In order to facilitate preparation for the upcoming launch of the National NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP), the NPOESS Integrated Program Office (IPO) has developed a set of software tools for the generation of proxy Sensor Data Records for the VIIRS, CrIS, and ATMS instruments. Proxy data files are produced in HDF5 and conform to the standards described in the NPOESS IDPS Data Format Control ...

An approach to reduce the complexity of information management is to distinguish it into strategic, tactical and operational management with each of the levels using its own software tools. In practice, the management levels are tightly connected and interact closely. The most evident information that has to be interchanged between the management levels is the information about finished, cancel...

This paper discusses the computerization of an existent tool called GRASP. It helps teachers to design an instructional system. Currently, GRASP has the form of a grid. Teachers complete it to first clarify their instructional problem and then to design an instructional system. This tool covers the analysis and design phases of the ADDIE (Analyze, Design, Develop, Implement and Evaluate) model....

Powerful software tools are used by the aerospace and power generation communities to check codes for errors. The Software Validation Project at Edge Hill University (http://www.edgehill.ac.uk) in collaboration with SimCon Ltd (http://www.simconglobal.com) has applied these tools to WRF, the most widely used program for modeling climate and weather. Preliminary results have been generated. Alth...

Computer science currently lacks a widely applicable deenition for the concept of a medium. Most existing deenitions are implicit and treat data types, such as video streams, text, and digital audio, as examples of media. This viewpoint does a poor job of discriminating between many pairs of media, such as 2D static graphics and 2D animation, which share the same set of data types. Furthermore,...

In this paper, we present the results of a two-month field study of fifteen people using a software tool designed to model changes in a user’s availability. The software uses status update messages, as well as sensors, to detect changes in context. When changes are identified using the Kullback-Leibler Divergence metric, users are prompted to broadcast their current context to their social netw...

In this paper, we present a survey of the development of the technique of argument diagramming covering not only the fields in which it originated informal logic, argumentation theory, evidence law and legal reasoning – but also more recent work in applying and developing it in computer science and artificial intelligence. Beginning with a simple example of an everyday argument, we present an a...

Computational modelling techniques, originating from fields like Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, may be beneficial for criminological research. Because of their formal nature, computational models can be processed by machines that operate on them, for example for the purpose of simulation. As a consequence, these techniques may help gain insights that lacked based of purely inform...

This papers presents the results of a small field study to identify major barriers to adoption of a social software tool. Gleanr is a Web 2.0 application that can be used for group information management, social bookmarking, and personal research and branding. We present a brief overview of the software and its affordances, describe the study, and reflect on the results as we discuss lessons le...

Purpose of this paper Some scholars have recognized the important role of publicly funded basic research [1]. Among the identified benefits is an increase in " the stock of useful knowledge " available to society, which could be used for innovation and in this way contribute to economic growth [2]. Thus, it is important to support scientific activities. We propose that researchers could profit ...