Proposal of Function-Behavior-State Modeling to Support Functional Design.

Automated modeling to support design

The need to consider, a number of different alternatives at an early stage in design has been well established. It is hypothesized that providing a tool for automatically modeling and analyzing behavior of an artifact would aid the conceptual designer by facilitating the consideration of more varied alternatives. We describe a tool for automatic formulation of dynamic system models from user sp...

Functional design of mechanical products based on behavior- driven function-environment-structure modeling framework

The relative significance of upstream design activity to downstream design activity is widely recognized, due to its critical role in determining the final product’s functionality. Although there are now some general methodologies dealing with functions or reasoning about functions, virtually no commercial CAD system can support functional design. In functional modeling, a design problem is rep...

Affordances and Product Design to Support Environmentally Conscious Behavior

We developed an affordance-based methodology to support environmentally conscious behavior (ECB) that conserves resources such as materials, energy, etc. While studying concepts that aim to support ECB, we noted that characteristics of products that enable ECB tend to be more accurately described as affordances than functions. Therefore, we became interested in affordances, and specifically how...

Research Proposal for Modeling Student Behavior with Multiple Software Agents

Modeling and Analyzing Non-Functional Properties to Support Software Integration

Software integration is one of the major needs as well as cost driving factors in the software industry today. Still, very few established methodologies exist, especially those addressing integration with respect to non-functional properties. Industry studies show that disregarded and hidden non-functional incompatibilities between systems and their interfaces are the constant source of errors ...