This paper proposes that Systems Engineering and Product Lifecycle Management are closely related. In fact, the contention is that one of the threads that has led to the formation of Product Lifecycle Management is Systems Engineering. Product Lifecycle Management extends Systems Engineering and uses many of its methodologies and processes. However, this connection between these two areas has n...

In this article, we discuss the identity and indistinguishability of quantum systems and the consequent need to introduce an extra postulate in Quantum Mechanics to correctly describe situations involving indistinguishable particles. This is, for electrons, the Pauli Exclusion Principle, or in general, the Symmetrization Postulate. Then, we introduce fermions and bosons and the distributions re...

To navigate successfully, a mobile robot must be able to estimate the spatial relationships of the objects of interest in its environment. The main advantage of a bearing-only SLAM system is that it requires only a cheap vision sensor for navigation. In this paper, we present a bearing-only SLAM method for a 2D environment with visually indistinguishable landmarks (Unknown Data Association). Wh...

Abstract We introduce a new family of continuous variable (CV) states definite parity originating from the single mode squeezed vacuum (SMSV) state by subtracting an arbitrary number photons it. A beam splitter with transmittance and reflectance parameters redirects input in indistinguishable manner to output measuring modes followed probabilistic measurement, thereby converting initial SMSV ph...

We study theoretically how the brightness of pumps, with fixed profiles, affects temporal mode structure squeezed states generated by parametric waveguided sources. find that modes these can be partially mismatched and thus distinguishable, which is undesirable when using as resources for quantum computing or heralded state generation. By studying common frequency filtering techniques used expe...

We give a new characterization of biinfinite Sturmian sequences in terms indistinguishable asymptotic pairs. Two on full Z-shift are if the sets occurrences every pattern each sequence coincide up to finitely supported permutation. This can be seen as an extension Pirillo’s theorem which characterizes Christoffel words. Furthermore, we provide pairs arbitrary alphabets using substitutions and c...