Abstract Cities, and with them the criticalities opportunities that characterize urban contexts, are one of main challenges in transition toward environmental social sustainability today. Within contemporary debate dominated by reflections on effects climate change, culture design is increasingly oriented to measure itself against concept resilience: limitation land consumption, together techno...

INTRODUCTION In the recent history of information protection, there has been an ongoing parade of technologies that loudly promise new and total solutions but frequently do not make it past the reviewing stand. In some cases, they break down completely at the start of the march. In others, they end up turning down a side street. Is Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) just another gaudy float behind...

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In addition to the functional IP cores, today’s SOC necessitates embedding a special family of IP blocks, called Infrastructure IP blocks. These are meant to ensure the manufacturability of the SOC and to achieve adequate levels of yield and reliability. The Infrastructure IP leverages the manufacturing knowledge and feeds back the information into the design phase. This keynote address analyze...

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How may design address the conditions of change and creativity in today's workplace environment? Increasingly there is the recognition that in order to develop effective workplaces, the design not only needs to respond to functional requirements but also increase the role of the individual users and suppliers in the ongoing evolution of the office space. Expanding the level of participation in ...

What does the addition of Web browser technology bring to a PDM system? It expands access to the system, allowing people to connect regardless of their computer, operating system, or location. "Our implementations of PDM span multiple sites, multiple applications, multiple uses, all the way from the salesperson through manufacturing," says Scott Vanselous, PDM product manager at EDS/Unigraphics...

The design of large IT infrastructures is a complex problem because is dependent on many variables and must evolve rapidly to cope with business changes. The use of IT infrastructure patterns can improve this design process by allowing to reuse proven solutions to recurrent problems and by facilitating communication among IT design stakeholders. However, known IT infrastructure patterns are mos...

In this paper, we discuss taking a ‘seamful’ design approach to ubicomp systems. Some features that we designers usually categorise as infrastructure problems may, to users, be useful interactional features. Examples include the edges and gaps in 802.11 coverage, and the patterns of where one can and cannot get GPS positioning. Sometimes we cannot smooth over or hide these ‘seams’. Seamfulness ...