The objective of the Semiotic-based Ontology Evaluation Tool (S-OntoEval) is to evaluate and propose improvements to a given ontological model. The evaluation aims at assessing the quality of the ontology by drawing upon semiotic theory (Stamper et al., 2000), taking several metrics into consideration for assessing the syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic aspects of ontology quality. We consider ...

Embedded devices have come to play an important role in our daily lives. Increasingly, diverse fields like healthcare systems, banks and more are using these devices to automate underlying complex tasks. This reliance has led to a significant development – exposure of devices to malicious attacks, including control and subversion of software onboard. Software attestation has been herald as a so...

In 2002 an amendment was added to the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS)[1] which opened up for shipbuilders to replace steel with lightweight materials in the superstructures. However, SOLAS requires equal fire safety capability compared to ships with steel superstructures. LASS-c is a cross-organizational project with the aim to find a method to build cruise ships ...

In this paper, we present the first version of the MetroWeb tool designed to manage usability knowledge and to exploit this knowledge throughout evaluation process phases. The tool supports usability knowledge manipulation in general and specifically supports heuristic inspection. The usability evaluation process supported by the tool is decomposed into 4 main phases: planning, assessment, fina...

KWARESMI consists of a language, a method and a tool for expressing, structuring, and organising web usability guidelines towards automated evaluation. Traditional approaches transform natural statements of usability guidelines into lines of code in a tool that parses the HTML code of a web page and performs guidelines review. These approaches are inflexible by nature: impossible to introduce a...

The Developmental Eye Movement test (DEM), is standardized and designed for evaluating oculomotor behavior in children, under 14 years of age. In this study we sought to create a version to be used above the age of 14 by using double rather than single digits. This resulted in twice the amount of numbers to be called out during the test. We administered this modified version for adults (A-DEM) ...

Architectural considerations play a key role in the success of any software-based development project. Architecture evaluation is an early risk reduction method for identifying risks that prevent a system or product line meeting the organization’s business goals and customer needs. This paper introduces a tool that supports architecture evaluation. It gives an overview on its information manage...

Testing automation tools enables developers and testers to easily automate the entire process of testing in software development. The objective of the paper is to conduct a comparative study of automated tools such as market leading vendor tool in functional test automation, HP (QTP) Quick test professional with popular & free Selenium. This research is intended to check the viability of seleni...

Web is becoming more and more important each day for business, education, sharing information and for communication. Every passing day the number of companies, organizations and individuals publishing their web sites is increasing. Everyone wants their web site is of good quality. Some quality metrics may affect indirectly on the popularity through their effect on the performance or the usabili...