Changeability is mandatory for top class automotive industry to cope with new product development paradigms and demanding market. Hybrid Reconfigurable Assembly Systems (H-RMSs) address a customized flexibility on product families, given by coexistence or cooperation of human workers and robots. Key-issues for the effective design of harmonized hybrid assembly systems are: modularity; integrabi...

Aspect Aspect-oriented programming is known as a technique for modularizing crosscutting concerns. However, there are no clear rules to help detect and implement Aspects in the software development lifecycle. Consequently, class developers face changeability, parallel development and comprehensibility problems, because they must be aware of aspects whenever they develop or maintain a class. The...

Simulation and identification of emotions have attracted much interest from fields like cognitive science, psychology, and, recently, engineering. Even though a good quantity of investigation has been conducted on behavioral modalities, there are some underresearched aspects such as physiological signals. This research brings forth the ECG signal and introduces a complete study of its psycholog...

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has helped to drive increasingly intense global competition. In turn, this intensity increases the need for flexibility and rapid changeability in ICT to support strategies that depend on organisational agility. We report a comparative, cross-cultural case study of the implementation of Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) at a Scandinavian bank an...

Most often stuttering is identified with a speech disorder or speech disfluency. However, it resembles a disorder consisting of linguistic, biological, psychological and social factors, as well as relations between them. The onset of stuttering usually occurs in the preschool age or even earlier, though relatively little concern has been devoted to this period. The article presents a review of ...

If a space-time with a causal relationship is viewed from an observer in space-time, the interaction between space-time and the observer has to be implemented. We describe this interaction using a pair of causal sets and its semantics or using a pair of Point and Open Logic. We here propose an artificial causal space-time called an evolutionary topological system, which is based on the changeab...

Software maintenance is a term of major interest and it is a valuable part of software development cycle. One of the main aspects of software quality in software products is maintainability. Further, there are four sub categories of maintainability: analyzability, changeability, stability, and testability. Maintainability plays a vital role in improving software quality as software changes/upda...

We present an approach for development of Grid resource management tools, where we put into practice internationally established high-level views of future Grid architectures. The approach addresses fundamental Grid challenges and strives towards a future vision of the Grid where capabilities are made available as independent and dynamically assembled utilities, enabling run-time changes in the...