Abstract. Flexible Manufacturing Systems (FMSs) are adopted to process different goods in different mix ratios allowing firms to react quickly and efficiently to changes in produ...
Reusing or modifying known design concepts cannot meet new challenges for engineering systems. However, engineers can find inspiration outside their traditional domains in order to...
Abstract. Helping software designers in their task implies the development of tools with intelligent capabilities. One such capability is the integration of natural language unders...
Abstract. This paper shows that we can take advantage of information about the probabilities of the occurrences of events, when this information is available, to refine the classic...
eriodically time-varying (LPTV) abstractions are useful for a variety of communication and computer subsystems. In this paper, we present a novel operator-based model-order reduct...