As computers and large displays become cheaper, additional modes of human computer interaction are becoming possible. One can now set up an interactive workspace in which multiple computer displays and input devices are simultaneously visible and usable by one or more users. Unfortunately, the well-known event queue metaphor, which works well for a single user sitting in front of a single compu...

In the context of Internet of Things (IoT), the research of this dissertation is concerned with the development of applications for end-user devices, i.e. devices through which the end-user directly interacts with systems. The complexity of such applications is partly due to network intricacies, and partly because GUI (Graphical User Interface) development is generally complicated and time cons...

The Direct Strength Method (DSM) is a well-known formulation presented in the Brazilian standard ABNT NBR 14762:2010, that estimates strength capacity of cold-formed steel (CFS) members. However, this requires elastic critical buckling loads as point departure, regarding local (L), distortional (D) and global (G) modes, which can be obtained by (i) analysis or (ii) available direct equations. p...

A computer program named TRIAC II written in MATLAB and running with a friendly GUI has been developed for recognition and parameters measurements of particles’ tracks from images of Solid State Nuclear Track Detectors. The program, using image analysis tools, counts the number of tracks and depending on the current working mode classifies them according to their radii (Mode I—circular tracks) ...

Due to a high competitive pressure on the global software market, in many areas the software industry is moving from hand crafting to semi-automatic or automatic software construction based on Software Product Lines (SPL). Techniques to automate the construction of software products from SPLs are widely available. These can handle variability in source code artifacts but they are inappropriate ...

This issue of the Journal of Software: Evolution and Practice concentrates on the bottom line in computer software engineering—the source code itself. While much attention in the wider software engineering community is directed toward other aspects of systems development and evolution, such as specification, design, and requirements engineering, it is the source code that contains the only comp...

Computer animation and robotics have most of their mathematical foundations in common. So, Blender is a natural (but still undiscovered and imperfect) GUI candidate for robot simulation and programming. The robotics research community lacks an advanced graphical tool such as Blender, but, on the other hand, it has more advanced and efficient algorithms than Blender for the physically realistic ...

We present CurryBrowser, a generic analysis environment for the declarative multi-paradigm language Curry. CurryBrowser supports browsing through the program code of an application written in Curry, i.e., the main module and all directly or indirectly imported modules. Each module can be shown in different formats (e.g., source code, interface, intermediate code) and, inside each module, variou...

We present CurryBrowser, a generic analysis environment for the declarative multi-paradigm language Curry. CurryBrowser supports browsing through the program code of an application written in Curry, i.e., the main module and all directly or indirectly imported modules. Each module can be shown in different formats (e.g., source code, interface, intermediate code) and, inside each module, variou...

SEQSEE (Wishart et al., 1994a) and XALIGN (Wishart et al., 1994b) are two text-based, menu-driven programs developed specifically for comprehensive protein sequence analysis. Originally compiled to run on SUN and SGI workstations only, SEQSEE and XALIGN have been distributed to more than 300 laboratories around the world. Both programs have been used in a variety of applications ranging from ro...