This article is concerned with the development of software infrastructures for context-aware computing. To clarify the diversity of approaches in this area, we propose a synthesis of the state of the art using a reference framework derived from sound software engineering design principles. We then present our own contribution, the Contextor Infrastructure. We describe its conceptual computation...

System engineering is one of the most powerful tools for comprehensive project management and control. This tool emphasized the life cycle of the projects, manages every single activity and helps manage the main elements of the project through a set of management and engineering processes. The goal of the current study is to use a system engineering approach in design phase in order or to meet ...

one of the most effective tools for decline cost and time, quality improvement and consequently project performance enhancement especially in construction projects, is value engineering. there are linguistic judgments in many cases of value engineering studies in construction projects such as interior design, mechanical installations design, and etc. therefore multiple attribute decision-making...

This article presents a formal model of the design thinking process based on Method Engineering. The foundation of our work is based on observations within an educational context—the 'School of Design Thinking' of the Hasso-Plattner-Institute in Potsdam, Germany (“HPI D-School”). We analyzed the design thinking process, as it is practiced there, and developed a process model that describes all ...

One way to make engineering design effective and efficient is to make its processes flexible – i.e. self-adjusting, self-configuring, and selfoptimizing at run time. This chapter presents the descriptive part of the Dynamic Engineering Design Process (DEDP) modeling framework developed in the PSI1 project. The project aims to build a software tool to assist managers to analyze and enhance the p...