Publications associées à Cycle de développement (logiciel)

Designing for Intimate Wellbeing: Aidee, a Qualitative Approach To Urine Home Monitoring

Delphine Ribes Lemay, Nicolas Henchoz, Emily Clare Groves, Margherita Motta

Despite the widespread use of self-tracking technologies for promoting personal wellbeing, there is limited research on the monitoring of intimate data, particularly urine. To shed light on the design possibilities within this unexplored domain we designed ...

DRS Digital Library2024

Design ontology for cognitive thread supporting traceability management in model-based systems engineering

Dimitrios Kyritsis, Jinzhi Lu, Yan Yan

Industrial information integration engineering (IIIE) is an interdisciplinary field to facilitate the industrial information integration process. In the age of complex and large-scale systems, model-based systems engineering (MBSE) is widely adopted in ind ...

Elsevier2024

Models implemented in the methodological approach to design the initial STEP first wall contour

Davide Galassi, Kevin Henricus Annemarie Verhaegh, Filippo Bagnato, Dario Vaccaro

The official Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production mission aims to demonstrate the ability to generate net electricity from fusion with the STEP Prototype Power plant. One of the key technological and engineering challenges in fusion power plants is mana ...

Elsevier Science Sa2024

Metamodel for Safety Risk Management of Medical Devices Based on ISO 14971

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, David Atienza Alonso

The integration of information technologies into medical systems has led to an increase in digitalization, which results in enormous possibilities, but also challenges in system development. The ever-growing complexity of modern medical devices (MD) requir ...

2023

A Conceptual Framework for Integrating Conversational Agents in Digital Education

Juan Carlos Farah

The presence of conversational agents (or chatbots) in educational contexts has been steadily increasing over the past few years. Recent surveys have shown widespread interest in the use of chatbots in education, both for research and practice. Although th ...

EPFL2023

Code Generation Approach Supporting Complex System Modeling based on Graph Pattern Matching

Dimitrios Kyritsis, Yan Yan, Jinzhi Lu

Code generation is an effective way to drive the complex system development in model-based systems engineering. Currently, different code generators are developed for different modeling languages to deal with the development of systems with multi-domain. T ...

ELSEVIER2022

The CT-cube: A framework for the design and the assessment of computational thinking activities

Francesco Mondada, Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy, Alberto Piatti

Computational thinking is a fundamental competence that is being introduced in K-12 and succeeding curricula worldwide. Despite this huge effort, many computational thinking models in the literature do not explicitly take into consideration the pupils’ age ...

2022

Toward Code Review Notebooks

Denis Gillet, Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana, Juan Carlos Farah, Sandy Ingram

Peer code review has proven to be a valuable tool in software engineering. However, integrating code reviews into educational contexts is particularly challenging due to the complexity of both the process and popular code review tools. We propose to addres ...

IEEE2022

A Knowledge Management Approach Supporting Model-Based Systems Engineering

Dimitrios Kyritsis, Jinzhi Lu, Lei Feng

Model-based Systems Engineering (MBSE) is a noval approach to support complex system development by formalizing system artifacts and development using models. Though MBSE models provide a completely structural formalisms about system development for system ...

2021

Design Ontology Supporting Model-Based Systems Engineering Formalisms

Dimitrios Kyritsis, Jinzhi Lu, Xiaochen Zheng, Han Li

Model-based systems engineering (MBSE) provides an important capability for managing the complexities of system development. MBSE empowers the formalism of system architectures for supporting model-based requirement elicitation, specification, design, deve ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

EaRL: An Open-Source Software for Earthquake Risk, Loss and Lifecycle Assessment

Dimitrios Lignos, Ahmed Mohamed Ahmed Elkady

Evaluating earthquake-induced losses, such as structural repair costs, downtime and casualties, is becoming a standard practice within the performance-based earthquake engineering framework. Nonetheless, this evaluation is a demanding task that requires de ...

2021

Increasing the relevance of science for practice and practice for science: Quantitative empirical insights

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Livia Bianca Fritz, Ralph Hansmann

We present results of a survey conducted with researchers and practitioners involved in a Swiss National Research Programme on steering energy consumption. We analyse what motivates practitioners and researchers to engage in a collaborative research projec ...

2020

Role of glutathione S-transferases and the mercapturic acid pathway in the biotransformation potential of two zebrafish (Danio rerio) test systems: early life stages and PAC2 cells

Alena Tierbach

Zebrafish (Danio rerio) early life stages provide an important model for chemical risk assessment due to their genetic similarity to humans and the availability of well-established high-throughput techniques. Cells isolated from zebrafish conserve all thes ...

EPFL2020

Life cycle assessment integration into energy system models: An application for Power-to-Methane in the EU

François Maréchal, Victor Codina Gironès, Alexis Laurent

As the EU energy system transitions to low carbon, the technology choices should consider a broader set of criteria. The use of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) prevents burden shift across life cycle stages or impact categories, while the use of Energy System ...

2020

Life-Cycle Assessment as a decision-support tool for early phases of urban planning: evaluating applicability through a comparative approach

Marilyne Andersen, Thomas Bernard Paul Jusselme, Émilie Nault, Katarina Slavkovic

While ambitious environmental objectives are being set for new constructions in Switzerland, the assessment of urban-scale projects and comparison of their performance to national targets are made possible by a growing number of life-cycle assessment (LCA) ...

IOP Publishing2019

Life Cycle Analysis of Strengthening Existing RC Structures with R-PE-UHPFRC

Emmanuel Denarié, Amir Hajiesmaeili, Guillaume Habert

(PE)-UHPFRC, a novel strain hardening ultra high-performance fiber reinforced concrete (UHPFRC) with low clinker content, using Ultra-High MolecularWeight Polyethylene (UHMW-PE) fibers, was developed for structural applications of rehabilitation. A compreh ...

2019

Interface and requirements analysis on the DEMO Heating and Current Drive system using Systems Engineering methodologies

Minh Quang Tran, Hartmut Zohm

In this paper we present the methodology implemented for analyzing System Requirements and Interfaces of the Heating and Current Drive (HCD) system of the European Demonstration Fusion Power Reactor DEMO. The work consisted in updating the preliminary fram ...

2019

Setting contextual life-cycle objectives in urban design: requirements for a decision-support method

Marilyne Andersen, Thomas Bernard Paul Jusselme, Émilie Nault

A variety of building labels and norms exist that set evermore-ambitious environmental and energy performance targets. In parallel, a growing number of building performance evaluation tools are adopting the life-cycle assessment (LCA) methodology to allow ...

2018

Use of compact Laser Doppler Velocimetry in reduced scale model testing of hydraulic machines

François Avellan, Vincent Berruex, Andres Müller, Loïc Andolfatto, Masashi Sakamoto

Laser based flow survey methods such as Laser Doppler Velocimetry (LDV) or Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) have long been used for studying the flow in hydraulic machines. Even if the results have crucially improved our understanding of potentially destab ...

2018

Model testing beyond the scope of International Standards: an outlook

François Avellan, Loïc Andolfatto

The roles of hydropower plants within the energy system has been evolving during the last two decades. The potential to provide ancillary services to the grid is often harnessed, leading to a major change in hydropower plants operations. Ancillary services ...

2018