Conclusions Detailed Gantt charts and visual, simplified, yet immensely beneficial flowcharts, can be easily embedded during grant application writing to illustrate the feasibility of studies within funding duration. The time investment in designing such tools at this stage allow studies to be visualised from an operational perspective early on, which help to ensure that studies can be delivere...

We propose a new parallel performance visualization scheme, based on a simple moment analysis of processor utilization data. This method combines the scalability advantages of statistical summaries with the more revealing processor utilization information of Gantt charts. It scales well to large numbers of processors, requiring only storage constant in execution time.

The present paper addresses a general diagram to investigate the real-time parallel computation mechanism in the brain, using an idea of “Gantt chart.” This diagram explicitly represents the temporal relationship between the computations running in various functional modules in the brain, and helps us to understand how the brain computation proceeds along the time. The author illustrates how we...

For the planning of relief operations the duration and the necessary resources are key factors for a successful completion. Those factors, however, are difficult to estimate due to the large number of influencing factors in a complex crisis situation. This paper presents a software module that supports the planning by calculating the duration and the required resources for relief measures based...

This article reports on the background research on requirements and current approaches to editors for learning curriculum designers. First we take a critique look at the state of the art in the domain of learning activity editors. We then look back in the information visualization and interaction literature to discuss the design challenged of such tools. From these current theories and applied ...

FlowOpt is a collection of modules built on top of enterprise performance optimization system MAK€ with the goal to bring unique modeling, optimizing, and visualizing capabilities for production workflows. FlowOpt is based on the concept of nested temporal network with alternatives used to formally describe alternative processes in workflows. The system supports visual design of nested workflow...

Formation of a networked manufacturing system for particular multi-part product orders is tackled in the presence of alternative process plans for the parts. Each process plan can be transformed into a production schedule in different ways, depending on the machines that are available for each operation in various nodes of the network. Machine suitability is decided on technical criteria using ...

Today’s building automation systems must be capable of dealing with a large number of simultaneously occurring events. Human operators monitor these events in order to maintain situational awareness, to detect physical intrusion or hardware problems, and other irregularities. We transferred the so-called temporal mosaic charts to building environments and compared their use with entropy-enriche...

Medical therapy planning shares a number of properties of project management. It is, however, different in a few very important aspects — most notably, the more complex notion of time it requires. Asbru is a language that can represent medical therapy plans in terms of time-oriented, skeletal plans. But due to its formal nature, it cannot be used directly by physicians. Therefore, we developed ...