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Within the context of automated assembly systems, one of the challenges is ensuring that machine program logic is consistent with process planning requirements. A critical inconsistency can arise due to a lack of i) formal engineering tools and methods that link the Process and Resource domains, ii) a standard way to describe the assembly process that maintains a consistent level of granularity, and...
The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is widely taught in academia and has good acceptance in industry. However, there is not an ample dataset of UML diagrams publicly available. Our aim is to offer a dataset of UML files, together with meta-data of the software projects where the UML files belong to. Therefore, we have systematically mined over 12 million GitHub projects to find UML files in them....
While Systems Engineering has come a long way since its early beginning over six decades ago, it is still facing challenges in gaining the same degree of rigour and precision that is found in the theorical foundation of other engineering domains. Systems Engineering has always incorporate tools and methods from other engineering domains and adapted them to fit the purpose of engineering systems. This...
Computer Diagrams are the communication mechanism among the different stakeholders of the software development lifecycle. While they are though at school, and promoted to be used by students for current and future projects, we still do not see full adoption in real life context. The literature reviewed points out some reasons related to this issue and propose some solutions, but still the problem...
This paper deals with advantages of model-based software engineering approach of critical UAV onboard systems. Application of modern model-based technologies for critical onboard systems development is considered. Rules for critical software engineering at all life cycle stages are defined by functional standards. Mentioned approach implements all requirements of safety standards by automating the...
We introduce the filter model of regulatory certification of safety-critical systems. This model characterizes the certification process itself as a safety-critical system in which incorrectly certifying a system that should be rejected is an accident. The role of certification is modeled as the identification of faults in the system being certified, i.e., a filter for system faults. Application of...
Much effort has been spent to investigate the organization of distributed teams and their collaboration patterns. It is, however, not fully understood to which extent and how agile software processes are feasible to support distributed software projects. Practices and challenges that arise from the demands for communication are often in scope of current research. Still, it remains unclear what is...
Safety regulations and standards imposed by national regulators on nuclear power plant systems provide high-level requirements, recommendations and/or guidance expressed in natural language. In many cases, this leaves a large margin for interpretation, not all of which are acceptable to a given regulator. Currently the elements that lead to the establishment of acceptable/accepted practices are not...
The Department of Electronic Engineering of Beijing Institute of Technology is integrating emerging interconnect technologies with other high-performance technologies to meet the demanding requirement of future, real-time signal processing applications. For next-generation, scalable, modular and adaptable signal-processing system, a universal, flexible and high-performance signal processing module...
Developers must revise current approaches to standards for analysis software to account for its unique characteristics. When developers think of software standards, they envision software for aircraft cockpits, nuclear reactors, high-speed trains, medical devices, and spacecraft: software that directly controls some component related to the product's safe operation, with or without a person in the...
An ongoing proliferation of so-called maturity models promises no end in sight for the development of new ones. Such models cover the entire spectrum of IT activity, from enterprise architecture to software development. The majority of these variants do not have associated assessment models. Consequently, these models' primary purpose is to be informative rather than normative in the sense of being...
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