Abstract Salmon farming in Chile constitutes one of the nation's principal food exporting sectors. In the seawater stage, one of the most important in the farm production chain, salmon are cultivated in floating cages fitted with nets that hold the fish during the entire grow-out process. The maintenance of the cage nets is carried out at land-based facilities. This article reports on the creat...

In this work, we propose a software tool, called PROCSIMO, which aims the identification of similarities between operons in bacterial genomes. From a database which contains the characteristics and functionalities of operons, the proposed tool can: (a) identify those operons stored in the database that are similar to an operon under investigation, and (b) identify new operons in a complete geno...

CSCL software tools must provide support for group work and should be based on a collaborative learning technique. The PBL based CCCuento tool is introduced here. It is intended to support apprentices groups in the collaborative creation of stories in order to improve language use and development of writing skills. The tool follows a model, which includes several positive interdependencies and ...

The main objective of this paper is to describe a new designed software tool to simulate the GPRS network. The proposed simulation technique shows how to connect the components together so as to achieve the correct network for the GPRS technology. While connecting the components, the user will be able to observe how these components interact with each other and how the Mobil ends and receives d...

A Collaborative activity is designed and a software tool is developed to support teaching grammar to primary education students. The activity is intended to create interdependencies among students. The software tool helps to implement the activity. Activity and tool were designed for teaching Spanish grammar, but they can be adapted for teaching other languages.

In this paper we present an approach to automating portions of the design of applications built on fixed-word-length data paths. The goal of this research is to produce a software tool capable of automatically generating the data formatting steps of a fixed-width data path so as to maximize precision while preventing overflow.

A report on the Planets a “Digital Preservation – The Planets Way” workshop, which took place on June 22-24, 2009 at the Royal Library, Copenhagen, Denmark. The workshop brought together representatives from archives, libraries, museums, academia, media and other institutions to consider the activities necessary to maintain content in the long-term and establish the methodologies and software t...

In this paper, we present a software tool for ‘ArguBlogging’, which allows users to construct debate and discussions across blogs, linking existing and new online resources to form distributed, structured conversations. Arguments and counterarguments can be posed by giving opinions on one’s own blog and replying to other bloggers’ posts. The resulting argument structure is connected to the Argu...

”The most difficult thing with ideas is not to have them. It’s to find out if they’re good [1].” This position paper demonstrates the requirements for an idea management application and presents the idea management tool Ideator. The Ideator is a software tool which is currently under development and which offers innovative and flexible solutions to idea management in company environments. It is...

This paper reviews the evolution of queueing networks software and its use in manufacturing. In particular, we will discuss two different groups of software tools. First, there are queueing networks software packages which require a good level of familiarity with the theory. In the other hand, there are some packages designed for manufacturing where the model development process is automated. I...