Immortal products are updated and upgraded to go from application and, in so doing, extend their life as long possible. Designing such is the key a sustainable society circular economy perspective. It new way of designing that must be supported by engineering tools deployed companies, small medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) included. The implementation loops associated industrial systems very dep...

For 20 years, conflict between the planning and process schools of strategy has shaped the debate on strategy creation. Here we argue that a scenario-based approach to strategic planning can serve as an innovative management tool in the field with the potential to overcome discrepancies between the two opposing schools of strategy. The scenario-based approach to strategic planning builds on the...

One-way Vehicle Sharing Systems (VSS), such as Vélib’ Paris, have a poor performance without regulation. We want to improve the efficiency of VSS using design strategies or pricing as incentive. Stochastic models are intractable for the size of systems we want to tackle. We therefore discuss a scenario-based approach, i.e. off-line deterministic optimization problems on a given stochastic reali...

Software components can be connected by XML processing pipelines, which may perform adaptations. In our model, individual pipeline stages serialize source data structures to XML, perform one or multiple XSL transformations, transport the message to its destination and finally deserialize it to target data structures. Implementation of this model is open to optimizations. The present paper discu...

Scenario-based approach is one of the promising techniques not only to elicit requirements from stakeholders, but also to achieve user-participatory development. The techniques to construct scenarios of high quality with less effort are necessary. In addition, since during developing a system its requirements are frequently changed by customers and/or users, the techniques to manage the changes...

This paper present recent achievements obtained within the context of the ANFAS project (Data fusion for flood simulation and decision support). The overal objective of ANFAS was to set up an integrated system for flood prevention and protection. Data fusion and models fusion techniques constitute the core of the scientific research work of the project. Data fusion refers to the use of multi-so...

3 INTRODUCTION In this paper we describe the fourth-stage of our six-step scenario-based approach to strategic planning, the scenario building. Having completed the trend and uncertainty analysis using the 'Impact/Uncertainty Grid' tool in stage three, we will present in this paper how plausible scenarios can be created based on the identified key uncertainties using the 'Scenario Matrix' tool ...