2.1 Summary This article provides a stepping-stone for the development of domain-independent design theory, based on a study initiated within the framework of the postgraduate Eindhoven design engineer program for Architectural Design Management Systems. This design theory is being developed to support the design of large-scale, complex design processes, such as one has in large building projec...

Do you enjoy reading books? Reading is one of the unique activities that only humans do, and we have not been doing it for that long! People have been practicing spoken communication using a language system with grammatical rules for at least 100,000 years. We have been building tools for even longer, with the first stone tools dating back about 2.5 million years [1]. But we have been reading a...

Single-Electron-Technology (SET) is one of the future technologies distinguished by its small and low power devices. SET also provides simple and elegant solutions for threshold logic gates (TLG’s). This paper presents the design of an optimal TLG adder implemented in SET. It provides a detailed procedure for designing capacitive– input SET TLG’s for building the adder. The paper also presents ...

A new method for the recognition of the tonal center or key in a musical audio signal is presented. Time-varying key feature vectors of 264 synthesized sounds are extracted from an auditory-based pitch model and converted into character strings using PCA-analysis and classification trees. Results are compared with distance-based methods. Examples are given of the characteristics of the new tona...

Single-Electron-Technology (SET) is one of the future technologies distinguished by its small and low power devices. SET also provides simple and elegant solutions for threshold logic gates (TLG’s). This paper presents the design of an optimal TLG adder implemented in SET. It provides a detailed procedure for designing capacitive– input SET TLG’s for building the adder. The paper also presents ...

Today visitors often approach the massive pyramids, temples, and obelisks of the ancient Egyptians with wonder and disbelief. The huge blocks of stone used to create these architectural masterpieces were quarried and moved without the aid of modern technologies, and it is diffi cult for us to imagine how such feats of engineering could be accomplished without the aid of cranes, bulldozers, truc...

What is believed to be the first fluorescence imaging of the facades of a historical building, which was accomplished with a scanning fluorescence lidar system, is reported. The mobile system was placed at a distance of ~60 m from the medieval Lund Cathedral (Sweden), and a 355-nm pulsed laser beam was swept over the stone facades row by row while spectrally resolved fluorescence signals of eac...

Submitted for the MAR12 Meeting of The American Physical Society Majority-vote model on a dynamic small-world square lattice THOMAS E. STONE, Husson University, SUSAN R. MCKAY, University of Maine — Majority-vote models are often used to study consensus building, coarsening dynamics, and phase transitions, among other phenomena. In addition to the microscope rules governing a particular model, ...