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Automated Software Engineering Process Assessment: Supporting Diverse Models using an Ontology
(2013)
While Virtual Reality (VR) has been applied to various domains to provide new visualization and interaction capabilities, enabling programmers to utilize VR for their software development and maintenance tasks has been insufficiently explored. In this paper, we present the Hyper-Display Environment (HyDE) in the form of a mixed-reality (HyDE-MR) or virtual reality (HyDE-VR) variant respectively, which provides simultaneous multiple operating system window visualization with integrated keyboard/mouse viewing and interaction using MR or in pure VR via a virtual keyboard. This paper applies HyDE in a software development case study as an alternative to typical non-VR Integrated Development Environments (IDEs), supporting software engineering tasks with multiple live screens in VR as an augmented virtuality. The MR solution concept enables programmers to benefit from VR visualization and virtually unlimited information displays while supporting their more natural keyboard interaction for basic code-centric tasks. Thus, developers can leverage VR paradigms and capabilities while directly interacting with their favorite tools to develop and maintain program code. A prototype implementation is described, with a case study demonstrating its feasibility and an initial empirical study showing its potential.
Enterprise Architecture (EA) Frameworks (EAFs) have attempted to support comprehensive and cohesive modeling and documentation of the enterprise. However, these EAFs were not conceived for today’s rapidly digitalized enterprises and the associated IT complexity. A digitally-centric EAF is needed, freed from the past restrictive EAF paradigms and embracing the new potential in a data-centric world. This paper proposes an alternative EAF that is digital, holistic, and digitally sustainable - the Digital Diamond Framework. D2F is designed for responsive and agile enterprises, for aligning business plans and initiatives with the actual enterprise state, and addressing the needs of EA for digitized structure, order, modeling, and documentation. The feasibility of D2F is demonstrated with a prototype implementation of an EA tool that applies its principles, showing how the framework can be practically realized, while a case study based on ArchiSurance example and an initial performance and scalability characterization provide additional insights as to its viability.
Databases are becoming an ubiquitous and integral part of most software as the data era and the Internet of Everything unfolds. Alternative database types such as NoSQL grow in popularity and allow data to be stored and accessed more simply or in new ways. Thus, software developers, not just database specialists, are more likely to encounter and need to deal with databases. Virtual Reality (VR) technology has grown in popularity, yet its integration in the software development tool chain has been limited. One potential application area for VR technology that has not been sufficiently explored is database-model visualization. This paper describes Virtual Reality Immersion in Data Models (VRiDaM), a generic database-model approach for visualizing, navigating, and conveying database-model information interactively. It describes and explores both native VR and WebVR solution concepts, with prototypes showing the viability of the approach.
KI Basierte Geschäftsmodelle
(2020)
Immer mehr Unternehmen, vom Start-Up bis zum etablierten Großkonzern, beschäftigen sich mit Künstlicher Intelligenz (KI). Diese Unternehmen wollen sich hierdurch jenen Anteil der digitalen Dividende sichern, die eine Anreicherung ihres Geschäftsmodells mit KI verspricht. Um den Einfluss des Themas auf ein beliebiges Unternehmen besser einschätzen und Potentiale erschließen zu können, ist eine Systematisierung zwingend erforderlich und die Kenntnis erfolgreicher Projekte hilfreich. Hierzu werden in dem vorliegenden Beitrag die Begriffe "Geschäftsmodell" und "KI" zunächst erläutert und eine Definition von KI basierten Geschäftsmodellen vorgeschlagen. Basierend hierauf werden 10 Use-Cases von Unternehmen unterschiedlicher Größe vorgestellt und unter Hinzunahme einer Strukturierungsmethode für Geschäftsmodelle systematisiert.
In the present work the influence of industry-standard heat treatment on ultra-high strength aluminium alloys has been investigated under terms of various forming processes. For this purpose, a scaled side impact beam was formed out of AA7075 via Hotforming and W-Temper techniques and subjected to a heat treatment process. The test material was taken from several material suppliers in order to identify any variation of the mechanical properties. Based on uniaxial tensile tests the final material properties were evaluated and compared. Using the W-Temper and Hotforming process, the parts produced without a subsequent heat treatment show no influence concerning the suppliers. A significant difference of the material behaviour can be seen if single-step paint bake cycle is applied. Here, the ultimate tensile strength (UTS) values and those for yield strength vary up to 9% and 16% respectively.