Panelists respond to the question, “What does industry need from simulation vendors in Y2k and after?” The panelists include software vendors, simulation modelers from industry, simulation consulting, and academia.

Let X be a definable C manifold, Y1, Y2 definably compact definable C r submanifolds of X such that dimY1 + dimY2 < dimX and Y1 has a trivial normal bundle. We prove that there exists a definable isotopy {hp}p∈J such that h0 = idX and h1(Y1) ∩ Y2 = ∅. 2010 Mathematics Subject Classification. 14P10, 14P20, 58A05, 03C64.

Project-based learning is an essential part of a software engineer's education. The learning achieved through projects can be improved through structured interaction between more experienced students and those students encountering their rst software engineering project. In this paper, we report on our experience over three years with trials of several forms of interaction between undergraduate...

Future system development and management efforts must strive to institutionalize these gains and provide ongoing, incremental improvement in these areas. With the growth of e-commerce and further socioeconomic reliance on IT, the organizations that have achieved these gains will be well positioned to outdistance those who were less aggressive. Figure 1 depicts the silver linings and competitive...

0 7 4 0 7 4 5 9 / 0 0 / $ 1 0 . 0 0 © 2 0 0 0 I E E E ground. We agree with F.G. Harold’s concept of “optimal heterophily”1 and use the term software engineering to include information technology. Y2K presented a formidable (albeit welldefined) challenge: find the date problems and fix them (see our “Congratulations” in the accompanying sidebar). Post-Y2K presents a more formidable challenge: a...

Mainstream Information Technology professionals have misunderstood the Pick environment for many years. The Pick environment has been conceived, designed and built with business solutions as its key driver. At its heyday there were over 3,000 business applications available across a very wide range of hardware platforms supporting from 1 to thousands of real time users. The tentative economic r...

Award Number: W81XWH-08-1-0108 TITLE: The role of eIF4E activity in breast cancer PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Thomas A Hughes CONTRACTING ORGANIZATION: University of Leeds Leeds LS2 9-0000 REPORT DATE: August 2010 TYPE OF REPORT: Annual PREPARED FOR: U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command Fort Detrick, Maryland 21702-5012 DISTRIBUTION STATEMENT:  Approved for public release; distribution ...

Fatigue is a recognised problem in the transport industry. It has been attributed to two main influences: time of day and the time since last sleep. While the role of these two influences in producing fatigue is not disputed, there is less agreement on how they interact with one another. The aim of this study was to examine the relative effects of time of day and sleep deprivation on fatigue an...

Prior studies have shown that the IT innovation capability, a company's ability to innovate systematically with IT, is not easily replicated (persistent), and the persistence tends to be more pronounced during periods when economy-wide IT budgets are declining (hard IT budgets), such the post-Y2K period. Building on resource based view we argue that companies that systematically innovate with I...