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Component-based development
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Component-based_software_engineering
Refer http://mappa.mundi.net/maps/maps_023/
In particular http://www.smartmoney.com/map-of-the-market/
Source: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=1668250
'Multi-robot coalition formation', L Vig and J A Adams, Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Vanderbilt Univ., Nashville, TN, USA. This paper appears in: Robotics, IEEE Transactions, Vol 22, Issue 4, Aug. 2006, pp. 637- 649.
Source: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.6.3846
‘Market-based Multirobot Coordination Using Task Abstraction’, Robert Zlot Anthony Stentz, The 4th International Conference on Field and Service Robotics, July 14–16, 2003.
http://www.ri.cmu.edu/pub_files/pub4/zlot_robert_michael_2003_1/zlot_robert_michael_2003_1.pdf
SOURCE ARTICLE http://www.econ.berkeley.edu/~eichengr/research/seville.pdf
Economics and Culture in the Writing of Financial History*
Barry Eichengreen, Departments of Economics and Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, May 1997.
Critical Path Analysis (CPA) is a powerful and versatile technique and tool of planning and management.
CPA was initially devised for military purposes and then arbitrarily adopted with success in industry and construction contracts. The technique has also been termed network analysis, project evaluation and review (pert), critical path method (cpm).
There are minor differences in presentation, but each has the planning of a specific project in view.
• A single starting point and a single desired objective, but with many intermediate activities
• Each intermediate activity begins after some prior event and ends with its own completion in a future event.
• In the network diagram an activity / time period is represented by an arrow / line and an event by a circle
An activity covers a period of time (set by an arrow or line) and ends in an event (a set circle) that is a single point in time.
A 'reflexive analysis' approach.
1. The structuring of project activities in a network diagram showing all their interrelationships.
2. The assignment of time and/or costs to all constituent activities.
All of the necessary tasks are first compiled in a list and then distributed or allocated in sequence across the network diagram according to their appropriateness to the key building blocks in the project's program.
A key building block becomes an event that must be completed before the subsequent activity can be attempted.
For example, the foundation block of a building must be completed before the next floor can be commenced, which must then be completed before the next floor can be commenced, and so on. In the meantime, subsidiary activities and events can take place apart from the critical path of the key building blocks, and these subsidiary activities can subsequently be brought together (and importantly, adjusted or altered or amended) as required by the unfolding progress of the project.
3. The technique works to delineate a critical path towards the efficient attainment of a project's goal
Each activity is represented with the time (or cost) involved.
Each event is then represented by an earliest time (TE) and a latest time (TL) by which the event should take place.
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
The path is critical in respect of total planning. The critical path highlights the activities that must be expedited by the transfer of extra resources. For example, how total project time can be reduced / increased to meet a fixed (or estimated) completion time (or possibly finish ahead of schedule).
Any delays in actual time of completing an activity along the critical path will delay the total project by that amount of time, because the start of every subsequent activity (along the critical path) will be delayed by the same amount of time. The subsidiary of intermediate activities become the means to manipulating the time and cost constraint invoked by the critical path.
In terms of development planning, major projects can be broken down into subsidiary network diagrams, for use by different levels of management so as to control the activities within their areas of responsibility. Hence, the critical path is cumulative, and becomes the primary means of control for the whole development plan.
Representation
Agency
Network topology
Computational topology
Intermediary infrastructure
Natural and artificial intelligence
Knowledge ontology
Operational semantics
