computer-assisted Career Guidance systems (CACGs) have become extremely important;they support users, particularly, high school students to develop self-understanding, vocational understanding, and beyond. Notwithstan...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781665488174
computer-assisted Career Guidance systems (CACGs) have become extremely important;they support users, particularly, high school students to develop self-understanding, vocational understanding, and beyond. Notwithstanding all the progress and interest ported to the development of innovative and efficient career and vocational guidance, in the human-computer interaction domain, several questions remain unanswered. One of these questions regards the direct and indirect effects such systems can have on the user's decision-making process during his vocational and/or career projects. So far, the evaluation of user impact evaluation is limited, making it an area that needs further investigation. In this context, this work presents a survey instrument to evaluate the impact of CACGs on high school students based on the system utility attributes, hedonic attributes, and social/engagement attributes. This study contributes to the general body of knowledge on computer-assisted Career Guidance systems by providing a comprehensive theoretical foundation and practical implications that illuminate the sustained use of CACGs.
computer aided engineering analysis is widely applied in industry with the rapid development of computer power and simulation technology. In particular, the design and analysis of complexsystems entails multidiscipli...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781467360852;9781467360845
computer aided engineering analysis is widely applied in industry with the rapid development of computer power and simulation technology. In particular, the design and analysis of complexsystems entails multidisciplinary collaborative modeling and thus requires enormous knowledge and experience. However, current work on managing design knowledge is mainly focused on capturing knowledge about the design solutions and processes while little work has been done on investigating the knowledge about the models and processes for engineering analysis. This research is aimed at addressing this gap by developing the methodology for effective modeling and re-using the knowledge generated in the engineering analysis process. Specifically, a system framework is proposed to identify the methodology for managing engineering analysis together with the key issues involved. A knowledge model is developed to describe complexengineering analysis problems as well as their solving processes. A case study has been undertaken and preliminary results show that the proposed solutions can effectively describe the models and processes for engineering analysis whilst this preliminary research opens up further opportunities for doing further work.
This paper gives an initial theoretical exposition of Pragmatic Idealism;the philosophy that forms the base for analysis, design and transformation of complex situations, including System of systems. The philosophy is...
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ISBN:
(纸本)0780392981
This paper gives an initial theoretical exposition of Pragmatic Idealism;the philosophy that forms the base for analysis, design and transformation of complex situations, including System of systems. The philosophy is presented in the form of a trinity composed of the epistemology, ontology and methodology. The philosophy is a derivative of idealism, pragmatism, and fallibilism. Unifying many of the concepts is an epistemological model of complexity. The methodology is presented as a set of principles, structure and requirements that must be met in the development of methods. Some of the propositions upon which the methodology is built are highlighted. As part Of the conclusions, it is argued that for the creation of robust methodologies, methods, approaches, etc. to deal with complex situations one must accommodate for the lack of understanding that is inherent in complex situations.
As the hands-on engineering education got severely affected by the lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the present study discusses how to adopt the Project-Based Learning (PBL) approach to teach complexengineering...
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ISBN:
(数字)9781665495196
ISBN:
(纸本)9781665495196
As the hands-on engineering education got severely affected by the lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the present study discusses how to adopt the Project-Based Learning (PBL) approach to teach complexengineering concepts in this tough time. In this paper, we have discussed the design of a gamified problem statement (using a robotic simulation environment called CoppeliaSim) which was used to teach complexengineering concepts like image processing, control systems, path planning, etc to undergraduate students by a pioneering initiative in engineering education. The study was implemented on 469 teams (1876 students) and explores how the use of a simulation environment impacts the overall performance of teams in completing the assigned problem statement. In addition to this, we have demonstrated the use of a leaderboard to increase learner engagement and motivation in completing the problem statement. Our work is useful to anyone seeking to use PBL to teach and/or learn complexengineering concepts.
The ieeeinternational Solid-State Circuits conference (ISSCC) is the flagship conference of the ieee Solid-State Circuits Society and the foremost global forum for presenting advances in solid-state circuits and syst...
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The ieeeinternational Solid-State Circuits conference (ISSCC) is the flagship conference of the ieee Solid-State Circuits Society and the foremost global forum for presenting advances in solid-state circuits and systems-on-a-chip. Starting from 2010, the ieee Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and systems has highlighted selected papers from ISSCC on topics related to biological and healthcare applications. This special section features five selected papers from ISSCC 2023, held in San Francisco, California, USA from February 19 to February 23, 2023.
An issue in the development of large and complexsystems is that the design process is essentially open-ended. The systemsengineering phase finds an acceptable theoretical design and passes it on for manufacturing. L...
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An issue in the development of large and complexsystems is that the design process is essentially open-ended. The systemsengineering phase finds an acceptable theoretical design and passes it on for manufacturing. Little attention is paid to 'real-world' detrimental effects of manufacturing and operational variabilities upon the 'designed' system performance levels. Alternatively to try to account for such effects, a 'worst-case' system design is often attempted with predictable impact to system costs. As a result of the above issues, the importance of running statistically based system and subsystem level simulations has become particularly critical in this period of increasingly complex commercial systems, defense conversions and dual-use technologies. Monte Carlo techniques could be considered, but will often lead to excessively time-consuming and inefficient design tools. In this paper, we present a means of coupling more efficient statistical techniques (based on a Design of Experiments methodology) to conventional systems simulators. The resulting software tool, called STADIUM, is currently in use within industry to characterize system performances in terms of circuit, subsystem and system level variabilities.
This paper presents an exact mechanical analog for an electric power system that proves to be a powerful visualization tool for studying power systems issues such as load flow, transient stability, and the effects of ...
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This paper presents an exact mechanical analog for an electric power system that proves to be a powerful visualization tool for studying power systems issues such as load flow, transient stability, and the effects of FACTS devices. Techniques based on color and highlighting that make the method applicable to the visualization of large systems are introduced. The analog provides a means for demonstrating complex issues to audiences with little or no background in power systems. For the power engineer, the analog provides unique insights into the hows and whys of power system behavior. To the control center operator, an accurate model of the dynamic modes may bring about improved understanding of system behavior after contingencies and illustrate the relative merits of various dispatch options.
The article proposes is to solve the problem of measuring and controlling the state of water resources, in particular circulating water in water supply and sewerage systems. Existing hardware and software do not provi...
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A fundamental problem in software engineering is how to resolve the maintainability/efficiency dichotomy in designing complexsystems. The author discusses an approach to resolve this issue by identifying domain-speci...
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ISBN:
(纸本)0818606436
A fundamental problem in software engineering is how to resolve the maintainability/efficiency dichotomy in designing complexsystems. The author discusses an approach to resolve this issue by identifying domain-specific computation models for a restricted application domain: real-time systems. The objective is to build a software engineering environment, SARTOR (Software Automation for Real-Time OpeRations), to support the analysis and synthesis of efficient and reliable real-time software.
A critical issue for complex component-based systems design is the modeling and analysis of architecture. Architectural specifications of software systems show them as a collection of interrelated components, and cons...
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ISBN:
(纸本)0769521258
A critical issue for complex component-based systems design is the modeling and analysis of architecture. Architectural specifications of software systems show them as a collection of interrelated components, and constitute what has been called the software architecture level of software design. It is at this level where the description and verification of structural properties of the system are naturally addressed. The scheduling algorithms play important roles in the software architecture modeling. These algorithms can be used to model the performance aspects of the software architecture. We have developed a tool - the Web-Based Software Architecture Prototyping System (SAPS) - in a distributed environment to meet the requirements Of integrating software components into heterogeneous networks. This paper discusses the scheduling algorithms used in the software architecture modeling.
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