There has been an unprecedented thrust in employing Computers and Communication technologies in all walks of life. The systems enabled by Information Technology are becoming more and more complex resulting in various threats and vulnerabilities. The security properties, like confidentiality, integrity, and availability, are becoming more and more difficult to protect. In this chapter, a life-cy...

Electricity generation is a key source to global emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) and their related environmental impact. Sustainable development requires methods and tools to measure the environmental impacts of human activities for various products such as goods, services, etc. Life-cycle analysis is a valuable tool for evaluating the environmental profile of a product or technology from c...

The paper objective is to examine the effect of Biologically Inspired Computing for the implementation Biological Human Development based on systems development life cycle (SDLC). This paper is focused on the relationship between human development and systems development life cycle through Biologically Inspired Computing. From the conclusion of the study can deduct that there is a positive asso...

The objectives of the Building Envelope Life Cycle Asset Management (BELCAM) project is to assist asset managers by developing methods to predict the remaining service life of building envelope components, and by providing tools to optimize maintenance expenditures. The project concentrates on roofing systems, as a “proof of concept”, but will apply the tools, procedures and methods to other bu...

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This paper presents the software life-cycle for the development of a knowledge-based GIS. The life-cycle framework used is called MBIUI and provides the experimental studies that are required for designing, implementing and testing a decision making theory in a graphical user interface. The decision making theory has been adapted in the user interface for is used for the evaluation of different...

In recent years, the interest on research in Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems has grown notoriously. Many authors have made individual proposals of interesting topics to be researched around CRM systems, but no overarching research agenda has yet been proposed. Based upon a recent research literature review that we have undertaken, which includes several real case studies conducte...

Modeling is one of the most important factors in the process of computer systems development. It is the process of representing real-world concepts in the computer domains as a blueprint for the purpose of software development. Recent trends in software and system development have also revealed the value of developing systems at higher levels of abstraction. Abstract models streamline and speed...

In this paper, algorithms are presented in order to determine the best disassembly sequence for a sub-assembly and a system life-cycle model for disassembly-assembly line design. The main contribution consists in the determination of a sequence which has the minimal number of components to disassemble, taken into account several criteria: stability, the geometrical form, operations done in para...