A Data Technology Oriented to Information Fusion to Build an Intelligent Accounting Computerized Model

The development of management accounting promotes the integration of business and finance, and with the continuous development of information technology and the advent of the era of big data, the development of corporate financial informatization provides tools for the integration of business and finance. This paper improves the big data technology, improves the traditional accounting process, combines the big data technology to build a computerized accounting system, and obtains scientific and effective accounting information processing results through intelligent big data processing. The design goal of the enterprise accounting management system is that the system can efficiently complete the enterprise cost budget accounting work after the design is completed and ensure the normal and stable progress of the enterprise cost budget accounting work. Through the experimental research results, it can be known that the computerized intelligent accounting system based on big data technology constructed in this article has certain effects.

A graph-based computerized optimal conceptual design synthesis within the distributed multi-disciplinary resource environment

The trend of inter-disciplinary conceptual design synthesis requires designers to involve more and more distributed multi-disciplinary design resources. Therefore, this paper proposes a graph-based computerized optimal conceptual design synthesis to help designers explore novel design schemes within the distributed multi-disciplinary resource environment. The design resources tightly related to the design goal can be extracted from the huge resource environment by a proposed searching engine. The optimal design scheme can be generated from these related design resources by a proposed graph-based algorithm. A set of computer applications called Automatic Conceptual Design System (ACDS) is established to verify the feasibility of this proposed conceptual design synthesis, and a garbage power system’s conceptual design is completed by this software prototype.

An architecture of water: creating H2O thresholds.

Each year, at the start of the winter semester, undergraduate and graduate students, faculty and staff, and invited guests come together to take part in the annual Collaborative Exercise (CEx) held at the Department of Architectural Science at Ryerson University. The five-day event challenges students to address an important contemporary issue. The intention of the exercise is to engage students to collaborate, think and design, while investigating a topic related to architecture and the built environment. Through this experience, students have the opportunity to work with students from other years in the Department’s program, to achieve a common design goal. The Collaborative Exercise ends with an exhibition at the Paul H. Cocker Gallery in the Ryerson University’s Architecture Building. This book showcases the outcomes of the 2016 Collaborative Exercise, entitled An Architecture of Water: Creating H2O thresholds.

An architecture of water: creating H2O thresholds.

Each year, at the start of the winter semester, undergraduate and graduate students, faculty and staff, and invited guests come together to take part in the annual Collaborative Exercise (CEx) held at the Department of Architectural Science at Ryerson University. The five-day event challenges students to address an important contemporary issue. The intention of the exercise is to engage students to collaborate, think and design, while investigating a topic related to architecture and the built environment. Through this experience, students have the opportunity to work with students from other years in the Department’s program, to achieve a common design goal. The Collaborative Exercise ends with an exhibition at the Paul H. Cocker Gallery in the Ryerson University’s Architecture Building. This book showcases the outcomes of the 2016 Collaborative Exercise, entitled An Architecture of Water: Creating H2O thresholds.

An architecture of water: creating H2O thresholds.

Each year, at the start of the winter semester, undergraduate and graduate students, faculty and staff, and invited guests come together to take part in the annual Collaborative Exercise (CEx) held at the Department of Architectural Science at Ryerson University. The five-day event challenges students to address an important contemporary issue. The intention of the exercise is to engage students to collaborate, think and design, while investigating a topic related to architecture and the built environment. Through this experience, students have the opportunity to work with students from other years in the Department’s program, to achieve a common design goal. The Collaborative Exercise ends with an exhibition at the Paul H. Cocker Gallery in the Ryerson University’s Architecture Building. This book showcases the outcomes of the 2016 Collaborative Exercise, entitled An Architecture of Water: Creating H2O thresholds.

Broadband sound absorbers of multilayered micro-slit panels using Bayesian probabilistic inference

Micro-perforated panel absorbers can typically achieve either visual transparency or broadband absorption, but not both. This paper assesses the potential of Multilayer Micro-Slit panels to maintain both of these characteristics simultaneously. Micro-slit panels are similar to micro-perforated panels, and can similarly achieve high absorption coefficients without fibrous backing materials. The arrangement of slits are better suited to visual transparency than perforated holes because it provides more unobstructed panel per perforated area. However, these types of absorbers are limited to a narrow frequency bandwidth of effective absorption. By combining several panels into a multilayer assembly, broadband absorption becomes possible. The inherent complexity stemming from optimizing the parameters for multiple layers to meet a given design criteria necessitates the use of the Bayesian framework. This probabilistic method rapidly hones in on the best parameters of each individual layer so that the overall composite meets the design goal. Furthermore, Bayesian inference implemented cyclically alongside panel fabrication and testing allows for corrections of fabrication tolerances while assessing visual transparency.

Crowdsourcing Ideas Using Product Prototypes: The Joint Effect of Prototype Enhancement and the Product Design Goal on Idea Novelty

When soliciting novel product ideas from the “crowd,” companies may opt to show a prototype in order to steer the generation of ideas in the desired direction. On the one hand, the more features the prototype incorporates, the larger the potential for activating relevant knowledge in memory that may serve as a basis for generating novel ideas. On the other hand, it increases the risk of fixation on the incorporated features, which may inhibit the generation of novel ideas. Based on the “dual pathway to creativity” theory, which identifies the depth and breadth of exploration of one’s knowledge base as cognitive pathways to the generation of novel ideas, we argue that the number (and type) of features included in the prototype in combination with the design goal, that is, generating ideas for functional versus aesthetic product improvements, determines whether the positive effects outweigh the negative effects. With a functional design goal, we find that exposure to a prototype with more features leads to more novel ideas as a result of a more thorough exploration of one’s knowledge base. However, with an aesthetic design goal, exposure to a prototype with more features leads to less novel ideas because of a narrower exploration. The latter effect is driven by people’s tendency to consider the whole or gestalt of the prototype when generating aesthetic ideas. This negative effect can, thus, be mitigated by stimulating people to employ a nonholistic, piecemeal thinking style. This paper was accepted by Ashish Arora, entrepreneurship and innovation.

Design Improvement for Complex Systems with Uncertainty

The uncertainty of the engineering system increases with its complexity, therefore, the tolerance to the uncertainty becomes important. Even under large variations of design parameters, the system performance should achieve the design goal in the design phase. Therefore, engineers are interested in how to turn a bad design into a good one with the least effort in the presence of uncertainty. To improve a bad design, we classify design parameters into key parameters and non-key parameters based on engineering knowledge, and then seek the maximum solution hyper-box which already includes non-key parameters of this bad design. The solution hyper-box on which all design points are good, that is, they achieve the design goal, provides target intervals for each parameter. The bad design can be turned into a good one by only moving its key parameters into their target intervals. In this paper, the PSO-Divide-Best method is proposed to seek the maximum solution hyper-box which is in compliance with the constraints. This proposed approach has a considerably high possibility to find the globally maximum solution hyper-box that satisfies the constraints and can be used in complex systems with black-box performance functions. Finally, case studies show that the proposed approach outperforms the EPCP and IA-CES methods in the literature.

Heat! Cooling spaces for high-rise places

Each year, at the start of the winter semester, undergraduate and graduate students, faculty and staff, and invited guests come together to take part in the annual Collaborative Exercise (CEx) held at the Department of Architectural Science at Ryerson University. The five-day event challenges students to address an important contemporary issue. The intention of the exercise is to engage students to collaborate, think and design, while investigating a topic related to architecture and the built environment. Through this experience, students have the opportunity to work with students from other years in the Department’s program, to achieve a common design goal. The Collaborative Exercise ends with an exhibition at the Paul H. Cocker Gallery in the Ryerson University’s Architecture Building. This book showcases the outcomes of the 2017 Collaborative Exercise, entitled Heat! Cooling spaces for high-rise places.

Heat! Cooling spaces for high-rise places

Each year, at the start of the winter semester, undergraduate and graduate students, faculty and staff, and invited guests come together to take part in the annual Collaborative Exercise (CEx) held at the Department of Architectural Science at Ryerson University. The five-day event challenges students to address an important contemporary issue. The intention of the exercise is to engage students to collaborate, think and design, while investigating a topic related to architecture and the built environment. Through this experience, students have the opportunity to work with students from other years in the Department’s program, to achieve a common design goal. The Collaborative Exercise ends with an exhibition at the Paul H. Cocker Gallery in the Ryerson University’s Architecture Building. This book showcases the outcomes of the 2017 Collaborative Exercise, entitled Heat! Cooling spaces for high-rise places.