During the development of a software system, something is lost in translation of the HumanComputer Interface (HCI) between human factors engineer’s analysis and the software developer's implementation. Since the developer touches the product last, the human factors engineer’s contribution is frequently lost. Graphical User Interface Design Patterns (UIDP) are templates representing commonly use...

Contemporary user interface development systems greatly simplify the creation of traditional dialogue user interface made of buttons or menus, but they do not support the construction and manipulation of application-specific graphical objects. This report describes Rollit, a domain-specific, interactive, application builder. The goal of this system is to automatically generate, as a result of d...

In this paper we present a system that automatically generates a 3D virtual world from a virtual institution (VI) specification, namely of activities that will take place in the virtual world. A virtual institution is an interaction environment where both human and software agents participate in a joint 3D virtual world. A VI is visualized as a 3D building composed of rooms representing the dif...

Center for Biomedical Informatics Research, Stanford University, Stanford, CA Domain specific biomedical lexicons are extensively used by researchers for natural language processing tasks. Currently these lexicons are created manually by expert curators and there is a pressing need for automated methods to compile such lexicons. The Lexicon Builder Web service addresses this need and reduces th...

This paper presents Olan, a language and a run time support intended to facilitate the design, configurationand evolution of distributed applications made up of heterogeneous software components. Configuration covers two phases: for the application builder, the identification of the software components and the description of their interconnections and communications; for the application adminis...

In this study, measuring processes of fiducial marks are performed with area based matching method. A computer program in Borland C++ Builder software is developed to find out the image fiducial marks particularly for this project. Ten images were taken by Wild RC 10 camera. They belonged to Selcuk University Campus area. The films were scanned by Zeiss Scai Photogrammetric Scanner (Pixel size ...

As High Performance Computing becomes more collaborative, software certification practices are needed to quantify the credibility of shared applications. To demonstrate quantitative certification testing, Model-Based Statistical Testing (MBST) was applied to cexec, a cluster control utility developed in the Network and Cluster Computing Group of Oak Ridge National Laboratory. MBST involves gene...

For designing and testing embedded software, simulation tools have been used to keep pace with the rapid development of customized hardware parts. SID is a framework for building computer system simulations and SID is made for debugging, testing and verifying embedded software. Though, it is difficult for developers to use SID for their work. In this work, we developed an integrated virtual pla...

Im MPEG-21 Multimedia Framework Standard spielt das Digital Item als fundamentale Transaktionsund Austauscheinheit eine zentrale Rolle. Dieser Artikel beschreibt eine Methodik und Software zur Erstellung und den Konsum von Digital Items. Das Softwarewerkzeug setzt sich aus zwei Teilen zusammen: Der DI Builder erlaubt es Benutzern MPEG-21 Digital Items zu erstellen, die mit dem DI Consumer konsu...

Statistical testing of software based on a usage model is a cost-effective and efficient means to make inferences about software quality. In order to apply this method, a usage model is developed and analyzed to validate its fitness for use in testing. The model may then be used to generate test cases representing expected usage, and to reason about system reliability given the performance on t...