The deep drawing is a process for shaping flat sheets into cup-shaped articles without failure or excessive localized thinning. The design and control of a deep drawing process depends not only on the material, but also on the condition of the tool material interface, the mechanics of plastic deformation, the equipment used, and the control of metal flow. The equipment and tooling parameters th...

The phenomena of stress-induced (or flow-induced, strain-induced, force-induced) crystallization is characterized by the preferential of orientation of polymer segments along the direction of applied force. Many researches report that the drawing and spinning process would increase the crystallinity of polymeric materials, resulting in oriented segments that would explosively improve the crysta...

The comprehensive syntax of iStar modeling language allows requirements analysts to clearly capture stakeholder’s needs, as well as dependencies among stakeholders. However, such iStar models cannot be automatically laid out using typical layout algorithms, such as hierarchical layout and circular layout. Thus, constructing and adjusting iStar models are laborious tasks, especially when dealing...

An important role in software engineering is played by design notations. The Agent UML (AUML) notation for sequence diagrams has been widely used to capture the design of interactions between agents. However, AUML is not precisely defined, and there is very little in the way of tool support available. We argue that using a textual notation allows the notation to be precisely defined, and facili...

A tree growing technique is used here together with classical scheduling algorithms in order to improve the test concurrency having assigned power dissipation limits. First of all, the problem of unequal-length block-test scheduling under power dissipation constraints is modeled as a tree growing problem. Then a combination of list and force-directed scheduling algorithms is adapted to tackle i...

Caption The intuitive appeal of force-directed layouts is due in part to their ability to represent underlying community structures. Such diagrams show dense pockets of nodes with bridges connecting across clusters. Yet, it is possible to start, rather than end, with community structure. This is a “pinwheel” diagram using the author’s Facebook personal network (captured July 15, 2009). Nodes re...

Stream text collections demand a thorough sophisticated method to explore the massive data and effectively extract valuable information. We propose a force-directed method to dynamically visualize stream text documents. The method captures events as they occur, injects them into the system, and clusters them on-the-fly. Typically, keywords are used to calculate similarity and accordingly steer ...

UNLABELLED BicOverlapper is a tool to visualize biclusters from gene-expression matrices in a way that helps to compare biclustering methods, to unravel trends and to highlight relevant genes and conditions. A visual approach can complement biological and statistical analysis and reduce the time spent by specialists interpreting the results of biclustering algorithms. The technique is based on ...

Learning materials frequently employ illustrations with many labels in order to coordinate visual and textual elements. The labels in illustrations support mainly two search tasks: learners can determine the graphical reference objects of unknown terms or vice versa (i.e. get textual descriptions for unknown visual objects). In traditional print media, human illustrators often overload an illus...

The analysis of network motifs, patterns of local interconnections with potential functional properties, has applications in many fields of science. Network motif analysis is particularly important for the exploration of biological networks. The distribution and multiple occurrences of motifs in a network, complicated by different concepts for the determination of motif frequency, create variou...