System Design: Traditional Concepts and New Paradigms

A Review of the Contextual Adaptability of Three Contemporary Urban Paradigms: New Urbanism, Urban Village and Urban Renaissance

An Investigation on the Applicability of Inter-Disciplinary Concepts to Software System Development

This article reports about an effort trying to improve software system design by applying to it concepts taken from other scientific disciplines. The resulting programming theory differs from traditional ones. It is based on firstly, a strict distinction of statics and dynamics, secondly a knowledge schema structuring models and their meta information hierarchically, and thirdly the separation ...

Innovations in Sustainable Earthquake Resisting Rocking Wall-Frames

This paper introduces a novel design concept for the development of efficient, sustainable Rocking-Wall Moment Frames (RWMFs) under seismic conditions. The proposed concepts lead to a novel structural configuration with provisions for Collapse Prevention (CP), Self-Centering (SC), reparability, performance control (PC), damage reduction, and energy based seismic analysis. It introduces the meri...

On Attributes of Objects in Object-Oriented Software Analysis

One of the modern paradigms to develop a system is object oriented analysis and design. In this paradigm, there are several objects and each object plays some specific roles. There is a sequence of activities to develop an analysis model. In the first step, we work in developing an initial use case model. Then in the second step, they identify a number of concepts and build a glossary of partic...

A New Approach to Teaching Programming

We have developed a new undergraduate programming course, which has so far been taught three times. This paper explains the motivations of the course, describes its content and organization, and reports on our experiences to date. The key innovations of the course are: an emphasis on design and the transition from problem to solution; separation of concepts into three programming paradigms; the...