From design validation to the production floor to on-site diagnostics, testing is a critical component in the product development process -which basically involves identifying potential problems in order to address and resolve them. Finding a piece of test equipment that will address all of a product’s testing needs, however, is a dilemma that frequently leads to creating a custom, product-spec...

This paper provides an ontological analysis of built environments. It shows that boundaries are ontologically salient features of built environments and that there are different kinds of boundaries that that need to be considered. It discusses in particular the important role of fiat boundaries. At the level of objects built environments are formed by partition forming objects and populated by ...

We propose a new general-purpose computer architecture based on programmable logic. It consists of a dual-structured array of cells accommodating a fixed “built-in part” and a freely programmable “plastic part”. We call this composition the “Plastic Cell Architecture” (PCA). The built-in part with its fully connective two-dimensional mesh structure serves as a communication platform based on th...

The empirical study described in this paper focuses on the effectiveness of maintenance processes in an environment in which a repository of potential sources of reuse exists, e.g. a context in which applications are built using an object-oriented framework. Such a repository might contain current and previous releases of the system under maintenance, as well as other applications that are buil...

Most approaches for recovering objects from procedural code are exclusively based on static information. These approaches have the advantage to build on information easily available. However, with code that is not built around very strong and ubiquitous data structures, substantial portions of this code cannot be clearly assigned to one of the objects the object-oriented system is made of. Here...

Cooperative arms are two or more arms in series which assume the structure of a parallel robot on account of gripping an intermediary object, and are commonly used in accurate assembly industries, coaxialization, movement of object, etc. Gripping an intermediary object is one of the complicated subjects in analysis of cooperative arms, whose analysis is mostly dependent upon the manner the obje...

Automatic classiication may be used in object knowledge bases in order to suggest hypothesis about the structure of the available object sets. Yet its direct application meets some diiculties due to the way data is represented: attributes relating objects, multi-valued attributes, non-standard and external data types used in object descriptions. We present here an approach to the automatic clas...

Soul is an object-oriented framework for object support, on which speciic object-support operating systems (called \subsystems") such as SOS, Comandos, or Cool, can be built and coexist. The Soul framework comprises a Nucleus (object-oriented microkernel), and a Generic Run-Time (GRT, an object-oriented toolkit of object-management object types and classes). A new subsystem is built by reusing,...

The paper considers the generalized structure of maintenance system, including, in general case, protection subsystem, functional diagnostics test and repair subsystem. technical implementation listed subsystems is possible form tools built into object external to object. For transport technological machines ratios volumetric characteristics built-in are analyzed (using simplest analytical expr...