The synthesis of mixed analog/digital systems is a relatively complex task because of the heterogeneity of these systems. This paper describes how major principles of expert systems for construction tasks can be used to deal with the design space of mixed analog/digital systems at the system level: 1) conception-hierarchies can represent the system level in an elegant way, which views the parti...

Much effort in RTL design has been devoted to developing ”push-button” types of tools. However, given the highly complex nature of RTL design, interactive design space exploration with assistance of tools and algorithms can be more effective. In this report, we propose an interactive RTL design environment, targeting a generic RTL processor architecture including pipelining, multicycling and ch...

Hypermedia extends the hypertext paradigm into multimedia. Recently, many enterprises have attempted to incorporate hypermedia functionality into their diverse range of business applications such as decision support systems, document management, software management, and team collaboration. This paper presents a methodology for designing hypermedia applications based on users’ views. In designin...

For this project the UCSF-Stanford Evidence-based Practice Center (EPC) defined a patient safety practice as “a type of process or structure whose application reduces the probability of adverse events resulting from exposure to the health care system across a range of conditions or procedures.” Examples of practices that meet this definition include computerized physician order entry (Chapter 6...

Scenarios are an intuitive way for software project stakeholders to capture requirements, describe test cases and evaluate software architectures. Typically, however, coming up with a complete scenario specification is difficult. Basic (or nominal) scenarios are easy to write down, but more complex or less common (non-nominal) scenarios are harder to elicit. In particular, there is currently no...

Efforts taken by manufacturing companies to meet the increasing demand for product variety oilen lead to a proliferation of subassemblies. In this paper, we show that careii..d design of product assembly sequence helps create generic subassemblies that reduce subassembly proliferation and the cost of offering product variety. This approach of designing the assembly sequence to maximize the bene...

Software has been reused in applications development ever since programming started. However, the reuse practices have mostly been ad hoc, and the potential benefits of reuse have never been fully realized. Most of the available software development methodologies do not explicitly identify reuse activities. The Application of Reusable Software Components Project of the Software Engineering Inst...

Operational-level scheduling decisions on the factory floor include the release policy and the dispatching rule. Recent work by researchers suggests that factory performance depends heavily on the release policy. Several heuristic factory release rules have been developed that generate release decisions based on the status of the bottleneck machine. The heuristic rules perform very well in redu...