For years, traffic engineers have used traffic simulation software to develop, model, and test signal timing plans. However, before timing plans can be implemented in the field, they must be fine-tuned in an actual traffic controller operating under actual intersection conditions. Testing a signal timing plan in the field can cause minor or even major traffic disruption, creating delay and frus...

This paper describes the development and evaluation of an electronic sketch environment for interface design. The tool provides a pen-based interface on an electronic whiteboard for designing Visual Basic forms, it is tightly integrated into the Visual Basic IDE. Our evaluation showed that this type of environment is likely to be of benefit to novice programmers as it provides an enticing share...

The TMT Software System consists of software components that interact with one another through a software infrastructure called TMT Common Software (CSW). CSW consists of software services and library code that is used by developers to create the subsystems and components that participate in the software system. CSW also defines the types of components that can be constructed and their roles. T...

Component based software engineering (CBSE) represents an exciting and promising paradigm for software development, attracting much interest and effort from industrial practice and scientific research. Software components are one of the key issues in CBSE. While practical, the current component models are limited in providing support for CBSE. In this paper, we introduce a framework aimed at co...

In order to come out of the typical mould of interface metaphors used for software, new inspirations are sought from Dnyaneshwari. Dnyaneshwari, one of the best Indian saint literatures uses numerous metaphors for depicting complex and abstract philosophical information. It is proposed to have variety of Interface Agents having different behavioral styles for guiding the software users. The cho...

introduction: this study aimed to evaluate the dentin-sealer interface in three different sealers using scanning electron microscopy (sem). methods and materials: thirty extracted human single-rooted teeth were prepared using protaper rotary files and were randomly divided into three groups ( n =10) including bc sealer, ah-plus and dorifill. the root canals were filled with cold lateral condens...