A possible measure of quality for any model or methodology is the degree of acceptance and usage. This paper discusses the factors that contribute to the industrial acceptability of conceptual models for web application design. We present an empirical study that examined 62 companies or institutions (in America and Europe) involved in large-scale web application development. By investigating th...

We present techniques that enable designers to algorithmically synthesize cyber-physical architectural models with real-time constraints. We do this by providing a meta-architectural specification language that allows designers to specify what properties their architectural models should have, not how to achieve them. This provides designers with a qualitatively new level of abstraction that en...

For some years now, the global academic and industry research communities have been working at developing techniques to rapidly design and develops information appliances such as mobile phones, MP3 players and digital cameras. Despite significant advances in the methods available for the prototyping of tangible interactive prototypes, many if not most industrial design practitioners and many UI...

Targeting sustainability in our industrial society requires integrating specific criteria the design process of products and processes. A paradigm shift is necessary economical, social political systems to ensure natural ecosystems preservation on planet while fulfilling needs. Various research methods have therefore emerged change way services are designed, developed, used discarded considerin...

This paper focuses on the description of a specific formalism for geographic database design and a complementary language for the expression of topological constraints. The proposed formalism enables designers to easily and clearly specify aspects related to geographic information. For that, our proposition uses concepts that are easy to understand for GIS (Geographic Information System) design...

CONTEXT Athletic training students (ATSs) are involved in various situations during the clinical experience that may cause them to express levels of frustration. Understanding levels of frustration in ATSs is important because frustration can affect student learning, and the clinical experience is critical to their development as professionals. OBJECTIVE To explore perceived levels of frustra...

This paper presents the results of an observational study of industrial logic designers at Lamb Technion. The purpose of this study was to determine the current methods of logic design used in industry. These observations can be used to evaluate recent academic proposals of methods for generating controllers for machines, as well as suggesting new methods. By observing the logic designers it wa...

The analyses by the first ranked economists show that the economical growth of the countries that import oil or non-oil developing countries (NODCs) depends on the economical growth of the industrial countries. “Goldstein” & “Khan” by means of a long & complete verification show the dependence of the economical growth and “Callier” also claims this fact that the economical growth of the countri...

Whether or not we are experts in the design language of objects, we have an unconscious understanding of the emotional character of their forms. The EmotiveModeler integrates knowledge about our emotive perception of shapes into a CAD tool that uses descriptive adjectives as an input to aid designers in creating objects that can communicate emotive character. Through inputting words into the Em...

In this paper, a novel design methodology—Agile Behaviour Design—is presented that accommodates the requirements for developing complex game agents suitable for industrial environments. An essential part of the design approach is to support independent work of both designers and programmers by reducing bottleneck situations. The approach fosters the creation of more loose and fluid interactions...