Extraterrestrial habitats involve a tightly coupled combination of hardware, software, and
humans while operating in an unforgiving environment that poses many risks, both …

Validation is a prominent challenge in the domain of risk management in general, and
hazard analysis in particular. Practitioners have highlighted a lack of clear guidance on how …

Testing is an important aspect of design and development which consumes significant time
and resource in many companies. However, it has received less research attention than …

While many hazard analysis techniques exist, little empirical research has been dedicated to
their use in industrial contexts, in particular concerning how practitioners validate hazard …

The field of systems engineering has recently experienced a new push for unveiling its
scientific foundations and using them to inform better practice. The majority of the research …

Abstract A Battery Second Use (B2U) strategy is the design and development of a battery
system with the intention of having it serve two purposes:(1) the initial use in the vehicle and …

In the field of building inspection and diagnosis, uncertainty is common and surveyors are
aware of it, although it is not easily measured. This research proposes a model to quantify …

This paper proposes a set of seven elemental patterns of verification strategies. These
patterns can be useful in modeling verification strategies in a wide range of engineered …

V-model and its variants have become the most common process models adopted in
automotive industry guiding the development of systems on a variety of refinement levels …

Verification is a critical process in the development of engineered systems. Through
verification, engineers gain confidence in the correct functionality of the system before it is …