The use of computer aided design tools has now proliferated to many areas of engineering and the use of robust and flexible design tools is paramount to modeling complex systems. Hybrid powertrains ...

Abstract: A computational framework for the integration of physical process modeling and multicriterion evaluation of river basin operations is presented. Despite a rich tradition in water resources ...

Concepts from software engineering and knowledge engineering are incorporated into discrete, next-event simulation. The existing, conventional world-view utilized within discrete simulation is ...

Several aspects must be taken into account when dealing with power electronic design. Within a system we can identify different elements such as thermal dissipation, electrical characteristics, ...

When it comes to providing reliable, flexible, and efficient object persistence for software systems, today's designers and architects are faced with many choices. From the technological perspective, ...

When object-oriented programming languages began to be used in enterprise applications, designers had problems fitting the object-oriented model with the relational model. In the object-oriented model ...