The majority of products will undergo numerous changes over the course of their product lifecycles, many of which will occur while the products are already in production. Research has shown that these engineering changes can propagate throughout the product of system and affect the functionality of the other components. Previous research in this lab has developed a 7-step method to generate a v...

Treebank is a very important language resource. Because much syntactic information should be tagged, we have to pay much annotation cost to create large-scale and high quality treebanks. This paper proposes a treebank development tool to speed up the construction and reduce the potential inconsistency.

During the pre-construction phase of a project, a design review process is used by the design team as a means to identify errors and inconsistencies in designs and make necessary changes. Due to the various involvements from many parties in a design team, a project’s design is susceptible to such errors and inconsistencies. As a result, redesigns are common. Whether 2D drawings, 3D models or ph...

An emerging software development paradigm – the toolbelt model – offers new challenges and opportunities to the participatory design movement. A case study illustrates how professionals working in product design and development domains assemble and evolve collections, or “toolbelts,” of off-the-shelf software tools to support their ongoing work practices. An analysis shows that while the toolbe...

We are developing a methodology of Test Driven Develop ment of Models TDDM based on an experimental UML modeling tool SMART Our experience shows that TDDM is quite useful for agile model developments SMART provides guidance how to build models based on compiler errors of testcases something similar to what Quick Fix of Eclipse does It also provides such guidance even from failures of testcases ...

This chapter addresses the design of community-based Web applications using the modeldriven approach and design patterns. A set of best practices, identified by reviewing a number of top-rank Web 2.0 Web applications is illustrated and turned into a set of design patterns, expressed with a Model-Driven approach. A suitable development process, with specific focus on community-based application ...

If you compare the state of software development tools today with those that were used in, say, the sixties, you do of course see many signs of improvement. Compilers are faster and better, we have powerful new integrated program development environments, and there are quite a few effective static source code analysis and logic model checking tools around today that help us catch bugs. All this...

The proponents of agile methodologies suggest that many of the inhibitors to system development methodology adoption have largely been addressed in the underlying principles of agile methods. This paper reports the experience of a small team developing Web publishing software tools for use in building Web sites for online delivery of tertiary education study materials. These early adopters succ...

Information technology has played an increasingly important role in engineering product development. Its influence over the past decade has been accelerating and its impact in the coming decade will undoubtedly be immense. This paper surveys several research areas relating to knowledge representation, capture and retrieval, which will have a growing influence on product development. Each of the...

United States industry spends billions of dollars as a result of poor interoperability between computer-aided engineering software tools. While ongoing standards development efforts are attempting to address this problem in today's tools, the more signi®cant demand in nextgeneration tools will be for representations that allow information used or generated during various product development act...