Any management system within an organization can be said to be "open" or "closed." An open systems interacts with other systems through the free passing of information, whereas closed systems operate ...

A system that allows third parties to make products that plug into or interoperate with it. For example, the PC is an open system. Although the fundamental standards are controlled by Microsoft, Intel ...

Advances in Applied Probability, Vol. 15, No. 4 (Dec., 1983), pp. 813-839 (27 pages) We present new results based on novel techniques for the problem of characterizing the waiting-time distribution in ...

Bell’s V-280 Valor tilt-rotor aircraft was selected by the U.S. Army as its Future Long Range Assault Aircraft using MOSA considerations. (Bell) Modular Open System Architecture, or MOSA, has long ...