Game development is considered to be one of the most profitable fields in the software industry. Since game production is a very complicated task to accomplish, software engineering techniques could prove useful for providing maintainability and reusability. This paper investigates to what extent opensource game developers are familiar with design patterns and apply them in order to improve gam...

Computer software is pervasive in today’s society. The rate at which new versions of computer software products are released is phenomenal when compared to the release rate of new products in traditional industries such as aircraft building. This rapid rate of change can partially explain why most certifications in the software industry are generic as opposed to those in the aircraft-building i...

The construction industry is responsible for one of the highest incidences of work-related accidents in Brazil, as well as in various other countries. In spite of the dissemination of prevention programs and the proposals for developing safety design for the construction industry, construction sites remain dangerous and unhealthy places. Recently, safety has been proposed to be considered from ...

Although the field of design research could potentially gain from collaboration between academia and industry this approach to research has not received much experimentation or scholarly attention. Design outcomes research, the primary objective of which is to examine the outcomes of designed artifacts when implemented, is one of many potential foci of design research that could benefit from su...

Complex process plants increasingly appear in modern chemical industry due to the considerable economic efficiency that complex and interactive process designs can offer. Interactions between process units (e.g., material recycle and energy integration) often cause significant difficulties in plantwide control. As such, it is important to study plantwide operability (i.e., whether a plantwide p...

At the present time, electronic data exchange in construction industry is mainly used for the exchange of information related to technical design, most of the time using proprietary data formats from the CAD systems in use. Planning, control and management activities are very often not supported automatically, and standard models to enable their automatic data exchange are just now coming from ...

Currently, different design tools and databases are used for building automation networks and construction projects. Effort (design time, tools) can be reduced if these two design spaces can be merged. In this paper an approach for the integration of building automation network design in IFC 2x is introduced. Based on the resulting model, existing tools are to enhance in order to accomplish a h...

Pharmaceutical industry is showing a positive approach towards Quality by Design (QbD) for discovery, development, and commercial manufacturing of biopharmaceutical products. Regulatory agencies are providing various guidelines for pharmaceutical industry to build quality, safety and efficacy into their new biopharmaceutical products. Such concept became known as Quality by Design. To assess th...

Agile software development methods are used extensively in the software industry. This paper describes an argument to explain why these methods can be used within a multi-disciplinary project and provides a concrete description on how to implement such a method, using a case-study to support the rationale. The SOFIE (Intelligent Assisted Bicycle) project was created to develop mechatronic appli...