Assessment framework for a methodology under development – Application to the PDA methodology

This paper presents an assessment framework for methodologies under development. It is adapted from the evaluation framework for the design of an engineering model developed by Ben Ahmed and colleagues [1]. The assessment framework allows to take into account in a systematic way characteristics (that is, main categories or classes of potential requirements) that are of importance for the assessment of the quality a methodology, beyond effectiveness and efficiency. The framework is intended to be employed similarly to engineering design requirements checklists: ensuring first that no important characteristics are left out; deriving from these characteristics more specific requirements when necessary; using these characteristics or the derived requirements both to drive the development of the methodology and as evaluation criteria to assess the elements of the developed methodology. These characteristics can then be screened again as the methodology is improved. As the methodology is being developed, the assessments can go from wide and qualitative to more stringent. The framework is applied to assess the predictive design analysis (PDA) methodology.[1] Ben Ahmed, W., Mekhilef, M., Yannou, B., and Bigand, M., (2010), "Evaluation framework for the design of an engineering model", Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing, 24(1), pp. 107-125

Histoire des idées géopolitiques et géostratégiques

Programme de l’année 2006-2007 : La réflexion géopolitique en France

Histoire de la guerre (XIXe-XXe siècles) : pensée stratégique et cultures militaires

Programme de l’année 2015-2016 : La notion de puissance maritime (suite)

Histoire de la guerre (xixe-xxe siècles)

Programme de l’année 2014-2015 : Histoire du concept de puissance maritime

Histoire des idées géopolitiques et géostratégiques

Programme de l’année 2006-2007 : La réflexion géopolitique en France

Frédéric Le Moal, La Serbie, du martyre à la victoire (1914-1918)

Fin connaisseur des questions balkaniques, Frédéric Le Moal s’était déjà signalé par un ouvrage issu de sa thèse de doctorat, La France et l’Italie dans les Balkans, 1914-1919, paru chez L’Harmattan en 2006 et récompensé l’année suivante par le prix du Mémorial du front d’Orient. Son deuxième livre confirme ses talents de spécialiste des relations internationales, mais le révèle aussi comme un remarquable historien des représentations identitaires et des rapports civils/militaires. C’est bien..

Histoire de la guerre (XIXe-XXe siècles). Pensée stratégique et cultures militaires

Programme de l’année 2018-2019 : I. Nouvelles recherches sur l’amiral Aube. — II. Questions stratégiques diverses. Programme de l’année 2019-2020 : I. Art et stratégie. — II. Nouvelles recherches sur l’amiral Aube et la pensée navale française

Interaction between computer-based design analysis activities and the engineering design process - An industrial survey

In the large majority of product development projects, computer-based design analyses are performed to assess the feasibility of potential technical solutions. As a first step to bring about a deeper understanding of the interactions between the engineering design and the design analysis activities, a survey has been performed in industry. The results of the survey cover: the use of design analysis within product development, the interactions of engineering design along the design analysis process, and the treatment of uncertainties and errors connected to the design analysis activities

Utilizing the generic design analysis (GDA) process model within an extended set of design analysis contexts

In most industrial product development projects, computer-based design analysis, or simply design analysis, is frequently utilized. Several design analysis process models exist in the literature for the planning, execution and follow-up of such design analysis tasks. Most of these process models deal explicitly with design analysis tasks within two specific contexts: the context of design evaluation, and the context of design optimization. There are, however, several more contexts within which design analysis tasks are executed. Originating from industrial practice, four contexts were found to represent a significant part of all design analysis tasks in industry. These are: 1. Explorative analysis, aiming at the determination of important design parameters associated with an existing or predefined design solution (of which design optimization is a part). 2. Evaluation, aiming at giving quantitative information on specific design parameters in support of further design decisions. 3. Physical testing, aiming at validating design analysis models through physical testing, that is, determining the degree to which models are accurate representations of the real world from the perspective of the intended uses of the models. 4. Method development, that is the development, verification and validation of specific guidelines, procedures or templates for the design analyst and/or the engineering designer to follow when performing a design analysis task. A design analysis process model needs to be able to deal with at least these four. In this work, a process model named the generic design analysis (GDA) process model, is applied to these four contexts. The principles for the adaptation of the GDA process model to different contexts are described. The use of the GDA process model in these contexts is exemplified with industrial cases: explorative analysis of design parameters of a bumper beam system, the final physical acceptance tests of a device transportation system (collision test, drop test, vibration test), and the method development of a template for analyzing a valve in a combustion engine. The "Evaluation" context is not exemplified as it is the most common one in industry. The GDA process model has been successfully used for the four contexts. Using the adaptation principles and industrial cases, the adaptation of the GDA process model to additional contexts is also possible

L’écriture de l’histoire navale française à l’époque contemporaine : un modèle national ?

L’écriture de l’histoire navale française à l’époque contemporaine porte l’empreinte, tout au long du XXe siècle, d’un modèle national caractérisé par le rapport à la mer complexe d’un pays oscillant entre priorité continentale et tradition maritime, marqué par la place centrale de l’État via le Service historique de la marine créé en 1919 et par l’importance de la marque laissée par les deux guerres mondiales. Ce modèle perdure jusqu’à la fin des années 1980. Il a depuis une quinzaine d’années profondément évolué ouvrant la voie à un renouvellement de l’historiographie impulsé tant par l’université que par l’institution. Si ce champ de recherche apparaît en plein essor, de nombreux aspects de l’histoire navale nationale à l’époque contemporaine demeurent encore peu étudiés.The writing of French naval history in modern times: a national model?The writing of French naval history in modern times bears the imprint, throughout the twentieth century, of a national model characterized by a relationship with the sea in a country oscillating between a continental focus and a maritime tradition, marked by the centrality of the state via the Service historique de la marine created in 1919 and by the importance of the mark left by the two world wars. This model lasted until the late 1980s. For some fifteen years it has been profoundly changed, opening the way for a renewal of the historiography driven as much by the university as the institution. If this field of research appears booming, numerous aspects of the national naval history in modern times still remain largely unexplored