Special Issue: Configuration Design

Guest Editorial Special Issue: Configuration

Configuration can be defined as the composition of a complex product from instances of a set of component types taking into account restrictions on the compatibility of those component types. For supporting product configuration, different AI approaches are well established as central technologies in industrial configuration systems. However, the wide industrial use of configuration technologie...

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Special Issue on Human Work Interaction Design

IFIP 13.6 Human Work Interaction Design (HWID) is a working group, which aims to establish relationships between empirical work-domain studies and Human Computer Interaction (HCI) design. Our concern is to extend the long tradition of HCI to study the connections between interaction design and the work context, in the light of the fact that the world that we work in has become much more digital...

Introduction Special Issue on “ Sustainable Urban Design ”

Urbanization is one of the great challenges of our time and unchecked haphazard urbanization is a serious threat both to the environment and social and economic balance. In order to meet global sustainability targets, rapid urban growth must be channelled into environmentally friendly, sustainable and liveable urban environments. Thus, this special issue focuses on sustainable urban design whic...

Special issue: Uncertainties in geometric design

In computing, it is a basic fact that, owing to the finiteness in representation, errors occur and they accumulate. In geometric computing, the 'logic' for performing set operations is not necessarily the classical binary one. How, then, does one ensure a robust process, if not error-free results? Physically, uncertainty in geometric data manifests itself in metrological studies in the small, a...