This paper reviews the use of computational flow simulation for aircraft design. While computational simulation has already yielded great benefits, its impact continues to be restricted by computational and human costs. The requirements of the design process are examined in detail. In current practice there are bottlenecks in geometry modelling, data handling and mesh generation. To exploit com...

Concurrency is unavoidable in modern software development, owing to the increasing complexity of computer systems and the widespread use of parallel computer hardware. Conventional approaches to concurrency are fraught with danger: in particular, uncontrolled access to shared resources, poor scalability and the inability of the programmer to reason about the correctness of a program. Process-or...

The creation of a development process is a challenging task. The application, customization and refinement of generic process models into fine-grained process steps suitable for a specific problem domain requires major work. This paper first reviews a generic framework for requirements engineering as well as a domain-specific framework. It then outlines some basic principles for a methodology t...

This paper is divided in three parts. The first part will present the Applied Software Engineering Centre, its history, its mission, and the services offered. The second part will present a brief profile of organisations that have undertaken to improve software processes utilising mainly the Capability Maturity Model developed by the Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute. Th...

Crystalline organic solids are ubiquitous as either final products or as intermediates in the specialty chemical, pharmaceutical, and home & personal care industries. Virtually all small molecular weight drugs are isolated as crystalline materials, and over 90% of all pharmaceutical products are formulated in particulate, generally crystalline form. Crystalline chemical intermediates, such as a...

1. Extended Abstract Process systems engineering (PSE) has been traditionally concerned with the understanding and development of systematic procedures for the design, control, and operation of chemical process systems (Sargent, 1991). Computer aided process engineering (CAPE), like PSE, has been traditionally concerned with the development and solution of problems related to chemical process d...

The past decade has assisted to a growing interest in reverse engineering and to the consequent proliferation of papers and experience reports about this subject from both academic and industrial environments. Many types of reverse engineering process components (i.e. methods, algorithms, techniques, procedures, processes model, etc.) have been proposed. To be able to reuse effectively the publ...

When assessing software engineering processes, current reference models approaches typically rely on manual techniques for acquiring evidence of practices, which is then correlated with expected model attributes to assess compliance. This is costly, error-prone, and assessment feedback is infrequent and detached from the original context. Automated data acquisition could improve this situation,...