While object-orientation has been widely accepted as an important programming paradigm, teaching object-orientation remains difficult. Experience reports suggest that some problems can be avoided by teaching object-orientation as the first language in an introductory course. However, other problems remain, in particular languages and environments are regularly criticised as unsuitable and overl...

This paper outlines present and future directions for software in a Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) environment. The three major CIM components -production management, data management, and communications management -are described in terms of software available today and future software based on emerging international standards. Key standards efforts such as product data exchange, open s...

UNLABELLED Phylogenetic analyses today involve dealing with computer files in different formats and often several computer programs. Although some widely used applications have integrated important functionalities for such analyses, they still work with local resources only: input/output files (users have to manage them) and local computing (users have sometimes to leave their programs, on thei...

ACAMS (Accelerator Combined Alignment and Measurement System) is a software package that has been developed at Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab). ACAMS was developed to replace four MS-Dos based software programs. These programs operated independently and commonly used theodolite observations as the basis for data collection. The methodology used to collect the data...

ROBUST is a tool for analyzing and predicting the growth of software reliability based on a number of software reliability growth models. It supports four traditional software reliability growth models, as well as Malaiya’s Logarithmic Coverage Model. Capable of working with either time or failure interval data, ROBUST allows for a wide variety of enhancement techniques to be applied to the mod...

MOTIVATION We introduce a development platform especially tailored to Bioinformatics research and software development. BIAS (Bioinformatics Integrated Application Software) provides the tools necessary for carrying out integrative Bioinformatics research requiring multiple datasets and analysis tools. It follows an object-relational strategy for providing persistent objects, allows third-party...

The department Image Processing at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Mathematics (ITWM) engages in applied research projects while also offering services to industrial customers. In order to make research results available in an industrial context quickly, a unified software framework was requested by our scientists. The presentation introduces BvLib, a software library which meets our speci...