The Motorola Automated Test Environment (MATE) provides a means of automating the test process and integrating tools to support required testing capabilities across the lifecycle. The MATE architecture is provided as a foundation to discuss the issues of test tool integration with COTS products that automate the full system test lifecycle. Specific tool integration issues include data, control,...

The digital content lifecycle is generally understood as a set of activities: select, get and/or produce, prepare and/or assemble, describe, manage, and, as appropriate, make available. At the bit level, digital content is viewed as files on a file system. Many crucial activities of the digital content lifecycle are therefore undertaken primarily at the bit level, including transferring, moving...

This paper reports results of the ESA MARVELS study (Model-based approach research for the verification enhancement across the lifecycle of a space system), with the objectives to define adequate model-based methods to improve the overall verification process of space systems, and to define, prototype and integrate supporting tools for System Verification along the entire project life-cycle. Th...

The growing trend to develop product–service innovation (PSI) in manufacturing industries has forced firms consider the real impact of adding services their sales portfolio. Literature shown that PSI implementation heterogeneous effects on performance as it depends service development choice and specific industry which compete. Moreover, differing depending manufacturer’s position value ecosyst...

Sharing information across diverse teams is increasingly important in military operations, intelligence analysis, emergency response, and multi-institutional scientific studies. Communities of Interest (COIs) are an approach by which such information sharing can be realized. Widespread adoption of COIs has been hampered by a lack of adequate methodologies and software tools to support the COI l...

This paper presents an approach to development of intelligent search system and automatic documentclassification and cataloging tools for CASE-system based on metadata. The described method uses advantagesof ontology approach and traditional approach based on keywords. The method has powerful intelligent meansand it can be integrated with existing document search systems.

Sustainable product lifecycle systems are attracting increasing attention because of cost competition, resource constraints and environmental issues. Short lifecycle products, such as consumer and defense electronics, are of particular concern. We formulate a closed-loop supply chain with Stochastic Dynamic Programming method. By applying the concept of a sustainable product lifecycle, guidelin...

This paper describes the implementation of an approach to modelling the dynamics of the propagation of textually derived semantic information, in particular with respect to networked ontologies. On the one hand, new ontologies may be generated automatically from textual data, or existing ontologies may be modified or extended according to new evidence. This can cause problems for large or netwo...

Two pragmatic requirements are placed on lifecycle support environments: (1) one must be able to integrate existing tools into the environment, and (2) the environment must possess an open-ended architecture. The approach must therefore consider the large number of tools that support various phases of a lifecycle. The diversity of such tools makes them hard to integrate into an environment such...

Scientific workflow (SWF) system is a specific workflow management system applied to science arena. For years, SWF systems are widely applied to many applications, namely in physics, climate modeling, drug discovery process, etc. However, current SWF systems face the challenge to adapt the flexibility and lack of decision support for scientist. We believe the major reason for the failure is due...