Imposing Modeling Rules on Industrial Applications through Meta-modeling
There is a trend in the automation domain to create common conceptual models of an industrial plant, which serve...
A Flexible Cost Model for Abstract Object-Oriented Database Schemas
Typically, the design of an object-oriented database schema starts with an analysis of the application and ends with the...
Modelling Ubiquitous Web Applications – The WUML Approach
E-commerce and m-commerce have dramatically boosted the demand for services which enable ubiquitous access. Ubiquity with its anytime/anywhere/anymedia nature...
Designing Valid XML Views
Existing systems for XML views only support selection operation applied in the views and cannot validate views. In this...
Participation: The Key to Intelligent Manufacturing Improvement
This paper describes the background and objectives of the IST project “Organizational Aspects of Human-Machine Coexisting Systems” (HUMACS), that...
Challenges in Dealing with Human Factors Issues in Manufacturing Activities
To whatever extent manufacturing facilities are automated, they still need humans with supreme authority over production management even in...
Extracting E-R Models from Collaboration Analysis Methods, MCM, and CLM
To make collaboration tasks work effectively, it is very important to analyze what collaborators are doing, which position they...
Living Manufacturing Systems with Living Organizations
Borrowing the title of Nobel-prize laureate physicist Erwin Schrodinger’s work “What is Life?”, we ask “What are Living Systems?”...
A Study on Human-Centric Real-Time Scheduling for PWB Assembly Line
Aiming at promoting both a mass customized production, and higher motivations of human operators, we have conducted an analysis,...
The E/S Tool IT-Support for Ergonomic and Sociotechnical System Design
A continuous changing environment imposes new requirements for assembly management and the role of human factors. To support an...
