The integration phase represents a highly critical part of the product development process as components are combined and should work together. Errors and problems in product integration result in delays and rework as the results are needed for later phases. Standards and other reference models that include guidelines for product integration are available, but are not always used. Our proposal ...

Business Process Integration and Automation (BPIA) has emerged as an important aspect of the enterprise computing landscape. Intra-enterprise application integration (EAI) as well as the inter enterprise integration (B2B) are increasingly being performed in the context of business processes. The integration scenarios typically involve distributed systems that are autonomous to some degree. From...

This work shows the integration of a sensor based on carbon nanotubes using CMOS technology. A chip sensor (CS) was designed and manufactured using a 0.30 μm CMOS process, leaving a free window on the passivation layer that allowed the deposition of SWCNTs over the electrodes. We successfully investigated with the CS the effect of humidity and temperature on the electrical transport properties ...

Process utility systems consume fuel, generate power and distribute steam. The heating and cooling requirements of the site dictate the site-wide fuel demand and cogeneration of the utility system. New tools have been developed for the design of cogeneration and total site utility systems. In addition, utility systems are always designed with significant spare capacity to allow for the constant...

The integration of software components becomes a more and more important issue in software engineering. Process-oriented approaches should provide automated information processes. Therefore, the software components have to be integrated in a consistent way, i.e., their export interfaces have to be respected by the importing components. Furthermore, the type system of component interfaces has to...

The author describes ACS Inc.'s Pro-LIMS system which integrates laboratory and process procedures. The system has been shown to be an important toolfor quality assurance in the process manufacturing industry.

This research developed the CBD(Component Based Development) logic frameworks for the Integration of components and a tool which supports this. The Integration of components becomes necessary during the process of reusing or assembling components, and this is because the interface of the component is, in many cases, different than the component the developer wishes to assemble. After the iterat...

We offer a formal definition of business process integration. The views of integration in various fields are reviewed and integrated to isolate the four fundamental properties of information that define it: accessibility, transparency, granularity and timeliness. An illustration of a process in the aerospace industry is used to apply the four properties. Résumé Ce document présente une définiti...

As deals are becoming more complex, and as technology, and the people supporting it, are becoming key drivers of merger and acquisition processes, planning of information and communication technologies in early stages of the integration process is vital to the realization of benefits of an Merger & Acquisition process. This statement is substantiated through review of literature from academics ...

This paper presents the integration work carried out to develop a network architecture able to provide seamless communication mobility across multiple technologies, addressing quality of service and authentication, authorization and accounting services in order to support multimedia traffic in a 4G Network. The main focus of the paper is on the integration effort performed in the IST-Daidalos p...