Technology application, Visualization (Computers) -- Analysis, Transportation equipment industry -- Technology application, and Consumer goods -- Design and construction

The emerging affordable rapid prototyping (RP) technologies have established in the automotive industry and designers of , including household appliances, toys, and electronic. Representing geometrical shapes in the form of computer model offers several advantages to any kind of design.

Time to market, Technology application, Product development -- Methods, Product development -- Technology application, and Consumer goods -- Design and construction

Rapid prototyping plays a critical role in the development of the economic cycle. A succession of prototypes reflecting seven and delight factors mentioned are, consumer in mind, feel of a product, physical prototypes, not through simulation alone, prototypes, development cycle, and changing design.

Technology application, Market trend/market analysis, 3D printing -- Usage, and Human-computer interaction -- Forecasts and trends

A selection of studies on advances in personalized fabrication is presented. Personal fabrication can allow nontechnical users to use 3D printers in the future to create objects that currently only trained experts can create. The selection spans new technologies for fabricating complex materials, for more easily specifying object shape and behavior, and human-in-the loop rapid prototyping.

Computer programming and Computer programming -- Methods

Answer set programming provides a simple and intuitive language which comes with processing software for programs in the language. It puts together efficient solving tools, a model-based problem specification methodology and an expressive representation language. The answer set programming language supports rapid development and prototyping of software aimed at solving optimization and search problems.

Manufacturing, Technology application, Layer structure (Solids) -- Research, Manufacturing processes -- Research, Manufacturing processes -- Technology application, and Chaos theory -- Analysis

Digitally controlled layered manufacturing (LM) technologies are transforming prototyping and mass customization of mechanical and biomedical parts of extraordinary geometric complexity. One advantage of many LM processes is the freedom of making complicated shapes with inaccessible interior chambers.

Time to market, Technology application, Visualization (Computers) -- Usage, and Product development -- Technology application

Rapid prototyping, or layered manufacturing (LM) is a mainstream technology in engineering product development that enables the engineers to create prototype parts from new designs before the final production. The three different advantages for additive manufacturing are, it handles extremely complex parts, runs to completion and makes impossible parts.

Computer game, Children -- Social aspects, and Computer games -- Influence

A task undertaken with an aim to offer immersive and physically engaging alternative to traditional computer games by making use of computer vision and hearing technology is discussed. The different ways in which children helped to define and develop the control gestures for the game 'QuiQui's Giant Bounce' through traditional usability tests and Wizard of Oz (WOz) prototyping sessions is detailed.

Market trend/market analysis, Logic programming -- Methods, and Logic programming -- Forecasts and trends

Functional programming logic offers professionals new methods of developing software. It supports prototyping, specification, and application programming in one language. It avoids some tedious tasks, supporting fast development of high-quality software.

Management issue, MIS, Industry trend, and Management information systems -- Planning

There have always been limited means to match IS development to a rapidly changing organization. The available means include prototyping, end-user development, and open systems connectivity. But these are inadequate because they are not connected though a coherent framework that focuses on the emergent character of organizations. If emergence, rather than stability, is taken as the dominant character of organizations, at least in some periods, there is a need to radically rethink the way in which IS are developed.

Technology development, Research and development, Knowledge-based system, System design, New technique, Intelligent agent, University of Birmingham -- Research, Computer software industry -- Research, Knowledge-based systems -- Research, System design -- Innovations, and Intelligent devices -- Design and construction

The Cognition and Affect project at the University of Birmingham has created the SIM_AGENT software toolkit designed to support new approaches to rapid prototyping of multiagent systems. A rule-based system is used to implement the many reactive mechanisms agents require for various condition-action rule sets. A list-processing model is used for the internal databases and communication channels between agents and between components within agents. SIM_AGENT is implemented in the Pop-1 extendable Lisp-like language that uses Pascal-like syntax and runs in the Poplog environment. The toolkit is used to build sets of agents, each of which has several components operating in parallel and using various mechanisms, including neural nets and AI symbol manipulating mechanisms. SIM_AGENT shows that cognitively rich internal mechanisms and structures are required to model communication and planning within and among agents, but these may produce emotional states in intelligent systems under certain conditions.