The Australian Defence Force and industry are undergoing significant changes in the way they work together in capability enhancement programs. There are capability gaps in maintaining and supporting current obligations during major asset acquisition, which has migrated into the front line of Royal Air Force Fighter Groups as a new capability. This paper examines a steady state support solution ...

This paper discusses the demands for proper computer aided control system design tools for mechatronic systems and identifies a number of tasks in this design process. It puts the contributions to the session in perspective and describes how the papers in this session (partly) contribute to a solution. Some issues not addressed in the session are discussed and the current state-of-the-art as pe...

Nowadays, gardening becomes popular hobby in Japan. However, a plenty of knowledge and several techniques are required to design, to construct, and to maintain gardens. Thus gardening is not easy for ordinary people. In this study, we developed application software to support people who want to do gardening. Many numbers of application software related to gardening are proposed and sold, howeve...

the engineers can frequently encounter with the situation to select the optimum option among the alternatives related with tunneling operations. the optimum choice can be selected by the experienced engineers taking into consideration their judgment and intuition. however, decision-making methods can offer to the engineers to support their optimum selection for a particular application in a sci...

1 Corresponding Author, [email protected], (716) 645-2593 x2232 ABSTRACT In this paper an argument for validation of design decision methods is presented. In the process of justifying the need for validation, the elements of what a valid design methodology is are derived and a formal definition is presented. Under this definition, critical evaluation of two popular decision support method...

The design of facility layouts involves a decision process which, in general, due to its complexity, has to be decomposed into several sub-problems, namely: the selection of the most adequate manufacturing processes, the planning of equipment and labour requirements, the allocation of manufacturing operations to machines, the grouping of machines into sections (cells or departments), the select...

The selection of optimum support system is a key step in the successful design operation of tunneling, rock mass stabilization and minimization of plastic zone extension around a tunnel. In this context, it is not sufficient to rely only on the experiences of design engineers, but taking all effective measures and parameters is necessary to do a proper choice. In this paper, multi attribute dec...

An Information System Design Theory (ISDT) is proposed for use in the development of Spatial Decision Support Systems (SDSS). First, a review of SDSS is presented along with the problems specific to end-users of these systems. Next, a brief overview of ISDT is presented along with a specific example of an ISDT for SDSS that addresses the question of how to establish relationships between compon...

Mobile context aware decision support systems have the potential to provide workers with the information they need, when they need it. The design of such systems must take into account the organisation of information, the activities of the worker, and the wider sociotechnical system if they are to work effectively. Cognitive Work Analysis (CWA) has been applied extensively to the design of deci...