We explore the ways in which interfaces can be designed to deceive users so as to create the illusion of magic. We present a study of an experimental performance in which a magician used a computer vision system to conduct a series of illusions based on the well-known „three cups ‟ magic trick. We

: In this paper the implications of the theory of evolutionary computation for evolutionary biology are explored. It is claimed that the concept of "representations" is particularly useful to understand the evolution of complex adaptation and the origin of the modular design of higher

Robots are needed to perform important field tasks such as hazardous material clean-up, nuclear site inspection, and space exploration. Unfortunately their use is not widespread due to their long development times and high costs. To make them practical, a modular design approach is proposed

Using on-chip interconnection networks in place of ad-hoc global wiring structures the top level wires on a chip and facilitates modular design. With this approach, system modules (processors, memories, peripherals, etc...) communicate by sending packets to one another over the network

Growing design sizes and shrinking time to market windows can only be met with drastically increased productivity. One way to obtain this is a smart reuse of intellectual property. This paper presents a methodology for modular design with the help of component abstraction. It describes how

to be controlled through micro-controller based hardware and software system. It is proposed to automate the sample handling system to cope up with the large no. of blood sample at a time. The modular design of automatic biochemistry analyzer (ABC) analyzer facilitate to be controlled via laptop or PC by using

is preserved under a general protocol composition operation, called universal composition. The proposed framework with its security-preserving composition operation allows for modular design and analysis of complex cryptographic protocols from relatively simple building blocks. Moreover, within this framework

This paper describes a design framework for video processing that facilitates hardware acceleration of software applications. Our framework contains two elements, both encouraging a modular design style. First, we adopt a multi-layer approach for design management that promotes design reuse, which

The development of complex mechatronic systems requires a careful and ideally verifiable design. In addition, engineers from different disciplines, namely mechanical, electrical and software engineering, have to cooperate. The current technology is to use block diagrams including discrete blocks

Recently, because of the importance of the production with considering the product life cycle and the dynamic change in manufacturing paradigm from the current mass production to the sustainable production, a modular design attracts attention very much. The module of a product has the interface