Path length measuring is a relevant engineering problem. Leonardo Da Vinci designed for the military appropriate equipment, the podometer, to do so. Modern equipment such as step meters and map meters are quite similar to Da Vinci‟s design, despite geometrical statistical stereological methods based on theorems of Cauchy and Buffon that were potentially available for a long period of time for d...

Design of blast resistant structures is an important subject in structural engineering, attracting the attention of governments, researchers, and engineers. Thus, given the benefits of optimization in engineering, development and assessment of optimization methods for optimum design of structures against blast is of great importance. In this research, multi-objective optimization of steel momen...

Software reuse is a key aspect for improving quality and productivity. However, this process is more effective when systematically planned and managed in the context of a specific domain, where application families share some functionality. In this scenario, Domain Engineering (DE) has been seen as a facilitator to obtain the desired benefits. Nevertheless, the existing domain engineering proce...

Doctoral students are required to prepare and defend a research proposal. In this paper, we present five steps for doctoral students to identify the questions that are worthy of investigation and thence to develop a research plan and proposal. Our method involves five steps, namely, Step 1: Frame the problem Step 2: Develop a research plan Step 3: Verification and validation Step 4: Proposal te...

The early phase of design intrinsically contains multiple sources of uncertainties in describing the design, and nevertheless the decision-making process at this phase exerts a critical effect upon drawing a successful design. Recently, set-based concurrent engineering (SBCE) has been attracting public attention as an emerging CE paradigm. Representing and communicating set-valued information a...

Software engineering has made significant contributions to “engineering-in-the-large”. The nature of the software process has been researched, and computer based tools and environments have been built to support this process. Other more established engineering disciplines, such as instrument design, have developed professional practices, mature mathematical frameworks for system modelling and a...

Coad said that a pattern is a template of interacting objects, one that may be used again and again by analogy [9]. Since 1997, HCI community has been working in the development of user interface patterns and pattern languages. Nevertheless, HCI community lacks a unified language for expressing patterns like software engineering has in UML yet, this lack of a unified language poses an interesti...