Computational tools that support process design have been widely used in Business Process Reengineering. In order to assist the designer, they use information about the organisation (structure, tasks, documents, etc). However, knowledge and inference about the expected behaviour of processes have not been supported to the same extend. In this paper we redress this situation by showing how the c...

Today’s young people are surrounded by communication technologies that have a central place in their daily lives, such as the internet and mobile phones. Text messaging (short message service, SMS), for example, became a fully established phenomenon by the late 1990s. And teens were especially quick to adopt it. Today, SMS is the second most used mobile phone service (after voice) in Europe and...

an investigation into application of the “process book” as an educational tool in architectural design studio within the domain of education, the design process is presumed by educators, as important, if not more, than the final design product. the reason lies in the fact that the very aim of design education is the enrichment of the students’ thinking processes, in their progress from given de...

OBJECTIVE The objective is evaluation of a traditionally designed operating room using simulation of various surgical workflows. BACKGROUND A literature search showed that there is no evidence for an optimal operating room layout regarding the position and size of an ultraclean ventilation (UCV) canopy with a separate preparation room for laying out instruments and in which patients are induc...

The project cycle ................................................................................................ 1 Project delivery ................................................................................................... 2 Design-Bid-Build................................................................................................. 3 Quality-based selection in design-build.........

Modern day digital integrated circuit designs can be designed without choosing a target programmable device or fabrication process until near the very end of the design flow. Current analog design tools and processes, however, require that the fabrication process be chosen very early on in the design process. This paper describes a vision of analog design that can be used to make more of the an...

By now, European companies are the market leaders in the development of process automation software. Current numbers indicate, however, that this market position is going to change in favor of US and Far East companies. This thesis can be regarded as a contribution to keep the leading market position because it presents an innovative software architecture for process automation systems which pr...

oday, we are witnessing important new developments that go beyond “traditional” chemical engineering. Engineers at many universities and industrial research centers are working on novel equipment and techniques that potentially could transform our concept of chemical plants and lead to compact, safe, energy-efficient, and environment-friendly sustainable processes. These developments share a co...