Recent studies have advocated that digital technologies (DTs) positively affect the transition of a linear economy model to circular (CE) and facilitate enterprises in implementing strategies. Despite this general statement, literature still overlooks how should apply various DTs Industry 4.0 across entire product lifecycle operationalize CE-related To fill gap, paper proposes conceptual framew...

This study’s goal is to investigate the determinants of enterprise system (ES) adoption projects across the system lifecycle in transition economies. On the basis of research conducted among ES practitioners in Poland, an example of a transition economy, the analysis revealed 29 determinants of ES adoptions and examined their changing criticality across the system lifecycle. In doing so, this s...

EAST-ADL is an architecture description language developed for specifications of automotive embedded systems at multiple abstraction levels. Based on the best practices in model-based system development (MBD), it provides necessary artifacts for integrating and managing various concerns in an entire system lifecycle. Requirements engineering, safety engineering and the assignments of non-functi...

SACM (Structured Assurance Case Metamodel) is a standard for assurance case specification and exchange. It consists of an argumentation metamodel and an evidence metamodel for justifying that a system satisfies certain requirements. For assurance of safety-critical systems, SACM can be used to manage safety evidence and to specify safety cases. The standard is a promising initiative towards har...

With energy resource scarcity and energy crisis in the world, energy efficiency has become a subject of great importance. In warm and humid climates as well as cold and mountainous ones, annual energy consumption is too high to achieve desirable living conditions in built environments, and hence energy efficiency measures and practices in such buildings is of utmost priority. Given the direct r...

Robots have played a very important role in the growing popular flexible manufacturing environments. However, state-of-art industrial robots with high accuracy are rather costly and static. Our works aims at providing a low-cost fast integrating platform with advanced middleware support to seamlessly integrate off-the-shelf or future robot sensors, robots, and actuators as well as industrial IT...