Industrial software developers are faced with a bewildering array of software engineering tech niques each with its own promised bene ts Yet the choice between them is often informed more by what Fenton calls the unsubstanti ated advertising claims and biases of produc ers both academic and industrial than by evidence of the costs and bene ts of these techniques in an industrial setting Compani...

An experiment for using more than one simulation of sub-networks collaborating as a single large simulation is suggested, based on work with a similar situation. The background and relevant details of the initial solution are described to provide an outline for the solution. Work on this method will help development of simulations for hybrid networks, where newer pieces may be added to the simu...

Component-based problem-solving environments (PSEs) provide scientists and engineers with a framework of integrated problem-solving tools and resources that they can easily compose and apply in their particular task domains. Developing e ective solution strategies within these environments depends on making good choices about the selection, parameterization, and organization of component tools ...

Road accidents claim between 13,000 and 14,000 lives annually in South Africa. Many victims are jaywalking pedestrians, often under the influence of alcohol or drugs. Motorists are involved in fatal accidents due to various human, vehicle and road factors. With the annual increase in vehicle ownership and use, the question is how to lower the fatality rate in South Africa? In order to substanti...

a State Key Laboratory ofWater Resources andHydropower Engineering Science, Key Laboratory of RockMechanics inHydraulic Structural Engineering,Ministry of Education,WuhanUniversity, 8 Donghu South Road, Wuhan 430072, PR China b School of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330031, PR China c Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Hong Kong Universit...

1Department of Biomedical Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 100 Institute Road, Worcester, MA 01609, USA 2Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA 3Department of Computer Engineering, Kwangwoon University, 20 Gwangun-ro, Nowon-gu, Seoul 139-701, Republic of Korea 4Department of Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science ...

a State Key Laboratory ofWater Resources andHydropower Engineering Science, Key Laboratory of RockMechanics inHydraulic Structural Engineering (Ministry of Education),WuhanUniversity, 8 Donghu South Road, Wuhan 430072, PR China b School of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330031, PR China c Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Hong Kong Univers...

Huiping Song, Xingang LI, Jinsheng Sun and Yanhong Wang, (1)School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University, No.92 Weijin Road, Nankai district, Tianjin, 300072, China, (2)School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, National Engineering Research Center for Distillation Technology, Tianjin University,P.R. China, Tianjin, China, (3)National Engineering Research Center for Dis...

In today's competitive market, technology transfer is an important problem for firms, organizations and governments. Therefore, making right decisions on selecting a suitable technology and designing an appropriate process to transfer it may have significant influence on the performance of organizations. In this paper, we present a new method to obtain a suitable technology transfer strategy fo...