This article argues that medieval urban authorities developed nodal spatial strategies to mitigate various risks—from accidents, floods, and military vulnerability sickness scarcity. Using digital methods (Geographic Information System [GIS]) map public works during the fourteenth fifteenth centuries in one large city (Ghent), it offers a fuller understanding of governance dialogue with city’s ...

The paper deals with the technical background and the pedagogical issues of a specific implementation for the collection, assessment and archiving of the students' assignments written in Java. The implemented system automatically applies objectoriented metrics on the collected works in order to measure the characteristic features of the assignments. Tutors use these results for the detection of...