Internet enabled devices are becoming a commodity. However, all these devices strongly differ in capabilities and characteristics. To enable content providers to deliver optimized content for these devices, it is necessary that the content providers are informed about the usage environment of the client. In this paper we discuss the necessity of this information and various ways to structure an...

Various BPMN modeling tools are available and it is close to impossible to understand their functional differences without simply trying them out. This paper presents an evaluation framework and presents the outcomes of its application to a set of five BPMN modeling tools. We report on various differences, for example with respect to the level of BPMN support and the “smart” support a modeler m...

AUTHOR Fitzgerald, Mary Ann TITLE Critical Thinking: Tools for Internet Information Evaluation. PUB DATE 1997-00-00 NOTE 18p.; In: Information Rich but Knowledge Poor? Emerging Issues for Schools and Libraries Worldwide. Research and Professional Papers Presented at the Annual Conference of the International Association of School Librarianship Held in Conjunction with the Association for Teache...

An impressive number of model transformation languages and associated tools have been developed over the last few years. These tools can be used to develop, transform, merge, exchange, compare and verify models or meta-models. In this paper, we compare and evaluate the current model transformation tools based on a qualitative framework. We begin with looking at the background areas of model tra...

The Video Browser Showdown (VBS) is a live competition for evaluating video browsing tools regarding their efficiency at knownitem search (KIS) tasks. The first VBS was held at MMM 2012 with eight teams working on 14 tasks, of which eight were completed by expert users and six by novices. We describe the details of the competition, analyze results regarding the performance of tools, the differe...

Data Quality is a major stake for large organizations and software companies are proposing increasing numbers of tools focusing on these issues. The scope of these tools is moving from specific applications (deduplication, address normalization etc ...) to a more global perspective integrating all areas of data quality (profiling, rule-detection...). A framework is needed to help managers to ch...

Strong passwords have been preached since decades. However, lot of the regular users of IT systems resort to simple and repetitive passwords, especially nowadays in the “service era”. To help alleviate this problem, a new class of software grew popular: password managers. Since their introduction, password managers have slowly been migrating into the cloud. In this paper we review and analyze c...

Performance evaluation tools play an important role in helping understand application performance, diagnose performance problems and guide tuning decisions on modern HPC systems. Tools to observe parallel performance must evolve to keep pace with the ever-increasing complexity of these systems. In this paper, we describe our experience in building novel tools and techniques in the TAU Performan...

Significant research has been dedicated to the development of creativity support tools, tools intended to amplify human creativity in the arts, sciences, and design disciplines. While examples of such tools abound, instruments are generally lacking to systematically and reliably assess these tools’ impact on the creative process. Without these instruments, it is difficult to identify what aspec...

BACKGROUND The rapid growth in the number of mobile health applications could have profound significance in the prevention of disease or in the treatment of patients with chronic disease such as diabetes. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to describe the characteristics of the most common mobile health care applications available in the Apple iTunes marketplace. METHODS We undertook...