To uniquely equip students with the active knowledge and the ability to implement pollution prevention technology, we have developed a design-oriented senior-level elective course on minimizing the environmental impact of chemical manufacturing processes. The objectives of the course are to educate students on the real costs of operating processes that release pollutants to the environment, to ...

Agent-oriented modeling is a top-down approach for modeling and simulating the behaviors of complex systems. This research addresses the application of agent-oriented modeling to eliciting and representing knowledge for social simulations. We provide an overview of agent-oriented modeling and describe a case study on conflict resolution that has an impact on winning “hearts and minds” of the oc...

Improving modularity and reusability are two key objectives in object-oriented programming. These objectives are achieved by applying several key concepts, such as data encapsulation and inheritance. A class in an object-oriented system is the basic unit of design. Assessing the quality of an object-oriented class may require flattening the class and representing it as it really is, including a...

In this work we analyse the suitability of using object-oriented features in high integrity systems, and the interest of redesigning a system implementation to include these constructs. The analysis was based on retrofitting object-oriented programming into the pre-object oriented design of the OBOSS software package. The evaluation of the impact was measured in a number of ways. The implicatio...

In this paper, we empirically examine the impact oflong-term client relationships on the performance ofbusiness service firms. On the basis ofthe information contained in the Compustat and Comnact Disclosure sets of databases, we find that, over the long run, relationship-oriented business service firms achieve higher returns on their investment than transaction-oriented firms. Importantly, our...

Design phase of the software development is the most appropriate one for incorporating security decisions. Unfortunately, no efficient methodology or tool exists to address security at design phase. Almost negligible work has been reported to assess the impact of object oriented design characteristics on security, though the effort has already been made for quality. Since, the approach presente...

This paper attempts a normative assessment of the input and output-oriented legitimacy of the present euro-rescuing regime on the basis of policy analyses examining the causes of present crises, the available policy options, and the impact of the policies actually chosen. Concluding that the regime lacks input-oriented legitimacy and that its claim to output-oriented legitimacy is ambivalent at...

Three studies investigated the role of action versus state orientation in how people deal with depletion of self-control resources. Action-oriented persons were expected to continue allocating resources and hence to perform better than state-oriented persons who were expected to conserve strength. Consistent with this, action-oriented persons performed better on the d2 test of attention than st...

A number of concerns in multi-agent system (MAS) design have a crosscutting impact on agent-oriented models. These concerns inherently affect several system agents and their internal modeling elements, such as actions and goals. Examples of crosscutting concerns in MAS design encompass both internal and systemic properties, such as learning, mobility, error handling, and security. Without an ex...