When designing and implementing real world ambient intelligent systems, we are in need of applicable information systems engineering methods. These should supplement the knowledge engineering tools we can find in the intelligent systems area. The work presented here focuses on explanation-aware ambient intelligent systems. The ability to explain it’s reasoning and actions has been identified as...

While classical software engineering dictums separate the development of a system’s requirements from its design, practice has largely shown this to be either impractical or naive. Much of the design of large software-dependent systems comes from prior systems, and that knowledge affects the requirements for new systems. Even if prior systems do not directly determine new system’s requirements,...

Traceability between different views, which exist in cross-functional teams, is essential for concurrent engineering. The views (products) of the various teams must be interrelated to each other and presented in a suitable way to emphasize inconsistencies, conflicts, different opportunities. Moreover, decisions together with their rationales must be made explicit. We have developed and implemen...

Program slicing has been developed as a standard technique used in various software engineering activit ies including program understanding, testing, debugging, maintenance, and complexity measurement. Although both static and dynamic slicing of sequential programs have been applied to software engineering practices, there still are some challenges, problems and issues in slicing concurrent pro...

Concurrent engineering is considered as a key concept that enables manufacturing companies to develop new products rapidly with cost saving, without affecting its quality. The purpose of this paper is to report the evaluation of the level of practices of concurrent engineering in Malaysian manufacturing industries. This evaluation was carried out by sending the questionnaire to the appropriate ...

The construction industry has been moving towards concurrent engineering for many years. However, in practice, the degree of success achieved through the application of concurrent engineering varies considerably. Organizational factors, especially with respect to information management methods and techniques coupled with different levels of training and experience of personnel, place considerab...