Consumers’ emotional requirements, or so-called Kansei needs, have become one of the most important concerns in designing a product. Conventionally, Kansei engineering has been widely used to co-relate these requirements with product parameters. However, a typical Kansei engineering approach relies heavily on the intuition of the person who uses the method in clustering the Kansei adjectives, w...

A wide variety of analysis and design problems arising in control, communication and information theory, statistics, computational geometry and many other elds can be expressed as semide nite programming problems (SDPs) or determinant maximization problems (maxdet-problems). In engineering applications these problems usually have matrix structure, i.e., the optimization variables are matrices. ...

The zincand calcium-dependent family of proteins called the MMPs (matrix metalloproteases) are collectively responsible for the degradation of the extracellular matrix. The enzymes are synthesized as zymogens, and under physiological conditions are selectively regulated by endogenous inhibitors. An imbalance between the active enzymes and their natural inhibitors leads to the accelerated destru...

A design decomposition-integration model, named COPE, is proposed in which Axiomatic Design Matrices (DM) map Functional Requirements to Design Parameters while Design Structure Matrices (DSM) provide structured representation of the system development context. In COPE, the DM and the DSM co-evolve. Traversing between the two types of matrices allows for some control in the application of the s...

The nature of electro-optical equipment in various industries and the pursuit of the goal of reducing costs demand high reliability on the part of electro-optical systems. In this respect, reliability improvement could be addressed through a reliability allocation problem. Subsystem reliability must be increased such that the requirements as well as defined requisite functions are ensured in ac...

this paper deals with optimal operation of a three-product dividing-wall column (dwc). the main idea is to design a control structure, through a systematic procedure for plantwide control, with an objective to achieve desired product purities with the minimum use of energy. exact local method is used to find the best controlled variables as single measurement or combination of measurements base...