Assessing the impact of change on a software development project is a critical management activity. Traceability affords us opportunities to manage the change process through notification and synchronisation mechanisms. We present an architecture, developed as part of the EU funded Ophelia project, that supports traceability across all project artefacts.

As I was reading the New York Times at the end of 2010, the headline of a news article suddenly hit me “A Pinpoint Beam Strays Invisibly, Harming Instead of Healing – A Radiation Setting Is Wrong, and Patients are Harmed” while undergoing SRS (stereotactic radiosurgery) treatment in a hospital. As American baseball player Yogi Berra once said “It’s déjà vu all over again.” When the story first ...

This paper is a speculation about how universities might organize new lines of business in software engineering professional education. Professional education enables practicing professionals to achieve defined levels of competence and to be certified according to standards in their professions. This kind of education is offered at very few universities. This paper proposes a conceptual framewo...

Learning to play musical instruments can require a large investment of both time and money for individuals since instruments can be expensive to buy and tend to have relatively steep learning curves. This paper describes one student's senior honors project: a software application called OffKey which aims to improve accessibility and education in music by allowing individuals to use a computer k...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the adequacy of the content and format of the patient information section in package inserts of commonly prescribed drugs at the internal medicine service of a school hospital. METHODS Forty eight package inserts were collected from six pharmacies of the city of Porto Alegre in June 1998. The presence of mandatory notification and other information required by Brazili...

about multiple sources of information while engaged in other tasks. Notification systems are interfaces specifically designed to support user access to additional digital information from sources secondary to current activities. Many such interfaces, especially examples such as Web page advertisements and animated software agents, seem to be ineffective and distracting, and are abandoned or ign...

We developed NeuroManager, an object-oriented simulation management software engine for computational neuroscience. NeuroManager automates the workflow of simulation job submissions when using heterogeneous computational resources, simulators, and simulation tasks. The object-oriented approach (1) provides flexibility to adapt to a variety of neuroscience simulators, (2) simplifies the use of h...

The number of individuals diagnosed with heart failure continues to increase, often requiring repeated hospitalizations and readmissions. Patient education is essential for patients to self-manage this chronic illness. This study aims to describe nurses' knowledge of heart failure self-management education principles. Sixty-one nurses working in the community completed a 20-item survey, assessi...