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This paper combines FMEA and n2 approaches in order to create a methodology to determine risks associated with the components of an underwater system. This methodology is based on defining the risk level related to each one of the components and interfaces that belong to a complex underwater system. As far as the authors know, this approach has not been reported before. The resulting information from...
Quite often we come across data which is large in size such as the identification numbers of employees working in a multinational firm or climate records of a place over a period of time or the memory addresses of the storage device. These types of relatively large data are often hard to handle and organize. The paper puts forward a new data model aiming to provide efficient organization in storing...
Many industries are facing rapid growth in the complexity of the systems they develop. In the automotive domain, vehicles are essentially becoming high performance computing platforms, comprised of dozens of electronic control systems (ECUs) that process over 100 million of lines of software code. In addition, Tens of thousands of vehicle product variants must be managed. One of the primary ways problems...
In Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC), attributes are defined as characteristics of subjects, objects as well as environment, and access is granted or denied based on the values of these attributes. With increasing number of organizations showing interest in migrating to ABAC, it is imperative that algorithmic techniques be developed to facilitate the process. While the traditional ABAC policy...
The objective of our research is to define a requirements model for Adaptive Multi-organizational Systems. Our work considers the functional complexity of contemporary internet-based, multi-organizational systems. Not only the business functions, but also the interactions between the components of such systems are highly dynamic and global. Furthermore, these systems function in extremely uncertain...
The organizational environment is defined by a complex and dynamic interaction of elements that act together to achieve goals. Organizational modeling helps stakeholders to better understand this complexity and analyze details in order to help the identification of changes that are necessary to keep the organization aligned with its strategic goals. However, it is still hard to map the many organizational...
Learning lessons from projects is becoming increasingly critical to organizations and has peaked academics' and practitioners' interests. Although for many reasons in practice, the process of learning today to avoid making the same mistake tomorrow does not necessarily take place throughout the project's lifecycle. This paper is based on research aimed at examining the measurable impact of systematic...
Social networks and their tools compound sophisticated compositions. Recent studies investigated diverse withstanding aspects of these socio-cyber systems. However, some methodological issues of the international medical networks required further clarification. In this regard, we stratified the networks that support human relations into the layers of private sector, national, provincial, local governments,...
Nowadays, flexibility of project management attracts practitioners and scholars attention as a must-have quality to enable managing project complexity. Increased complexity of infrastructure projects needs such management approach which takes the (increasing) complexity into account. Literature sheds light on importance of flexibility in project management while practice of project management in construction...
Merge conflicts occur when software practitioners need to work in parallel and are inevitable in software development. Tool builders and researchers have focused on the prevention and resolution of merge conflicts, but there is little empirical knowledge about how practitioners actually approach and perform merge conflict resolution. Without such knowledge, tool builders might be building on wrong...
The blockchain constitutes a technology-based, rather than social or regulation based, means to lower uncertainty about one another in order to exchange value. However, its use may very well also lead to increased complexity resulting from having to subsume work that displaced intermediary institutions had performed. We present our perspective that smart contracts may be used to mitigate this increased...
Cyber physical systems (CPS) exceed the limits of coverage set by their name and definition. This exceeding, supported also by the postulate to increase the filed of reflection on areas such as the Humanities, usually refers to their social impact. Expansion is evident in two areas: the first includes primarily business processes, leading to the economic and social consequences. The second area involves...
Complexity is a term that is currently used not only in research articles but also in the methodologies and standards used to manage information and projects. The complexity can represent the size of a system, process, program or project, the number of functions and the cost of their acquisition, operation and maintenance. Within the context of this work, the complexity is a variable that represents...
A 10-year working partnership between engineering instructors and communication instructors for a course called “Computer-Aided Engineering: Applications to Biomedical Process” aims to enrich the professional skills of the engineering students overall. This paper provides a window to the ways the course aids students in improving their engineering/technical writing and presenting skills. This year,...
An organization environment is composed by different perspectives that, in concert, aim to fulfill the business strategy. One of these perspectives is Human Resources (HR), responsible for filling the gap between the HR Structure and the business strategy demands. The strategic role of HR faces the challenge of the instability from the internal and external environment, which requires continuous adaptation...
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) was introduce as a methodology or framework that used loosely coupled services or software components, enabling systems to be more flexible and cost-effective. However the adoption of SOA is still at the early stage in many organizations and may not be well understood due to the absence of a methodological framework that would explain influential factors of SOA...
This paper proposes a context-aware, graph-based approach for identifying anomalous user activities via user profile analysis, which obtains a group of users maximally similar among themselves as well as to the query during test time. The main challenges for the anomaly detection task are: (1) rare occurrences of anomalies making it difficult for exhaustive identification with reasonable false-alarm...
Modern organizations are challenged to understand and put in action latest procedures and rules in order to constantly improve their service quality while coping with quickly changing contexts and decreasing resources. Such are defined by means of several kind of models that are in general quite interrelated. In this paper, we propose a Learning Architecture using Zachman Framework that allows us...
The organization can also be seen as an instrument that managers have at their disposal to ensure the achievement of some goals. History is full of examples of managers who have failed in their attempt to change the organization to meet the demands of the existing situation. The present article aims at a study on the management of the educational organization, the role of the manager within the school...
How do firms leverage existing innovation for the next round of innovation? We develop a novel concept of generative capability in product innovation to address this question. As a high-level organizational routine, generative capability applies the mechanisms of iteration and rapid knowledge integration to guide ordinary innovation activities. Based on panel data from 2001 to 2009 of 56,333 firm-year...
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