The National Electronics Manufacturing Initiative's (NEMI) plug and play Factory Project addressed the issues of how to quickly integrate new pieces of electronics assembly equipment into a shop floor line management system and how to manage the vast amounts of data available in today's electronics manufacturing environment. The necessary technical infrastructure was designed, developed, and de...

In this paper the new ways discussed to cut costs for delivering high-quality product in the today’s global economy. Control charts technique is used to study the process stability and reduce the number of defects in the software product. The Process Performance Model (PPM) is also discussed for the project performance over time among various factors and to predict the range of variation of the...

Agile Software Development evolved partially in response to failures associated with waterfall methods. Early Agile research explored adoption, techniques and success stories. More recent work points to challenges when Agile teams interact with wider organizational structures. This work uses Ethnography to explore tensions and challenges between tradition management structures and Agile teams t...

0 7 4 0 7 4 5 9 / 0 3 / $ 1 7 . 0 0 © 2 0 0 3 I E E E complement the waterfall model, others appear to contradict its main principles. Furthermore, the performance dimensions that each practice seeks to optimize often differ. Unfortunately, these potential conflicts are difficult to resolve because the data presented to support most models is anecdotal and biased toward reporting only successfu...

Different biometric traits such as face appearance and heartbeat signal from Electrocardiogram (ECG)/Phonocardiogram (PCG) are widely used in the human identity recognition. Recent advances in facial video based measurement of cardio-physiological parameters such as heartbeat rate, respiratory rate, and blood volume pressure provide the possibility of extracting heartbeat signal from facial vid...

The main objective of the INSYDE project is to define, implement, and demonstrate a comprehensive methodology for the design of hybrid hardware/software systems. Stages in the INSYDE Methodology are analysis, system design, detailed design, and validation, each with its own milestone (Fig. 1). The INSYDE Methodology is not devoted to one particular development strategy, such as the waterfall mo...

This text describes a simple and effective object oriented software design process template having UML as the modeling language and extensively using inspections to support the construction and maintenance of software products. This software design process uses a sequential organization, based on the waterfall approach, for two reasons: to simplify the explanation of design activities in the co...

Methodology assessment requires metrics. Large scale metrics collection requires a persistent data store. Persistent data stores require a model for the database design. Such models reeect the assumptions of their designers; e.g. waterfall development , non-object-oriented languages, etc. We review several models for metrics repositories to conclude that most of the existing metrics repositorie...

In this paper I distil some of my experience in requirements engineering and use case modelling, then list some of the issues (both those I see and those that have been presented by others), together with some suggested resolutions and ways forward. This is not an academic paper it contains few references, and there is no quest for novelty. My interest is in capturing and formulating good pract...

[1] In northeastern Ecuador, near Reventador Volcano, the airwaves are filled with infrasound. Here we identify the locations and characterize three distinct sources of local infrasound, including two types of infrasonic sources, which are not commonly discussed in the literature. The first of these novel sources is an intense and continuous radiator with a fixed location corresponding to San R...