The Digital Body Development System (DBDS) is a $10.6 million 4 year NIST ATP project to shorten the time to launch vehicles by improving the launch problem solving process. The project is based on two concepts: virtual functional build, and an intelligent agent based decision support system. This paper presents a novel architecture for the decision support system that streamlines the launch pr...

In a 1998 speech before the California Science Center in Los Angeles, then US VicePresident Al Gore called for a global undertaking to build a multi-faceted computing system for education and research, which he termed “Digital Earth.” The vision was that of a system providing access to what is known about the planet and its inhabitants’ activities – currently and for any time in history – via r...

This thesis defines a new dynamic pictographic visual language for describing interactive digital performance systems. We review the origins of system model languages, machine performance spaces, reconfigurable performance spaces, and human-computer interfaces for performance. We discuss a number of novel systems for digital performance created by the author. We then introduce the new, symbolic...

. T he most fundamental question to be addressed in this survey is, What is a digital art/paint system? Secondly, thesurvey provides a basis for comparison among the different systems, designed to show where they are similar, where they vary, and prompt you to directly contact those manufacturers whose systems you wish to evaluate seriously . It is clear, now that the dust from last year's NAB ...

The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) System is a managed system for persistent identification of content on digital networks. It can be used to identify physical, digital, or abstract entities. The identifiers (DOI names) resolve to data specified by the registrant, and use an extensible metadata model to associate descriptive and other elements of data with the DOI name. The DOI system is imple...