{"title":"A Market-Based Scheduling Mechanism Design for Cost Reduction in Home Health Care","authors":"Jie Gao, Zhijie Xie, C. Wang","doi":"10.3233/JID180013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/JID180013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":342559,"journal":{"name":"J. Integr. Des. Process. Sci.","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124172015","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
G. Paulraj, I. Jebadurai, Jebaveerasingh Jebadurai
{"title":"Fault Tree Analysis based Virtual Machine Migration for Fault-Tolerant Cloud Data Center","authors":"G. Paulraj, I. Jebadurai, Jebaveerasingh Jebadurai","doi":"10.3233/jid190014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/jid190014","url":null,"abstract":"Though cloud data center is highly adapted for flexible, scalable and highly available computing and storage resources, it is vulnerable to failures. Predicting the occurrence of server failure and taking appropriate preventive measures are essential in the cloud data center. In order to develop fault-tolerant cloud data center, a Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) based failure aware virtual machine (VM) migration technique is proposed. A fault tree is constructed for server failure event. The server failure is estimated by analyzing the fault tree and the virtual machines are migrated proactively to an alternate server before the failure. Simulations have been carried out and performance of the proposed technique is analyzed in terms of throughput. The results show that the proposed technique outperforms the other state of art techniques.","PeriodicalId":342559,"journal":{"name":"J. Integr. Des. Process. Sci.","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128878842","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lessons Learned from Technical Reviews in Systems Engineering Management - Recommendations to Practitioners","authors":"A. Sols, J. Romero, E. Ramiro","doi":"10.3233/JID180010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/JID180010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":342559,"journal":{"name":"J. Integr. Des. Process. Sci.","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115297093","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Systems Design in The Emerging Digital Age","authors":"Mengting Zhao, Jingwei Huang","doi":"10.3233/JID180015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/JID180015","url":null,"abstract":"The landscape of engineering systems design has been changing in the context of recent pervasive digitalization trend and the fast development of smart cyber-physical systems or smart connected systems powered by Internet of Things. Many traditional products no longer stand alone, and they are becoming smart devices and connected with others in networks. As a result, the service quality, availability, reliability, safety, and security of those connected systems will impact each other. But more importantly, the connectivity offers opportunities for those systems to provide intelligent services, leads to synergy from the connected systems, and triggers innovative applications and business models (Huang, 2017; Huang et al., 2016; Khaitan and McCalley, 2015; Porter and Heppelmann, 2015). The increasing complexity of systems operational environment and profound impacts make systems design in the digital age become much more complex and challenging. Systems design, in a broader sense, aims to satisfy the needs and requirements of stakeholders and the operational concept (OpsCon) by defining system requirements, creating and specifying alternatives of logical architecture, physical architecture and interfaces, analysing and selecting optimal architecture(s), and creating and specifying engineering details for realizing the selected architecture(s). The concepts, principles, methodology, models and methods of systems design have been evolving for decades (Abran et al., 2004; BKCASE Editorial Board, 2017; Blanchard and Fabrycky, 2010; Buede and Miller, 2016; INCOSE, 2015; Simon, 1996, 1988, 1969; White, 1998). The evolution of the discipline is based on the practice of many specific fields of engineering systems design, such as software engineering (Boehm, 1988, 1981; INCOSE, 2015; Sangiovanni-Vincentelli and Martin, 2001), control system (Johnson, 1989; Noura et al., 2009; Tanaka and Wang, 2004), embedded systems (Henzinger and Sifakis, 2007; Kopetz, 2011), manufacturing systems (Wu, 2012), and many others. As discussed earlier, in the new landscape of smart connected operational environment, the complex interactions and their impacts between the system in design and external systems in the operational environment pose many challenges to engineering systems design. Among those challenges, security is perhaps the most significant and widely concerned issue (Humayed et al., 2017; Sadeghi et al., 2015); beyond technologies, human users frequently become the cause of security incidents, thus being a critical factor to the cybersecurity of an organization and associated digital systems. More generally, human factors have become an important consideration of systems design (Nemeth, 2004; Stanton et al., 2017; Woodson et al., 1992). Moreover, the introduction of digital systems,","PeriodicalId":342559,"journal":{"name":"J. Integr. Des. Process. Sci.","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129950577","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Broadening Design and Designers' Perspective","authors":"Serena Graziosi, A. Razionale","doi":"10.3233/JID180014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/JID180014","url":null,"abstract":"The rapid diffusion of advanced hardware and software technologies and the societal challenges (Castelo-Branco et al., 2019; Martin and Leurent, 2017; United Nations, 2015), which we are urgently asked to face now and in the next years, are demanding for a widening of our design perspective. Design activities are becoming even more multidisciplinary, and designers are requested to properly evaluate in advance the effects of their solutions and the potential consequences of their decisions at a broad spectrum. Such an increase in the complexity of design activities should be seen as a stimulus and as a natural evolution of all those design processes intended to introduce radical and positive changes in our daily life. However, to properly tackle this challenge designers should continuously update their professional and cultural knowledge and skills (Dym et al., 2005) while hardware and software tools should be made, even more, widely accessible to all (e.g., see (Von Hippel, 2005)). Indeed, researchers should concentrate their efforts on developing technologies for guiding designers to take up such complexity properly, and on improving dedicated design methods, tools and guidelines. They should help designers to exploit the design potentials of current and next hardware and software technologies, and push designers to deal with such complexity more systematically. Additive Manufacturing (AM) technologies are an example of technologies that have now reached a high level of accessibility thanks to their wide diffusion. They have been conceived to enlarge the solutions space by providing more design freedom (Thompson et al., 2016): they enable the exploration of advanced design possibilities, for example, by combining multiple materials and by working at different manufacturing scales. Alone or in combination with others, they thus represent an enabling technology for the development of innovative products/services. However, considering their rapid evolution and the advanced and multidisciplinary design scenario they are offering, designers should be trained on how to, successfully, Design for Additive Manufacturing (DfAM) (Rosen et al., 2015); indeed, design process/activities can significantly benefit from the potentialities and the advantages that these technologies can provide. The papers of this issue demonstrate the fundamental role played by AM technologies, on the one hand, and the implementation of structured and comprehensive design strategies, on the other, in broadening design and designers’ perspective. Besides, it is the proper combination of these two aspects that can lead to significant steps forward when designing new products/services. The first paper, “3D printed 3D-Microfluidics: recent developments and design challenges” provides a useful state of the art in the field of the fabrication of 3D-Microfluidics devices using AM technologies. In this paper, it is shown how the technological improvement in AM could lead to a new approac","PeriodicalId":342559,"journal":{"name":"J. Integr. Des. Process. Sci.","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128637679","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Co-Design Method for the Additive Manufacturing of Customised Assistive Devices for Hand Pathologies","authors":"F. Gherardini, M. Mascia, V. Bettelli, F. Leali","doi":"10.3233/jid-2018-0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/jid-2018-0002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":342559,"journal":{"name":"J. Integr. Des. Process. Sci.","volume":"107 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116665794","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}