In this paper, novel methods for the PRO-CHAIN strategy are presented, and their application is discussed for an example. PRO-CHAIN enables statistical analysis and multi-objective robust designparameter optimization of forming processes as well as forming-to-crash process chains. The strategy is built upon several software tools which allow for an efficient sensitivity, stability and robustnes...

There has been an enormous increase in the use of mobile learning (m-learning) systems in many fields due to the tremendous advancement in information and communication technologies. Although, there are many frameworks that have been developed for identifying and categorising the different components of m-learning systems, most of them have some limitations, drawbacks, and no support for quanti...

As with many growing computer areas, the first attempts at developing a framework for the field were based on the software tools being built and the specific tasks undertaken. This paper attempts to draw decision support systems out of these early stages by proposing a more generally applicable framework for computer decision support 'Ib build this framework the paper first examines existing di...

The development of powerful visualization tools is a major challenge in bioinformatics. Although many good special purpose viewers exist, there is a need for configurable meta-viewers that provide enough flexibility to support many different types of data and visualizations. Here we present CGViz, a new software tool that fulfills many of the requirements placed on such a configurable meta-viewer.

Despite many efforts to formalize the early phase of conceptual process design, no toolsupported systematic method for the conceptual design of chemical processes has been developed to date. This contribution presents a methodology and a software tool for the early conceptual design phase, which is characterized by limited and uncertain information on the available process units. The proposed m...

The card sort is a key scale development tool that is frequently used in IS survey instrument development. Cohen's Kappa is a recommended measure of inter-rater agreement in this process, however one of its underlying statistical assumptions is violated when it is used in open card sorts. To address this issue, Matrix Kappa is proposed as a complement to other card sort analysis techniques, ref...

M-GCAT Presentation: Due to the steady arrival of new whole genomes, software tools that are able to effectively gather biological information via multiple whole genome comparison are rapidly increasing in demand. While the multiple alignment and comparison of whole genomes can involve various sophisticated techniques and strategies to obtain practical time and space complexities, anchor-based ...

Résumé. Evoluer des solutions plutôt que de les calculer représente certainement une approche de programmation très prometteuse. Le calcul évolutionnaire a déjà été connu dans l'informatique depuis plus de 4 décennies. Plus récemment, une autre variante d'algorithmes évolutionnaires a été inventée : les algorithmes génétiques quantiques. Dans ce papier, nous aborderons cette approche en donnant...

In this brief article I identify and characterize the variety of simulation methodologies relevant to political science research. Having identified them, I then recount a lighthearted tale of one successful application of a computer simulation to a real world problem of enormous significance. Extending the discussion to other examples, I discuss some of the main issues and benefits in simulatio...

A novel methodology for the calculation, visualisation and analysis of the Reconfigurable Machinery Efficient Workspace (RMEW), based on the twist angles, is presented in this paper. The machinery’s kinematic parameters are used for calculating the workspace, while the efficient workspace is associated with the machinery’s path and includes the endeffector position and orientation. To analyse a...