The architects’ view of buildings is drastically changing because of technical progress, especially in control and facility management. Also, the usage of many buildings is often altered during their life time. Therefore, buildings have to be designed and maintained as systems including the users and uses over time. We have developed a formal building model that integrates the domains of buildi...

In the context of the CelLEST project, we have been investigating the problem of reengineering and reusing the services provided by legacy applications, running on mainframe hosts. This work has resulted in a suite of methods, based on understanding and modeling the users’ interaction with the legacy-application interface. These methods aim at (a) modeling the behavior of the legacy user interf...

During the past ten years, requirements on functionality of business applications have been slowly changing. This shift consists of moving from traditional command based applications to inherently interactive applications of workflow and groupware type. For modeling new kind of business applications, the authors suggest an approach to defining interaction that is not based on explicit communica...

BORM (Business Object Relationship Modeling) is a development methodology used to store knowledge of process-based business systems. It has been in development since 1993 and has proved an effective method, popular with both users and analysts. BORM is based on the combination of object-oriented approach and process-based modeling. In this paper, we present BORM use as a tool for capturing proc...

Modeling a user’s interactions is intimately tied to many areas of research in the fields of HCI and Visual Analytics. Most notably, developing adaptive visual interfaces and effectively prefetching for large datasets, first requires understanding the user’s behavior and analytical process. In this work, we demonstrate the potential of using a user’s mouse movements and clicks to achieve this g...

Friday, October 16, 2015, 2-4pm Social Science Research Commons Grand Hall Woodburn Hall 200 Topic modeling algorithms analyze a document collection to estimate its latent thematic structure. However, many collections contain an additional type of data: how people use the documents. For example, readers click on articles in a newspaper website, scientists place articles in their personal librar...

In order to enhance the capabilities of knowledge service in product innovation design service platform, a method of acquiring knowledge resources supporting for product innovation from the Internet and providing knowledge active push is proposed. Through knowledge modeling for product innovation based on ontology, the integrated architecture of knowledge resources network is put forward. The t...

Part III is concluded with this chapter that proposes a Fuzzy Cognitive Map (FCM)-based modeling of the Quality of Interaction (QoI) of the Learning Management System (LMS) users within a blended (b)learning context, namely FCM-QoI model. Two training/testing scenarios were conducted and explored here, i.e., time-dependent and time-independent, using as pre-validated QoI data the ones presented...

Web browsing is a complex activity and in general, users are not guided during browsing. The aim of this research is to support the browsing of users using semantic and adaptive hyperlinks using Semantic Web technologies and personalization methods. In this paper, we propose a novel Semantic Web browser (SemWeB), which uses a behavior-based and an ontology-driven user modeling architecture. In ...