Page layout

About: Page layout is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 2266 publications have been published within this topic receiving 23261 citations.

Method and apparatus for detecting and presenting client side image map attributes including sound attributes using page layout data strings

Abstract: Apparatus, methods, systems and computer program products are disclosed that provide enhancements to client-side image maps in HTML based documents. These enhancements provide audio feedback to a user of a HTML capable application as to the hyperlinks associated with an area in an image. These enhancements also provide a visual representation of the areas defined by a client-side image map when the image is not available.

Library home page design : A comparison of page layout for front-ends to ARL library Web sites

Abstract: The author examined the home pages of all 120 libraries in the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) in order to compare design similarities and differences. This was accomplished by first filling out a questionnaire on each home page and then tabulating the findings using simple averages and medians. Areas examined were: backgrounds, document headers, document footers, document body, page length, number of steps to library home page from parent institution Web site, and domain name servers. A typical home page is discussed using the averages of these results.

Optimal design of fixture layout in multistation assembly processes

Abstract: This paper presents a methodology for the optimal design of fixture layouts in multistation assembly processes. An optimal fixture layout improves the robustness of a fixture system against environmental noises, reduces product variability, and leads to manufacturing cost reduction. Three key aspects of the multistation fixture layout design are addressed: a multistation variation propagation model, a quantitative measure of fixture design, and an effective and efficient optimization algorithm. One of the challenges raised by this multistation design is that a high-dimension design space, which usually embeds a lot of local optimums, will have to be explored. Consequently, it makes a global optimality more difficult and, if an inefficient algorithm is used, may require prohibitive computing time. In this paper, exchange algorithms, originally developed in the research of optimal experimental design, are adopted and further revised to optimize fixture layouts in a multistation process. The revised exchange algorithm provides a good tradeoff between optimality and efficiency: it remarkably reduces the computing time without sacrificing the optimal value. A four-station assembly process for a sports utility vehicle sideframe is used throughout the paper to illustrate the relevant concepts and the resulting methodology. Note to practitioners-This paper was motivated by the problem of planning a fixture locator layout in a multistation assembly process. Existing approaches generally focused on planning fixture locator layouts on a single workstation. In a multistation production process, such as an automobile body assembly process, the fixture locating holes used on one station will be reused on different stations, which could cause a station-to-station coupling in variation propagation. In other words, dimensional variation could originate from fixture elements on every station, propagate along the production line, and accumulate on the final assembly. Station-wise fixture layout design may not necessarily lead to a good solution because it overlooks the variation coupling and propagation effect. In this paper, we modeled the variation propagation across multiple stations and provided a quantitative characterization of the performance of fixture layout with the presence of environmental noises. Then, we recommended an efficient computation algorithm to solve for the optimal fixture layout. Our results showed that the multistation layout design is different from a single station one; some intuitions gained from single-station design work may not be still valid. The current work is based on a two-dimensional, rigid panel assembly model. The extension to accommodate more sophisticated two-dimensional, complaint-part assembly processes is much needed in the future research.

Method and system to provide online application forms

Abstract: A system and method are provided to build an application form (e.g., an online application form). The method may comprise providing a graphical user interface (GUI) to a user, the GUI including page layout zone and page and a page type zone include a plurality of reference page types. User placement of selected reference page types in the layout zone is monitored and the selected reference page types are automatically interconnecting based on their relative placement in the layout zone. Interconnection data may define a sequence in which the selected pages are to be presented in the application form. Page data may be created by various wizards or by a page editor. Rules that are associated with each page may be defined by a rules editor.