Integrate Environment, solutions

The procedure for getting solutions for the ambitious problems described above cannot just be top-down. Neither the comprehensive process/product model nor the know-how to structure this model were at hand when the IMPROVE project started. In the same way, deep knowledge how to realize an integrated environment with new functionality on top of existing tools was not available. 

Implement advanced micro-fabrication processing methods and statistical process control Evaluate environment-tolerant protective coatings Investigate catalytic chemistry at sensor surface Examine the phase transformation mechanism of the sensing materials Develop integrated system solution... 

Appropriate tools and IT services are necessary to generate domain models. Some leading solution providers have started to provide integrated environments in which different models can be mapped. However, their approach is limited to their own proprietary systems. The challenge consists of achieving a federated environment (see Chap. 4) instead of an integrated environment, in which the tools (e.g., CAD tool) and models (e.g., CAD model, behavioral model) from different vendors share data and information. 

The relative susceptibHity of several commercial aHoys is presented in Table 8. The index used is a relative rating based on integrating performance in various environments. These environments include the harsh condition of exposure to moist ammonia, Hght-to-moderate industrial atmospheres, marine atmosphere, and an accelerated test in Mattsson s solution. The latter testing is described in ASTM G30 and G37 (35,36) and is intended to simulate industrial atmospheres. The index is linear. A rating of 1000 relates to the most susceptible and zero designates immunity to stress corrosion. 

An implementation of this algorithm, using the sequential procedure within the MATLAB environment, was proposed by Figueroa and Romagnoli (1994). To solve step 2, the constr function from the MATLAB Optimization Toolbox has been used. The numerical integration necessary in this step has been performed via the function ode45 for the solution of ordinary differential equations. 

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