The development of information systems is a complex task, involving technical, human and organizational issues. The results of this task are not always successful, which are apparent in the lack of software quality and in costs and schedules overruns. The ProjectIT research program addresses this specific task, however, taking different approaches comparing with the current mainstream (for inst...

We investigate aspects of multi-modal image registration based on a new criterion named mutual information (or sometimes Shannon information). This criterion is intensity-based and requires no landmarks; hence, its application can be automated without resorting to segmentation. We present a form amenable to derivation with respect to the geometric transformation parameters (here: affine transfo...

Existing user interfaces for the configuration of large shared displays with multiple inputs and outputs usually do not allow users easy and direct configuration of the display’s properties such as window arrangement or scaling. To address this problem, we are exploring a gesture-based technique for manipulating display windows on shared display systems. To aid target selection under noisy trac...

The identification of complex periodic windows in the two-dimensional parameter space of certain dynamical systems has recently attracted considerable interest. While for discrete systems, a discrimination between periodic and chaotic windows can be easily made based on the maximum Lyapunov exponent of the system, this remains a challenging task for continuous systems, especially if only short ...