It is no accident that the branches of Engineering are called “disciplines”. Every properly educated Engineer has learned that the design of quality products requires discipline and a willingness to follow standard procedures. Engineers understand that they must produce a specified set of documents and perform a variety of analyses whose results must be included in the documents. Engineers who ...

Analysis of deformity and subsequent correction are the basis for many orthopaedic surgical procedures. In advanced cases of joint degeneration, arthroplasty may be the only available treatment option. Until recently, these analyses and preoperative surgical plans have been performed using standard radiographs, tracing paper, and/or plastic overlays. Numerous customized, commercially available,...

To enable the eecient utilization of clusters of workstations it is crucial to develop a stable and rich software infrastructure. The ESPRIT Project SISCI will provide two widely used message{passing interfaces, MPI and PVM, as well as a POSIX compliant , distributed thread package (Pthreads) on multiple SCI{based clusters. This paper features motivation and background on this projects as well ...

next generation wireless systems will lead to an integration of existing networks, forming a heterogeneous network. Re-configurable systems will be the enabling technology sharing hardware resources for different purposes. This paper will highlight the requirements of a reconfigurable multi-standard terminal from the physical-layer point of view. A re-configurable architecture consisting of alg...

“Make or buy” of software has been a key question for management since the emergence of computerized information systems. Until today this question has not been answered satisfactorily. It is still unclear what evaluation methods should be used to support the decision process in the selection of a suitable package unambiguously. In this article a first step in the development of a framework for...

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A solid architectural vision is a key discriminator in the success or failure of a software project. This paper discusses how to describe architecture through a set of design viewpoints and how to express these views in the UML. In this paper we mainly focused on the standardization of UML for software development process with the discussion of benefits of UML. Object-oriented analysis (OOA) is...

The European Space Agency (ESA) began development of its Software Engineering Standard PSS-05 in 1984 and this effort culminated with the release of the current version, version 2, in 1991. The standard has since been successfully applied to a large number of ESA projects. In 1994 the standard was brought into the public domain through its publication by Prentice Hall and since then has been ad...

Modern software application being built up with standard software components and components developed. If these components are used on mobile devices, the energy consumption must be taken into account at the design. Mobile device power management concepts need a lot of system power information to work satisfactorily. Therefore we propose the Standard Power Estimation Interface for Software Comp...

The SOA Innovation Lab has investigated the use of standard software packages in a service-oriented context. As a result, a method for developing a service-oriented enterprise architecture with custom and standard software has been obtained. It starts on enterprise level with the identification of domains where both the SOA paradigm and standard software are of relevance. Here SOA capabilities ...