Product Development Requirements Research Articles

Tourism Development in Egypt: Competitive Strategies and Implications

Tourism is witnessing a profound change in the next decade due to new megatrends characterizing typologies, demand, product development, environmental safeguards, community participation and sustainability requirements. Moreover quality services, more than pricing policy, are becoming decisive in the choice of destinations. This paper, stressing tourism development in Egypt, the leader of Middle East tourism, illustrates the diversity and quality of the tourist product of Egypt, the prevailing tourist trends, the various constraints and tourism development strategies. The future of tourism in Egypt looks brighter in the light of regional cooperation.

Tourism development in Egypt: Competitive strategies and implications

Tourism is witnessing a profound change in the next decade due to new megatrends characterizing typologies, demand, product development, environmental safeguards, community participation and sustainability requirements. Moreover quality services, more than pricing policy, are becoming decisive in the choice of destinations. This paper, stressing tourism development in Egypt, the leader of Middle East tourism, illustrates the diversity and quality of the tourist product of Egypt, the prevailing tourist trends, the various constraints and tourism development strategies. The future of tourism in Egypt looks brighter in the light of regional cooperation.

Losing control of design definition

It is argued that the traditional textbook approach to setting new product development requirements is no longer applicable to modern market needs. The view that marketing “experts” must identify product requirements and features at the beginning of a programme, then ensure that engineers do not deviate from their specification, may sound sensible but has serious practical limitations. The case is put for allowing development teams to do their own thing.

Specification and design of embedded hardware-software systems

Embedded-system specification and design consists of describing a system's desired functionality and mapping that functionality for implementation by a set of system components such as processors, ASICs, memories, and buses. This paper discusses the key problems of system specification and design, including specification capture, design exploration, hierarchical modeling, software and hardware synthesis, and cosimulation. The authors highlight existing tools and methods for solving those problems and describe a specify-explore-refine methodology for meeting today's embedded-system product development requirements. >

Justification of formal methods for system specification

Recent developments in mathematics and computer science offer a sound, if unfamiliar, basis for the development of computer-controlled systems. The professional systems engineer should become as competent in these fields as he is (expected to be) in traditional mathematics and physics. The paper emphasises their application in the early phases of product development (requirements analysis and functional specification) – a prerequisite for their successful use in design and implementation. Some important aspects of ‘embedded’ computer systems, such as concurrency, have not been discussed because space does not allow an adequate introduction to their formal treatment.

Product Development in the Chemical Industry: A Description of a Maturing Business*

To help us understand the massive complexity of the chemical industry, Robert A. Linn breaks it down into product/market sectors that show differing business requirements, and hence, differing new product development requirements. This is an important industry that has struggled through the 1970s with sharp changes in external pressures and very little technological excitement. Where are the new product opportunities in an industry such as this? How do you pursue them? On the basis of his years of experience in the industry, Linn offers some suggestions and some challenges for managers.

Product development in the chemical industry: A description of a maturing business

To help us understand the massive complexity of the chemical industry, Robert A. Linn breaks it down into product/market sectors that show differing business requirements, and hence, differing new product development requirements. This is an important industry that has struggled through the 1970s with sharp changes in external pressures and very little technological excitement. Where are the new product opportunities in an industry such as this? How do you pursue them? On the basis of his years of experience in the industry, Linn offers some suggestions and some challenges for managers.

Justification of formal methods for system specification

Recent developments in mathematics and computer science offer a sound, if unfamiliar, basis for the development of computer-controlled systems. The professional systems engineer should become as competent in these fields as he is (expected to be) in traditional mathematics and physics. The paper emphasises their application in the early phases of product development (requirements analysis and functional specification)-a prerequisite for their successful use in design and implementation. Some important aspects of 'embedded' computer systems, such as concurrency, have not been discussed because space does not allow an adequate introduction to their formal treatment

Organic chemicals from the Chihuahuan Desert

A consideration of social, economic, political, and technological factors in the search for new renewable sources of raw materials suggests the exploitation and development of the resources of marginal land regions. Desert regions on the North American continent, which cannot be used for food production, nonetheless, grow a variety of indigenous floral species which offer, in their chemical composition, possibilities for agroindustrial development. Prospects for utilization of the resources of the Chihuahuan Desert for the production of organic raw materials are presented. Research and development projects presently underway in Mexico for the commercialization of plants such as Guayule (Parthenium argentatum), Creosote Bush (Larrea tridentata), Candelilla (Euphorbia antisyphilitica), and Palma (Yucca filiera), among others, are documented. Raw materials obtained from such plants are characterized, with emphasis on the identification of components of industrial interest. Current bench and pilot plant activities, as well as process and product development requirements, are detailed.