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Lecture-Object-Relational Mapping in C++ by Boris Kolpackov

Mon, 05/02/2011 - 10:15am

ODB is an open-source, cross-platform and cross-database object-relational
mapping (ORM) system for C++. Unlike other libraries offering a similar
functionality, ODB automatically generates the code that performs the
conversion between persistent classes and their database representation from
C++ class declarations.

Vanderbilt launches global portal for cyber-physical systems research

Thu, 04/14/2011 - 12:03pm

The new National Science Foundation-funded Cyber-Physical Systems Virtual Organization (CPS-VO) aims to bring together researchers, educators and students working in academics, industry and government agencies in a kind of virtual brain trust to foster progress, develop priorities and quickly distribute information in the rapidly emerging field of cyber-physical systems.

2nd International Workshop on Software Health Management

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 12:04pm

The Call for Papers for the 2nd International Workshop on Software Health Management is now open. This workshop will be held on August 2, 2011 in Palo Alto, CA as a satellite event of 4th International Conference on Space Mission Challenges for Information Technology (www.smc-it.org ).

Seminar-Multi-Functional Systems: Towards a Theory for Requirements Specification and Architecture Design by Manfred Broy

Thu, 03/31/2011 - 7:27am

This lecture introduces a theory for the identification, modeling, and formalization of two complementary views onto software and software intensive systems called the problem view and the solution view. The problem view addresses requirements engineering for describing the overall system functionality from the users’ point of view aiming at the specification of the functional requirements of multi-functional systems in terms of their functions as well as their mutual dependencies. This view leads to a function or service hierarchy.

Lecture-Model-based methods in fault detection and diagnosis. By Janos Gertler

Thu, 03/17/2011 - 7:34am

A significant class of fault detection and diagnosis methods relies on an explicit mathematical model of the monitored system. The fundamental idea is “analytical redundancy”: system outputs are compared to model responses, with discrepancies ideally indicating the presence of faults. The task of detecting such faults and determining their location (isolation) is made harder by noise and disturbances acting on the process, and by inaccuracies of the model.

Lecture-Why Is Offshoring Bad for the U.S. Economy? by Janos Gertler

Thu, 03/17/2011 - 7:30am

Offshore labor outsourcing (“offshoring”) is a process in which US companies set up overseas production facilities, employing local workers, simultaneously curtailing their production on US soil and laying off part of their US workforce. This is followed by (is intertwined with) rehiring a part of the laid-off workers, usually by other companies, to boost production for domestic consumption and/or export.