Variability has proved to be a central concept in different engineering domains, manufacturing, software development etc. in order to develop solutions that can be easily adapted to different organizational settings and different sets of customer at a low price. Teleological processes have, by nature, a high level of variability. Our position is that the integration of “context-awareness” in th...

IT is deeply modifying the medical practices: Cloud-based solutions, including Social Computing, are growing in the medical field. However, this emergence of utility computing such as Cloud Computing makes the current desktop metaphor outdated. There is a need to open the desktop so that to, in addition to classical data, also consider actors and tasks as well as their relationships. This paper...

In this article, we show how the academic prototype LELIE, an intelligent authoring tool for technical texts, developed at IRIT, has been transferred to an industrial context. We first show how it has been customized to the norms and general practices of requirement authoring. We then show how LELIE for Requirements is adapted to the local context of specific companies, in terms of linguistic r...

The main goal of the project described in this paper is to design an environment and tools to help researchers or environmental actors to build adapted and interoperable information systems. These information systems must be adapted and interoperable in order to manage, share, publish and value their managed data. We present here the first step of this project, the study of the existing proposa...

F-measure is an indicator used since 25 years to evaluate classification algorithms in textmining, from precision and recall. For classification and information retrieval, some ones prefer to use the break even point. Nevertheless, these measures have some inconvenient: they use a binary logic and don’t allow applying a user (judge) assessment. This paper proposes a new approach of evaluation. ...

Leading research in human centred computer science needs guidance for helping researchers in elaborating and evaluating their contribution. With this goal, we propose THEDRE, a process to lead research in human centred computer science. In order to evaluate THEDRE, we use Promote, a taxonomy for Software Development Process Model. This work allows us to identify limits of THEDRE, but also of Pr...

The increasing complexity of information systems (ubiquitous systems, open enterprises, etc.) calls for the introduction of always new modeling languages. However, the development of new domain-specific languages makes the question about their quality an important issue for the modeling of information systems. This article deals with this issue by suggesting a user-centred approach for language...

________________________________________________________________________________________________________ VisArtico : visualizing articulatory data acquired by an articulograph In this paper, we present VisArtico, visualization software of articulatory data acquired by an articulograph, AG500. The software allows displaying the positions of the sensors that are simultaneously played with the spe...

This paper presents several innovative sociotechnical systems currently deployed in some Southern cities, which enable urban citizens to produce and disseminate Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) about their water and sanitation services. What happens to this information once online? The literature review reveals that actual uses of VGI remain relatively unstudied. A comparative and multi...

________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Multimodal Prosody. The auction chant in the United States This paper proposes a multimodal prosodic analysis of the auction chant that is practiced in the US. Drawing upon a corpus that involves 6 auctioneers and relying upon the prosodic analysis of the chant by Kuiper, K. & Tillis F. (198...