Search results for "Software"

Designed for unanticipated use

2003

Common artefacts have been identified as fundamental characteristics for framing activities in workplaces. Mike Robinson's article 'Design for unanticipated use...' conceptualised and defined the dimensions of common artefacts as consisting of predictability, peripheral awareness, implicit communication, double level language and overview. These dimensions have often been used in explaining unexpected uses of different applications and systems. In this paper, experiences from common artefacts as CSCW application design principles, indicating that unanticipated uses are expected and further supported, are discussed. Two distinct cases, a physical room and a software application, are presente…

Introduction to the Minitrack on Software Product Lines: Engineering, Services, and Management

2018

Efficiency of visual time-sharing behavior

2009

In this paper, the effects of two user interface menu structures on a mobile device display, list and grid, are compared in a driving simulation with the measures of visual time-sharing efficiency, visual load, driving performance and secondary task performance. Eighteen participants conducted a set of eight Point-of-Interest (POI) search tasks with the grid- or list-style menus on navigation software during simulated driving. Between-subject analysis revealed that the list-style menu structure supports more efficient and systematic, and thus, safer interaction while driving than the grid-style menu, in terms of time-sharing and total glance time. However, significant effects of the menu st…

Commercial Scatter Search Implementation

2003

In this chapter we discuss the development of commercial optimization software based on the scatter search methodology.

Case studies and coupling of processes

2007

This chapter with eight authored sections presents a selection of possible application of microdynamic simulation to address geological questions. The various processes that have been introduced in the previous chapter were used, sometimes with minor additions or modifications. Because processes in rocks never operate in isolation, the reader will see that the various authors in this chapter have combined two or more processes to simulate the microstructural development under investigation. As such the authors have fully taken advantage of the possibility of the Elle software to couple processes.

New Trends in Databases and Information Systems: Contributions from ADBIS 2017 Workshops

2017

In the last few years, research on database and information system technologies has been rapidly evolving thanks to the new paradigms of software and hardware adopted by modern scientific and more invasive applications. A huge and heterogeneous amount of data should be efficiently stored, managed, and analyzed exploiting proper technologies for such novel and more interesting data-driven applications. New and cutting-edge research challenges arise that have been attracting great attention from both academia and industry. The 21st European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS 2017), held on September 24–27, 2017 in Nicosia, Cyprus includes four thematic workshop…

Chapter 11: Affect and Mathematical Modeling Assessment: A Case Study on Engineering Students’ Experience of Challenge and Flow During a Compulsory M…

2019

This chapter describes a study on engineering students’ affect while working on the Tracker Project Task, a group assessment task that asks students (1) to use digital tools (the camera in their smart phones and free tracker software) to capture the movement of an object, (2) to mathematically model that movement, and (3) to create a poster reporting on the video analysis of the movement.

Automated Integration and Communication Synthesis of Reconfigurable MPSoC Platform

2007

The communication synthesis is the main problematic in the multiprocessor system-on-chip (MPSoC). To resolve this problem, several methodologies can be used. These methodologies require automated methods to specify, generate and optimize the hardware, software, and the architectural interfaces between them. In this paper, we present a methodology flow for hardware-software communication synthesis for multiprocessor system-on-chip platform which are dedicated to streaming applications. Our methodology consists of high level architecture communication synthesis from functional description of the MPSoC design. The solution that we propose consists in synthesizing a custom bus architecture for …

Adoption of Open Source Software and Software-as-a- Service Models in the Telecommunication Industry

2011

A case research is carried out on adoption of open source software (OSS) and software-as-a-service (SaaS) in the telecommunication industry. The study was conducted to examine the types of software deployed as OSS and SaaS and the conditions of adopting OSS and SaaS. Findings of the case study indicate that industry-specific software is not developed as OSS or deployed in SaaS mode. Based on the findings, we also arrive at conclusion: Adoption is hindered by specificity of processes and technology interfaces.

Natural language access to software applications

1998

This paper reports on the ESPRIT project MELISSA (Methods and Tools for Natural-Language Interfacing with Standard Software Applications)1. MELISSA aims at developing the technology and tools enabling end users to interface with computer applications, using natural-language (NL), and to obtain a precompetitive product validated in selected enduser applications. This paper gives an overview of the approach to solving (NL) interfacing problem and outlines some of the methods and software components developed in the project.