This paper discusses numerical modeling and experimental results on stress transfer in wood composites. The numerical model treats adhesive bonds using the concept of an imperfect interface. The displacement discontinuity at an imperfect interface is proportional to the tractions at the interface. A stiff interface will result in little discontinuity and maximum translation of wood component me...

From the perspective of knowledge reusing and sharing, this paper proposes to employ ontology to support user modeling in the realization of interface agents. Ontology, its construction, and how it is used to support user modeling are presented. An example interface agent that employs the technique to support user modeling for information retrieval from Internet is illustrated. We conclude the ...

Current user interface modeling languages usually focus on modeling a single user interface and have a fixed set of user interface components; adding another user interface component requires an extension of the language. In this paper we present CASSIS, a concise language that supports creation of user interface components using models instead of language extensions. It also allows the specifi...

This paper investigates the problem of user interface design and evaluation for autonomous teams of heterogeneous mobile robots. We explore an operator modeling approach to multi-robot user interface evaluation. Specifically the authors generated GOMS models, a type of user model, to investigate potential interface problems and to guide the interface development process. Results indicate that o...

Interface definition languages serve to specify module and interface names, as well as opemtion signatures. However, IDLs lack means to express aspects, such as synchronization constraints, preand post conditions, invariants, quality of service annotations, and real-time annotations. We develop a framework to specify the interface definition language and a given IDL extension in a combined mode...

In this article we propose a methodology for implementing the behaviour of intelligent interface agents using a BDI (Believes, Desires, Intentions) model. This work is based on the architecture presented in (Garijo et al. 98). We aim to show that BDI schemes applied to intelligent interface agents design produce robust and intuitively designed applications. This work has been applied to a fully...

Modeling user interfaces is a well-established discipline in its own right. For example, modeling techniques can describe interaction objects, 5 tasks, 6 and lower-level dialogs in user interfaces. 7 For more than 10 years, researchers have tried to build comprehensive interface development environments that integrate models for describing a user interface's different aspects. Many research pro...

 In this research, a numerical modeling was utilized to calculate the stresses caused during thermal cycling in a functionally graded thermal barrier coating (FG - TBC). The temperature – dependent material response of this protective material was taken into account and the effects of thermal cycle and interface morphology of the ceramic / metallic layer in functionally graded coating system wa...