Component-based software development technique and its intensive use in the industry has led to the wide research in various aspects of component-based systems (CBSs). Dependency analysis is an useful technique that has many applications in software engineering activities including software understanding, testing, debugging, maintenance, and evolution. In this paper, we propose a matrix-based a...

This paper presents a methodology for identifying potential pavement maintenance schemes based upon machine survey data. Highways authorities make maintenance decisions based on a number of factors; condition data is a common starting point. However there are currently no universally accepted techniques for ranking sub-sections by condition, based on the comparison of data from multiple conditi...

The aeronautics industry is attempting to implement important changes to its maintenance strategy. The article presents a new framework for making final decision on aeroplane maintenance actions. It emphasizes on the use of prognostics within this global framework to replace corrective and Preventive Maintenance practise for a predictive maintenance to minimize the cost of the maintenance suppo...

In the software development lifecycle, the quality prediction techniques hold a prime importance in order to minimize future design errors and expensive maintenance. There are many techniques proposed by various researchers, but with the increasing complexity of the software lifecycle model, it is crucial to develop a flexible system which can cater for the factors which in result have an impac...

The concept of advanced maintenance management technique in the field of heavy duty mining machinery/equipment has recently been developed in India. This maintenance concept has the significance of creating a support system for mining equipment functioning. Functional maintenance is one of the most frequently used methods in maintenance management for mining industries. Management of a custom b...

A primary application of web usage profiling is in model-based collaborative filtering (CF) for building recommender systems used for web personalization. CF techniques used for recommendation require accumulation of vast amount of historical user-preference information, which is queried to provide a personalized experience. Model-based CF techniques are preferred over the somewhat more accurat...

Maintenance of critical or/complex systems has recently moved from traditional preventive maintenance to Condition Based Maintenance (CBM) exploiting the advances both in hardware (sensors / DAQ cards, etc.) and in software (sophisticated algorithms blending together the state of the art in signal processing and pattern analysis). Along this path, Environmental Control Systems and other critica...