Successful building design is becoming an increasingly complex task, due to a growing
demand to satisfy more ambitious environmental, societal and economical performance …

Flexibility, despite its popularity, is not yet an academically mature concept–compared with
optimality and robustness, for example. Flexibility is nevertheless recognised as a critical …

Value-driven design is a movement that is using economic theory to transform systems
engineering to better use optimization to improve the design of large systems, particularly in …

A framework to aid in the understanding of uncertainties and techniques for mitigating and
even taking positive advantage of them is presented. The framework is an attempt to clarify …

The rate of adoption of e-learning has increased significantly in most higher education
institutions in the world. E-learning refers to the use of electronic media, educational …

The demands on today's products have become increasingly complex as customers expect
enhanced performance across a variety of diverse and changing system operating …

Rapid urbanisation worldwide has created a host of fundamental challenges, which in
conjunction with natural or man-made disasters, now threaten the resilience of communities …

Urban water and wastewater systems face uncertain developments including technological
progress, climate change and urban development. To ensure the sustainability of these …

Despite its ubiquity in the systems engineering literature, flexibility remains an ambiguous
concept. There exist a multitude of definitions, which vary not only by domain, but within …

The concepts of reliability, robustness, adaptability, versatility, resilience and flexibility have
been used to describe how a system design can mitigate the likely impact of uncertainties …