E-contracts are used to describe the supply and the consumption details of e-services within a business process. The establishment of e-contracts in a given application domain usu...
Marcelo Fantinato, Maria Beatriz Felgar de Toledo,...
Balancing assembly lines is a crucial task for manufacturing companies in order to improve productivity and minimize production costs. Despite some progress in exact methods to so...
Sophie D. Lapierre, Angel B. Ruiz, Patrick Soriano
A significant challenge in implementing the Theory of Constraints in the semiconductor industry is the complex and reentrant nature of the manufacturing process. Managing a constr...
Product development requires the ability to check design consistency, to verify design properties, and to answer questions about a design's possible implementations. These tas...
Although primarily studied in the context of product lines, variability is a key fact about most systems and therefore a concern for the architectures of those systems. Thus it is...