Requirement engineering (RE) process is becoming a key factor for the success of complex one-of-a-kind products. The RE process is commonly viewed as an early system engineering phase with a major bearing on response time, quality, and cost. This study reports on the knowledge acquisition and sharing for requirement engineering (KARE), approach for requirement specification of one-of-a-kind com...

Automatic recording and capturing of live lectures and presentations has been explored and evaluated by various research projects since the mid 90s and has meanwhile been adapted by a number of commercial systems. Here, we discuss and summarize “Authoring on the Fly” (AOF) which is a special incarnation of this idea. The purpose of this paper is to give an overview of the AOF approach, the expe...

Effective performance measurement is an important task in the discipline of engineering management. With the support of City University of Hong Kong, a research project was initiated to develop a knowledge-based expert self-assessment (KES) training toolkit on measuring and assessing organisational performance based on the evaluation criteria of a renowned Business Excellence Model—the Malcolm ...

Congenital anomalies of the great thoracic vessels have been reported in 20% of dogs and cats. In some cases, the vascular ring anomalies remain unrecognized throughout the lifetime of an animal. This report describes a case with an unusual vascular ring anomaly (VRA) that was detected during dissection on a cadaver of an approximately two-year-old male native mixed breed dog. No history of the...

Abstra t. In order to optimise maintenan e and in rease safety, the Royal Netherlands Navy initiated the development of a multihannel on-board data a quisition system for its Lynx heli opters. This AIDA (Automati Inight Data A quisition) system re ords usage and loads data on main rotor, engines and airframe. We used re nement in ombination with model he king to arrive at a formally veri ed pro...

Many technical products and systems nowadays have functionality that is largely determined by software, so called software-intensive systems. The requirements for software-intensive systems change over time, causing the system to evolve. We define evolvability as the ability of the system to respond to such changes. Improving evolvability of zsoftware-intensive systems was the goal of the Darwi...