In the domain of Human–Computer Interaction (HCI), recent advances in sensors, communication technologies, miniaturization and computing capabilities have led to new and advanced forms of interaction. Among them, Mixed Interactive Systems (MIS), form a class of interactive systems that comprises augmented reality, tangible interfaces and ambient computing; MIS aim to take advantage of physical ...

There is a hidden intrigue in the title. CT is one of the most abstract mathematical disciplines, sometimes nicknamed ”abstract nonsense”. MDE is a recent trend in software development, industrially supported by standards, tools, and the status of a new ”silver bullet”. Surprisingly, categorical patterns turn out to be directly applicable to mathematical modeling of structures appearing in ever...

Abstract—This study was conducted to evaluate the seismic performance of weir structures using two different approaches: i) design response spectrum with respect to KBC 2009 in Korea and ii) acceleration of time history (PGA, 0.3011 g) obtained from 1994 Northridge earthquake. This paper provided the simple linear elastic 2D plane strain FE model with the material nonlinearity including soil-fo...

This study investigates the sensitivity of design variables such as ultimate strength of concrete, yield stress of reinforcing steel and damping ratio to the seismic response of staggered wall structures. Two different methods for sensitivity analysis, the tornado diagram method and the first-order second-moment method, are applied to two types of model structures. Non-linear dynamic analyses a...

In model-driven engineering (MDE), models are mostly used in prescriptive ways for system engineering. While prescriptive models are indeed an important ingredient to realize a system, for later phases in the systems’ lifecycles additional model types are beneficial to use. Unfortunately, current MDE approaches mostly neglect the information upstream in terms of descriptive models from operatio...

Where model-driven engineering (MDE) requires models to interact with general-purpose programming language (GPL) artifacts, sophisticated patterns for the integration of generated and handcrafted code are required. This raises a gap between modeling and programming which requires developers to switch between both activities and their contexts. Action languages that enable interacting with GPL a...

Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) is an approach to develop software systems by creating models and applying automated transformations to them to ultimately generate the implementation for a target platform. Although the main focus of MDE is on the generation of code, it is also necessary to support the analysis of the designs with respect to quality attributes such as performance. To complement t...

The applications development for Android platform differs from traditional software development. These applications are usually complex, due to the characteristics imposed by the platform, thereby increasing the design complexity. Moreover, the designer has to worry about a reduced time to market. This way, approaches to accelerate the development and deal with complex systems are required. UML...

Model transformations are important in Model Driven Engineering (MDE). They automate software development steps and greatly improve productivity and reduce software errors. However, the design of model transformation rules requires lots of manual work. To fully take advantage of MDE, correctness of model transformation rules should be ensured. In this paper, we present an ongoing work to use mo...