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

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

Assessing the implementation of user-centred design standards on assistive technology for persons with visual impairments: a systematic review

Klaus Benedikt Schönenberger, Mario Andres Chavarria Varon

Despite scientific and technological advances in the field of assistive technology (AT) for people with visual impairment (VI), technological designs are frequently based on a poor understanding of the physical and social context of use, resulting in devic ...

Frontiers Media Sa2023

Model-Based Systems Engineering Tool-Chain for Automated Parameter Value Selection

Dimitrios Kyritsis, Jinzhi Lu

Cyber-physical systems (CPSs) integrate heterogeneous systems and process sensor data using digital services. As the complexity of CPS increases, it becomes more challenging to efficiently formalize the integrated multidomain views with flexible automated ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

A methodology to design measurement systems when multiple model classes are plausible

Ian Smith, Numa Joy Bertola, Sai Ganesh Sarvotham Pai

The management of existing civil infrastructure is challenging due to evolving functional requirements, aging and climate change. Civil infrastructure often has hidden reserve capacity because of conservative approaches used in design and during constructi ...

2021

Metropolitan Innovation Systems: Inquiry into the co-evolving relations between Industry, University and Government

Jiayun Shen

Innovation is crucial and decisive for the long-term development of a metropolitan region in the global economy. While firms certainly play a significant role in the development of specific innovation, the environment that nur-tures innovative firms and di ...

EPFL2020

Extension of the nodal code DYN3D to SFR applications

Evgeny Nikitin

DYN3D is a well-established Light Water Reactor (LWR) simulation tool and is being extended for safety analyses of Sodium cooled Fast Reactors (SFRs) at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf. This thesis focuses on the first stage of the development pro ...

EPFL2019

Analytical solutions to a coupled fluid dynamics and neutron transport problem with application to GeN-Foam verification

Konstantin Mikityuk

Code verification is an important part of software development process that asserts code correctness. In this work, analytical solutions are used in order to develop a simple multiphysics problem involving coupled fluid dynamics and neutron transport to be ...

2018

Linking interactive optimization for urban planning with a semantic 3D city model

François Maréchal, Sébastien Cajot, Nils Christian Schüler

The cities in which we live are constantly evolving. The active management of this evolution is referred to as urban planning. The according development process could go in many directions resulting in a large number of potential future scenarios of a city ...

Copernicus GmbH2018

Dimensionless correlations and performance maps of scroll expanders for micro-scale Organic Rankine Cycles

Jürg Alexander Schiffmann, Luis Eric Olmedo Ocampo, Violette Mounier, Luis Carlos Mendoza Toledo

In the endeavor towards distributed power systems, not seasonal-dependent micro-power generation technologies are expected to integrate the energy scenario in the years to come. In this context, the Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) in the (1e10) KWe scale has c ...

2018

CHAINIAC: Proactive Software-Update Transparency via Collectively Signed Skipchains and Verified Builds

Linus Gasser, Nicolas Gailly, Kirill Nikitin, Eleftherios Kokoris Kogias, Bryan Alexander Ford, Ismail Khoffi, Philipp Svetolik Jovanovic

Software-update mechanisms are critical to the security of modern systems, but their typically centralized design presents a lucrative and frequently attacked target. In this work, we propose CHAINIAC, a decentralized software-update framework that elimina ...

USENIX Association2017

Accumulation in fed-batch reactor with multiple reaction scheme

Charles Ibrahim Guinand

Nowadays, the fine chemical industry requires increasingly faster time-to-market as well as economically efficient and safe processes. In addition, the growing product variety needs more versatile production plants able to produce from small amounts up to ...

EPFL2017

Integrated Sensor Orientation on Micro Aerial Vehicles

Martin Rehak

Mapping with Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs whose weight does not exceed 5 kg) is gaining importance in applications, such as corridor mapping, road and pipeline inspections, or mapping of large areas with homogeneous surface structure, e.g. forest or agricul ...

EPFL2017

Predictive Models for Thermal Stability and Explosive Properties of Chemicals from Molecular Structure

Nadia Baati

Industrial chemical processes may involve thermal risks as most of the reactions performed are exothermic, the chemicals used are often thermally unstable, and the operating conditions are set to induce high conversion and throughput. Besides the reactive ...

EPFL2016

Test Results of RF ITER TF Conductors in the SULTAN Test Facility

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Boris Stepanov

The cable-in-conduit-conductors (CICC) for the ITER Toroidal Field (TF) Coils are tested in the Sultan test facility in order to estimate their AC and DC performances under operating conditions. The tests are carried out on different stages of conductor pr ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2014

Life Cycle Analysis within Pharmaceutical Process Optimization and Intensification: Case Study of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient Production

Lioubov Kiwi, Charline Berguerand

As the demand for new drugs is rising, the pharmaceutical industry faces the quest of shortening development time, and thus, reducing the time to market. Environmental aspects typically still play a minor role within the early phase of process development. ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag Berlin2014

Industrial challenges in managing product development knowledge

Myrna Fatima Flores Pineda

To systematically create and share product development knowledge creates challenges for engineering companies. This paper presents an extensive study regarding the process of identifying such challenges in managing product development knowledge from the pe ...

Elsevier2014

Finding Information in Multimedia Meeting Records

Hervé Bourlard, Andrei Popescu-Belis

This paper surveys the work carried out within two large consortia, AMI and IM2, on improving access to records of human meetings thanks to multimodal interfaces called meeting browsers. These tools help users navigate through multimedia records containing ...

2012

Development process for clusters on a reconfigurable chip

Jaime Joven Murillo

Reconfigurable MPSoCs (Multiprocessor System-on-Chip) could be viable for certain applications niche where the flexibility of FPGAs (Field-Programmable Gate Array) and software is needed, and a small number of units dismiss other silicon options. However, ...

2012

Base case process development for energy efficiency improvement, application to a Kraft pulping mill. Part II: Benchmarking analysis

François Maréchal

A new procedure for benchmarking analysis has been developed to evaluate the energy efficiency of a chemical process. Benchmarking is performed to identify process inefficiencies before developing energy enhancement measures. The new procedure combines typ ...

2011

Thermophysical and Thermomechanical Behavior of Cold-Curing Structural Adhesives in Bridge Construction

Omar Moussa

The use of the structural adhesive bonding technique is well established in the aircraft and automotive industries where, in most cases, joints can be fabricated indoors under controlled conditions. In the civil engineering domain, however, load-bearing st ...

EPFL2011