CSCW
2002
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
2002
ACM
Activity theory is based on the concept of tools mediating between subjects and objects. In this theory, an individual's creative interaction with his or her surroundings can ...
DT
2000
13 years 4 months ago
2000
The design of complex embedded systems involves the simultaneous optimization of several often competing objectives. Instead of a single optimal design, there is rather a set of a...
COMPUTER
2002
13 years 4 months ago
2002
of abstraction and coarse granularity and distributed communication control. Focusing on using probabilistic metrics such as average values or variance to quantify design objective...
CSUR
2000
13 years 4 months ago
2000
ks are quite di cult to understand when one rst uses them: the design is very abstract, to factor out commonality the design is incomplete, requiring additional subclasses to creat...
CSCW
2000
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
2000
ACM
This paper asks the question: how might CSCW system design obtain and be informed by an adequate real-world, real-time understanding of work and organisation on any occasion of wor...
CSCW
2000
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
2000
ACM
The design of software toolkits embodies a fundamental tension. On the one hand, it aims to reduce programmer effort by providing prefabricated, reusable software modules encapsula...
COMBINATORICS
2000
13 years 4 months ago
2000
A pairwise balanced design, B(K; v), is a block design on v points, with block sizes taken from K, and with every pair of points occurring in a unique block; for a fixed K, B(K) i...
CERA
2002
13 years 4 months ago
2002
: A shape design sensitivity analysis and optimization procedure is proposed using a meshfree method. A CAD tool connection is established to facilitate the seamless integration of...
CERA
2002
13 years 4 months ago
2002
Design changes are frequently encountered in the product development process. The complexity of the design changes is multiplied when the product design involves multiple engineer...
CAD
2002
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
2002
Springer
This paper discusses product variety design under optimization viewpoint. Product variety design means the challenge to simultaneously design multiple products toward higher optim...