In this paper, we investigate the requirements of QPA(Quality Process Audit), which is a process quality audit system for secondary defense contractors, compared with those of DQMS(Defense Quality Management System). And evaluate whether the deployment of QPA meets the DQMS certification requirements through the case example of Company H. The evaluation items of QPA are composed of five categories such as Material Management, Incoming Inspection, Manufacturing Process, Product Evaluation, and Packaging Management. The QPA requirements are mainly related to the chapter 7(support) and chapter 8(operation) of DQMS standards. In this view point, QPA can be expected as an effective audit for suppliers preparing for DQMS certification. In the case example, we evaluate the results and effects of improvement due to QPA and compare it with the case of DQMS. QPA can be used as appropriate quality management standards of secondary and tertiary defense contractors and can provide the basis guidelines for the preparation of implementation steps in DQMS certification.

미국 민사소송절차에서 적법절차 논의는 법정지에 거주하지 않거나 법정지 와 실질적 관련이 없는 피고에 대해 “적법절차 요건(due process requireme nts)”을 충족하는 판단기준에 관한 것이다. 적법절차는 민사 소송을 당하는 비 거주자인 피고(non-resident defendant)가 다른 주의 법원, 정부권력으로부 터 부당하게 권리를 침해받지 않도록 피고를 보호하는데 우선을 둔다고 볼 수 있다. 이에 미국 연방법원은 타주(foreign state)의 법원이 비거주자 피고에 대해 재판관할을 행사하기 위해서는 해당 “피고,” 법정지(forum, 즉 타주의 법원), 분쟁사안과의 “minimum contact”이 있는 지를 검토한다. 법정지의 성문법상 법정지 법원의 재판관할권이 인정되는 경우에도 법정지 의 재판관할, 특히 인적재판관할(personal jurisdiction)에 대해서는 최종적으 로 미국연방헌법에서 보장하는 적법절차 요건에 부합한지에 대한 검토가 필요 하다. 미국 민사소송의 피고에 대한 적법절차요건은 재판관할관련 판례의 기 본원칙으로, 법정지의 재판관할 유무를 결정함에 있어 원고의 편의도 고려되 어야 한다는 반대의견에도 불구하고, 1945년의 International Shoe 판례 이 후 지금까지 변함없이 지속되고 있다. 2014년도의 미국 연방대법원의 재판관할에 대한 판례는 피고를 위한 적법 절차 요건을 재확인시켜주었다. 이에 논문은 미국 연방헌법에서 보장된 적법 절차가 법정지의 재판관할을 부인하는 비거주자 피고에게 어떻게 적용되는지 를 검토한다. 또한 우리 법원이 국제사법 상 “당사자(원고와 피고)”와 법정지 인 한국 법원과 실질적 관련성이 있을 경우 국제재판관할을 인정하는 점은 미 국이 피고를 기준으로, 피고와 법정지와의 실질적 관련성을 검토하여 재판관 할을 결정하는 점과 법적으로 약간의 차이가 있음을 지적해 본다.

Modern weapon systems are getting more complex in terms of the functionality and also the conditions on the environment and range in which they are deployed and used. Therefore, many development programs can easily be exposed to a variety of risks, resulting in delayed schedules and cost overrun. As such, effective means are necessary to keep the defence budget at an affordable level while competitive edges on technological aspects are retained. As one way to meet those need, modeling and simulation (M&S) methods have widely been used, particularly in the test and evaluation (T&E) process for weapon systems development. The result of M&S-based systems development should be evaluated by the verification, validation & accreditation (VV&A) process to assure keeping reliability at a desired level. On the other hand, due to the explosiveness, the weapons systems development naturally requires to consider safety issues in both the T&E and operational periods. The purpose of this paper is to improve the VV&A process by reflecting the safety requirements therein. To do so, the VV&A process has been analyzed and graphically modeled first and then safety elements have been incorporated effectively. The use of the improved process in the war ships development has also been discussed. Based on the process proposed and the consequent database constructed, the target system can be expected to benefit from reducing development risks while assuring systems safety.

Business processes are often of long duration, and include internal worker's decision making, which makes business processes to be exposed to many exceptional situations. These properties of business processes makes it difficult to guarantee successful termination of business processes at the design phase. The behavioral properties of business processes mainly depends on the data aspects of business processes. To formalize the data aspect of process modeling, this paper proposes a graph-based model, called Data Dependency Graph (DDG), constructed from dependency relationships specified between business data. The paper also defines a mechanism of describing a set of mapping rules that generates a process model semantically equivalent to a DDG, which is accomplished by allocating data dependencies to component activities.

Development of human-system interfaces (HSI) supporting the interaction between human and automation-based systems, particularly safety-critical sociotechnial systems, entails a wide range of design and evaluation problems. To help HSI designers deal with these problems, many methodologies from traditional human-computer interaction, software engineering, and systems engineering have been applied; however, they have been proved inadequate to develop cognitively well engineered HSI. This paper takes a viewpoint that HSI development is itself a cognitive process consisting of various decision making and problem solving activities and then proposes a design requirements-driven process for developing HSI. High-level design problems and their corresponding design requirements for visual information display are explained to clarify the concept of design requirements. Lastly, conceptual design of software system to support the requirements-driven process and designers' knowledge management is described.