As part of the GINA project at GMD, an interface builder has been implemented that can be used to interactively develop graphical user interfaces based on the OSF/Motif toolkit. The interface builder extensively uses direct-manipulation techniques to facilitate explorative learning and to accelerate the definition process. It provides special support for the dynamic layout capabilities of Motif...

Software developers have created applications that can build custom device profiles that conform to the standards established by the International Color Consortium (ICC). These software applications must address several color reproduction issues during the construction of an ICC device profile. The color reproduction issues could be controlled by input from the person building the profile or by...

This paper presents the design procedure and implementation results for a 16 quadrature amplitude modulation (16-QAM) digital data predistortion technique for satellite communications using an Altera digital signal processing (DSP) board. The implementation uses Matlab/Simulink, Altera DSP Builder, and Altera’s Stratix EP1S80 DSP development board. The design is first implemented in the Matlab/...

research by Dr John Morrissey, Prof Ralph Horne, Prof Mike Berry and Mr Trivess Moore conducted at the Centre for Design, RMIT University between February 2008 and October 2010. The research examined the relationship between housing cost and provision and long term sustainability limits, considering socio-economic, spatial and inter-generational dimensions. This briefing reports on the influenc...

With the use of Java and the JDK, independence of specific platforms (operating systems and window systems) becomes possible. For the development of commercial applications however, Java and the JDK are not enough, and tools such as a GUI-builder are needed. When employing a GUI-builder the new dependencies on the builder-generated code have to be considered. Independence is an important prereq...

Second, it represents the fundamental architecture of an enterprise’s data, and as such is an ideal starting place for database design. To be sure, the final structure of a database may differ from the data model for good and valid reasons, but the closer it remains to the original structure, the more likely it is to be able to resist requirements for future changes. To the system designer and ...

BACKGROUND MEDLINE is the most widely used medical bibliographic database in the world. Most of its citations are in English and this can be an obstacle for some researchers to access the information the database contains. We created a multilingual query builder to facilitate access to the PubMed subset using a language other than English. The aim of our study was to assess the impact of this m...