Publishing is a distributed process which is characterized by the cooperation of different experts. The approach of the Integrated Publication and Information Systems Institute (IPSI) to support electronic publishing is to build an integrated publication environment. The publication of electronic documents demands enhanced support from publishing tools and imposes new challenges on database tec...

The theory of latency-insensitive design is presented as the foundation of a new correct-by-construction methodology to design complex systems by assembling intellectual property components. Latency-insensitive designs are synchronous distributed systems and are realized by composing functional modules that exchange data on communication channels according to an appropriate protocol. The protoc...

Many researchers agree that information and communications technologies are deeply implicated in the process of globalization. There is much less agreement, however, on what globalization means in particular situations and contexts. This paper places the development of a specific information system in a Third World country within the context of neo-colonialism and post-colonialism. It shows how...

The design and reification of Web Information Systems is a complex task, for which many integrated development methods have been proposed. While all these methods ultimately lead to the construction of web pages, very little attention is paid to the layout of these pages. This paper discusses the main principles of Screenography, attempts to systematise WIS layout and thus to complement develop...

Object-orientation has rapidly become accepted as the preferred paradigm for large scale system design. There is considerable literature describing approaches to object-oriented design and implementation. However discussion of testing in an object-oriented environment has been conspicuous by its absence. At first sight it appears that decomposition of a system into a potentially large number of...

A new Room Temperature (RT) 0-level vacuum package is demonstrated in this work, using amorphous silicon (aSi) as sacrificial layer and SiO2 as structural layer. The process is compatible with most of MEMS resonators and Resonant Suspended-Gate MOSFET [1] fabrication processes. This paper presents a study on the influence of releasing hole dimensions on the releasing time and hole clogging. It ...

the imagination of designers who understand the potential of using these cells like integrated circuits on a PC board in building on-chip systems. (See the “What is a core cell?” box.) With a rich cell library of predesigned, preverified circuit blocks, cores provide an attractive means to import technology to a system integrator and differentiate products by leveraging intellectual property ad...

Mobile manufacturing is an enabler to increase the possibility to change and to adapt to altering needs, where the geographical position is not fixed. The main idea with the mobile manufacturing concept is to easily and quickly reuse manufacturing capacities between different orders or projects. This paper examines the concept of mobile manufacturing system by addressing issues related to manuf...

Graphene/silicon CMOS hybrid integrated circuits (ICs) should provide powerful functions which combines the ultra-high carrier mobility of graphene and the sophisticated functions of silicon CMOS ICs. But it is difficult to integrate these two kinds of heterogeneous devices on a single chip. In this work a low temperature process is developed for integrating graphene devices onto silicon CMOS I...