With product complexity increasing, more and more companies realize that their current design technology is no longer able to cope. As product lifecycles decrease, engineering departments are inundated with demands to deliver more complex designs in less time, to remain competitive and gain market share. Finding a powerful, fast and efficient design system can be challenging. Solid Edge® large ...

A rapidly changing business environment, regulatory development, and technological advancements constantly impose changes on the modern enterprise. Thus, the ability to perform EA transformations in a timely manner has attracted growing attention recently within the field of EA planning. Based on the different EA planning perspectives, numerous models and modeling techniques have been developed...

In this paper, we propose an adaptive casteship mechanism for modelling and designing adaptive Multi-Agent Systems (MAS). In our approach, caste is the modular unit and abstraction that specify agents’ behaviour. Adaptive behaviours of agents are captured as the change of castes during their lifecycles by executing ‘join’, ‘quit’, ‘activate’ and ‘deactivate’ operations on castes. The formal sem...

Industrial production is facing major challenges with regard to flexibility and productivity during the manufacturing process. Due to the dynamic of product lifecycles, the number of product variants manufactured in the same production environment is continuously increasing. This paper explains the principles and the necessity for service-based planning and control of cyber-physical production ...

Hundreds of thousands of hashtags are generated every day on Twitter. Only a few become bursting topics. Among the few, only some can be predicted in real-time. In this paper, we take the initiative to conduct a systematic study of a series of challenging real-time prediction problems of bursting hashtags. Which hashtags will become bursting? If they do, when will the burst happen? How long wil...

Cooperation between manufacturing enterprises has recently become widespread in order to cope with newly emerged challenges, such as growing customer expectations, increasing product variety and decreasing product lifecycles. Nowadays the response to these challenges seems to be the formation of tight relations in supply chains and networks, which enables joint handling of market risks and invo...

Quality and price was a major discriminator in the 1980’s. Now Time to market dictates. Global Competitiveness in manufacturing is characterized by an increasing rate of change of product specification. Complex and dynamic value chains and product and service delivery mechanisms match it. This paper presents a framework, which combines different lifecycles in a hierarchical structure to support...

During the early phases of projects’ lifecycles, detailed information is scarce; yet there is frequent need to make key decisions, especially those concerning tradeoffs among quality requirements. Trading among competing concerns occurs in many fields, e.g. systems engineering, hardware engineering, and software engineering. Here, we report on our design and use of a model to help make requirem...

In this paper we consider a class of integrity constraints which describe admissible lifecycles of database objects, and which can be speciied by transition graphs. We present an algorithmic scheme for monitoring such constraints in temporal databases which eeciently support the concept of valid-time. The keys to eecient monitoring lie in storing lifecycle situations with respect to constraints...

We propose a methodology where the modelling of AgentOriented Information Systems starts from the modelling of strategic relationships between the actors involved, and continues by means-ends analysis connecting business goals to the tasks used for achieving them. Following that, strategic relationships are represented by using the notion of metacommitment, and lifecycles of commitments are mod...