Study of modernization in industrial administration and industrial planning in the USSR since 1964 - considers the context of administrative reform and scientific management; examines theories, applications and results of systems design, particularly in the existing economic sys…
"Information systems are researched, published on, and utilized as an extremely broad and vital sector of current technology development, usually studied from the scientific or technological viewpoints therein. Phenomenology, Organizational Politics, and IT Design: The Social St…
This book introduces a customer-centered approach to business by showing how data gathered from people while they work can drive the definition of a product or process while supporting the needs of teams and their organizations. This is a practical, hands-on guide for anyone try…
Textbook on methodology for the systems design of management information systems and information systems - stresses the need for top management involvement in decision making relating to the computerization of business enterprises, and includes a glossary of terms. Bibliography …
The lead-free requirement in electronics has significantly impacted second-level interconnection reliability due to modification of the solder alloy, laminate material and related assembly processes. Pad cratering, which refers to the fracturing of the resin under the connecting…
In recent years, many techniques have been proposed for the detection and isolation of abrupt changes in dynamical systems. Two of these schemes, namely, robust observers and detection filter, are studied in this thesis. The sensitivity of these approaches to parameter variation…
With the proliferation of vehicle-to-everything (V2X) technologies, a number of novel use cases for enhanced road safety are emerging. A typical application utilizing this technology is the protection of vulnerable road participants such as pedestrians or cyclists. In this disse…
This research examines the threat perceptions and different responses of states in dealing with common threats perceptions. Balancing strategies such as armament and alliance with other states are mainly the consequence of threats or perceived threats in states’ internal and ext…
The focus of this thesis is to develop a generic approach for solving reliability design optimisation problems which could be applicable to a diverse range of real engineering systems. The basic problem in optimal reliability design of a system is to explore the means of improvi…
Recently, there has been a lot of interest in the economics of quality control. One of the important issues in quality control is finding the optimal target value for a process under various inspection policies. Researchers have considered various aspects of this problem either …
The tremendous growth of multimedia communications has led to an increasing demand for speech coding techniques. Low-cost highly-efficient speech coding at low bit rate is important for personal multimedia communications. Recent developments in speech coding around 8kb/s are inv…
Sophisticated computer aided design and drafting (CADD) systems can automatically generate dimensioning information yet still require user intervention for proper positioning of the dimensions in the drawing layout. The dimension generation and location process is in average a t…
A new methodology is developed for modeling a system's evolution to support decisionmaking on alternative actions which affect the system's evolution. The methodology is based upon the goal tree success tree method for hierarchal decomposition of the system's objective. The goal…
This thesis focuses on production, inventory, warranty and quality control problem from both producer's and consumer's point of view. The purpose of this thesis is twofold. First, models for the producers which integrate lot sizing, warranty and quality improvement through preve…
This dissertation provides a more realistic approach to the probabilistic risk assessment (PRA) by considering the effects of partial failure with fuzzy logic modeling rather than the traditional PRA binary logic modeling. This is accomplished by using an integrated methodology …
In the process of inspection, an inspector is likely to make Type-I and Type-II errors in his judgement about the product quality. This thesis investigates the effect of Type-I and Type-II errors on multicharacteristic repeat inspection plans for critical components. The practic…