Please do not cite without permission We appreciate the many helpful comments from Design choices regarding the features of a product costing system significantly influence the accuracy of reported costs used in product-and capacity planning decisions. Using simulations, we examine how an amalgam of system design choices influences the error in reported costs. We focus on popular heuristics / r...

Sensitivity Analysis (SA) is a key element in the Performance Assessment (PA) of a Radioactive High Level Waste (HLW) Repository. It helps gaining information about the system, understanding the relation between input parameters and output variables and steering new experimental and theoretical research to increase the degree of knowledge about the system. The Integrated Project (IP) PAMINA is ...

In order to better understand the characteristics of digital space, this paper investigates another artificial environment cinema. By presenting some very common visualization techniques employed in mainstream film making, the paper first tries to compare the visualization techniques in the two media and see if the cinematic ones has any equivalents in computer interfaces. Secondly, it speculat...

This paper deals with evaluating an Interactive Learning Environment during the iterative design process. Various aspects of the system must be assessed and a number of evaluation methods are available. In designing the interactive learning environment AMBRE-add, several techniques were combined to test and refine the system. In particular, we point out the merits of combining measures of the I...

The Smart environment provides a test-bed for implementing and evaluating a large number of different automatic search and retrieval processes. In this chapter, the basic parameters underlying the Smart system design are briefly outlined, and a comparison is made with the characteristics of more conventional retrieval systems. The principal lessons learned from the Smart experiments are describ...

Electric utilities in the US are faced with a unique and often conflicting set of challenges in their current operating environment. They are under increasing pressure to design “smarter” systems and improve operational efficiency, even as the integrity of their physical infrastructure declines, and human resources are more constrained. In order to meet these challenges, today’s distribution de...

Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta E C O N O M I C R E V I E W Third Quarter 2002 I magine a world where your favorite bank is like Starbucks: you can find a branch at every corner, in every city on the globe. Imagine a world where in emerging markets all banks are international because local banks have either disappeared or been bought out. The world just described is not as distant from reality ...

DEFINITION This entry considers how to build secure database system software. In particular, it describes how to build a general-purpose database management system where security is an important design parameter. For the database community the words secure database design may refer to the schema design to produce a database for a specific application with some level of security properties. Ther...

In this paper we present a framework for modelling potential species distribution (PSD) of balsam fir [bF; Abies balsamea (L.) Mill.] as a function of landscape-level descriptions of: (i) growing degree days (GDD: a temperature related index), (ii) landsurface wetness, (iii) incident photosynthetically active radiation (PAR), and (iv) tree habitat suitability. GDD and land-surface wetness are d...

The aim of this paper is to propose an approach based on the concept of annotation for supporting design communication. In this paper, we describe a co-operative design case study where we analyse some annotation practices, mainly focused on design minutes recorded during project reviews. We point out specific requirements concerning annotation needs. Based on these requirements, we propose an ...