This paper describes parts of the results of a Nolan Norton Institute research project “Strategic Sourcing and Partnerships” executed with 20 international companies. We applied scenario planning to arrive at a number of plausible future scenarios for ICT sourcing and partnerships for the year 2003 / 2005.The scenarios elaborate on issues such as: (1) What are the key environmental and business...

Iranian offshore oil and gas platforms are mostly located in the Persian Gulf. Technical and environmental challenges resulted from an off-design running condition of processes on a platform are important issues. The weakness of strategies to stop or decrease the amount of greenhouse gas emission production rate in the Persian Gulf; which is intensively increasing, is another matter of concern....

We propose here a framework to model real-time components consisting of concurrent real-time tasks running on a single processor, using parametric timed automata. Our framework is generic and modular, so as to be easily adapted to different schedulers and more complex task models. We first perform a parametric schedulability analysis of the components using the inverse method. We show that the ...

Scenarios have been widely applied to the problems of process analysis, software design and requirements engineering. The success of scenarios lies in their coupling of expressiveness with a natural narrative structure that makes them an ideal format for communicating ideas between analysts and laypeople. In requirements engineering, scenarios have been applied to the problems of requirements e...

Practical optimum design of structures often involves parameters with uncertainties. There have been several ways to deal with such optimisation problems, and one of the approaches is an antioptimisation process. The task is to find the optimum solution of common design variables while simultaneously searching for the worst case scenario of those parameters with uncertainties. This paper propos...

In the paper we present a method for determining testing scenarios for parallel and distributed software. It is based on simulation of software behavior and combines static and dynamic analysis to provide a convenient framework for structural program testing. The underlying testing model consists of parallel program control ow structures including data processing nodes, decision nodes, communic...