Nowadays, offering extended warranty is considered as a lucrative source of income from the perspective of the after-sale service providers. Meanwhile, the main concern is presence or absence of base warranty and strategies adopted by the manufacturer during this period. Moreover, extended warranty structure must be responsive and customer oriented, which not only control the services cost but ...

agent oriented software engineering (aose) is an emerging field in computer science  and  proposes some systematic ideas for multi agent systems analysis, implementation and maintenance. despite the various methodologies introduced in the agent-oriented software engineering, the main challenges are defects in different aspects of methodologies. according to the defects resulted from weaknesses ...

Many object-oriented systems fail to meet performance objectives when they are initially constructed. These performance failures result in damaged customer relations, lost productivity for users, lost revenue, cost overruns due to tuning or redesign, and missed market windows. Most performance failures are due to a lack of consideration of performance issues early in the development process. Ho...

We develop a general theory of configuration and give a precise methodology for studying the phenomenon of configuration from a viewpoint which is independent of any knowledge representation formalism. One main result is that we show that the classical skeleton-oriented approach and the resource-oriented approach are in some sense equivalent. We formulate a number of typical configuration probl...

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is a nonparametric tool for discriminating the best performers from a number of homogenous Decision Making Units (DMU). Cost oriented DEA models identify those best DMUs which run cost efficient process. This paper validates the outcome derived from the Ideal Frontier (mentioned in Sarkar. S (2014)) derived from non-central Principal Component Analysis and a slac...

The The main objective of this research paper is to present 3-D elasticity solution for free vibration analysis of elastically supported continuously graded carbon nanotube-reinforced (CGCNTR) annular plates. The volume fractions of oriented, straight single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) are assumed to be graded in the thickness direction. An equivalent continuum model based on the Eshelby-M...

This paper presents a new approach to structural testing, called dependence testing. First we propose dependence oriented coverage criteria that extend conventional data flow oriented coverage criteria with control dependence. This allows one to capture the full dependence information of a program or specification systematically. We then describe a model checking-based approach to test generati...