This paper presents an approach that enlivens existing documentation, to efficiently support users performing procedural tasks. We describe an approach that automatically creates, in real-time, correspondences between the actions performed by users and the steps described in online documentation for the procedure being performed. Using these correspondences, our Macro Illustrator system can hig...

In agile methods the user stories are widely used to describe requirements. However, the user stories are an artifact too narrow to represent and detail the requirements. Issues like software context and dependencies between stories are also limited with the use of only this artifact. The lack of documentation in agile development environment is identified as one of the main challenges of the m...

Software architecture documentation is a heavyweight process since it involves development and management of various documentation artifacts. Architectural views and architecture description languages (ADLs) are two examples of those artifacts each of which presents mostly similar information in different forms. So, there is a redundant documentation effort when two models are developed separat...

The current study presents an investigation on the waste management in the cattle slaughterhouse by the following objectives: a) to identify the existing waste management practices in relation to sources, quantity and characteristic of wastes; b) to identify the situation of production, collection, storage, transportation, processing and recycling, and final disposal of wastes and the problems ...

Enterprise architectures (EA) are considered promising approaches to reduce the complexities of growing information technology (IT) environments while keeping pace with an ever-changing business environment. However, the implementation of enterprise architecture management (EAM) has proven difficult in practice. Many EAM initiatives face severe challenges, as demonstrated by the low usage level...

Aligning an ICT system with a security standard is a challenging task, because of the sparse support for development and documentation that these standards provide. We create patterns for the elements of trustworthiness: security, risk management, privacy, and law. The instantiations of these patterns are used to support the development and documentation of ICT systems according to security sta...

The cultural heritage artifacts Conservation Documentation format is not universally agreed upon nor has it always been considered an important aspect of the conservation profession. Conservation records present major drawbacks, which are the fragmentary and incomplete description of the contained information and related processes. On the other hand, as strict regulations prohibit invasive test...

Documentation of the nursing process is an important, but often neglected part of clinical documentation. Paper-based systems have been introduced to support nursing process documentation. Frequently, however, problems, such as low quality and high writing efforts, are reported. However, it is still unclear if computer-based documentation systems can reduce these problems. At the Heidelberg Uni...