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SIAMDM
2010
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14 years 8 months ago
Design is as Easy as Optimization
We consider the class of max-min and min-max optimization problems subject to a global budget (or weight) constraint and we undertake a systematic algorithmic and complexitytheore...
Deeparnab Chakrabarty, Aranyak Mehta, Vijay V. Vaz...
FOMI
2009
14 years 7 months ago
Modular Ontologies for Architectural Design
Abstract. The design of architectural environments has to take into account various sources of heterogeneous information. Not only quantitative spatial constraints and qualitative ...
Joana Hois, Mehul Bhatt, Oliver Kutz
CHI
2007
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Usability and free/libre/open source software SIG: HCI expertise and design rationale
The usability of Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) is a new challenge for HCI professionals. Although HCI professionals are working on usability issues in FLOSS, the CHI com...
Paula M. Bach, Bryan Kirschner, John M. Carroll
GECCO
2005
Springer
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15 years 3 months ago
Harmony search for structural design
Various algorithms have been developed and applied to structural optimization, in which cross-sectional areas of structure members are assumed to be continuous. In most cases of p...
Zong Woo Geem, Kang Seok Lee, Chung-Li Tseng
APLAS
2004
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
A Relational Model for Object-Oriented Designs
This paper develops a mathematical characterisation of object-oriented concepts by defining an observation-oriented semantics for an object-oriented language (OOL) with a rich var...
Jifeng He, Zhiming Liu, Xiaoshan Li, Shengchao Qin