Ecologists seek general explanations for the dramatic variation in species abundances in space and time. An increasingly popular solution is to predict species distributions, dynamics, and responses to environmental change based on easily measured anatomical and morphological traits. Trait-based approaches assume that simple functional traits influence fitness and life history evolution, but ri...

Mismatches between electronic part procurement lifecycles and the lifecycles of the products that they are used in cause products with long manufacturing and/or support lives to incur significant obsolescence management costs. Lifetime buy is one of the most prevalent mitigation approaches employed for electronic part obsolescence management. Making lifetime purchases of parts when they go obso...

Holometabolous insects are a group of with peculiar appearances and lifecycles, their unique morphology structure have significant impacts on ecology adaptability. The bizarre appearance holometabolous has broad prospects in fields such as biology, medicine, industry. In the future, study still faces many challenges opportunities. We need to respect protect nature, avoid causing damage impact b...

Dynamically reconfigurable hardware resources within complex heterogeneous computing environments show tremendous potential for an improvement in system performance, a reduction in the necessary number of processing resources, an increase in system degradability in the presence of faults, and an expansion of system flexibility, field upgradeability, and system lifecycles. However, efficient man...

In an effort to offset the effects of increasing levels of global competition, demanding customers and employees, shrinking product lifecycles, and decreasing acceptable response times on success in the marketplace, many organizations have become members of formalized extended enterprises known as supply chains. These entities can be described as organizational networks designed to help firms a...

In this position paper we propose a process model that provides a development infrastructure in which the usability engineering and software engineering life cycles co-exist in complementary roles. We describe the motivation, hurdles, rationale, arguments and implementation plan for the need, specification and the usefulness of such a model. Our approach does not merge one lifecycle’s technique...

Evolving e-commerce technologies increasingly enable organisations to participate in different types of network forms or in electronic markets with previously unidentified trading partners. Virtual organisations (VO) take different forms, have varying lifecycles and involve different scope and depth of relationships. This paper examines the literature in terms of the terminology of virtual orga...

We most often seem to willing to accept commercial marketplace hardware and system software components for direct incorporation in the products we engineer, or use them in supporting roles in respect to design, development, and maintenance. While this utilization is due to wide spread availability and cost factors, it has the negative side effect of introducing unnecessary complexity into the p...