Abstract: Change impact analysis is a useful technique in software maintenance and evolution. Many techniques have been proposed to support change impact analysis at the code level of software systems, but little effort has been made for change impact analysis at the architectural level. In this paper, we present an approach to supporting change impact analysis at the architectural level of software systems based on an architectural slicing and chopping technique. The main feature of our approach is to assess the effect of changes in a software architecture by analyzing its formal architectural specification, and, therefore, the process of change impact analysis can be automated completely. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Abstract: Abstract ‘Show me a man who is not a slave; one is a slave to lust, another to greed, another to ambition, and all men are slaves to fear’ (Seneca 63–65). Fear drives fundamental responses to the world in individuals and societies alike (Durkheim 1895; Freud 1908). James (1890), influenced by Darwin (1872), considered fear merely as an instinct. He even thought that the need to exercise this instinct had diminished in evolution, and in a some-what naive burst of trust in the virtues of human kind, remarked: ‘…the progress from brute to man is characterized by nothing so much as by the decrease in frequency of proper occasions for fear’ (James 1890).

Abstract: Abstract Modern interventional neuroradiology is not as concerned with catheter skills and technical gymnastics as formerly because new equipment has simplified the access to vascular lesions. The emphasis is now on careful analysis of the clinical problem including the angiographic features prior to treatment, safety during procedures, and good long-term outcomes. To achieve these goals the interventionalist must pay attention to detail. This process begins by ensuring that the best tools are available at the start of the procedure and being alert to potential problems during the procedure. In the course of any interventional neuroradiological procedure there will be key moments at which a correct decision has to be made in order to achieve good results. Sometimes these decisions need to be made very quickly. The aim of this chapter is to help the interventionalist to start each procedure properly prepared and to offer some guidance on techniques and decision-making.

Abstract: Abstract Alfred Russel Wallace was a passionate naturalist, whose long life stretched from 1823 to the eve of the Great War in 1913. He spent his early years exploring the wildlife in remote corners of the world from Sarawak to the Amazon. He pondered the nature of speciation, and the concept of natural selection crystal lized in his mind as he lay shivering, too weak to move, in the grip of a malarial fever. Darwin, who had been toiling for many years at his mighty work, 011 the Origin of Species, was shocked to find the essential principles of his grand conception prefigured in a paper, which wallace dispatched in 1858 from his base on a Malayan island. Danvin sought reassurance from his friends: could he, having read Wallace’s manuscript, now honourably publish an abstract of his own, which he would otherwise not have done? He wrote to his friend and supporter, the geologist Charles Lyell, of his mortification at his own ‘trumpery feelings’. ‘I would far rather’, his letter concluded, ‘burn my whole book than that he or any man should think I had behaved in a paltry spirit.’ But Wallace was a humble man, who recognized Danvin’s genius, and was happy with the accommodation that was quickly reached: an abstract, or ‘sketch’ of Darwin’s theory would be read, together with Wallace’s offering, at a meeting of the Linnean Society in London. Wallace was content henceforth to appear as ‘the Moon to Darwin’s Sun’.

Abstract: Abstract Integration of perception and action systems is necessary for survival. A perceptual system which can’t guide action is literally useless, and an action system which isn’t guided by perception is probably dangerous. So how are perception and action systems linked to allow effective behaviour? The chapters in this section address many aspects of this question, but at least two important themes emerge. One is the increasing variety of approaches that develop and even replace traditional notions about the way perceptual analyses are dynamically linked to responses. A second crucial issue is the way that associations between stimuli and response are structured by experience and by task demands.

Abstract: First part of presentation discusses initiatives and actions aiming at the military and commercial standards harmonization within the area of electromagnetic compatibility. Presented were also general initiatives regarding the unification process within this area including the standardization documents pertinent to the systems of military techniques of various applications. This introduction is necessary for presentation in the further text of this paper of detailed problems associated with possibilities of applications for military marine technology of commercial standards within the aspect of immunity for electrostatic discharges (ESD). Presented is the approach of Polish organizations responsible for research conducted for the purpose of obtaining necessary operating permits to the use of both the military and commercial standards relating to limits of influence and research methods regarding ESD.

Abstract: Multiple-view feature modeling is a product development approach that combines concurrent engineering and feature modeling. It supports applications from various phases of product development, by providing an own interpretation of, or view on, a product for each of these applications. The approach can lead to higher quality of products in less time, which is one of the most important goals of contemporary product development. This thesis shows that a multiple-view feature modeling approach can also support the earlier phases of the product development process, by describing views that support conceptual and assembly design, and their integration with views that support part detail design and manufacturing planning. In addition, it shows that automatic model adjustment is a feasible and useful technique in feature modeling.