Handling complexity in a small engineering business. Available in 2 volumes.

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Systems development of data retrieval for an engineering company's after-sales service

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KEMNAD:a knowledge engineering methodology for negotiating agent development

Automated negotiation is widely applied in various domains. However, the development of such systems is a complex knowledge and software engineering task. So, a methodology there will be helpful. Unfortunately, none of existing methodologies can offer sufficient, detailed support for such system development. To remove this limitation, this paper develops a new methodology made up of: (1) a generic framework (architectural pattern) for the main task, and (2) a library of modular and reusable design pattern (templates) of subtasks. Thus, it is much easier to build a negotiating agent by assembling these standardised components rather than reinventing the wheel each time. Moreover, since these patterns are identified from a wide variety of existing negotiating agents (especially high impact ones), they can also improve the quality of the final systems developed. In addition, our methodology reveals what types of domain knowledge need to be input into the negotiating agents. This in turn provides a basis for developing techniques to acquire the domain knowledge from human users. This is important because negotiation agents act faithfully on the behalf of their human users and thus the relevant domain knowledge must be acquired from the human users. Finally, our methodology is validated with one high impact system.

The strength and fracture of engineering alloys at high temperature a collection of papers

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Management of the civil engineering works of Thomas Telford in the highlands of Scotland

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A study of factors relating to health and safety in the engineering industry in Northern Ireland

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Aspects of marketing applied to an engineering company

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Implementing aspects of management accounting in a low volume manufacturing engineering concern

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Adhesive wear of modern and traditional engineering coatings

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Selection of surface finish for engineering components

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Salting out in organic solvents:a new route to carbon nanotube bundle engineering

In this study we investigate salt effects on bundle formation of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) dispersed in an organic solvent, N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone (NMP). Addition of NaI salt leads to self-assembly of CNTs into well-recognizable bundles. It is possible to control the size of the CNT bundles by varying the salt concentration. © the Owner Societies 2011.