{"title":"Experiences of teaching UML within the information systems curriculum","authors":"H. Dagdeviren, R. Juric, P. Lees","doi":"10.1109/ITI.2004.241971","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITI.2004.241971","url":null,"abstract":"The Unified Modelling Language (UML) has been a standard modelling language for the development of software intensive systems since 2000. As a consequence, the information systems (IS) curriculum, at the Cavendish School of Computer Science, University of Westminster in London, had UML teaching incorporated two years ago. We have encouraged the introduction to and use of UML in modules that replaced traditional approaches to IS development. In this paper we report on experiences of using UML within the two modules of our undergraduate curriculum, delivered by the IS department. The first module is taught in the second year, i.e. at level 5, and delivers requirements analysis with UML. The second module uses the UML for modelling and designing distributed business applications and is taught in the final year, at level 6. In both modules it is assumed that an introduction to modelling in IS, with the syntax and semantics of a selection of UML modelling elements and diagrams, has been done earlier. We single out some problems and give a rationale for changes in the next academic year","PeriodicalId":320305,"journal":{"name":"26th International Conference on Information Technology Interfaces, 2004.","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115859376","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Proactive monitoring and maintenance of intelligent control systems: a design pattern for autonomous systems","authors":"A. Trad, D. Kalpić","doi":"10.1109/ITI.2004.242578","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITI.2004.242578","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes an architectural pattern for building proactive control, monitoring and maintenance modules (PCMM) for autonomous systems (AS). The most popular autonomous systems are mobile robot systems (MRS). This pattern is also applicable to other intelligent control systems (ICS). This paper results in a proposal which would help ICS project managers and engineers to estimate the probability that an ICS would succeed or fail. Furthermore, this proposal offers the possibility to forecast ICS problems, adjust the project management pathways and define the problem sources, as well as possible solutions, in order to deliver a robust autonomous system","PeriodicalId":320305,"journal":{"name":"26th International Conference on Information Technology Interfaces, 2004.","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127993301","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Benchmarking digital divide: definitions used and methods applied","authors":"V. Dolničar, Vasja Vehovar, P. Sicherl","doi":"10.1109/ITI.2004.242074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITI.2004.242074","url":null,"abstract":"Paper first discusses some specifics regarding terminology and concepts of the first, second, dual and third digital divide. Paper also extends the measurement of the digital divide phenomena above the simple comparison of percentage related to the information technology penetration across different countries and socio-demographic segments. Two examples of advanced methodological measurements are presented: a composed measure - the digital divide index (DIDIX) and the time distance methodology, which offers a significant improvement at both conceptual and application levels","PeriodicalId":320305,"journal":{"name":"26th International Conference on Information Technology Interfaces, 2004.","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129885542","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Comparing probabilistic heuristics for guarding polyhedral terrain","authors":"B. Kaucic, B. Žalik","doi":"10.1109/ITI.2004.242273","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITI.2004.242273","url":null,"abstract":"Guarding surfaces is one of many optimization problems of the visibility analysis. It has many applications and it usually represents the computation of the minimum number of observers that guard a specific surface or region of interest. In the paper, we treated the problem of basic terrain guarding by using probabilistic optimization techniques. Four heuristics and their versions are presented: hillclimbing, simulated annealing, genetic algorithm and tabu search. Their performances were experimented and compared as applied to several actual topographic surfaces and showed that the most suitable approach were hillclimbing with next ascent approach and tabu search","PeriodicalId":320305,"journal":{"name":"26th International Conference on Information Technology Interfaces, 2004.","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115231930","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}