Software quality is related to both code and development process. Evaluating the quality, in order to improve it, is rather than simple. Tools for automated collection of code measures are available but the interpretation of the numbers extracted is not easy and further research is required. The evaluation of the process is even more complex due to the lack of tools for automated data collectio...

niques in developing design programs provides formalisms for representing p r o b l e m s o l v i n g processes. In this article, the use of AI techniques in modeling design processes is elaborated with the presentation of three models that formalize the representation of design knowledge within a design program. For the purpose of establishing the relevance of the models presented here, a stru...

Hitherto, instrumentation network design methodologies have been based solely upon sensor capital costs. Within this framework the cost of new instrumentation is minimized subject to constraints indicating the desired level of performance. While, these formulations account for the cost of a network, they do not reflect the potential benefit of adding sensors. To capture this potential profit, w...

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Effective and successful support of collaborative process design in a distributed environment is largely dependent on the mutual intelligibility of processes for the involved parties. This requires an ICTsupported modelling framework that captures information provided by stakeholders and presents it in an accurate way to the other involved parties. We introduce a novel, distributed approach for...

Historically, business process design has been driven by business objectives, specifically process improvement. However this cannot come at the price of control objectives which stem from various legislative, standard and business partnership sources. Ensuring the compliance to regulations and industrial standards is an increasingly important issue in the design of business processes. In this p...

Systematic approaches for the invention of conceptual chemical process designs have been proposed and discussed for more than twenty-five years, and have now been developed to the point of industrial application. Process synthesis has also now become an integral part of many chemical engineering design curricula. CACHE has contributed to the promotion and advancement of conceptual design and pr...

Over the past several decades a number of organizations have made significant progress in evolving highperformance production systems. Anecdotal observations of successful systems typically provide the basis for organizational initiatives that practitioners attempt to copy and transplant into other organizations, sometimes resulting in successful applications and sometime in expensive failures....