Augmenting the SCOPE of interactions with implicit and explicit graphical structures

Semia: semi-automatic interactive graphic editing tool to annotate ambulatory ECG records.

THE ROLE OF INTERACTIVE GRAPHIC TOOLS IN TEACHING CONTROL THEORY

SeisTool is an interactive graphical tool that allows you to analyse seismograms. It runs under the X window environment. The current version employs an OpenLook graphical user interface. It is designed for convenient display of seismograms and handling of events for routine analysis. It also allows phase picking to be done smoothly. A number of time-series analysis operations have also been implemented. Here, is a brief guide to the operation of SeisTool. The intention of this User`s Guide is not to guide you through SeisTool step by step, (The best way of learning how to use SeisTool is run the program and experiment with it.) but, to present a few basic concepts behind SeisTool to acquaint you with the program. The goal of this prototype is to make analysing seismograms as easy and convenient as browsing a file with a text editor. Think of SeisTool as nothing more than a seismogram data file browser.

OVIDE: A Software Package for Verifying and Validating Petri Nets

The Ether system has been developed in France in order to support scientific studies based on atmospheric chemistry. Ether is the focal point for French and foreign scientists for studying processes from the local to the global scales via the mesoscale, from the troposphere to the stratosphere, within a wide temporal range (from the minute to the decade). A huge variety of products is stored from ground-based, balloon-, air-, and space-borne measurements, to modelled and assimilated constituent fields, together with spectroscopic and kinetic rates data sets. In addition, the development of added-value services such as interactive graphic tools, extraction software, scientific ground-segments as for the Odin/SMR experiment and ancillary data production like potential vorticity fields, helps the efficient use of these heterogeneous products. Finally, information relative to the ongoing activities within the scientific community is presented on the Web site (http://ether.ipsl.jussieu.fr/).

A DESIGN TOOL FOR DISTRIBUTED MAN-MACHINE INTERFACE OF REAL-TIME POWER SYSTEMS AND POWER PLANT SIMULATORS

This paper presents NVIS, an interactive graphical tool used to examine the weights, topology, and activations of a single artificial neural networks (ANN), as well as the genealogical relationships between members of a population of ANNs as they evolve under an evolutionary algorithm. NVIS is unique in its depiction of nodal activation values, its usage of family tree diagrams to indicate the origin of individual networks, and the degree of interactivity it allows the user while the learning process takes place. The authors have made use of these feature to obtain insights into both the workings of single neural networks and the evolutionary process, based upon which we consider NVIS to be an effective visualization tool of value to designers, users, and students of ANNs.

Amoeba is an auto-interactive system which provides the chip designer with a powerful tool for cell layout. The system contains both interactive graphics tools, which give the user a great deal of control over the layout process, and highly automatic commands, which eliminate many of the tedious and error prone tasks. The designer works with a symbolic rather than physical data representation which allows for easier construction of complex designs.

Programming a Pipelined Image Processor

Flexible data integration has been an important IT research goal for decades. About ten years ago, a significant step was taken with the introduction of declarative methods (e.g., Clio). Since this work, mostly based on classic dependency analysis, extensions have been developed that express more powerful semantic relationships. However, much of this work has remained focused at the relational database (i.e., relatively low) level, and many of the extensions revert to specific algorithms and function specifications. At the same time, models have evolved to incorporate more powerful semantics (object or ontology-based methods). The work presented in the paper uses flexible metamodel-based mapping definitions that enable a model-driven engineering approach to integration, allowing declarative mapping specifications to be automatically executed at runtime within a single-formalism and single-tool framework. The paper reports how to create executable mappings for large-scale data integration scenarios with an interactive graphical tool.

An interactive graphical interface tool for parameter calibration, sensitivity analysis, uncertainty analysis, and visualization for the Soil and Water Assessment Tool

Design of members in steel structures for fatigue loading is highly heuristics, and consequently, is normally performed manually. This paper describes an interactive graphical computer tool for the design of steel members for repeated loading and fatigue, according to the widely-used American Institute of Steel Construction design specifications. The software can be used as a self-tutoring tool for teaching the design of steel members for repeated loadings and fatigue. The advantage of such an educational computer program is that the user can design different types of members and details, trying out various options within a few minutes.

Understanding adhesion receptor signalling dysregulation in cancer settings is vital for the effective and safe incorporation of adhesion-targeted therapeutics in the clinic. β1-integrin is a major extracellular matrix adhesion receptor that has been shown to control important processes such as proliferation, cell cycle progression, apoptosis and cell migration. β1-integrin signalling pathway is complex and can crosstalk with many tumorigenic pathways. It is therefore not surprising that enhanced β1-integrin signalling has been reported to correlate with progression and therapy resistance in many types of cancers. Therefore, a complete understanding of the pathways and genes altered in all cancer types is essential to identify novel therapeutic options specific for certain cancer types. In this study, a pan-cancer analysis was performed to identify alterations of β1-integrin and most dysregulated cancer-related genes (106 genes, Kegg map05200) using 2565 patients whole genomes data (ICGC/TCGA, 2020). OncoPrint, mutations, copy number alterations (CNA), mutual exclusivity and pathway enrichment were conducted using cBioPortal. PathwayMapper, an interactive graphical editing tool allowing collaborative curation was used to view altered genes and pathways with alteration frequencies. Pathway enrichment analyses related to genetic alterations identified the Wnt signaling was the most frequently altered pathway. Mutual exclusivity analyses showed that β1-integrin-Wnt; β1-integrin-LRP5/LRP6 and β1-integrin-FZD pairs exhibited co-occurrence, two sided fisher exact test indicates p < 0.001. This has shown a link between β1-integrin and Wnt/β-catenin pathways. Genetic alterations of β1-integrin receptor, whether these mutations will cause an activation of the Wnt/β-catenin pathway and their effects on overall survival and metastasis will be further examined.

Looking back at the history of control engineering, one finds that technology and ideas combine themselves until they reach a successful result, over the timeline of several decades (Bernstein, 2002). Simple dynamical compensators (such as PID, Phase-Lead, Phase-Lag, etc) have done in the past a remarkably good and efficient job in real-life control applications. Theoretical insight in the closed-loop behavior is provided by powerful and well-developed theories – which are considered as basic knowledge for every control engineer – such as the Root Locus and the Frequency Response techniques. In the past, these theories have been extensively used as analysis tools – e.g. the stability analysis of a given control system based on closed loop poles (Root Locus RL) or Nyquist criterion (Frequency Response FR). However, analysis implies that a controller is already available, irrespective of its design method. Nowadays, thanks to the computational and graphical power of modern computers, many of these theories can be implemented as interactive graphical design tools. In this way, control engineering moves away from being an abstract and mathematical-oriented discipline and it evolves gradually towards a mature engineering discipline. An extensive reflection upon the role of information science in control engineering has been given in (Dormido, 2004). This new way of interactive control education provides practical insights into control systems fundamentals (Wittenmark et al, 1998; Dormido et al, 2002). Such combinations of interactive environment and animation bring visualization to a new level and aid learning and active participation by control engineering students (Kheir et al, 1996; Johansson et al, 1998). Recently, a Root Locus RL toolbox has been introduced in Matlab – in this chapter, a Frequency Response toolbox (FRtool) will be presented. Although some other computer aided design (CAD) tools based on frequency response have been developed in the past (Balakrihsnan & Boyd, 1994; Satoh et al, 1994; Piguet & Gillet, 1997; Pouliz & Pouliezos, 1997; Piguet et al, 1999), the one presented in this contribution is highly interactive, graphical, easy-to-use and posing an elegant simplicity (especially for non-experts, as limited control engineering insight is required). The Matlab® controller design tool based on the root locus method (rltool) cannot handle systems with time-delay without approximating the dead5

The analysis of oceanographic data often involves visual comparison of a collected data profile with other collected, historical, or simulated profiles. Using conventional graphics techniques, geometrical data comparisons involving such operations as sliding data curves (i.e., viewing different sections of the entire data profile), rescaling data, expanding curve sections, and overlaying curves require extensive, tedious replotting. Using airborne marine magnetic anomaly data as an example, this paper will show how software, designed using newly available interactive computer graphics tools, allows the scientific data analyst to perform, rapidly and easily, this type of geometrical data profile analysis.