In this paper, we discuss and compare two user centred methods applied in concept design: observation and probes. The comparison is based on findings from two case studies. In the...
NASA is, with the rest of industry, turning to product-line engineering to reduce costs and improve quality by effectively managing reuse. Experience in industry has shown that it...
An empirical study is performed on the local-optimum space of graph bipartitioning. We examine some statistical features of the fitness landscape. They include the cost-distance c...
Parallelism in processor architecture and design imposes a verification challenge as the exponential growth in the number of execution combinations becomes unwieldy. In this paper...
Semantic information helps in identifying the context of a document. It will be interesting to find out how effectively this information can be used in recommending related docume...