This paper presents a new approach to routing schematic diagrams. Heuristic global and local algorithms are presented which focus on congestion and crossover issues in the development of aesthetically-pleasing diagrams. Congestion is the basis for the global, and crossover for the local router. This algorithm can work on a completed schematic, but also can be applied to schematics that are incr...

Prepositions in natural languages often appear to be governed by arbitrary conventionalized idiomatic uses (e.g., I was born in May, I will see you on Sunday). We present empirical evidence that such prepositional uses are not entirely arbitrary, as they activate image-schematic perceptual simulations during language processing. In Experiment 1, native speakers of English were prompted to think...

SIMULATION OF DUST CAKE BUILD-UP ON THE FILTER MEDIUM This section describes a physical model for cake and pressure build-up on candle filters. The model was aimed at investigating filtration operation and reverse pulse cleaning of the filter. It is useful to calculate the filter cake thickness and pressure drop along the filter candle. Figure 1 shows the schematic diagram of filter cake build-...

Several data presentation problems involve drawing graphs so that they are easy to read and understand. Examples include circuit schematics and software engineering diagrams. In this paper we present a bibliographic survey on algorithms whose goal is to produce aesthetically pleasing drawings of graphs. Research on this topic is spread over the broad spectrum of Computer Science. This bibliogra...

Introduction We rarely stop to think about the objects that surround us. The schedules and charts, schematic layouts, bills of materials, photographs, plans and sections that form part of everyday life on projects. The whiteboard diagrams, documents, internet pages, corporate logos, business cards and address lists associated with life within the corporate office. Or the instrumentation, electr...

This article documents the use of Grasshopper and Galapagos (Rhino plugins) as analytical tools to graphically represent and optimize the adjacency requirements in programmatic spaces. The resulting three-dimensional spatial diagrams are evaluated based on evolutionary fitness, which within this research context is defined as minimizing the numerical value of the total distance of all interconn...

One of the major outcomes of neuroscientific research are models of Neural Network Structures (NNSs). Descriptions of these models usually consist of a non-standardized mixture of text, figures, and other means of visual information communication in print media. However, as neuroscience is an interdisciplinary domain by nature, a standardized way of consistently representing models of NNSs is r...

Power grids, populations, large companies, banking systems, and other collections of numerous and highly interconnected elem-ents are subject to what George Papanicolaou of Stanford University calls “systemic risk.” As he explained in an invited talk at the 2012 SIAM Annual Meeting, each such system is susceptible to a type of “contagion” that, though triggered by seemingly unimportant events, ...

We have previously reported a standardized stepwise transesophageal echocardiography transverse plane (monoplane) patient examination sequence suitable for intraoperative use. Biplane transesophageal echocardiography furnishes images of the heart and great vessels in both transverse and vertical planes. This report describes a seven-step vertical plane examination, the completion component of a...

In this paper, a method for automatically creating circuit schematic diagrams from the topological information contained in network data files has been proposed. This method is based on Self-Organizing Map (SOM) neural network and the basic idea behind the method is to let the network span itself according to a given “shape” of the network grid. The topology of a network is defined by the conne...