Scope of this chapter is to provide design criteria for spacecraft solar arrays at system level. The design a satellite solar array is usually influenced by several constraints; mission profile, chosen attitude, overall spacecraft configuration, mass and sizing requirements, etc. Moreover, its design has to be harmonised with the chosen solar array power conditioning, in order to optimize mass,...

Abstract This paper presents and discusses a number of criteria for the design and implementation of electronic market servers. It first briefly reviews a number of electronic markets currently operational over the internet then offers some ideas on the types of new markets that may become successful. It then presents the design criteria for market servers, necessary to support these virtual ma...

Within the framework of classical linear regression model stochastic optimal design criteria are considered. As examples a line fit model and a k-way linear fit model are taken. If the optimal design does not exist, an approach consisting in choosing the efficient design is suggested.

Criteria for the design of gene-specific and group-specific oligonucleotide probes were established experimentally via an oligonucleotide array that contained perfect match (PM) and mismatch probes (50-mers and 70-mers) based upon four genes. The effects of probe-target identity, continuous stretch, mismatch position, and hybridization free energy on specificity were tested. Little hybridizatio...

This paper discusses the quality criteria that are used in design and science to evaluate the value of the produced knowledge and artifacts. The scientific criteria discussed are: generizability, falsifiability, truth, novelty, parsimony, precision, accuracy and efficiency. Their design counterparts are also discussed. This comparison may help to guide the design method into a more scientific d...

The reliability of any mechanical system, in which the linear displacement of a piston is converted into the rotation of a power transmission shaft, strongly depends on the reliability of the crankshaft. The crankshaft is the critical component and any damage occurring to the crankshaft may put the mechanical system out of order. The numerical finite element simulation of crankshafts with multi...

This paper describes the design criteria and annotation guidelines of the Sinica Treebank. The three design criteria are: Maximal Resource Sharing, Minimal Structural Complexity, and Optimal Semantic Information. One of the important design decisions guided by these criteria is the encoding of thematic role information. We discuss the representational and methodological issues based on our desi...

Systematic design testing, in which executable models of behaviours are tested using inputs that exercise scenarios, can help reveal flaws in designs before they are implemented in code. In this paper a technique for testing executable forms of UML (Unified Modelling Language) models is described and test adequacy criteria based on UML model elements are proposed. The criteria can be used to de...