This chapter is about showing how artifacts impact engineering work processes by representing important issues of individual and collaborative design work. After summarizing the state of the art of engineering as a design process, artifacts and their representational role in design and engineering, a selection of rich descriptions of artifacts’ creation and use in engineering work including tea...

Software engineering environments (SEE) provide facilities for assisting software developers to carry out activities associated with software projects. These software projects result in various artifacts such as design and source-code documents. Object management systems (OMS) of SEEs deal with the maintenance and management of software artifacts. This includes providing facilities for represen...

Real-time ultrasound guidance for any intervention relies on visualization of needle advancement towards a target. Unfortunately, correct identification of the needle tip is not straightforward, as artifacts always distort the image. The ultrasonic appearance of the needle is often degraded by reverberation, comet tail, side-lobe, beam-width, or bayonet artifacts, which can easily confuse an un...

The lack of security measures among the Internet Things (IoT) devices and their persistent online connection gives adversaries a prime opportunity to target them or even abuse as intermediary targets in larger attacks such distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) campaigns. In this paper, we analyze IoT malware focus on endpoints reachable public Internet, that play an essential part ecosystem. Nam...

medical image registration methods which use mutual information as similarity measure have been improved in recent decades. mutual information is a basic concept of information theory which indicates the dependency of two random variables (or two images). in order to evaluate the mutual information of two images their joint probability distribution is required. several interpolation methods, su...