In the age of Industry 4.0, manufacturers are expected to develop increasingly sophisticated, digitally integrated products while controlling development costs and accelerating time to market.

Abstract: A novel approach is presented applying capabilities of software agent-based programming to numerical field computations. Distributed and autonomous calculation resources are used in analogy ...

Abstract: As the integrated chip packaging technology progresses from 2.5-D to 3-D, new issues arise regarding the reliability of interconnects. The analysis of interconnect reliability is inherently ...