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A Practical Introduction to Computer Architecture
Daniel Page
Springer | 1848822553 | 2009 | PDF | 642 pages | 10 Mb
DESCRIPTION
Provides a practically driven approach to teaching computer architecture, while still offering breadth and continuity to the reader
Inclusion of mathematical preliminaries, enforces the linkage between the theory and practice
Uses Verilog as a means to bridge the gap between a high-level, systems architecture approach and a low-level, digital logic approach, offering a level of integration between the topics
Computer architecture, which underpins computer science, is a topic in which "getting things done" is paramount: The ability to understand trade-offs before selecting between and implementing well-considered design options is often as important as the study of those options at a more theoretical level.
This easy-to-follow A Practical Introduction to Computer Architecture blends traditional teaching approaches with the use of mathematics, together with the use of a hardware description language (Verilog) and a concrete processor (MIPS32) as vehicles for "hands-on" modelling and experimenting with digital logic and processor design. This unique approach encourages readers to derive their own conclusions via experimentation, enabling them to discover for themselves the fundamental and exciting topics of computer architecture.
The book is divided into three parts, covering each of the three levels of abstraction: the digital logic layer, the instruction set and micro-architecture layer, and the hardware/software interface. The first part deals with the basic tools and techniques which underpin the rest of the book, whereas the second part deals with the broad topic of processor design and implementation. The final part bridges the gap between hardware and software by examining the programming tools and operating-system concepts that support the development and execution of programs.
Topics and features:
• Includes a wide-ranging introductory chapter, familiarising the reader with both the subject and the book’s contents
• Outlines basic methods for evaluating processors, with a focus on performance
• Investigates advanced topics in processor design, such as superscalar and vector processors
• Presents a detailed description of a development tool-chain
• Provides a stand-alone tutorial on using SPIM, a MIPS32 simulator
• Focuses on aspects of compilers which are closely tied to the processor, covering register allocation, instruction selection and scheduling
• Explores real implementations of concepts such as scheduling and interrupt handling
• Examines the concept of efficient programming
• Concludes every chapter with a set of example problems, and contains an appendix that discusses solutions
• Supplies additional supportive material, such as example source code and electronic lecture slides, at http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/home/page/teaching/pica.html
This practical, reader-friendly textbook has been written with undergraduates in mind, and is suitable for self-study. The book can also be used by postgraduate students as a supportive reference for use in combination with more specialised textbooks.
Dr. Dan Page is a lecturer at the University of Bristol, affiliated with both the Languages and Architecture Group and the Cryptography and Information Security Group. He was one of the founders of Identum (now part of Trend Micro), which is involved in delivering cryptographic expertise and products to industrial customers.
Written for:
Undergraduates
LIST OF CONTENT
Part I Tools and Techniques
1 Mathematical Preliminaries
2 Basics of Digital Logic
3.1 Introduction
Part II Processor Design
4 A Historical and Functional Perspective
5 Basic Processor Design
6 Measuring Performance
7 Arithmetic and Logic
8 Memory and Storage
9 Advanced Processor Design
Part III The Hardware/Software Interface
10 Linkers and Assemblers
11.1 Introduction
12 Operating Systems
13.1 Introduction
Part IV Appendices
SPIM: A MIPS32 Simulator
A.1 Introduction
A.2 Configuring SPIM
A.3 Controlling SPIM
A.4 Example Program Execution
A.5 Using System Calls
EDITORIAL REVIEW
Springer | 1848822553 | 2009 | PDF | 642 pages | 10 Mb
DESCRIPTION
Provides a practically driven approach to teaching computer architecture, while still offering breadth and continuity to the reader
Inclusion of mathematical preliminaries, enforces the linkage between the theory and practice
Uses Verilog as a means to bridge the gap between a high-level, systems architecture approach and a low-level, digital logic approach, offering a level of integration between the topics
Computer architecture, which underpins computer science, is a topic in which "getting things done" is paramount: The ability to understand trade-offs before selecting between and implementing well-considered design options is often as important as the study of those options at a more theoretical level.
This easy-to-follow A Practical Introduction to Computer Architecture blends traditional teaching approaches with the use of mathematics, together with the use of a hardware description language (Verilog) and a concrete processor (MIPS32) as vehicles for "hands-on" modelling and experimenting with digital logic and processor design. This unique approach encourages readers to derive their own conclusions via experimentation, enabling them to discover for themselves the fundamental and exciting topics of computer architecture.
The book is divided into three parts, covering each of the three levels of abstraction: the digital logic layer, the instruction set and micro-architecture layer, and the hardware/software interface. The first part deals with the basic tools and techniques which underpin the rest of the book, whereas the second part deals with the broad topic of processor design and implementation. The final part bridges the gap between hardware and software by examining the programming tools and operating-system concepts that support the development and execution of programs.
Topics and features:
• Includes a wide-ranging introductory chapter, familiarising the reader with both the subject and the book’s contents
• Outlines basic methods for evaluating processors, with a focus on performance
• Investigates advanced topics in processor design, such as superscalar and vector processors
• Presents a detailed description of a development tool-chain
• Provides a stand-alone tutorial on using SPIM, a MIPS32 simulator
• Focuses on aspects of compilers which are closely tied to the processor, covering register allocation, instruction selection and scheduling
• Explores real implementations of concepts such as scheduling and interrupt handling
• Examines the concept of efficient programming
• Concludes every chapter with a set of example problems, and contains an appendix that discusses solutions
• Supplies additional supportive material, such as example source code and electronic lecture slides, at http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/home/page/teaching/pica.html
This practical, reader-friendly textbook has been written with undergraduates in mind, and is suitable for self-study. The book can also be used by postgraduate students as a supportive reference for use in combination with more specialised textbooks.
Dr. Dan Page is a lecturer at the University of Bristol, affiliated with both the Languages and Architecture Group and the Cryptography and Information Security Group. He was one of the founders of Identum (now part of Trend Micro), which is involved in delivering cryptographic expertise and products to industrial customers.
Written for:
Undergraduates
LIST OF CONTENT
Part I Tools and Techniques
1 Mathematical Preliminaries
2 Basics of Digital Logic
3.1 Introduction
Part II Processor Design
4 A Historical and Functional Perspective
5 Basic Processor Design
6 Measuring Performance
7 Arithmetic and Logic
8 Memory and Storage
9 Advanced Processor Design
Part III The Hardware/Software Interface
10 Linkers and Assemblers
11.1 Introduction
12 Operating Systems
13.1 Introduction
Part IV Appendices
SPIM: A MIPS32 Simulator
A.1 Introduction
A.2 Configuring SPIM
A.3 Controlling SPIM
A.4 Example Program Execution
A.5 Using System Calls
EDITORIAL REVIEW
Philosophy and Design: From Engineering to Architecture
P.E. Vermaas, P.A. Kroes, A. Light, S. Moore
Springer | 9048127335 | 2009 | PDF | 362 pages | 2 Mb
DESCRIPTION
This volume provides the reader with an integrated overview of state-of-the-art research in philosophy and ethics of design in engineering and architecture. It contains twenty-five essays that focus on engineering designing in its traditional sense, on designing in novel engineering domains, including ICT, genetics, and nanotechnology, designing of socio-technical systems, and on architectural and environmental designing. These essays are preceded by an introductory text structuring the field of philosophy and ethics of design in engineering and architecture as one in which a series of similar philosophical, societal and ethical questions are asked.
This volume enables the reader to overcome the traditional separation between engineering designing and architectural designing. The emerging discipline of designing socio-technical systems is shown to form an intermediate between engineering and architecture to which the philosophical and ethical analyses of both domains apply. This volume thus announces a challenging cross-fertilization between the philosophy and ethics of engineering and of architecture that will lay down the integrated ground works for the renewed interests in the importance of design in modern society.
LIST OF CONTENT
Part I Engineering Design
Design, Use, and the Physical and Intentional Aspects of Technical Artifacts 21
Maarten Franssen
Designing is the Construction of Use Plans 37
Wybo Houkes
The Designer Fallacy and Technological Imagination 51
Don Ihde
Technological Design as an Evolutionary Process 61
Philip Brey
Deciding on Ethical Issues in Engineering Design 77
Anke Van Gorp and Ibo Van de Poel
Morality in Design: Design Ethics and the Morality of Technological Artifacts 91
Peter-Paul Verbeek
Thinking about Design: Critical Theory of Technology and the Design Process 105
Patrick Feng and Andrew Feenberg
Design Culture and Acceptable Risk 119
Kiyotaka Naoe
Alienability, Rivalry, and Exclusion Cost: Three Institutional Factors for Design 131
Paul B. Thompson
Part II Emerging Engineering Design
Friends by Design: A Design Philosophy for Personal Robotics Technology 143
John P. Sullins
Beyond Engineering: Software Design as Bridge over the Culture/Technology Dichotomy 159
Bernhard Rieder and Mirko Tobias Schäfer
Technology Naturalized: A Challenge to Design for the Human Scale 173
Alfred Nordmann
Re-Designing Humankind: The Rise of Cyborgs, a Desirable Goal? 185
Daniela Cerqui and Kevin Warwick
Designing People: A Post-Human Future? 197
Inmaculada de Melo-Martín
Redesigning Man? 209
C. T. A. Schmidt
Design: Structure, Process, and Function: A Systems Methodology Perspective 217
Kristo Miettinen
Co-Designing Social Systems by Designing Technical Artifacts: A Conceptual Approach 233
Ulrich Krohs
Beyond Inevitability: Emphasizing the Role of Intention and Ethical Responsibility in Engineering Design 247
Kathryn A. Neeley and Heinz C. Luegenbiehl
Design and Responsibility: The Interdependence of Natural, Artifactual, and Human Systems 259
S. D. Noam Cook
Part III Architectural Design
Form and Process in the Transformation of the Architect’s Role in Society 273
Howard Davis
Expert Culture, Representation, and Public Choice: Architectural Renderings as the Editing of Reality 287
Steven A. Moore and Rebecca Webber
Diverse Designing: Sorting Out Function and Intention in Artifacts 301
Ted Cavanagh
Design Criteria in Architecture 317
Joseph C. Pitt
Cities, Aesthetics, and Human Community: Some Thoughts on the Limits of Design 329
J. Craig Hanks
Nature, Aesthetic Values, and Urban Design: Building the Natural City 341
Glenn Parsons
EDITORIAL REVIEW
Philosophy and Design: From Engineering to Architecture is a significant contribution to the expanding field of design studies. It brings questions of design into philosophy and thereby brings diverse philosophical perspectives to bear on conceptual, methodological, epistemological, metaphysical, and ethical issues of design. It is also the first collection of philosophical papers to bridge the divide between critical reflections on design in engineering and in architecture. After the publication of this well edited collection, it will be difficult for philosophy to ignore design as a theme as worthy of attention as such phenomena as scientific theory, aesthetic creativity, or political law. Indeed, as a phenomenon design may well span theory, creativity, and law in ways that can contribute to a deeper understanding of each and to their mutual relations. In addition, this collection is to be commended for the interdisciplinary character of many of its contributions and the multinational perspectives provided by its diverse contributors from Europe, North America, and Japan.
- Carl Mitcham is Professor of Liberal Arts and International Studies at the Colorado School of Mines. He also serves on the adjunct faculty of the European Graduate School and the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research at the University of Colorado, Boulder. His “Thinking through Technology: The Path between Engineering and Philosophy” (1994) is a widely respected contribution; more recently he served as editor-in-chief of the 4-volume “Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics” (2005).
Springer | 9048127335 | 2009 | PDF | 362 pages | 2 Mb
DESCRIPTION
This volume provides the reader with an integrated overview of state-of-the-art research in philosophy and ethics of design in engineering and architecture. It contains twenty-five essays that focus on engineering designing in its traditional sense, on designing in novel engineering domains, including ICT, genetics, and nanotechnology, designing of socio-technical systems, and on architectural and environmental designing. These essays are preceded by an introductory text structuring the field of philosophy and ethics of design in engineering and architecture as one in which a series of similar philosophical, societal and ethical questions are asked.
This volume enables the reader to overcome the traditional separation between engineering designing and architectural designing. The emerging discipline of designing socio-technical systems is shown to form an intermediate between engineering and architecture to which the philosophical and ethical analyses of both domains apply. This volume thus announces a challenging cross-fertilization between the philosophy and ethics of engineering and of architecture that will lay down the integrated ground works for the renewed interests in the importance of design in modern society.
LIST OF CONTENT
Part I Engineering Design
Design, Use, and the Physical and Intentional Aspects of Technical Artifacts 21
Maarten Franssen
Designing is the Construction of Use Plans 37
Wybo Houkes
The Designer Fallacy and Technological Imagination 51
Don Ihde
Technological Design as an Evolutionary Process 61
Philip Brey
Deciding on Ethical Issues in Engineering Design 77
Anke Van Gorp and Ibo Van de Poel
Morality in Design: Design Ethics and the Morality of Technological Artifacts 91
Peter-Paul Verbeek
Thinking about Design: Critical Theory of Technology and the Design Process 105
Patrick Feng and Andrew Feenberg
Design Culture and Acceptable Risk 119
Kiyotaka Naoe
Alienability, Rivalry, and Exclusion Cost: Three Institutional Factors for Design 131
Paul B. Thompson
Part II Emerging Engineering Design
Friends by Design: A Design Philosophy for Personal Robotics Technology 143
John P. Sullins
Beyond Engineering: Software Design as Bridge over the Culture/Technology Dichotomy 159
Bernhard Rieder and Mirko Tobias Schäfer
Technology Naturalized: A Challenge to Design for the Human Scale 173
Alfred Nordmann
Re-Designing Humankind: The Rise of Cyborgs, a Desirable Goal? 185
Daniela Cerqui and Kevin Warwick
Designing People: A Post-Human Future? 197
Inmaculada de Melo-Martín
Redesigning Man? 209
C. T. A. Schmidt
Design: Structure, Process, and Function: A Systems Methodology Perspective 217
Kristo Miettinen
Co-Designing Social Systems by Designing Technical Artifacts: A Conceptual Approach 233
Ulrich Krohs
Beyond Inevitability: Emphasizing the Role of Intention and Ethical Responsibility in Engineering Design 247
Kathryn A. Neeley and Heinz C. Luegenbiehl
Design and Responsibility: The Interdependence of Natural, Artifactual, and Human Systems 259
S. D. Noam Cook
Part III Architectural Design
Form and Process in the Transformation of the Architect’s Role in Society 273
Howard Davis
Expert Culture, Representation, and Public Choice: Architectural Renderings as the Editing of Reality 287
Steven A. Moore and Rebecca Webber
Diverse Designing: Sorting Out Function and Intention in Artifacts 301
Ted Cavanagh
Design Criteria in Architecture 317
Joseph C. Pitt
Cities, Aesthetics, and Human Community: Some Thoughts on the Limits of Design 329
J. Craig Hanks
Nature, Aesthetic Values, and Urban Design: Building the Natural City 341
Glenn Parsons
EDITORIAL REVIEW
Philosophy and Design: From Engineering to Architecture is a significant contribution to the expanding field of design studies. It brings questions of design into philosophy and thereby brings diverse philosophical perspectives to bear on conceptual, methodological, epistemological, metaphysical, and ethical issues of design. It is also the first collection of philosophical papers to bridge the divide between critical reflections on design in engineering and in architecture. After the publication of this well edited collection, it will be difficult for philosophy to ignore design as a theme as worthy of attention as such phenomena as scientific theory, aesthetic creativity, or political law. Indeed, as a phenomenon design may well span theory, creativity, and law in ways that can contribute to a deeper understanding of each and to their mutual relations. In addition, this collection is to be commended for the interdisciplinary character of many of its contributions and the multinational perspectives provided by its diverse contributors from Europe, North America, and Japan.
- Carl Mitcham is Professor of Liberal Arts and International Studies at the Colorado School of Mines. He also serves on the adjunct faculty of the European Graduate School and the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research at the University of Colorado, Boulder. His “Thinking through Technology: The Path between Engineering and Philosophy” (1994) is a widely respected contribution; more recently he served as editor-in-chief of the 4-volume “Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics” (2005).
Japanese Love Hotels
S. Chaplin
Routledge | 9780415487542| 2009 | PDF | 256 pages | 4 Mb
DESCRIPTION
Drawing on theories of place, consumption and identity, Sarah Chaplin details the evolution of the love hotel in urban Japan since the 1950s. Love hotels emerged in the late 1950s following a ban of licensed prostitution, then were extremely popular in the 1970s, were then legislated against in the 1980s and are now perceived as ‘leisure’, ‘fashion’ or ‘boutique’ hotels.
Representing a timely opportunity to capture and evaluate the dying manifestations of an important era in Japanese social and cultural history, this book provides a critical account of the love hotel as a unique typology. It considers its spatial, aesthetic, semiotic, and locational denotations and connotations, which results in a richly nuanced cultural reading.
The love hotel is presented as a key indicator of social and cultural change in post-war Japan, and as such this book will be of interest to a wide and international readership including students of Japanese culture, society and architecture.
LIST OF CONTENT
1. The Urban Context of Love Hotel Districts
2. The Love Hotel as a Building Type
3. Images and Technologies of the Love Hotel Interior
4. Naming and Theming the Love Hotel
5. The Love Hotel Industry
6. Towards a Conclusion
EDITORIAL REVIEW
Routledge | 9780415487542| 2009 | PDF | 256 pages | 4 Mb
DESCRIPTION
Drawing on theories of place, consumption and identity, Sarah Chaplin details the evolution of the love hotel in urban Japan since the 1950s. Love hotels emerged in the late 1950s following a ban of licensed prostitution, then were extremely popular in the 1970s, were then legislated against in the 1980s and are now perceived as ‘leisure’, ‘fashion’ or ‘boutique’ hotels.
Representing a timely opportunity to capture and evaluate the dying manifestations of an important era in Japanese social and cultural history, this book provides a critical account of the love hotel as a unique typology. It considers its spatial, aesthetic, semiotic, and locational denotations and connotations, which results in a richly nuanced cultural reading.
The love hotel is presented as a key indicator of social and cultural change in post-war Japan, and as such this book will be of interest to a wide and international readership including students of Japanese culture, society and architecture.
LIST OF CONTENT
1. The Urban Context of Love Hotel Districts
2. The Love Hotel as a Building Type
3. Images and Technologies of the Love Hotel Interior
4. Naming and Theming the Love Hotel
5. The Love Hotel Industry
6. Towards a Conclusion
EDITORIAL REVIEW
Beautiful Architecture: Leading Thinkers Reveal the Hidden Beauty in Software Design
Diomidis Spinellis, Georgios Gousios
O'Reilly Media | 059651798X | 2009 | 426 pages | CHM | 4,45 MB
DESCIPTION
What are the ingredients of robust, elegant, flexible, and maintainable software architecture? Beautiful Architecture answers this question through a collection of intriguing essays from more than a dozen of today's leading software designers and architects. In each essay, contributors present a notable software architecture, and analyze what makes it innovative and ideal for its purpose.
Some of the engineers in this book reveal how they developed a specific project, including decisions they faced and tradeoffs they made. Others take a step back to investigate how certain architectural aspects have influenced computing as a whole. With this book, you'll discover:
How Facebook's architecture is the basis for a data-centric application ecosystem
The effect of Xen's well-designed architecture on the way operating systems evolve
How community processes within the KDE project help software architectures evolve from rough sketches to beautiful systems
How creeping featurism has helped GNU Emacs gain unanticipated functionality
The magic behind the Jikes RVM self-optimizable, self-hosting runtime
Design choices and building blocks that made Tandem the choice platform in high-availability environments for over two decades
Differences and similarities between object-oriented and functional architectural views
How architectures can affect the software's evolution and the developers' engagement
Go behind the scenes to learn what it takes to design elegant software architecture, and how it can shape the way you approach your own projects, with Beautiful Architecture.
LIST OF CONTENT
EDITORIAL REVIEW
O'Reilly Media | 059651798X | 2009 | 426 pages | CHM | 4,45 MB
DESCIPTION
What are the ingredients of robust, elegant, flexible, and maintainable software architecture? Beautiful Architecture answers this question through a collection of intriguing essays from more than a dozen of today's leading software designers and architects. In each essay, contributors present a notable software architecture, and analyze what makes it innovative and ideal for its purpose.
Some of the engineers in this book reveal how they developed a specific project, including decisions they faced and tradeoffs they made. Others take a step back to investigate how certain architectural aspects have influenced computing as a whole. With this book, you'll discover:
How Facebook's architecture is the basis for a data-centric application ecosystem
The effect of Xen's well-designed architecture on the way operating systems evolve
How community processes within the KDE project help software architectures evolve from rough sketches to beautiful systems
How creeping featurism has helped GNU Emacs gain unanticipated functionality
The magic behind the Jikes RVM self-optimizable, self-hosting runtime
Design choices and building blocks that made Tandem the choice platform in high-availability environments for over two decades
Differences and similarities between object-oriented and functional architectural views
How architectures can affect the software's evolution and the developers' engagement
Go behind the scenes to learn what it takes to design elegant software architecture, and how it can shape the way you approach your own projects, with Beautiful Architecture.
LIST OF CONTENT
EDITORIAL REVIEW
Design of Flexible Production Systems: Methodologies and Tools
Randall Shaffer
Springer | 3540854134 | 2009 | PDF | 300 pages | 12 Mb
DESCRIPTION
Manufacturing Flexibility is usually seen as the main answer for surviving in present markets characterized by short lead times, tight product tolerances, pressure on costs, frequent changes of demand and continuous evolution of products. However, the competitiveness of a firm can be negatively affected by capital intensive investments in system flexibility. Indeed production contexts characterized by mid to high demand volume of well identified families of products in continuous evolution normally do not require the highest level of flexibility. Designing manufacturing systems that optimally satisfy the production requirements represents a very complex problem, since aspects ranging from manufacturing strategy to process planning, and from scenario analysis to performance evaluation must be considered over the system lifecycle.
The book addresses these interdependencies proposing an integrated approach to flexible production system design. Since traditional system architectures are not always the most efficient solution to face new production contexts a new manufacturing system architecture named Focused Flexibility Manufacturing Systems – FFMSs is also introduced. Indeed the explicit design of flexibility can lead to hybrid systems, i.e. automated integrated systems consisting of general purpose and dedicated machines. This is a key issue of FFMSs which are designed to achieve an optimal balance between flexibility and productivity at system level.
LIST OF CONTENT
1 Designing Manufacturing Flexibility in Dynamic Production Contexts 1
Walter Terkaj, Tullio Tolio and Anna Valente
2 Flexibility in Manufacturing – An Empirical Case-Study Research 19
Marco Cantamessa and Carlo Capello
3 A Review on Manufacturing Flexibility 41
Walter Terkaj, Tullio Tolio and Anna Valente
4 Product-Process-System Information Formalization 63
Marcello Colledani, Walter Terkaj and Tullio Tolio
5 Manufacturing Strategy: Production Problem Analysis for Assessing Focused Flexibility 87
Manfredi Bruccoleri, Diego Lanza and Giovanni Perrone
6 Pallet Configuration for Approaching Mapping Requirements on Devices 113
Giovanni Celano, Antonio Costa, Sergio Fichera
and Barbaro Santangelo
7 Design of Focused Flexibility Manufacturing Systems (FFMSs) 137
Walter Terkaj, Tullio Tolio and Anna Valente
8 System Life-Cycle Planning 191
Marco Cantamessa, Carlo Capello and Giuseppe Cordella
9 System Performance Simulation and Analysis 219
Antonio Grieco and Francesco Nucci
10 Testing 239
Manfredi Bruccoleri, Carlo Capello, Antonio Costa, Francesco Nucci, Walter Terkaj and Anna Valente
EDITORIAL REVIEW
Springer | 3540854134 | 2009 | PDF | 300 pages | 12 Mb
DESCRIPTION
Manufacturing Flexibility is usually seen as the main answer for surviving in present markets characterized by short lead times, tight product tolerances, pressure on costs, frequent changes of demand and continuous evolution of products. However, the competitiveness of a firm can be negatively affected by capital intensive investments in system flexibility. Indeed production contexts characterized by mid to high demand volume of well identified families of products in continuous evolution normally do not require the highest level of flexibility. Designing manufacturing systems that optimally satisfy the production requirements represents a very complex problem, since aspects ranging from manufacturing strategy to process planning, and from scenario analysis to performance evaluation must be considered over the system lifecycle.
The book addresses these interdependencies proposing an integrated approach to flexible production system design. Since traditional system architectures are not always the most efficient solution to face new production contexts a new manufacturing system architecture named Focused Flexibility Manufacturing Systems – FFMSs is also introduced. Indeed the explicit design of flexibility can lead to hybrid systems, i.e. automated integrated systems consisting of general purpose and dedicated machines. This is a key issue of FFMSs which are designed to achieve an optimal balance between flexibility and productivity at system level.
LIST OF CONTENT
1 Designing Manufacturing Flexibility in Dynamic Production Contexts 1
Walter Terkaj, Tullio Tolio and Anna Valente
2 Flexibility in Manufacturing – An Empirical Case-Study Research 19
Marco Cantamessa and Carlo Capello
3 A Review on Manufacturing Flexibility 41
Walter Terkaj, Tullio Tolio and Anna Valente
4 Product-Process-System Information Formalization 63
Marcello Colledani, Walter Terkaj and Tullio Tolio
5 Manufacturing Strategy: Production Problem Analysis for Assessing Focused Flexibility 87
Manfredi Bruccoleri, Diego Lanza and Giovanni Perrone
6 Pallet Configuration for Approaching Mapping Requirements on Devices 113
Giovanni Celano, Antonio Costa, Sergio Fichera
and Barbaro Santangelo
7 Design of Focused Flexibility Manufacturing Systems (FFMSs) 137
Walter Terkaj, Tullio Tolio and Anna Valente
8 System Life-Cycle Planning 191
Marco Cantamessa, Carlo Capello and Giuseppe Cordella
9 System Performance Simulation and Analysis 219
Antonio Grieco and Francesco Nucci
10 Testing 239
Manfredi Bruccoleri, Carlo Capello, Antonio Costa, Francesco Nucci, Walter Terkaj and Anna Valente
EDITORIAL REVIEW
Philosophy and Design: From Engineering to Architecture
P.E. Vermaas, P.A. Kroes, A. Light, S. Moore
Springer | 9048127335 | 2009 | PDF | 362 pages | 1.3 Mb
DESCRIPTION
This volume provides the reader with an integrated overview of state-of-the-art research in philosophy and ethics of design in engineering and architecture. It contains twenty-five essays that focus on engineering designing in its traditional sense, on designing in novel engineering domains, including ICT, genetics, and nanotechnology, designing of socio-technical systems, and on architectural and environmental designing.
These essays are preceded by an introductory text structuring the field of philosophy and ethics of design in engineering and architecture as one in which a series of similar philosophical, societal, and ethical questions are asked. This volume enables the reader to overcome the traditional separation between engineering designing and architectural designing. The emerging discipline of designing socio-technical systems is shown to form an intermediate between engineering and architecture to which the philosophical and ethical analyses of both domains apply.
This volume thus announces a challenging cross-fertilization between the philosophy and ethics of engineering and of architecture that will lay down the integrated ground works for the renewed interests in the importance of design in modern society.
Written for:
Faculty, PhD and Master’s students in philosophy and ethics of technology, philosophy and ethics of architecture, management of technology, management of architecture
Keywords:
Designing of socio-technical sytems
Philosophy and ethics of architecture
Philosophy and ethics of engineering designing
LIST OF CONTENT
0.1: Table of Contents.
Introduction. 0.2: Peter Kroes, Andrew Light, Steven A. Moore and Pieter E. Vermaas: Design in Engineering and Architecture: Towards an Integrated Philosophical Understanding.
Part I: Engineering Design.
1.1: Maarten Franssen: Design, Use, and the Physical and Intentional Aspects of Technical Artifacts.
1.2: Wybo Houkes: Designing is the Construction of Use Plans.
1.3: Don Ihde: The Designer Fallacy and Technological Imagination.
1.4: Philip Brey: Technological Design as an Evolutionary Process.
1.5: Anke van Gorp and Ibo van de Poel:Deciding on Ethical Issues in Engineering Design.
1.6: Peter-Paul Verbeek: Morality in Design: Design Ethics and the Morality of Technological Artifacts.
1.7: Patrick Feng and Andrew Feenberg:Thinking about Design: Critical Theory of Technology and the Design Process.
1.8: Kiyotaka Naoe: Design Culture and Acceptable Risk.
1.9: Paul B. Thompson: Alienability, Rivalry, and Exclusion Cost: Three Institutional Factors for Design.
Part II: Emerging Engineering Design.
2.1: John P. Sullins: Friends by Design: A Design Philosophy for Personal Robotics Technology.
2.2: Bernhard Rieder and Mirko Tobias Schäfer: Beyond Engineering: Software Design as Bridge over the Culture/Technology Dichotomy.
2.3: Alfred Nordmann: Technology Naturalized: A Challenge to Design for the Human Scale.
2.4: Daniela Cerqui and Kevin Warwick: Re-designing Humankind: The Rise of Cyborgs, a Desirable Goal?
2.5: Inmaculada de Melo-Martín:Designing People: A Post-Human Future?
2.6: C.T.A. Schmidt: Redesigning Man?
2.7: Kristo Miettinen: Design: Structure, Process, and Function: A Systems Methodology Perspective.
2.8: Ulrich Krohs: Co-designing Social Systems by Designing Technical Artifacts: A Conceptual Approach.
2.9: Kathryn A. Neeley and Heinz C. Luegenbiehl: Beyond Inevitability: Emphasizing the Role of Intention and Ethical Responsibility in Engineering Design.
2.10: S.D. Noam Cook: Design and Responsibility: The Interdependence of Natural, Artifactual, and Human Systems.
Part III: Architectural Design.
3.1: Howard Davis: Form and Process in the Transformation of the Architect’s Role in Society.
3.2: Steven A. Moore and Rebecca Webber: Expert Culture, Representation, and Public Choice: Architectural Renderings as the Editing of Reality.
3.3: Ted Cavanagh: Diverse Designing: Sorting Out Function and Intention in Artifacts. 3.4: Joseph C. Pitt: Design Criteria in Architecture.
3.5: J. Craig Hanks: Cities, Aesthetics, and Human Community: Some Thoughts on the Limits of Design.
3.6: Glenn Parsons: Nature, Aesthetic Values, and Urban Design: Building the Natural City.
4.1: Index.
EDITORIAL REVIEW
Philosophy and Design: From Engineering to Architecture is a significant contribution to the expanding field of design studies. It brings questions of design into philosophy and thereby brings diverse philosophical perspectives to bear on conceptual, methodological, epistemological, metaphysical, and ethical issues of design. It is also the first collection of philosophical papers to bridge the divide between critical reflections on design in engineering and in architecture. After the publication of this well edited collection, it will be difficult for philosophy to ignore design as a theme as worthy of attention as such phenomena as scientific theory, aesthetic creativity, or political law. Indeed, as a phenomenon design may well span theory, creativity, and law in ways that can contribute to a deeper understanding of each and to their mutual relations. In addition, this collection is to be commended for the interdisciplinary character of many of its contributions and the multinational perspectives provided by its diverse contributors from Europe, North America, and Japan.
- Carl Mitcham is Professor of Liberal Arts and International Studies at the Colorado School of Mines. He also serves on the adjunct faculty of the European Graduate School and the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research at the University of Colorado, Boulder. His “Thinking through Technology: The Path between Engineering and Philosophy” (1994) is a widely respected contribution; more recently he served as editor-in-chief of the 4-volume “Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics” (2005).
Springer | 9048127335 | 2009 | PDF | 362 pages | 1.3 Mb
DESCRIPTION
This volume provides the reader with an integrated overview of state-of-the-art research in philosophy and ethics of design in engineering and architecture. It contains twenty-five essays that focus on engineering designing in its traditional sense, on designing in novel engineering domains, including ICT, genetics, and nanotechnology, designing of socio-technical systems, and on architectural and environmental designing.
These essays are preceded by an introductory text structuring the field of philosophy and ethics of design in engineering and architecture as one in which a series of similar philosophical, societal, and ethical questions are asked. This volume enables the reader to overcome the traditional separation between engineering designing and architectural designing. The emerging discipline of designing socio-technical systems is shown to form an intermediate between engineering and architecture to which the philosophical and ethical analyses of both domains apply.
This volume thus announces a challenging cross-fertilization between the philosophy and ethics of engineering and of architecture that will lay down the integrated ground works for the renewed interests in the importance of design in modern society.
Written for:
Faculty, PhD and Master’s students in philosophy and ethics of technology, philosophy and ethics of architecture, management of technology, management of architecture
Keywords:
Designing of socio-technical sytems
Philosophy and ethics of architecture
Philosophy and ethics of engineering designing
LIST OF CONTENT
0.1: Table of Contents.
Introduction. 0.2: Peter Kroes, Andrew Light, Steven A. Moore and Pieter E. Vermaas: Design in Engineering and Architecture: Towards an Integrated Philosophical Understanding.
Part I: Engineering Design.
1.1: Maarten Franssen: Design, Use, and the Physical and Intentional Aspects of Technical Artifacts.
1.2: Wybo Houkes: Designing is the Construction of Use Plans.
1.3: Don Ihde: The Designer Fallacy and Technological Imagination.
1.4: Philip Brey: Technological Design as an Evolutionary Process.
1.5: Anke van Gorp and Ibo van de Poel:Deciding on Ethical Issues in Engineering Design.
1.6: Peter-Paul Verbeek: Morality in Design: Design Ethics and the Morality of Technological Artifacts.
1.7: Patrick Feng and Andrew Feenberg:Thinking about Design: Critical Theory of Technology and the Design Process.
1.8: Kiyotaka Naoe: Design Culture and Acceptable Risk.
1.9: Paul B. Thompson: Alienability, Rivalry, and Exclusion Cost: Three Institutional Factors for Design.
Part II: Emerging Engineering Design.
2.1: John P. Sullins: Friends by Design: A Design Philosophy for Personal Robotics Technology.
2.2: Bernhard Rieder and Mirko Tobias Schäfer: Beyond Engineering: Software Design as Bridge over the Culture/Technology Dichotomy.
2.3: Alfred Nordmann: Technology Naturalized: A Challenge to Design for the Human Scale.
2.4: Daniela Cerqui and Kevin Warwick: Re-designing Humankind: The Rise of Cyborgs, a Desirable Goal?
2.5: Inmaculada de Melo-Martín:Designing People: A Post-Human Future?
2.6: C.T.A. Schmidt: Redesigning Man?
2.7: Kristo Miettinen: Design: Structure, Process, and Function: A Systems Methodology Perspective.
2.8: Ulrich Krohs: Co-designing Social Systems by Designing Technical Artifacts: A Conceptual Approach.
2.9: Kathryn A. Neeley and Heinz C. Luegenbiehl: Beyond Inevitability: Emphasizing the Role of Intention and Ethical Responsibility in Engineering Design.
2.10: S.D. Noam Cook: Design and Responsibility: The Interdependence of Natural, Artifactual, and Human Systems.
Part III: Architectural Design.
3.1: Howard Davis: Form and Process in the Transformation of the Architect’s Role in Society.
3.2: Steven A. Moore and Rebecca Webber: Expert Culture, Representation, and Public Choice: Architectural Renderings as the Editing of Reality.
3.3: Ted Cavanagh: Diverse Designing: Sorting Out Function and Intention in Artifacts. 3.4: Joseph C. Pitt: Design Criteria in Architecture.
3.5: J. Craig Hanks: Cities, Aesthetics, and Human Community: Some Thoughts on the Limits of Design.
3.6: Glenn Parsons: Nature, Aesthetic Values, and Urban Design: Building the Natural City.
4.1: Index.
EDITORIAL REVIEW
Philosophy and Design: From Engineering to Architecture is a significant contribution to the expanding field of design studies. It brings questions of design into philosophy and thereby brings diverse philosophical perspectives to bear on conceptual, methodological, epistemological, metaphysical, and ethical issues of design. It is also the first collection of philosophical papers to bridge the divide between critical reflections on design in engineering and in architecture. After the publication of this well edited collection, it will be difficult for philosophy to ignore design as a theme as worthy of attention as such phenomena as scientific theory, aesthetic creativity, or political law. Indeed, as a phenomenon design may well span theory, creativity, and law in ways that can contribute to a deeper understanding of each and to their mutual relations. In addition, this collection is to be commended for the interdisciplinary character of many of its contributions and the multinational perspectives provided by its diverse contributors from Europe, North America, and Japan.
- Carl Mitcham is Professor of Liberal Arts and International Studies at the Colorado School of Mines. He also serves on the adjunct faculty of the European Graduate School and the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research at the University of Colorado, Boulder. His “Thinking through Technology: The Path between Engineering and Philosophy” (1994) is a widely respected contribution; more recently he served as editor-in-chief of the 4-volume “Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics” (2005).
