Aiming at developing reliable concurrent software, the engineering practice uses appropriate metrics. Quasar, the tool that we develop for automatically analyzing the concurrent part of programs, provides some data as a result of its program analysis. We attempt to use them as metrics and to show their usefulness for software engineering and for reliable programming control. In addition to the ...

In current engineering practice, be it concurrent or otherwise, documents are the central mechanism for communicating, informing and instructing. Any attempt to engender a greater uptake of concurrent engineering in the industry has to recognise the central role of documents in process reengineering. The proper management of documents has the potential to greatly improve the design process in t...

Concurrent engineering environments affect the cost estimating and engineering capability of an organisation. Cost estimating tools become outdated and need changing in order to reflect the new environment. This is essential, since cost estimating is the start of the cost management process and influences the ‘go’, ‘no go’ decisions concerning a new product development. This paper examines both...

despite all advances, treatment of esophageal carcinoma is still unsatisfactory. currently the standard non-surgical treatment of esophageal cancer is concurrent chemotherapy and radiotherapy (chemoradiation), with results comparable to best surgical series. a few years ago, we started a chemoradiation protocol for the cancer of esophagus as a curative treatment, of which we present the prelimi...

A concurrent engineering approach integrating analytic hierarchy process (AHP) with quality function deployment (QFD) in combination with cost factor measure (CFM) has been delineated to rank and subsequently select candidate-suppliers undermultiple, conflicting-in-nature criteria environmentwithin a value-chain framework. Engineering requirements and customer requirements governing the selecti...

Concurrent engineering, or overlapping development activities, is a widely discussed tool to reduce development leadtime. However, overlapping may not be beneficial if the overlapped activities are uncertain and not independent. This article combines recent results from the organization theory and concurrent engineering literature to develop a model of two overlapping development activities. Un...

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: This effort has been sponsored by Defense Advance Research Projects Agency (DARPA), under contract No. MDA972-88-C-0047 for DARPA Initiative in Concurrent Engineering (DICE).