These lecture notes, prepared for the 1997 VKI Lecture Course on Inverse Design, identify some of the complexities inherent in the design of aeroengines and aircraft. It is argued that to handle the geometric complexities requires a computational representation which is hierarchical and based on parametric solids at the lowest level. On top of this can be built a tightly coupled two-level desig...

The paper presents the generic conceptual framework for modeling rational negotiation processes. The central piece of the presented work is the upper-level negotiation ontology. This ontology is designed to be capable to model the arbitrary types of negotiation dialogues by providing the upper-level namespace for that. The models of the specific negotiation types refine this namespace by provid...

When (re)designing a work environment, tasks or functions are allocated more or less explicitly among humans and between humans and machines. After a brief review and discussion of issues related to task allocation, we argue that an important aspect to be addressed when (re)designing socio-technical systems is the systematic evaluation of the impact of allocation decisions on the overall reliab...

Advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) are available on the market whilst the development of existing systems and new systems continues. Improving safety is one of the key purposes of these systems. ADAS would therefore be welcome to support overtaking manoeuvres, since these cause many fatal accidents each year. Before an ADAS could be developed that can assist drivers with overtaking a tho...

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The effective design of business processes is a subject of considerable importance to corporations today. Our research develops a theoretical framework for process design that is aimed at providing practical guidelines for process managers. The abundance of context-specific case studies which exist today share many success stories but provide little in terms of a general methodological approach...

This paper presents a novel proposal to define task parallelism in OpenMP. Task parallelism has been lacking in the OpenMP language for a number of years already. As we show, this makes certain kinds of applications difficult to parallelize, inefficient or both. A subcommittee of the OpenMP language committee, with representatives from a number of organizations, prepared this proposal to give O...

We herein propose the usability method as a means of extracting the advantages and disadvantages of an interface design. The proposed method is characterized by the combination of the rough set theory, which is a type of quantitative method, and the conventional qualitative method. In addition, we considered and verified the usefulness of the proposed method through a case study involving a dig...

It is generally accepted that energy consumption is a significant design constraint for mobile handheld systems, therefore motivations for methods optimizing the energy consumption making better use of the restricted battery resources are evident. A novel concept of distributed task computing is previously proposed (DVS), where the overall idea of selective distribution of tasks among terminals...