In many industries such as automotive industry, there are a lot of suppliers dealing with the final products manufacturer. With growing numbers of suppliers, the suppliers’ efficiency measurement often becomes the most significant concern for manufacturers. Therefore, various performance measurement models such as DEA, AHP, TOPSIS, are developed to support supplier selection decisions. After an...

Purpose: Automotive component reuse as one of the product recovery strategy is now gaining importance in view of its impact on the environment. Research and development on components design and manufacturing as well as tools and methods to facilitate reuse are under way in many countries. To enable reuse, components have to be assessed and its reliability and life time predicted. This paper pre...

The complexity of automotive software systems continues to increase at a dramatic pace. Traditionally, the interactions between the various software components of a vehicle are addressed only at the later stages in the overall development process. We advocate a fresh approach, where interaction patterns become the defining elements of automotive software services. This shifts the development fo...

Designing cyber-physical systems (CPS) is challenging due to the tight interactions between software, network/platform, and physical components. Automotive control system is a typical CPS example and often designed based on a time-triggered paradigm. In this paper, a co-simulation framework that considers interacting CPS components for assisting time-triggered automotive CPS design is proposed....

Standardization is very much the trend in the development of automotive electronics. The use of open architectures and configurable components are intended to let developers focus more on the innovative and differentiating aspects of the development process. AUTOSAR (AUTomotive Open System ARchitecture) has the stated goal of standardizing a common open automotive software architecture. It is a...

The validation of functional and real-time requirements of automotive control software usually needs the electronic control unit and the controlled hardware components. But very often, the electronic control unit and the hardware components are not available for testing the automotive control software in the early development phases. This paper presents a validation process for component-based ...

In the technology-driven industries like automotive industry, the success of the companies depends on their ability to provide new and continuous innovations to the market. In this regard, technological capabilities lead to a competitive advantage. The purpose of this study is to identify the effective factors in the technology assessment based on the dynamic capabilities of small and medium au...