Object-oriented frameworks are often difficult to use. Framework-specific extensions to integrated development environments (IDEs) aim to mitigate the difficulty by offering tools that leverage the knowledge about framework’s application programming interfaces (APIs). These tools commonly offer support for code visualization, automatic and interactive code generation, and code validation. Curre...

In robotics we are often faced with the problem of repeatedly writing robot drivers for the same devices, but different robot frameworks. In an effort to counter this, a domain model was developed that had success in raising the abstraction level enough to describe a few different devices and frameworks. The domain model was captured in a domain specific language. However, descriptions tend to ...

Dynamic system reconfiguration techniques are presented that can enable the systematic evolution of software systems due to unanticipated changes in specification or requirements. The methodological approach is based upon a domain analysis, which identifies a set of concepts that reflect the types of reconfigurations possible and the system integrity characteristics that must be maintained duri...

Due to hardware developments, strong application needs and the overwhelming innuence of the net in almost all areas, distributed systems, especially software systems, have become one of the most important topics for nowadays software industry. Unfortunately, distribution adds its share to the problems of developing complex software systems. Heterogeneity in both, hardware and software, concurre...

Modeling is a key task in order to analyze, understand, and improve business processes and organizational structures, and to support the design, implementation, and management of information and communication technologies in general and knowledge management systems (KMSs) in particular. Process-oriented knowledge management (Maier, 2004; Maier & Remus, 2003) is a promising approach to provide t...

In the past, research on agent-oriented software engineering had been widely lacking touch with the world of industrial software development. Recently, a cooperation has been established between the Foundation of Intelligent Physical Agents (FIPA) and the Object Management Group (OMG) aiming to increase acceptance of agent technology in industry by relating to de facto standards (object-oriente...

Measuring relative humidity in breath is useful for diagnosing pulmonary diseases. Humidity capacitive sensors were developed to equip a portable clinical device. Simulation is needed to design an electronic interface circuit to be integrated on the same chip as the sensors. A behavioral model of one of these sensors is set out in this paper. It is designed to be included in the model of the mi...

These lectures provide a very basic introduction to different theoretical limits on the mass of Higgs scalars. Particular attention is devoted to the pure Standard Model and its Minimal Supersymmetric extension (MSSM). ∗ Lectures presented at the XXIV ITEP Winter School, Snegiri (Russia) February 1996.