Mechatronic engineering is about integration of different engineering disciplines, mainly mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, and software engineering. Within the machine and plant engineering process, software engineering is part of automation engineering, which deals with configuration and programming of devices like programmable logic controllers (PLC), motion controllers, and hu...

1. Abstract System Engineering (SE) is a multidisciplinary activity in witch a system engineer team aims at building a global technical solution in response to a problem stated as a set of requirements. SE may be seen as process of optimizing some system quality factors under constraints of required functions, cost and delay. Complex products and systems, involve a large number of components wh...

A common method used to reduce project delivery time is to overlap sequential activities. Evolution and sensitivity characterizations of design activities provide a practical tool for identifying overlapping opportunities. The faster the evolution of information in an activity, the less risky it is to begin a downstream activity before the upstream activity is finalized. Also, the lower the sen...

The scroll type of compressor is becoming popular and widely used in refrigeration and air conditioners. But it is time consuming to design and manufacture the compressor since its components are of complex shape and of high precision requirements. This paper presents a concurrent engineering approach to computer-aided design and manufacturing of the compressor. The authors use C‡‡ programming ...

This paper introduces the ADVANCE approach to engineering concurrent systems using a new component-based approach. A cost-directed tool-chain maps concurrent programs onto emerging hardware architectures, where costs are expressed in terms of programmer annotations for the throughput, latency and jitter of components. These are then synthesized using advanced statistical analysis techniques to ...

background prostate cancer is a serious genetic disease known as the first widespread cancer in men, yet the molecular changes required for the cancer progression is not fully understood. availability of high-throughput gene expression data has led to the development of various computational methods for the identification of critical genes involved in the cancer. methods in this paper, we show ...

This paper presents a generic framework for Concurrent Simulation Engineering (CSE). Based upon the general principles of Concurrent Engineering (CE), concurrent alternatives to the hitherto mainly linear, multiple feedback Modelling/Simulation/Validation process are proposed. Characteristics, merits and requirements of CE lead to the discussion of the actual framework, accentuating the need fo...

Software infrastructure still one of the major difficulties in concurrent engineering environment especially in large scale projects where participants are geographically dispersed and belonging to different organizations. In this paper, we propose a new approach to build Virtual Enterprise software infrastructure that offers persistence, concurrent access, coherence and security on a distribut...