This paper covers the development of a robust, flexible, multi-configuration software tool for the modelling of powertrains of conventional and hybrid vehicles. Modern programming techniques allow greater flexibility and reuse of code as well as an intuitive way of modelling physical components in software. The proposed methodology for software modelling makes use of the core features of modern...

The rapid development of services provided on SIP networks not only define the necessity of creating new equipment and standards but also requires the development of new methods and programming software tools for modeling and analyzing the effectiveness of the overload control mechanisms in SIP-server networks. The modeling process utilizes mathematical and simulation models as well as simulato...

One of the main challenges currently facing the world of enterprise information technology in general and ERP/SCM/CRM systems in particular, is visibility into the business of organizations. While the phenomena of devising supporting tools for process execution frameworks is widespread in academia and practice, there have been few attempts to develop methodologies and software tools that suppor...

Concurrent Engineering methodology and process analysis and modelling showed the importance of tools that allow the designers to evaluate, from the beginning, different aspects of product definition. 3D CAD systems, simulation tools and virtual prototyping technologies can support the designer during her/his decision−making activity but, in order to provide an effective support, they must be ta...

The purpose of this paper is to define the extensions of the UML standard specification for the explicit representation of variations and their locations in software product line architectures based on a design method already established. The method will benefit a more familiar and widely used notation, facilitating a broader understanding of the architecture and enabling more extensive tool su...

We describe collaborative efforts between a knowledge representation team, a community of scientists, and scientific information managers in developing knowledge models for ecological and environmental sciences. Formal, structured approaches to knowledge representation used by the team (e.g., ontologies) can be informed by unstructured approaches to knowledge representation and semantic tagging...

Building maintenance is the responsibility of its owner which must use, whenever appropriate, a technician to perform the inspection. A good maintenance depends on the analysis of the anomalies detected during the inspection of the site. Building Information Models (BIM) have revealed themselves as a good tool when it comes to supporting maintenance actions, due to their ability to store enough...

Product Based Workflow Design (PBWD) is one of the few scientific methodologies for the (re)design of workflow processes. It is based on an analysis of the product that is produced in the workflow process and derives a process model from the product structure. Until now this derivation has been a manual task and is therefore a time-consuming and error-prone exercise. Automatic support would enh...

One of the most important features of modeling tools is generation of output. The output may be documentation, source code, net list, or any other presentation of the system being constructed. The process of output generation may be considered as automatic creation of a target model from a model in the source modeling domain. This translation does not need to be accomplished in a single step. I...

Five years ago, Ericsson decided to investigate the possibility of replacing a proprietary commercial UML modeling tool, used at the core of one of its internal toolchains, with an open source alternative based on Papyrus. The motivation for this switch was manifold, including cost, technology integration and community activity. It was clear from the outset that significant effort would be requ...