The implementation of multi-agents systems aided collaborative and distributed design requires a deeper understanding of the real interactions between actors, inside of the multidisciplinary teams. In this view, it is considered that for the implementation of these systems, it is necessary to observe, model, and analyze this process with finer granularities levels. This study presents an approa...

Concurrent engineering facilities (CEFs) are successfully used in the aeropsace sector to design systems and services that that fulfill the requirements. Model-­‐based systems engineering (MBSE) enables the effective (i.e., unambiguous) communication in the collaborative activitie...

The importance of the technological, and especially ecological advantages offered by PM are well known to those working in the PM field and related industries. Despite these advantages, PM continues to be under-utilised. Application of Knowledge Based Techniques offers potential for enabling increases in the utilisation of PM, through implementation of Concurrent Engineering methods, such as de...

A circumplex model of affect has recently gained tentative acceptance by prominent researchers investigating the structure of dispositional affect. The present study examines the issue of construct validity of several existing measures of affect and their fit with the circumplex model. A traditional multitrait-multimethod matrix approach is utilized first, followed by a confirmatory factor anal...

Concurrency annotations are inserted into otherwise sequential object-oriented code, inducing a concurrent semantics that is very close to the original sequential semantics. This facilitates integrated engineering of sequential and concurrent software, in particular reuse of code across the boundary between concurrency and sequentiality. Concurrency annotations also blend well with inheritance,...