This paper describes the current status of DYNAMO, a web-based design assistant for students and professional designers in the field of architecture. The tool can be considered a Case-Based Design (CBD) system in so far that it was inspired by the view of cognition underlying CBD. The paper points out how DYNAMO incorporates this view, and at the same time extrapolates it beyond the individual....

At the 9 meeting of the SBSTTA of the CBD a recommendation was made to begin testing of five biodiversity indicators in order to measure progress towards the 2010 target. This paper considers one of these indicators for Pan-Europe. The basic principle of the index is to calculate the average trend in abundance of a set of ecosystem-representative species. The index is considered to be generic, ...

The study reports on the effects of different concentration of palladium impurities on the compositional and optical properties of Palladium Doped Antimony Sulphide (Pd-xSb2S3) thin films grown by the chemical bath deposition method. The films were grown at room temperature and other deposition conditions such as the bath temperature, pH, complexing agents were kept constant. The concentration ...

We identified four new family 19 chitinases in Oi:yza sativa L. cv. Nipponbare: one class I (OsChiald), two clftss II (OsChia2a nd OsChia2b), and Qne class IV (OsChia4a). OsChia2a resembled (about 60% identity) the catalytic domains of class I chitinases, but OsChia2b was almost identical (95% identity) to tbat of the class IV enzyme. OsChialc, OsChialcACBD (a deJetion of OsChialc lacking a chi...

Components, especially commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) components, are mainly for inter-organizational reuse. One of the essential tasks in component-based development (CBD) is to locate and reuse the right components that provide the functionality and interface required by component consumers. However, if a candidate component provides a limited applicability and customizability so that it doe...

The fundamental unit of large scale software construction is the component. A component is the fundamental user interface object in Java. Everything you see on the display in a java application is a component. The ability to let users drag a component from the Interface and drop into your application is almost a requirement of a modern, commercial user interface. The CBD approach brings high co...

This article investigates the effects of reaching the maximum sustainable yield (MSY) in prey–predator systems where the prey population follows logistic law of growth. Two different models are proposed: (i) first model involves linear prey–predator interaction and intraspecific competition among predator populations, and (ii) the second one is a ratio-dependent prey–predator system. In the fir...

Case Base Design (CBD) systems aid designers in addressing their new design problems by allowing them to search intelligently previously stored valid designs, retrieve the ones that satisfy or nearly satisfy their problem specifications, and adapt them to their new requirements. Many existing systems use ad-hoc functions and algorithms to perform these tasks. The design exemplar is introduced a...

The issue of self-selection’s role in shaping travel patterns, by impacting one’s home location choice, is a critical question. Developers, planners and policymakers regularly debate to what extent the built environment and land use patterns can alleviate roadway congestion, greenhouse gas emissions and myriad other urban problems. This study illustrates the use of Heckman’s (1976, 1979) latent...

This case study discusses two related aspects that are becoming increasingly important in today’s software development practice: re-engineering of a monolithic system into a component-based system (the focus of this case) and globally distributed work. Component-based (software) development (CBD) involves (i) the development of software components and (ii) the building of software systems throu...