Classical theories of harmony have been used to explain phenomena like beauty, happiness, health, virtue, pleasure, peace, and even ecological sustainability. With the intent making these more accessible designers, this article reviews conception from about 500 BCE present. It begins with a brief overview in classical Chinese Greek philosophy. Then it examines role renaissance, scientific revol...

A conception is described how to combine learning, training and research phases in a laboratory course for educating today’s VLSI and system designers. A method is explained how to use in the introductory teaching and learning phase interactive internet based modules “living pictures”. Further on, the hands-on training phase follows where commercial design tools and low-cost in-labmade test ori...

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This paper investigates the nature and use of existing tools during a design task as a means of gathering information concerning practitioners’ conception of that activity. Three case studies are reported and a number of conclusions are drawn concerning the nature of design tools and in particular the interdependencies revealed between freehand drawing, physical modelling and CAD. The role of v...

The information system (IS) modelling requires a perfect knowledge of the concerned field and a good study of user’s requirements. This task becomes very difficult because the complexity of the current applications in particular using new technologies (elearning, E-trade, data warehouse...) and the enormous mass of concepts coming from heterogeneous sources. These problems can generate various ...