The problems of producing a software system to assist in the rehabilitation of people who have suffered serious traumatic brain injuries are described. The challenges of ensuring a high level of usability by incorporating the best of graphic and HCI design into a well established software engineering methodology are discussed. The resulting suite of programs is now in use at a rehabilitation ho...

This is the second part of an article on preparing images for medical publication. The first part dealt with optimal capture and export of pixel-based medical images. This part will deal with post-processing and editing of such images using specific software tools, and with the use of graphics illustration and charting software applications for creation of medical illustrations and charts. In t...

Graphic representations are a thoroughgoing communication language. Their development has received considerable impetus from the field of artificial intelligence and more generally from all those areas which have attempted to “capture” knowledge domains in “digital mode”. They are formally represented so that they can be used by specific software engines, e.g. intelligent systems, decision supp...

There is no doubt that the object-oriented paradigm (encapsulation, inheritance, polymorphism and dynamic binding) encourages the building of extensible systems and software reuse. Nevertheless, the desired reusability of software components often cannot be achieved even by using state-of-the-art class libraries/application frameworks or object-oriented programming in general. Based on a large-...

This paper is an experience report and discussion of an experiment in teaching and using a comprehensive model-based methodology and tool (Objectory) in a large software project. The paper describes in detail the preparation of such an experiment, states our assumptions during the planning phase, and presents the results together with a discussion of the most important issues. We observed certa...

Software visualization is the use of interactive computer graphics, typography, graphic design, animation, and cinematography to enhance the interface between the software engineer or the computer science student and their programs. Although several taxonomies of software visualization have been proposed, they use few dimensions and do not span the space of important distinctions between system...

Inspections and reviews are one of the most effective ways of detecting errors in software development. The methods are also cost-effective because defects can be spotted early in the development, and thus the cost of repairing the defects is lower. Reading techniques are the procedures that are used in the inspection or review of a software artefact. The most common procedures are simple ad-ho...

Designing and valuating derivative contracts belongs to a financial engineer’s daily tasks. Their almost unlimited flexibility has already created the need for computer-aided techniques – typically spreadsheet-based software solutions. Lacking in-depth software development expertise promotes inflexible prototypes individually developed for each new contract to be designed and valuated. Scalabil...