Autonomous control of logistic processes is proposed as a means for enterprises to better face dynamics and complexity, caused e.g. by globalization. This paper will first briefly sketch the idea of autonomous control of logistic processes and outline our concept for a modelling method designed for engineering of autonomous logistic processes. The main part will detail the implementation of thi...

Serious games are increasingly being used in education to support the development of skills that future professionals and citizens require. However, the inclusion of games in the curricula can threaten the universal right to education for students with disabilities if they are not designed to be accessible. In this paper we discuss the need for tools that assist educators and educational conten...

This paper presents the conceptual foundations relevant to the proper design and implementation of a software tool to support a broker or a business integrator in the context of a Virtual Organisation (VO) for partners search and selection for a specific business/collaboration opportunity. The Collaboration Opportunity Characterization tool detailed in this paper provides functionalities for de...

This paper looks at reward within computer games and establishes a visual framework for displaying the reward mechanics used in games in the form of “Three Corners of Reward”. It establishes the link between personal reward, material reward and competitive reward through three drivers: intrinsic, extrinsic and social play. The work shows that this framework has two purposes. One is of a framewo...

We discuss the ALEXIS automated transient detection system , the statistical approaches used to locate and assess potential tran-sients, and the software tools and databases used to help identify possible counterparts.

Several researchers in the area of cooperative work take as a success criterion the quality of the group outcome. Nevertheless, recent findings are giving more importance to the quality of “cooperation process” itself. This paper presents the design of a software tool that allow us to capture information concerned with the group work. Besides to reveal the final quality of the group outcome, th...

Spend your few moment to read a book even only few pages. Reading book is not obligation and force for everybody. When you don't want to read, you can get punishment from the publisher. Read a book becomes a choice of your different characteristics. Many people with reading habit will always be enjoyable to read, or on the contrary. For some reasons, this programming with gnu software tools fro...

Background Tagged MRI is an established technique for the tracking of local deformations of the myocardium. The quantitative assessment of myocardial stress and strain is however a non-trivial task and only few software tools are available for clinical use. The purpose of this work was the evaluation of a phase-based motion tracking method for fully automatic calculation of deformation paramete...

Some of the most convincing film and video effects are created in digital post-production by removing apparatus that supports or manipulates actors and objects. Wires and people, for instance, can be removed by digitally painting them out of the scene provided some ‘clean plate’ image is available for pasting in the missing regions. This paper addresses the problem when no such plate is availab...

This paper presents an illustrative demonstration of the qualitative data analysis tool NVivo (version 2.0), as employed across a multi-method research design as a comprehensive tool in support of overall research management. The paper will be of interest to (a) novice researchers, as a reference in their research design efforts; (b) academics, involved in research training, where this narrativ...