Abstract The success of engineering product development depends on the effective communication design descriptions in formats that suit needs and capabilities all stakeholders involved delivery to market through-life support products. Configuration management is a core process ensure consistency technical data package, i.e., collection needed development, manufacture operation given product. Bi...

We propose consistency priorities to support multi-device interface design minimizing the user’s cognitive effort while performing the same task on different interfaces. The methodology is being evaluated through a framework that generates Pocket PC interfaces from desktop web pages. Initial results point to the acceptance of the approach.

Special-purpose languages like ADLs [1] are very useful for modeling difficult and elusive concerns. ADLs provide a wide range of powerful and rigorous methods and frequently also support the analysis and simulation of problems or solutions. For generalpurpose modeling, using ADLs may sometimes be an overkill. We therefore believe that general-purpose models like the Unified Modeling Language (...

This thesis presents a framework that aids in preserving consistency in multi-viewpoint designs. In a multi-viewpoint design each stakeholder constructs his own design part. We call each stakeholder’s design part the view of that stakeholder. To construct his view, a stakeholder has a viewpoint. This viewpoint defines the design concepts, the notation and the tool support that the stakeholder u...

In this position paper we discuss some issues related to continuity in cross-platform design, including when it addresses platforms supporting different modalities. We argue that one key aspect is to be able to support continuity in terms of interaction semantics for those tasks that are deemed meaningful in the target platforms. We also discuss a method for interface transformation from deskto...

Multiprocessor systems-on-chip (MPSoC) with distributed shared memory and caches are flexible when it comes to inter-processor communication but require an efficient memory consistency and cache coherency solution. In this paper we present a novel consistency model, streaming consistency, for the streaming domain in which tasks communicate through circular buffers. The model allows more reorder...

During all phases of the design process there is a need to build models. Hierarchical models are very important tools for complex activities such as engineering design. In engineering of high performance products, mathematical modeling and simulation, i.e. experimenting with computer-based models, is an increasingly important technique for solving problems, evaluating solutions and making decis...