This poster describes a technique for reconstructing tomographic images generated by a minitomograph scanner for soil science developed by Embrapa Agricultural Instrumentation using a parallel DSP architecture with an HEPC2E board from Hunt Engineering with two TMS320C40 processors from Texas Instruments. The software designed for visualization of bi-and tri-dimensional images uses Code Compose...

There are a number of competing component models in use today. Most are language-independent, but also platform-dependent and not designed to support a tool-based development paradigm. Espresso is a new platform-independent component model whose primary goal is to make it easy for tools to manipulate and compose Espresso components interactively during the software development process. This pap...

In this paper we describe the Salieri System, an interactive software environment for structure oriented composition, manipulation, and analysis of music. The system is built on the newly developed Salieri Language, a universal programming language based on a hierarchical model of formal music representation, combining features of traditional functional and procedural programming languages with...

Software (SW) development is a labor intensive activity. Modern software projects generally have to deal with producing and managing large and complex software products. Developing such software has become an extremely challenging job not only because of inherent complexity, but also mainly for economic constraints unlike time, quality, maintainability concerns. Hence, developing modern softwar...

Anthony, Laurence. 2013. A critical look at software tools in corpus linguistics. Linguistic Research 30(2), 141-161. Corpora are often referred to as the ‘tools’ of corpus linguistics. However, it is important to recognize that corpora are simply linguistic data and that specialized software tools are required to view and analyze them. The functionality offered by software tools largely dictat...

research by Dr John Morrissey, Prof Ralph Horne, Prof Mike Berry and Mr Trivess Moore conducted at the Centre for Design, RMIT University between February 2008 and October 2010. The research examined the relationship between housing cost and provision and long term sustainability limits, considering socio-economic, spatial and inter-generational dimensions. This briefing reports on the influenc...

With the use of Java and the JDK, independence of specific platforms (operating systems and window systems) becomes possible. For the development of commercial applications however, Java and the JDK are not enough, and tools such as a GUI-builder are needed. When employing a GUI-builder the new dependencies on the builder-generated code have to be considered. Independence is an important prereq...

Despite the spread of software development and software usage, we have almost no dependable data on how software is actually written in practice. Understanding the shape of existing software is an important step to understanding what good software looks like. Our proposal is to undertake quantitative studies of the way software is actually written in practice and evolved over time by collecting...

In this report two programs for statistical analysis of concordance lines are described. The programs have been developed for analysing the lexical context of a given word. It is shown how different parameter settings influence the outcome of collocational analysis, and how the concept of collocation can be extended to allow the extraction of lines typical for a word from a set of concordance l...