Purpose: This study aimed to provide some insight into mental models of the bibliographic universe and how they compare with FRBR as a conceptual model of the bibliographic universe. Design/methodology/approach: To get a more complete picture of the mental models, different elicitation techniques were used. The three tasks of this study were: card sorting, concept mapping and comparison task. T...

Purpose: This article aims to present the results of the first two tasks of a user study looking into mental model of the bibliographic universe and especially their comparison to the FRBR conceptual model, which has not yet been user tested. Design/methodology/approach: The study employed a combination of techniques for eliciting mental models and consisted of three tasks, two of which, card s...

enterprise resource planning (erp) has become the most strategic tool for an organization to employ. a leading erp solution is sap®. it has been employed by organizations to enable them to collaborate on different projects and to integrate all aspects of operations. just as organizations have adopted erp solutions, they employed quality initiatives that are designed to help organizations maximi...

*This research was supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft as part of the Special Research Project 501. Abstract A consistent implementation of component-based reuse bears several implications for the design of the software development process. For instance, requirements engineering has to be tailored to particularly elicit information necessary for selecting and configuring appropriat...

The paper discusses a parallel, multiprocessor implementation of methods based on partial differential equations (PDE). It focuses on the implementation requirements of segmentation by active contours. Here, the key task is the accurate computation of an implicit description of the contours, i.e. the distance map. This paper demonstrates the use of the proposed architecture by giving a hardware...