Modeling an Innovative Green Design Method for Sustainable Products

An Integrated Approach to Information Modeling for the Sustainable Design of Products

The design of more sustainable products can be best accomplished in a tradeoff-based design process that methodically handles conflicting objectives. Such conflicts are often seen between, environmental impact, cost, and product performance. To support such a process, we propose the development of an environment where sustainability considerations are explicitly introduced early into the design...

Shanzhai Products and Sustainable Design

This paper investigates a possible solution to the need for sustainable design through a study of shanzhai products notable for their low price and quality and sometimes, even by their exaggerated design. Their existence reflects a need in China’s post-communist society to provide its population with the kinds of material goods typically associated with capitalist economies in which the advance...

Numerical Modeling of an Innovative Bipolar Plate Design Based on the Leaf Venation Patterns for PEM Fuel Cells

Flow channel design on bipolar plates has a direct effect on Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) fuel cell performance. It has been found out that the flow field design has a deterministic role on the mass transport and water management, and therefore on the achieved power in PEM Fuel cells. This study concentrates on improvements in the fuel cell performance through optimization of channel dimensio...

An Innovative Method for Robots Modeling and Simulation

An Innovative Prosody Modeling Method for Chinese Speech Recognition

This paper presents an innovative method for prosody modeling in Chinese speech recognition. Our method first evaluated the reliability of the prosodic information by which the recognition system dynamically tunes the balance between the spectral scores and prosodic scores. The basic idea of this method is to use prosodic knowledge based on its reliability. The higher the reliability, the more ...