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ACMDIS
2004
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Making tea: iterative design through analogy
The success of translating an analog or manual practice into a digital interactive system may depend on how well that translation captures not only the functional what and how asp...
Monica M. C. Schraefel, Gareth V. Hughes, Hugo R. ...
ACMDIS
2004
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Communication functions and the adaptation of design representations in interdisciplinary teams
Design representations in user-centered design serve intentions for directing design process and communication functions for enlisting interdisciplinary participation. To disentan...
David G. Hendry
SELMAS
2005
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Improving Flexibility and Robustness in Agent Interactions: Extending Prometheus with Hermes
Abstract. A crucial part of multi-agent system design is the design of agent interactions. Traditional approaches to designing agent interaction use interaction protocols, which fo...
Christopher Cheong, Michael Winikoff
GECCO
2005
Springer
156views Optimization» more  GECCO 2005»
14 years 6 months ago
Parameterized versus generative representations in structural design: an empirical comparison
Any computational approach to design, including the use of evolutionary algorithms, requires the transformation of the domain-specific knowledge into a formal design representatio...
Rafal Kicinger, Tomasz Arciszewski, Kenneth A. De ...
GECCO
2005
Springer
116views Optimization» more  GECCO 2005»
14 years 6 months ago
Measuring, enabling and comparing modularity, regularity and hierarchy in evolutionary design
For computer-automated design systems to scale to complex designs they must be able to produce designs that exhibit the characteristics of modularity, regularity and hierarchy –...
Gregory Hornby
FPGA
2005
ACM
195views FPGA» more  FPGA 2005»
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Sparse Matrix-Vector multiplication on FPGAs
Floating-point Sparse Matrix-Vector Multiplication (SpMXV) is a key computational kernel in scientific and engineering applications. The poor data locality of sparse matrices sig...
Ling Zhuo, Viktor K. Prasanna
ECOOP
2005
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
The Role of Design Information in Software Evolution
Software modeling has received a lot a of attention in the last decade and now is an important support for the design process. Actually, the design process is very important to the...
Walter Cazzola, Sonia Pini, Massimo Ancona
WOSP
2005
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Performance by unified model analysis (PUMA)
Evaluation of non-functional properties of a design (such as performance, dependability, security, etc.) can be enabled by design annotations specific to the property to be evalua...
C. Murray Woodside, Dorina C. Petriu, Dorin Bogdan...
SIGCSE
2005
ACM
179views Education» more  SIGCSE 2005»
14 years 6 months ago
Design patterns for database pedagogy: a proposal
Courses in Relational Databases largely use a domain-specific design approach different from that used in the rest of the curriculum. Use of the Unified Process, UML, and Design P...
Thomas J. Marlowe, Cyril S. Ku, James W. Benham
ISLPED
2005
ACM
90views Hardware» more  ISLPED 2005»
14 years 6 months ago
Power and thermal effects of SRAM vs. Latch-Mux design styles and clock gating choices
This paper studies the impact on energy efficiency and thermal behavior of design style and clock-gating style in queue and array structures. These structures are major sources of...
Yingmin Li, Mark Hempstead, Patrick Mauro, David B...