaches, the overall view of the inherent complexity in the development of a product, its life cycle processes and their performing organizations are not taken into...

UK Recently, customer-­‐based product development is becoming a popular paradigm. Customer expectations and needs can be identified and transformed into requirements for product design with the help of various methods and tools. However, in many cases, these models fail to focus on the perceived value that is crucial when customers make the

The European Commission Consumers, Health, Agriculture and Food Executive Agency (CHAFEA) call for tender to carry out two studies on the added value of strategic and life-course approach to vaccination , and on shortcomings related to low vaccination in healthcare workers, respectively, will close on 13 September 2016. According to the tender document 'each study has to include a representativ...

We propose strategic games wherein the strategies consist of players asking each other questions and answering those questions. We study simplifications of such games wherein two players simultaneously ask each other a question that the opponent is then obliged to answer. The motivation for our research is to model conversation including the dynamics of questions and answers, to provide new lin...

AnswerFinder is a framework for the development of question-answering systems. AnswerFinder is currently being used to test the applicability of graph representations for the detection and extraction of answers. In this paper we briefly describe AnswerFinder and introduce our method to learn graph patterns that link questions with their corresponding answers in arbitrary sentences. The method i...

. This paper discusses active teaching and learning strategies that have been used in the TeNeT Online tutorials [1]. The focus of these tutorials is to enable rural students to pass the Standard X examination. The highlight of the tutorial is the use of the Question and Answer format. This problem-solving approach is evident in its three-pronged format: Learn, Practice and Test. Every module i...

FYI on Questions and Answers Answers to Commonly asked "New Internet User" Questions Status of this Memo This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does not specify an Internet standard. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Abstract This FYI RFC is one of two FYI's called, "Questions and Answers" (Q/A), produced by the User Services Working Group of the Internet Engineerin...