background and objectives: arteriovenous fistula is a popular vascular access method for surgical treatmentof hemodialysis patients. the method, however, is associated with a high rate of early failure varying in the range of 20-60%. predicting early arteriovenous fistula failure and its risk factors can help reduce its incidence, its hospitalization rate, and associated costs. in this study, w...

Characterization on the surface morphology, residual stress relaxation, and fatigue life prediction of changed intensity shot peening specimens machined from SS304 were carried out. The present work aims, first foremost, to model performance in extra-low-, low-, high-cycle regime by clarifying relaxation component with total failure life, thereby successfully evaluating un-/0.1 mmA-/0.25 mmA-/0...

Model-Driven engineering (MDE) aims to elevate models in the engineering process to a central role in the speciication, design, integration, validation, and operation of a system. MDE is becoming a widely used approach within the dependability domain: the system, together with its main dependability-related characteristics, is represented by engineering language models, while automatic transfor...

This paper presents a flow-based methodology for capturing processes specified in business process modeling. The proposed methodology is demonstrated through re-modeling of an IBM Blueworks case study. While the Blueworks approach offers a well-proven tool in the field, this should not discourage workers from exploring other ways of thinking about effectively capturing processes. The diagrammat...

This contribution is intended to present highlights of the state of the art in numerical process and device modeling. Special emphasis will be put on three-dimensional simulation for submicron applications. As one particular example results for ion implantation into a three-dimensional trench are presented. The recent refinements to carrier transport models in semiconductor devices are discusse...

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New modeling approaches appeared in the last decade centered on the premise that process structures in data-intensive landscapes are pushed by dependencies observed at the data level. However, as these approaches answer to reduced subsets of all data-related needs, they have a limited practical impact [12]. This work defines a set of data-based requirements to model responsive systems, studies ...