the paper presents a multi-factor decision-making approach for prioritizing failure modes as an alternative to traditional approach of failure mode and effect analysis (fmea). the approach is based on the ‘technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution’ (topsis). the priority ranking is formulated on the basis of six parameters (failure occurrence, non-detection, maintainability...

The Semantic Web, especially in the light of the current focus on its nature as a Web of Data, is a data-centric system, and arguably the largest such system in existence. Data is being created, published, exported, imported, used, transformed and re-used, by different parties and for different purposes. Together, these aspects form a lifecycle of data on the Semantic Web. Understanding this li...

After deploying a classifier in production it is essential to support its lifecycle. This paper describes the application of an ensemble of classifiers to support two stages of the lifecycle of an on-line classifier used to underwrite life insurance applications: the monitoring of its decisions quality and the updating of the production classifier over time. All combinations of five classificat...

Aspect-Oriented Software Development aims at supporting separation of crosscutting concerns throughout the full software lifecycle. In this contribution we focus on lifecycle support for crosscutting concerns with internal structure and complex behaviour. In order to make transitions between phases more seamless, support for such concerns is needed in all phases. In the past the programming lan...

This paper explores domain arguments—arguments about why techniques, processes, and designs possess properties as believed by their domain experts. An elicitation technique for their recovery from domain documents is presented. This is followed by demonstrated application of the technique to several domain artifacts from aviation engineering. The elicited arguments are presented and analyzed fo...

Companies adopting enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems have often focused primarily on implementation-related factors while neglecting those of post-implementation. As a result, the usefulness and operation of the ERP systems, once installed, are compromised. This research adopted a case study approach to demonstrate that ERP adoption efforts that fail to pay attention to postimplementat...

The economic success of an enterprise increasingly depends on its ability to react to changes in its environment in a quick and flexible way. To cope with emerging business trends, responsiveness to change is a significant competitive advantage. Similar to the lifecycle in conventional information systems development, studies on lifecycle support for business processes are often sweeping the is...

The performance measurement method introduced in this paper is based on the five-step indicator lifecycle that covers formal definition of indicators, measurement, analysis, reaction, and reformulation of indicator definitions. Performance measurement framework is introduced that support this performance measurement method and that enables the indicator lifecycle. The goal of this research is t...

In this paper we propose the implementation of a distributed architecture for product lifecycle management in Virtual Organization created to manage the Middle-of-Life phase. After a short introduction of the innovative PromisePLM system which support decision making process based on dynamic creation of knowledge, the application of the system to a case study for maintenance management demonstr...