This paper presents an in-progress development of a framework for using design rationale and design patterns for developing reusable software systems. The proposed framework will be used as an integrated design environment for reusable software design, to support collaborative development of software applications by a group of software specialists from a library of building block cases. These g...

This paper presents the TACTUS Multi-Touch Research Testbed, a hardware and software system for enabling research in multi-touch interaction. A detailed discussion is provided on hardware construction, pitfalls, design options, and software architecture to bridge the gaps in the existing literature and inform the researcher on the practical requirements of a multi-touch research testbed. This i...

A set of software tools that use compactly supported radial basis functions (CSRBFs) to process scattered data is proposed in this paper. To solve problems concerning the processing of scattered data in such applications as reconstruction of functionaly defined geometric objects, surface retouching, and shape modifications, we employ a specially designed C++ software library. Thanks to the effi...

Component-based software development (CBSD) is a very promising software engineering technique for improving reuse and maintenance. Nevertheless, there are still some difficulties in practice when reusing, maintaining and evolving components and/or component-based (CB) applications. In this paper, we review the concepts of version and configuration management and apply them in the context of CB...

We present an embedded-system design flow, discuss its details, and demonstrate its advantages. We adopt the object-oriented methodology for the system-level model because software dominates hardware in embedded systems and the objectoriented methodology is already established for software design and reuse. As the building-block of system implementation, we synthesise application-specific proce...

Although component-based architectures favor the building and extension of digital libraries, the configuration of such systems is not a trivial task. Our approach to simplify the tasks of constructing and customizing component-based digital libraries is based on an assistant tool: a setup wizard that segments those tasks into well-defined steps and drives the user along these steps. For genera...

software reuse, software reuse library, hypertext, automated linking The goal of this project is to explore techniques for making software reuse effective. As the development of large software systems continues, the idea of reusing software from previous applications becomes attractive as a means for improving productivity and increasing software quality. Important to such goals is the availabi...

In this paper, I describe the theoretical background that led to the creation of software for interactive dance performance that interprets rhythm in dance movement as musical rhythm. This software was implemented as a library of external objects for Max/MSP[12] that processes data from an object or library that performs frame-differencing analysis of a video stream in real time in this program...

Ontologies have been gaining interest and their use has been spreading in different applications fields. However, their use in the realization of applications might be further increased by the availability of more usable and efficient software library for the management of ontologies. In this paper, an object-oriented software library for the management of OWL ontologies is presented. This soft...

PDBlib is an extensible object oriented class library written in C++ for representing the 3-dimensional structure of biological macromolecules. PDBlib forms the kernel of a larger software framework being developed for assiting in knowledge discovery from macromolecular structure data. The software design strategy used by PDBlib, how the library may be used and several prototype applications th...