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Monitoring of cross-organizational processes requires the definition and implementation of monitoring processes that can deliver the right information to the right party in the collaboration. Monitoring processes should account for the temporal and aggregation dependencies among the monitoring information made available by the set of collaborating parties. We solve the problem of designing moni...

In this paper, we describe the ideal traits of a new hire in the IC field and the various university/industry relationships that we use to educate our students. We describe briefly a sequence of courses used to give students practical design experience on campus. 1. Characteristics The general traits that faculty members believe are important for students to have are summarized in Table 1. Pane...

Participatory design (PD) has taken as its ideal that designers and users should engage in an equal language game. When we apply PD in contexts where some of the users involved are weak, ill, or have impairments, this assumed equality can no longer be an ideal. The workshop explores new ideals for participatory design in non-work settings with highly heterogeneous user constellations.

This paper describes our experience with using Mentor Graphics electronic design automation software and Xilinx field programmable gate arrays at the introductory level. The Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Missouri Rolla has been a member of Mentor’s Higher Education Program for almost ten years. We have been successfully introducing students to the tools by using a se...

Some ethical aspects of automation system design are discussed, based on a case study in power plant automation. The discussion uses the “doing-good approach” and relates to three levels of design: business level, company level and engineering level. It is proposed that from the results of the case study that, in order to respect ethics in automation, the evolutionary design approach can strong...

This paper discusses a metrics approach for analyzing software designs which helps designers engineer quality into the design product. These metrics gauge project quality as well as design complexity at all times during the design phase. The metrics are developed from primitive design metrics which are predictive, objective and automatable. The architectural design metrics used are comprised of...

With increasing complexities and a component-based design style the handling of unknown values (e. g., at the interface of components) becomes more and more important in electronic design automation (EDA) and production processes. Tools are required that allow an accurate modeling of unknowns in combination with algorithms balancing exactness of representation and efficiency of calculation. In ...

Problems unique to the visualization of complex, partially automated design tasks such as VLSl system design are reviewed, and approaches are described. The design domain used to illustrate the approaches is chip-level “floorplanning,” an iterative-refinement design methodology for VLSl layout, routing, and timing control. The general view structure and control structure are described. Other vi...