The visual exploration and analysis of time-oriented data in healthcare are important yet challenging tasks. This position paper presents six challenges for Visual Analytics in healthcare: (1) scale and complexity of time-oriented data, (2) intertwining patient condition with treatment processes, (3) scalable analysis from single patients to cohorts, (4) data quality and uncertainty, (5) intera...

The dynamic behavior of object-oriented programs is diicult to design, implement, and modify. Understanding the interactions between classes and objects is necessary to create eecient designs and make safe modiications. This work seeks to identify, visualize, and analyze recurring message patterns in object-oriented program executions as a means for understanding and examining dynamic behavior....

Software systems are growing in size and complexity. Increased complexity often leads to decresed mainainability and bad modularity, and re-engineering tasks is often performed in order to increase the key qualities of the system. With the incentive of a growing attention to aspect-oriented programming, the efforts to devise new techniques for refactoring legacy system into an aspect-oriented d...

The analysis of time-oriented data is an important task in many application scenarios. In recent years, a variety of techniques for visualizing such data have been published. This variety makes it difficult for prospective users to select methods or tools that are useful for their particular task at hand. In this article, we develop and discuss a systematic view on the diversity of methods for ...

There are two generally accepted approaches to research into translation: product-oriented and process-oriented ones (Kussmaul 1995: 5). While the first primarily deals with the results of the translation process, the processoriented approach provides an insight into the cognitive aspect of the translation process itself. There have been numerous studies into various forms of process-oriented t...

The general objective of the Argo project is to build a process-centred environment kernel, providing assistance and active guidance to its users. Thanks to an hybrid approach of process modelling, both task-oriented and decision-oriented, it can be customized to support a broad range of collective design activities. The concept of issue is central to the modelling approach, both on the design ...

The object-oriented design methods and their CASE tools are widely used in practice by many real-time software developers. However, object-oriented CASE tools require an additional step of identifying tasks from a given design model. Task identiication is usually performed in an ad-hoc manner using hints provided by human designers. In this paper, we present our ongoing research into schedulabi...

So far nearly all spoken dialogue systems (SDSs) have been task-oriented. An important question for the future of SDSs is what happens to dialogue management if we move beyond the task-oriented system to domainoriented systems which are no longer defined in terms of the tasks they support. This paper discusses conversation management for domain-oriented systems by describing the solution adopte...

In this paper, the implications of applying the idea of gift exchange mechanism, inspired from Pierre Bourdieu's sociological theories, into a market-based multiagent system are explored. Our work is directed in the continuation of investigations by Knabe (2002), who addressed the formation of different organizations structures between providers in a profit-oriented market. We nevertheless scru...

Most interactive technology is designed for the individual user pursuing either a work-oriented accomplishment of tasks or an experience-oriented aesthetic/pleasurable endeavor. In the project here presented that design paradigm is turned up-side-down focusing on social use and social context. I furthermore argue that this social user perspective can be applied in other design projects and I pr...