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| Agile Methods | |
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Where do I find more information on Agile Methods? |
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What do I need to know about Scribing during an eWorkshop? |
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What does an eWorkshop analyst do? |
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What is the role of the Director? |
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What is the role of the lead discussant? |
| MDS | |
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I would like to know how MDS goals are structured. Are they structured in a tree or linearly? |
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How does MDS elaborate a goal? |
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Does MDS use some AI trick to create a plan for accomplishing a goal? |
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I am interested in how MDS would work for a goal like "find a rock" in which the steps to completing the goal are unknown. So, all the possible subgoals would have to be defined in some gel file right? |
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What does a MDS goal look like for a simple program? |
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Is there any documentation for helping people create a MDS gel file? |
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Is the MDS gel language derived from something like lisp? |
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What is MDS state determination? |
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What is fault detection in MDS? |
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In the MDS gel files, where does TP1 come from? Is is a parameter to this gel file? Is it an absolute time point? |
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Can MDS subgoals be achieved in parallel? Examples in SCRover has them strictly sequential. Can they happen during the same two timepoints? |
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MDS Constraints look like primitive actions. Are they? |
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Could the MDS driveGoal (from the SCRover gel files) be broken into subgoals? |
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I am a little confused about timeConstraint in MDS. It takes two timepoints and gives a min and max duration. What does that mean? Duration of what? The two timepoints already define a duration. |
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Where are MDS state constraints defined? |
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I'm not sure I fully understand how the MDS state and constraints go together. What exactly is the difference between the state variables and constraints. |
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I looked for the MDS state file, but could not find it. |
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I looked for the MDS state file, but could not find it. |
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For example, G1 and G2 are MDS goals and G1 --helps_achieve--> G2 What if G1 and G2 are in different gel files? Who hooks them together in the graph? The way I read it, the only link between goals is what is internally defined in a single gel file. |
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In the diagram (Note: provide link to diagram), the MDS State Controller sends an action to the hardware proxy/adaptor AND to the State Determination component. Why does the action need to be sent to the State Determination component? Is it for some kind |
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What woould happen if the state gets messed up? Let's say there is a sandstorm or an undetected wall that causes the rover's state to be vastly different than the real state. Is there anything in MDS that tries to check for this? IS there anything that re |
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Are there plans for maintenance goals in MDS? For example, let's say the rover needs to stay below 40 degrees celsius. Are there any goals in MDS where if the environment starts to change, the state variable triggers the goal? Is this sort of thing possib |
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If the hardware crashes, what happens? I imagine that the MDS state control will find out about it, but who notifies state control, and then what happens? |
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What does the MDS state control do if an actuator that is required to accomplish a goal is broken. |
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If hardware crashed, and a goal is declared failed, then does the MDS State Controller just ignore it and try to accomplish other goals? |
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Who exactly sets the health MDS state variable. Is this part done by the state determination? |
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The SCrover's PioneerHWAdapter seems fairly straightforward, but is there a non-sim hardware MDS adapter that I can look at? |
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Is the following MDS statement correct? "Asking the question whether a goal is satisfiable..." Who asked this question? -> MPE To whom is this question asked? -> Controller When is this quesition asked? -> At the beginning of a time-cycle |
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When is the following MDS question asked relative to the "satisfiable"-question? -> before or after? "Asking the "isready" question..." Who asks? -> MPE Who is asked? -> Controller When is this question asked? -> ??? |
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When is the following MDS question asked? -> after each time-cycle, i.e., at the end of the time-cycle? "Asking/checking whether a goal is achieved..." Who asks? -> ??? Who is asked? -> Controller |
| Cebase | |
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What is the Cebase team? |
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What is CeBASE? |
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What is the Top 10 defect list? |
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How do I join CeBASE? |
| eWorkshop | |
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What is the eWorkshop? |
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Where could I find the eWorkshop introductory presentation by Victor Basili and Barry Boehm? |
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When was the second eworkshop? |
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Where can I find the results from the first eworkshop? |
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What is the tool behind the eWorkshop? |
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How can I sign up to participate in an eWorkshop? |
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When was the third eWorkshop? |
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What was the topic of the third eWorkshop? |
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When is the next eWorkshop? |
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So if I want to ask a question during the discussion, is it only thru writing a message in this area or is there a way to "raise my hand." |
| COCOMO | |
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What should you do if your constraint set leaves you with an empty set of feasible solutions? |
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Do Extreme Programming and Linear Programming relate to each other? |
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Given the tremendous impact of people on software productivity, how sensitive are models to changes in people factors? Any books good to read for further guidance on software people factors? |
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How can we use the Expected Value of Perfect Information (EVPI) to help make decisions? |
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Does an optimal solution in a business case always yield the maximum profit? |
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Is loss-avoidance a good goal to have your employees strive for? |
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Which risk behavior is best: risk-averse, risk- indifferent, or risk-seeking? |
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What are the side benefits from building prototypes. Are there counterpart drawbacks? |
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Since all the decision rules under complete uncertainty (maximin, maximax, Laplace), have pitfalls, does it make sense to try all three rules and understand their recommendations? |
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What are some examples of non-managerial utility functions? |
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What is an example of a curvilinear constraint? |
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Can we determine the maximum number of constraints possible to get an optimal solution? |
| JSME Special Issue on Process Diversity | |
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When are papers due? |
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When and where is the special issue going to be published? |
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How do you define maintenance and evolution? |
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How do you define process? |
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How do you define diversity? |
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How do I submit my paper? |
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Who are the guest editors of this special issue? |