Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleA New Collaborative Pattern between Landscape Architects and Urban Designers in Environmental DesignMostafa Behzadfar, Mohsen Faizi, Sina Razzaghi Asl, Behzad Haji BeiklouProblem statement: Nowadays professions such as architecture, landscape architecture and urban design are playing a unique role in environmental design process. Meanwhile architecture is being separated from two other majors: landscape architecture and urban design by paying so much attention to constructing buildings. Landscape architecture and urban design have parallel subjects and goals and both have the intention to improve … …American Journal of Environmental Sciences, Vol. 6, Issue 4 · 31 Aug 2010 · 7,349 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleAn Investigation of Factors Influencing Design Team Attributes in Green BuildingsMohamed S. Elforgani, Ismail RahmatProblem statement: Buildings contribute significantly global environmental problems. Better design can minimize these impacts. Design Green Building (DGB) aims to reduce buildings' impact on the environment. However, the green design performance depends on design team attributes. In addition, the Governance System (GS) and Client Quality (CQ) as external factors have influence on Design Team Attributes (DTA) of green building. Approach: … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 7, Issue 7 · 31 Jul 2010 · 7,962 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleEco-Efficient Product Design Using Theory of Inventive Problem Solving (TRIZ) PrinciplesIssac Lim Sing Sheng, Teoh Kok-SooProblem statement: In recent years, much attention has been focused on the eco-efficiency of product development. The majority of environmental decisions are only made in the later stages of product development where not much modification can be done. To produce eco-efficient products, environmental decisions ought to be considered in the early stages of product development. With the demand of developing … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 7, Issue 6 · 30 Jun 2010 · 11,983 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleA Novel Methodology for Designing Radix-2n Serial-Serial MultipliersAbdurazzag Sulaiman AlmiladiProblem statement: The fast growth and increase in complexity of digital and image processing systems necessitate the migration from ad hoc design methods to methodological ones. Methodologies will certainly ease the trade off selection for those systems and shortens the design time. To increase those gained values and expand the searching space more appropriate methodologies need to be developed. Approach: … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 6, Issue 4 · 30 Apr 2010 · 6,922 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleElectronic Design Automation Using Object Oriented ElectronicsWalid M. Aly, Mohamed Said AbuelnasrProblem statement: Electronic design automation is the usage of computer technology and software tools for designing integrated electronic system and creating electrical schematics. Approach: An approach is presented for modeling of various electronic and electric devices using object oriented design, aiming on building a library of devices (classes) which can be used for electronic design automation. Results: The presented library … …American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Vol. 3, Issue 1 · 31 Mar 2010 · 7,810 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleAn Optimization of Design for S4-Duty Induction Motor Using Constraints Normalization Based Violation TechniqueR. Subramanian, S. N. Sivanandam, C. VimalaraniProblem statement: Design of Induction motors is an engineering art and needs an extensive experience for obtaining an optimal design solution for a given design problem. An optimized GD2 value for the development of S4 Duty, cage induction motor to meet the specifications of a particular designated application (the location of application is kept as trade secret due to IP … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 6, Issue 2 · 28 Feb 2010 · 7,057 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleThe State of Environmentally Sustainable Interior Design PracticeMihyun Kang, Denise A. GuerinProblem statement: Research that investigates how interior designers use environmentally sustainable interior design criteria in their design solutions has not been done. To provide a base to develop education strategies for sustainable interior design, this study examined the state of environmentally sustainable interior design practice. Approach: A national, Internet-based survey of interior design practitioners was conducted. To collect data, the … …American Journal of Environmental Sciences, Vol. 5, Issue 2 · 30 Apr 2009 · 10,384 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleImprovement on the Design of a Cabinet Grain DryerAdzimah K. Stephen, Seckley EmmanuelProblem statement: Grains are routinely seen dumped in villages and major cities during the peak of harvest. Therefore it is necessary that these grains are properly dried and stored to ensure availability and wholesomeness throughout the year. Advancements have taken place in the practice of drying since the first world war. Manufacturing methods have greatly improved production rate and the … …American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Vol. 2, Issue 1 · 31 Mar 2009 · 8,720 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleTowards A Dynamic Object-Oriented Design Metric Plug-in FrameworkC. H. Loh, S. P. LeeProblem Statement: The evolution of software is made difficult by the need to integrate new features with all previously implemented features in software applications. Approach: present study introduced a general-purpose, platform-independent object-oriented design metric plug-in framework called jmetric intended to help building scalable, extendable object-oriented design metric plug-ins. jmetric seeks to address problem by providing the plug-in developer a structured … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 4, Issue 11 · 30 Nov 2008 · 6,911 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleAn Empirical Validation of Object-Oriented Design Metrics for Fault PredictionJie Xu, Danny Ho, Luiz F. CapretzProblem Statement: Object-oriented design has become a dominant method in software industry and many design metrics of object-oriented programs have been proposed for quality prediction, but there is no well-accepted statement on how significant those metrics are. In this study, empirical analysis is carried out to validate object-oriented design metrics for defects estimation. Approach: The Chidamber and Kemerer metrics suite … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 4, Issue 7 · 31 Jul 2008 · 6,988 accessesView PDFCite