Delivering tailor-made ERP software requires automation of screen and printed report creation to be cost effective. Screens generated directly from data structures tend to have poor usability. An approach is considered using a domain specific language to describe use cases. Paper-prototyping and usability testing results define the usability characteristics the DSL portrays. The DSL is capable ...

From a molecular and genetic perspective, the decade of the 1990s was truly unparalleled in the study of carotenoids. A combination of new technologies and approaches allowed the isolation of bacterial carotenoid biosynthetic genes and the subsequent isolation of higher plant homologs based on colour complementation in Escherichia coli. These genes provided a basis for molecular and transgenic ...

Several governments across the world enhance their attempt to provide efficient, advanced, and modern services to their users (citizens and businesses) based on information and computer technologies (ICT) and especially the Web. The remarkable acceptance of this powerful tool has changed the way of conducting various transactions and offers citizens, businesses, and public authorities’ limitles...

Power-aware scheduling has been of great interest for systems whose energy consumption needs to be minimized. In this paper, we improve a voltage-scalingbased power-aware scheduling algorithm to reduce the task’s energy consumption at the cost of a slower execution rate. The improved algorithm allows multiple scaling voltage levels of individual tasks in a task precedence graph and attempts to ...

Managing the intervention of various actors during the construction phase is a recurrent issue in the construction sector. This is partly due to the multiplicity of stakeholders and the need to manage interfaces necessary for efficient planning and coordination of construction tasks. 4D CAD technology appears to be an innovative approach to answer such issues. It consists in combining a 3D mode...

There are a lot of project planning (like Gantt chart (Gant, 1910)) and network-based scheduling methods (like CPM, PDM, GERT (see i.e. Kelley-Walker, 1959, Pritsker 1966)), they were developed for handling traditional (e.g. construction) projects. While these methods are appropriate for the operation level logic planning, scheduling, cost and resource allocation of traditional project manageme...

There is considerable interest in “re-engineering” business processes to take up the opportunities provided by information technology. The tools used in traditional data modelling and other forms of systems design have been adopted for use in analyzing processes. However, this adaptation is inadequate. This paper describes a method Process ANalysis Network (ProcessANN) that has been designed sp...

In this paper we present results on the systematic reuse of components in a number of large scale applications. The applications have been developed in CHIP, a Prolog based constraint logic programming system. We show that even though the applications solve very different problems, we can reuse large parts of the data model and graphical user interfaces. We describe several very high level comp...

We used mutual information analysis of neuronal activity in the macaque anterior intraparietal area (AIP) to examine information processing during a hand manipulation task. The task was to reach-to-grasp a three-dimensional (3D) object after presentation of a go signal. Mutual information was calculated between the spike counts of individual neurons in 50-ms-wide time bins and six unique shape ...

A product or system development process is a kind of complex system, arguably even more complex than the system it produces. Yet, the models and tools used by systems engineers and program managers to plan and manage technical work—such as process flowcharts, Gantt charts, work breakdown structures, and text-rendered procedures—are less sophisticated and capable than the ones used to design the...