An important bottleneck in model-based design of embedded systems is the cost of constructing models. This cost can be significantly decreased by increasing the reuse of existing model components in the design process. This paper describes a tool suite, which has been developed for component-based model synthesis. The DESERT tool suite can be interfaced to existing modeling and analysis environ...

This thesis examines mathematical modeling as a means to improve profitability. The research is focused on studying supply chain cost drivers and their potential in regard to cost reduction in the automotive manufacturing industry, where the role of supply chain management is significant because of the capital intensive, fast paced, and high volume nature of the business. Hence, supportive tool...

developing reliable yet flexible software is a hard problem. although modeling methods enjoy a lot of advantages, the exclusive use of just one of them, in many cases, may not guarantee the development of reliable and flexible software. formal modeling methods ensure reliability because they use a rigorous approach to software development. however, lack of knowledge and high cost practically fo...

yarn tenacity is one of the most important properties in yarn production. this paper addresses modeling of yarn tenacity as well as optimally determining the amounts of the effective inputs to produce yarn with desired tenacity. the artificial neural network is used as a suitable structure for tenacity modeling of cotton yarn with 30 ne. as the first step for modeling, the empirical data is col...

Software reliability allocation plays an important role during software product design phase, which has close relationship with software modeling and cost evaluation. We formulated an architecture-based approach for modeling software reliability optimization problem, on this basis a dynamic programming algorithm has been illustrated in this paper which can be used to allocate the reliability to...

In the information age, IT companies pay more and more attention to the quality of service. Social network service providers concentrates on saving the cost and developing products with better quality. The explosion of Web service has provided good opportunities for these companies, and also brought severe challenges to them. Therefore, the efficiency and the reusability would be the important ...

Simulation performance prediction methods make possible the realization of performance improvement potentials of Parallel Discrete Event Simulation (PDES) methods, important in the analysis of complex systems and large-scale networks. Currently, high performance execution environments (emerging clusters and computing clouds) advance the development of quality/cost analysis capabilities of perfo...

In the software development required a fidelity and accuracy in determining the size or value of the software to fit the operation is executed. Various methods of calculation has been widely applied to estimate the size, and one of them is by using the method of Function Point Analysis (FPA). The method is then applied by author to measure the complexity of an academic information system by usi...

Successful management of a software project, besides a well-defined project development process, requires an early estimate of project complexity. In a prevailing practice, software development costs usually have been determined a posteriori i.e. after software project implementation. It is essential, however, to know this estimate a priori, i.e., before commencement of works. This paper presen...