Program comprehension remains a major bottleneck for software maintenance. When a programmer must understand a large legacy program whose documentation is scarce, out-ofdate, or irrelevant, she must browse its source code to build an effective mental model of its structure and behavior. But source code is far from an ideal representation for this task. I propose a system, DR. JONES, to help a p...

We used a feature selection method to reduce the number of potential drivers and retain only the most important NPP predictors. This was performed using a SOM-based algorithm relying on the SOM topology preserving property. This supplementary material provides the detail of our feature selection algorithm. Two subsets of drivers emerge as the most relevant for explaining NPP variability: those ...

Program comprehension remains a major bottleneck for software maintenance. When a programmer must understand a large legacy program whose documentation is scarce, out-ofdate, or irrelevant, she must browse its source code to build an effective mental model of its structure and behavior. But source code is far from an ideal representation for this task. I propose a system, DR. JONES, to help a p...

Networking homes, offices, cars and hand-held computers is the current trend of distributed mobile computing. The ever growing demand of the enterprise for integrating new technologies and new services requires a generic infrastructure. An infrastructure that allows its components to be accessed, packaged, self described, dynamically configurable, moved over wired or wireless network, deployed ...

Visual Query Languages study ways to help users compose queries with visual metaphors. Information Visualization studies automatic visualization techniques to help users understand and analyze data. Query Management focuses on ways to help users manage and re-use existing queries. We observe that there is a related research question across those three topics which has not received much attentio...

An approach to an open infrastructure for geographic information on the Internet is presented in this chapter. This infrastructure enables data providers to publish their data independently, while enabling end-users to access data from several providers simultaneously, and integrate the data locally in a geographic browser. Our goal is that an end-user finds accessing geographic information in ...

I argue that library research should be conceived as a particular kind of research system, in contrast to more familiar systems like standard social scientific research (SSSR). Unlike SSSR, library research is based on nonelicited sources, recursively used and multiply ordered. It employs the associative algorithms of reading and browsing as opposed to the measurement algorithms of SSSR. Unlike...

Architectural designers are voracious consumers of visual images, which play a crucial role especially in conceptual and creative design. Consequently architectural education revolves around visual references. Yet key word, texture and color retrieval schemes do not suit designers’ needs. Designers need shape based retrieval that is driven by free hand drawing, and ways to integrate retrieved i...

Architectural designers are voracious consumers of visual images, which play a crucial role especially in conceptual and creative design. Consequently architectural education revolves around visual references. Yet key word, texture and color retrieval schemes do not suit designers’ needs. Designers need shape based retrieval that is driven by free hand drawing, and ways to integrate retrieved i...

The WEBSOM methodology for building very large text archives has a very slow method for extracting meaningful unit labels. This is because the method computes for the relative frequencies of all the words of all the documents associated to each unit and then compares these to the relative frequencies of all the words of all the other units of the map. Since maps may have more than 100,000 units...