This paper provides generic guidelines for starting entrepreneurs. First, the basic features of a good business plan are addressed in a pattern language for creating an innovative business plan. Second, soft skills for starting entrepreneurs are discussed in a pattern language for interactions with ‘outside’ people, as these interactions are crucial for a validation and realization of a busines...

In most of the cases usability evaluations are done by usability experts. Employing such experts requires a certain size in business. So in a lot of small and middle sized companies developers are forced to learn how to handle usability aspects. This is not much easier than teaching usability engineers how to develop software. The usability evaluation process and its requirements also miss usab...

Use cases are a wonderfully simple concept, describe a system ́s functional requirements by telling stories about how its usage delivers value to its actors. Yet, for such a simple concept, good use cases are really hard to write. Use case authors frequently must deal with the difficult questions of: •= Where is the system boundary? •= What should the scope of a use case be? •= What is the level...

There is a lot of research anticipating a “Free, Libre and Open Source Software” (FLOSS) developing process and recurring characteristics of FLOSS projects have been discussed by various authors. But an unique FLOSS development approach does not exist. Recent research suggests patterns as a tool to describe distinctive and common features. In this paper we identify four FLOSS patterns derived f...

Abstract Simulations that depend on interactions between the particles that make up the system are common in in cosmology, molecular dynamics, and computer graphics. When every particle in a system with N particles exercises a force on the other particles in the system, the problems is called N-Body. The naive solution computes forces between each pair of particles (N2 force computations). This...

In this paper a pattern language for service discovery is introduced. These patterns were mined from several existing service discovery protocols, and from protocols which are generally used for service discovery, but have not been discussed under the theme of service discovery in the research community. In this paper everything preceding the actual service usage is considered as service discov...

In this paper, I describe work undertaken to identify the common elements of works described as Pattern Languages, with the view to delineating elements necessary to a definition of the genre. Some implications for this in terms of a possible Pattern Language for HCI are then raised.

Ad hoc networking is based on the principle of spontaneous addition, discovery, and usage of services in a network. Various technologies such as JiniTM [Sun01], UPnP [Micr01], and .NET are built around the concept of ad hoc networking. While each technology is either platform or language dependent, they share a common underlying architecture which can be expressed using a pattern language. The ...

The cognitive neuroscience of language aims at revealing how linguistic information is represented and manipulated in the brain to enable communication meaningful behaviour. An important aspect underlying processes integration transformation across multiple systems. In order understand these processes, a detailed characterisation connectivity key. For most accurate connectivity, methods should ...