Sensemaking is a deliberate effort to understand events or information, and a sketch is an exploratory graphic composition of a concept or observation. Within the architecture domain, sketching is employed during predesign phases to create a shared understanding among clients and stakeholders. While sensemaking is highly collaborative, sketching is usually a solitary activity. This paper descri...

DREV is investigating concepts for the development of a computer-based, realtime decision support system that can provide combat system operators with advanced support capabilities for countering the current and anticipated threat to the Canadian Patrol Frigate. Among its principal roles, this system will continuously take in data from the ship's sensors and other information sources; support t...

Recently, many approaches for automatic information extraction from technical specifications in the area of electronic design automation have been proposed. For this purpose, techniques from natural language processing are used. In order to lower the bars for designers and customers, some approaches do not intend to restrict the natural language that is used to describe the specifications. Howe...

The aim of this paper is to present some preliminary ideas about practical metrics and measurements useful for (i) assessing business process risk at design time and (ii) computing security and trust metrics at run time on business process orchestrations. In particular, the study is focused on a priori metrics applied to behavioral specifications of business processes (e.g., business rules and ...

Recent developments in social media offer the interesting prospect that current ‘educational content methods and practices’ based on traditional media will become rapidly replaced by social knowledge interactions. These knowledge interactions are delivered and maintained by social media, and will be interactive, open, social and personal of nature. To gain insight and experience with this prosp...

Dance choreography is a system of techniques used to create new dances. The choreographer devises body movements using internal and external cues to express feelings and concepts, from the most abstract ideas to very concrete human situations in a highly creative manner. In 3D Tele-immersive Environments (3DTI) the choreographer has exponentially more options to create new body movements in the...