Heuristic Algorithms (HA) are very widely used to tackle practical problems in operations research. They are simple, easy to understand and inspire confidence. Many of these HAs a...
This work proposes a new methodology for automatically validating the internal lighting system of an automotive, i.e., assessing the visual quality of an instrument cluster (IC) f...
Alexandre W. C. Faria, David Menotti, Daniel S. D....
We present a formulation of interconnection models and present the unit and syntactic models -- the primary models used for managing the evolution of large software systems. We di...
Recent work in the area of Model-based Safety Analysis has demonstrated key advantages of this methodology over traditional approaches, for example, the capability of automatic ge...
—With the advent of the Internet, we have entered the age of ubiquitous systems that will need to be able to communicate, establish criteria for measurement and then perform thes...