Increasing manufacturing competition has necessitated simultaneous design of multiple products. Various design strategies such as Design for Variety (DfV) and product family design have become critical in this respect. This paper provides a new generic approach, which combines aspects of function architecting, multi-objective optimization, and multi agent systems to tackle product platform prob...

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DLP is a basic java-based IDE specifically conceived for DeLP, that allows to compile DeLP programs and queries into JAM opcodes, execute those opcodes, and even witness the actual step by step construction of the dialectical tree that is built in order to determine the correct answer to those queries. Over time, DeLP semantics matured into a solid alternative for representing the knowledge of ...

Description Software design patterns are solutions to problems that arise regularly during software design. They are meant to serve as readily applicable, time-saving strategies for software development. The structured documentation that accompanies a properly defined pattern allows developers to quickly identify and apply patterns to a given problem. Security patterns are software design patte...

let $r$ be a right artinian ring or a perfect commutative‎‎ring‎. ‎let $m$ be a noncosingular self-generator $sum$-lifting‎‎module‎. ‎then $m$ has a direct decomposition $m=oplus_{iin i} m_i$‎,‎where each $m_i$ is noetherian quasi-projective and each‎‎endomorphism ring $end(m_i)$ is local‎.

quantum-dot cellular automata (qca) is an emerging and promising technology that provides significant improvements over cmos. recently qca has been advocated as an applicant for implementing reversible circuits. however qca, like other nanotechnologies, suffers from a high fault rate. the main purpose of this paper is to develop a fault tolerant model of qca circuits by redundancy in hardware a...

The paper presents the development of a new design system that allows the composition of a design from manufacturable features. The system contains several modules: hierarchical design-for-manufacture rule system, manufacturing feature library, manufacturing feature-based design module, designer advisory module, manufacturing feature recognition module, and design analysis module.