Research on quality issues of business process models has recently begun to explore the process of creating process models by analyzing the modeler’s interactions with the modeling environment. In this paper we aim to complement previous insights on the modeler’s modeling behavior with data gathered by tracking the modeler’s eye movements when engaged in the act of modeling. We present prelimin...

The formalization and analysis of medical guidelines play an essential role in clinical practice nowadays. Due to their inexorably generic nature such guidelines leave room for different interpretation and implementation. Hence, it is desirable to understand this variability and its implications for patient treatment in practice. In this paper we propose an approach for comparing guideline-base...

We present a method based on a 3D model converter to simulate the development of virtual plant. The converter is mainly used to import the plant organs which have fine details into the virtual plant development system, then communicating with the L-system to implement the simulation of the development of plants controlled by the physiology of plant. It improves the virtual effect that carried o...

Decision Support Systems Abstract Process modeling grammars are used to create models of business processes. In this paper, we discuss how different routing symbol designs affect an individual’s ability to comprehend process models. We conduct an experiment with 154 students to ascertain which visual design principles influence process model comprehension. Our findings suggest that design princ...

Medical students and residents often struggle with the pros and cons of pursuing an away rotation. The purpose of this article is to share personal perspectives on the benefits and costs of an away rotation.

The traditional Chinese garden contains many types of tings, corridors, walls, etc. For artists, it is tedious work to model these kinds of featured Chinese architecture due to the strict and complex construction rules. We propose an interactive and procedural tool to modeling featured Chinese architectures that appear in the Chinese garden. Based on the previous research about modeling basic s...

This paper presents a 3D reconstruction technique for real world environments based on a traditional 2D laser range finder modified to implement a 3D laser scanner. The paper describes the mechanical and control issues addressed to achieve physically the 3D sensor as well as the adaptation of some previously developed techniques used to merge range and intensity data and illustrates the potenti...

3D modeling of industrial parts is the key foundation and preceding step of 3D inspection and measurement of industrial parts. The common characteristic of industrial parts is that its surface is sleeky, homogeneous and lack of the texture. So the key difficulties in 3D modeling of industrial parts are the matching and the extraction of the suitable texture and the makeup of the 3D model. The p...

A diagrammatic approach to the semantics of OO modelling notations is proposed. This is based on an innovative and expressive notation dubbed “constraint diagrams”, which can be used to precisely characterise a range of sophisticated, static constraints on OO models. Other notations, such as those found in UML, can be viewed as projections of constraint diagrams. Work on using constraint diagra...

Recently, a laser scanner has been receiving more attention as a useful tool for real-time 3D data acquisition, and various applications such as city modeling, DTM generation and 3D modeling of cultural heritage were proposed. However, 3D Representation of historical structures from point cloud 3D data collected by laser scanner is still issues. In order to reduce the time, labor and skill for ...