The aim of this paper is to approach the design of distributed layouts for lower work-in-process (WIP) levels. Traditionally, the design of manufacturing layouts has considered as objective the minimization of the material handling cost. Alternatively, distributed layouts are claimed to have good performance under volatile environments, though it has been little investigated how these layouts b...

This paper presents a computer-aided design tool, IPRAIL, which automatically retargets existing analog layouts for technology migration and new specifications. The reuse-based methodology adopted in IPRAIL utilizes expert designer knowledge embedded in analog layouts. IPRAIL automatically extracts analog circuit and layout intellectual properties as templates, incorporates new technology desig...

Digital signage design should be clean and simple, yet attractive. Display only the most important messages. As a rule of thumb, each layout should have a limitation of ten to fifteen words that a viewer will have to read. The viewer should be able to comprehend single-image layouts within five seconds and a series of layouts within eight to ten seconds. Using multiple layouts allows word count...

6 Space layouts are created by designers to model a building’s spaces and related physical objects. Building services designers commonly reuse space layouts created by architectural designers to develop their designs. However, reuse tends to be limited due to differences in designers’ space views. In order to address this issue of modeling multiple space views, we define a set of novel operatio...

Abstract. We initiate a new problem of automatic metro map layout. In general, a metro map consists of a set of lines which have intersections or overlaps. We define a set of aesthetic criteria for good metro map layouts and present a method to produce such layouts automatically. Our method uses a variation of the spring algorithm with a suitable preprocessing step. The experimental results wit...