Agent-oriented methodologies are an important means for constructing agent-based systems in a controlled repeatable form. However, agent-oriented methodologies have not received much acceptance in industrial environments, which can be partially explained by drawbacks in current agent-oriented methodologies, mainly in terms of applicability and comprehensiveness. Specifically, Gaia, one of the m...

background: human error is the most important cause of occupational and non-occupational accidents. because, it seems necessary to identify, predict and analyze human errors, and also offer appropriate control strategies to reduce errors which cause adverse consequences, the present study was carried out with the aim of identifying human errors while operating meat grinder and offer suggestions...

The Enterprise Simulation Server is proposed as an ideal platform which leverages the power of the Internet for the development, execution and distribution of simulation models throughout the enterprise. The development of Javabased simulation languages is a necessary step toward the realization of this vision. The design of the new Java-based Silk simulation is described and promoted as the me...

Traditional programming language design approaches center around theoretical and performance-oriented evaluation. Recently, researchers have been considering more approaches to language design, including the use of quantitative and qualitative user studies to evaluate how different designs affect users. In this paper, we argue for an interdisciplinary approach that incorporates many different m...

The design process supported by present CAD tools tends to be component oriented rather than dealing with a product as a whole. Furthermore, design evaluation tools often need complete product descriptions to give meaningful results. Presented here is a brief exposition of the architecture and capabilities of an Assembly-oriented Design environment that is currently being developed. It will all...

The use of object technology is proliferating in the development of software, and in order to build robust and maintainable complex systems, mastering object-oriented (O-O) analysis and design is essential. Although the object-orientation area is converging towards standard modeling notations, namely UML, and standard middleware platforms, such as OMG’s CORBA, a large variety of O-O development...

An object-oriented framework for modeling and supervisory control of discrete event systems is described. Control and observation masks are encapsulated with process logic to form process objects, and a single type of interconnection operator called masked composition is used to build complex process objects out of simpler component process objects. The approach applies to both deterministic an...

The aim of object-oriented analysis methods is to reveal the essential information from the users’ domain of work. This focus is particularly interesting in the design of interactive user interfaces for mobile devices because the severely limited screen space leaves no room for anything else but the most essential information. This paper describes the process of designing the user interface of ...

In this paper we introduce a content-oriented scheme for protocol studies of designers and demonstrate its benefit for CAAD research. The structure of the coding scheme is described. We discuss how this method can benefit CAAD research and its differences from the process-oriented method used previously. With this method we analyze data to describe the design process as the combination of senso...

An object-oriented framework for modeling and supervisory control of discrete event systems is described. Control and observation masks are encapsulated with process logic to form process objects, and a single type of interconnection operator called masked composition is used to build complex process objects out of simpler component process objects. The approach applies to both deterministic an...