Enabling predictable assembly

Towards Predictable Assembly of Certifiable Assets

With business drivers such as innovation and the constant influence of changing requirements, organizations seek ways to increase time-to-market capability, enhance overall productivity and maintain or improve product quality. At the same time these organizations strive to leverage legacy investments. Assets unbundled from these legacy systems, acquired through vendors or developed in-house for...

Directed evolution: new parts and optimized function.

Constructing novel biological systems that function in a robust and predictable manner requires better methods for discovering new functional molecules and for optimizing their assembly in novel biological contexts. By enabling functional diversification and optimization in the absence of detailed mechanistic understanding, directed evolution is a powerful complement to 'rational' engineering a...

Directed assembly of defined oligomeric photosynthetic reaction centres through adaptation with programmable extra-membrane coiled-coil interfaces

A challenge associated with the utilisation of bioenergetic proteins in new, synthetic energy transducing systems is achieving efficient and predictable self-assembly of individual components, both natural and man-made, into a functioning macromolecular system. Despite progress with water-soluble proteins, the challenge of programming self-assembly of integral membrane proteins into non-native ...

Bazaar: Enabling Predictable Performance in Datacenters

Formal Definition of Metrics Upon the CORBA Component Model

Objective: Formalization of metrics definitions to assess CORBA component assemblies’ quality attributes. Method: Representation of a component assembly as an instantiation of the CORBA Component Model metamodel. The resulting meta-object diagram can then be traversed using Object Constraint Language clauses. These clauses are a formal and executable definition of the metrics that can be used t...