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NASA has been successfully sustaining the continuous operation of its critical navigation software systems for over 12 years. To accomplish this, NASA scientists must continuously monitor their process, report on current system quality, forecast maintenance effort, and sustain required staffing levels. This report presents some examples of the use of a robust software metrics and analytics program...
Biologists synthesize research articles into coherent models—ideally, causal models, which predict how systems will respond to interventions. But it is challenging to derive causal models from articles alone, without primary data. To enable causal discovery using only literature, we built software for annotating empirical results in free text and computing valid explanations, expressed as causal graphs...
The socioeconomic impact of limb disabilities produced by injuries, traumas or congenital defects is evident in low-income countries, where there are often inadequate systems of trauma care and rehabilitation. The most medical schools in developing countries do not include a disability and rehabilitation component in their curricula. Even worst, many institutes do not have facilities or equipment...
To improve the effective utilisation of its supercomputing platforms, the New Zealand eScience Infrastructure (NeSI) offers, in addition to user support and the installation of a comprehensive software stack, a consultancy service to some of its users. Here we present lessons learned from this work and how additional improvements can be made to further enhance productivity of researchers on computing...
The increasing amount of gathered sensor data in Industry 4.0 allows comprehensive data analysis software that creates value-adding opportunities. As companies often cannot implement such software by themselves and as they typically don't want to give their data to external scientists, they commission them to build the required software in order to execute it locally. However, installing, configuring,...
The use of cognitive maps in support of solving practical problems of analysis of ill-structured situations and large-scale systems in economics, medicine, ecology, education and military-political sphere is growing. The problem of visual perception and understanding of cognitive maps is proven to be extremely urgent and practically important. The set of visualization methods that provide better perception...
The need to improve the quality of management at minimum costs, the complexity of the structure of the management object, the functions performed by it, leads to an increase in uncertainties that need to be taken into account. Application of typification and unification will allow to reduce the cost of production of new products, to increase the level of automation of productions.
Accurate and real-time water quality assessment is an important way to ensure healthy aquaculture and protect the water environment. Due to the diversity, nonlinear and uneven distribution of aquaculture water quality parameters, it's very difficulty to assess the water quality. In this paper, the accurate water quality parameters are obtained by an adaptive weighted fusion method, then the water...
When we drive a car, the external antenna is electrostatically shielded by the car's body from the passengers. No such shield exists when we ride a motorcycle, and so the rider can affect the characteristics of the antenna mounted on the motorcycle. Therefore, the interaction between the antenna and the human body must be considered. This paper proposes a simple model to analyze the influence of the...
In Systems Biology, Boolean models are gaining popularity in modeling and analysis of qualitative dynamics of gene regulatory mechanisms. With the development of advanced high-throughput technologies, the availability of experimental data on gene-gene, gene-protein interactions is ever increasing. Consequently, modern Boolean models are increasing in size and complexity. Software simulation of Boolean...
[Context/Motivation]: The strategy of an organization defines its long-term goals and develop plans to achieve these goals. Strategic planning is the activity of deciding how to allocate resources within the organization to satisfy its strategy. Strategic planning precedes more detailed requirements engineering activities that clarify the requirements for the software systems concerned by the strategic...
The paper is devoted to modeling of single-layer garments as developable median surfaces, modeled in the form of a thin supple shell. The products are modeled in Maple 9.5 and Embarcadero RAD Studio. The modelling of conical skirts considering seams is performed to demonstrate the space form of garments in the gravity field of elastic materials. Also the product aeroman is modelled which brings the...
In the paper a novel model of Key-Threshold based Spiking Neural Network (KTSNN) is proposed. This neural network consists of quasi-neurons oriented to recognize any key-spikes distributed in time (sequence of spikes) or in space (in synapses). Every neuron aims to recognize key (template of spikes) stored in its memory and to react by output spike at successfully detection. Software implementation...
This work in progress extends the new mechanical philosophy from science to engineering. Engineering is the practice of organising the design and construction of artifices that satisfy needs in real-world contexts. This work shows how artifices can be described in terms of their mechanisms and composed through their observable phenomena. Typically, the engineering of real system requires descriptions...
A virtual reality program has been developed to assess the strength and flexibility of a computer based model of a term fetus or newborn baby's neck. The software has a haptic/force feedback user interface which allows clinical experts to adjust the mechanical properties, including range of motion and mechanical stiffness of a newborn neck model, at runtime. The developed software was assessed by...
This work addresses the automatic generation of the resources required for the assisted creation of domain models according to specialized views of their meta-model. The task of a designer who builds models compliant to a complex domain meta-model is eased if the model editor requests the information according to a specific view of the meta-model based on the conceptualization or the specific construction...
Virtual worlds and avatar-based interactive computer games are a hype among consumers and researchers for many years now. In recent years, such games on mobile devices also became increasingly important. However, most virtual worlds require the use of proprietary clients and authoring environments and lack portability, which limits their usefulness for targeting wider audiences like e.g. in consumer...
Privacy is a major quality attribute of any software. Since personal data of users are collected, stored, processed, and transferred by the applications they use, they need to be assured that proper data protection is in place. Since privacy principles should be taken into account and incorporated into application design, this paper aims to promote privacy by design and presents a development of privacy...
The idea of this paper is to show the power of modelling activities to analyze multidisciplinary phenomena and to bridge the gap between secondary and university mathematics. For that, we are using a methodology emerged from the anthropological theory of the didactic whose result is the design of a teaching device called study and research path. This device uses exhaustively the ICT like a facilitator...
The rise of Information Technology has impacted not only on the way of doing business and the digital transformation of organizations, but also on the sustainability, acquiring a special relevance through the idea of the Green IT. The Green IT is becoming an indispensable area in organizations and in a social demand. However, organizations do not have the necessary mechanisms to assess their maturity...
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