technology selection is an important part of management of technology. recently karsak and ahiska (2005) proposed a novel common weight multiple criteria decision making (mcdm) methodology for selection of the best advanced manufacturing technology (amt) candidates based on a number of attributes. however, amin et al. (2006), by means of a numerical example demonstrated the convergence difficul...

Current distributed parallel platforms can provide the resources required to execute a scientific application efficiently. However, when these platforms are shared by multiple users, the performance of the applications using the system may be impacted in dynamic and often unpredictable ways. Performance prediction becomes increasingly difficult due to this dynamic behavior. Even performance mod...

The ever growing repository of data in all fields poses new challenges to the modern analytical systems. Real-world datasets, with mixed numeric and nominal variables, are difficult to analyze and require effective visual exploration that conveys semantic relationships of data. Traditional data mining techniques such as clustering clusters only the numeric data. Little research has been carried...

In February 2000 the first mission using space-borne single-pass-interferometry was launched – the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM). The goal of the mission was to survey the Earth surface and to generate a homogeneous elevation data set of the world with a grid spacing of 1 arcsec. Antennas with two different wavelengths were used: Beside the American SIR-C the German / Italian X-SAR sy...

Article 3 This is the third in a series of four articles providing an introduction to the practice of strategic foresight. This article delves a little deeper into the details of foresight methodology and process design, with the aim of providing the reader with a greater appreciation for how organisational benefits of the nature that I discuss in the first and second articles can be practicall...

The malicious use of lasers to interfere with the activities of individuals in diverse environments is a growing concern. To increase awareness of public health workers, the Tricorder, a unique laser characterization sensor, is being fabricated. In this paper, the Tricorder’s human factors aspects and operational use are studied to enhance acceptance and increase use. Users’ perspectives were c...

Making formal verification a practicality in industrial environments is still difficult. The capacity of most verification tools is too small, their integration in a design process is difficult and the methodology that should guide their usage is unclear. This paper describes a step-by-step methodology which was developed for the practical application of formal verification. The methodology was...