The essentiality of maintenance assessment and maintenance optimization in design stage is analyzed, and the existent problems of conventional maintenance design method are illuminated. MDMVM (Maintenance Design Method based Virtual Maintenance) is illuminated, and the process of MDMVM established, and the MDMVM architecture is given out. The key techniques of MDMVM are analyzed, and include ma...

The Department of Defense (DoD) is currently maintaining the aircraft operability and functionality past the original design intention for many military aircraft. This practice imposes an additional burden on the inspection systems at the DoD logistic centers to ensure the aircraft in operation are airworthy and will be able to complete mission assignments for a specified period of time. Condit...

This paper presents an approach that aims to assist maintenance of component-based systems by means of Software Configuration Management techniques. These techniques support different activities of software maintenance, from the maintenance request up to implementation and integration. Moreover, some feedback about the relationship of component-based artifacts is provided by applying data minin...

Maintaining and supporting the software of an organization is not an easy task, and software maintainers do not currently have access to tools to evaluate strategies for improving the specific activities of software maintenance. This article presents a knowledge-based system which helps in locating best practices in a software maintenance capability maturity model (SM). The contributions of thi...

This paper proposes a new optimal method for synchronizing flux orchestration services. By orchestration, we mean the process of communicating different applications in a collaborating context, generally in a complex SOA Architecture. Current way for resolving this problem is done manually by developers them selves, witch increases economical cost and programming complexity. Traditional method ...

Maintaining and supporting the software of an organization is not an easy task, and software maintainers do not currently have access to tools to evaluate strategies for improving the specific activities of software maintenance. This article presents a web-based training approach using a knowledge-based system which helps in locating best practices in a software maintenance capability maturity ...

We present the application of software process modeling and simulation using an agent-based approach to a real case study of software maintenance. The original process used PSP/TSP; it spent a large amount of time estimating in advance maintenance requests, and needed to be greatly improved. To this purpose, a Kanban system was successfully implemented, that demonstrated to be able to substanti...

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This paper addresses the problem of resolving errors under uncertainty in a rule-based sys­ tem. A new approach has been developed that reformulates this problem as a neural-network learning problem. The strength and the fun­ damental limitations of this approach are ex­ plored and discussed. The main result is that neural heuristics can be applied to solve some but not all problems in rule-bas...