Towards a more complete object-orientation in graph-based design languages

Object-Orientation in Graph-Based Design Grammars

The ongoing digital transformation in industry applies to all product life cycle’s stages. The design decisions and dimensioning carried out in the early conceptual design stages determine a huge part of the product’s life cycle costs (LCC). The automation of the conceptual design phase promises therefore huge gains in terms of LCC. Design grammars encode design processes in production systems ...

Towards Real World Object Orientation

Creating physical user interfaces is by no means an easy task. It involves efforts from many areas like HCI, design, engineering and application developers. However, writing programs that use physical devices is often hindered by the gap between them and the programming environment that developers are used to. We suggest to simplify programming and working with devices like small embedded syste...

Towards More Creative Case - Based Design

Case-based reasoning (CBR) has a great deal to ooer in supporting creative design, particularly processes that rely heavily on previous design experience , such as framing the problem and evaluating design alternatives. However, most existing CBR systems are not living up to their potential. They tend to adapt and reuse old solutions in routine ways, producing robust but uninspired results. Lit...

Towards Run-time Debugging of Equation-based Object-oriented Languages

The development of today’s complex products requires advanced integrated environments and modeling languages for modeling and simulation. Equation-based object-oriented declarative (EOO) languages are emerging as the key approach to physical system modeling and simulation. The increased ease of use, the high abstraction and the expressivity of EOO languages are very attractive properties. Howev...

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