To design better aircraft and engines, co-operation is of prime importance. In aircraft design Co-operation has many facets, such as the involvement of experts in various disciplines that work together and share their specific knowledge. Often such experts are employed by different companies and are thus geographically dispersed. The early phases in, for instance, aircraft wing design allow muc...

Online hedonic experiences are increasingly of interest in both research and practice. In particular, it has been proposed that ‘traditional usability approaches are too limited and must be extended to encompass enjoyment’ (Blythe and Wright 2003, p.xvi). The aim of this study was to investigate the relationships among: (i) website design features; (ii) user’s experience of enjoyment; and (iii)...

Transforming software requirements into a software design involves the iterative partition of a solution into software components. The process is human-intensive and does not guarantee that design objectives such as reusability, evolvability, and reliable performance are satisfied. The costly process of designing, building, and modifying high assurance systems motivates the need for precise met...

In this report we want to introduce the new aspects of our soccer simulation team AT-Humboldt [1] compared with former approaches [2–4]. More than 1.5 years ago we began a complete reimplementation of our team with major innovations in software design and the agents architecture. The main goal was to implement and to evaluate the double pass architecture (DPA) [5] in a highly dynamic environmen...

the concepts of democracy have been around for centuries in different fields of human sciences. however, in most of these fields the idealistic and far-fetched features attributed to democracy have not been manipulated yet. it should be mentioned that there have been only a few serious attempts to find proper go-between elements, which could make such a concept as comprehensible and tangible as...

functions in landscape design include values in design and management process to satisfy moral and environmental needs that current attitudes see that as open space design by natural and man-made elements, while the basic intellectual layers related to human as the principles of environmental design have been forgotten. human urban knowledge seeks to meet in health, biological, psychological, s...

This paper presents a unified approach to the design of application-specific systems which consist of both hardware and software components. Our approach is based on the development of an formal intermediate design representation which can be used to capture both hardware and software semantics. Evaluation of a hardware/software design can then be done automatically by simulating the design rep...

This paper introduces the T-compound, an agent interaction pattern we propose as reusable architecture in the design of multi-agent systems. We explain why this model and its underlying concept of overhearing are relevant and specific to agents. Then, we describe two strategies of implementation, together with their qualities and weaknesses. We then identify the T-compound in various agent-base...

Artificial Intelligence has contributed (formal) design models and software support tools to application areas such as architecture, engineering and software design. This paper explores the effectiveness of applying design models to the area of organization (re)design. To that purpose a component-based model for (re)design of organizations is presented as a specialization of an existing generic...