This document is the first deliverable of work package three – Modelling and Design. It covers white papers that have been produced and peer-reviewed by the M-Zones partners by the end of July 2003. Purpose of this document is to provide a holistic view of accomplished work regarding the modelling and design of management concepts/systems for smart spaces and to evaluate the research quality of...

Global software development is an inexorable trend in the software industry. The impact of the trend in conventional software development can be found in many of its aspects. One of them is task or work package allocation. Task allocation was traditionally driven by resource competency and availability but GSD introduces new complexities to this process including time-zones differences, costs a...

This deliverable reports on the results of the WebSand work package on Secure Web Interaction. It provides a wording definition and technical specification of the term and builds the basis for the development of the server-side framework that achieves Secure Web Interaction.

This paper presents a new and efficient method to calculate point mobilities from subcomponents of a full structure. When performing dynamic analyses of subcomponents the result normally tends to strongly depend on the boundary condition selected for the component. The goal is to simulate the results one would have received if the full model would be analysed. Normally free or clamped boundary ...

Software Project management involves coordinating various aspects of a project in order to bring forth a positive result. There have been increasing challenges faced by Project Managers. The major challenges of project management include unrealistic deadlines, communication deficit, uncertain dependencies, failure to manage risk and invisibility of the intermediate products. Meeting these chall...

In the current collaborative and extended-enterprise environment, product definition must be exchanged between original equipment manufacturers (OEM) and other partners who contribute to the evolution of product definition. In many cases, an information package, which is associated with other objects in the DMU, must thus be extracted from the OEM’s Digital Mock -up (DMU) and be sent to partner...

In this study, we present the M-PDCA governance model that is constructed and deployed within the scope of Engineering Performance Enhancement (EPE) Project conducted at FNSS Savunma Sistemleri A.Ş. Having experienced a rapid growth in the number of concurrent projects and business volume, the major aim of the firm in undertaking the EPE project was to avoid schedule and cost overruns. In this ...