Guided support for collaborative modeling, enactment and simulation of software development processes

Recently, the awareness of the importance of distributed software development has been growing in the software engineering community. Economic constraints, more and more outsourcing of development activities, and the increasing geographical distribution of companies come along with challenges of how to organize distributed development. In this article, we reason that a common process understanding is mandatory for successful distributed development. Integrated process planning, guidance and enactment are seen as enabling technologies for achieving a unique process view. We present an overview of the software process modeling environment SPEARMINT and the XCHIPS system for web-based process support. SPEARMINT offers extensive capabilities for multi-view modeling and analysis of software development processes. XCHIPS provides capabilities for distributed modeling and offers enactment and simulation functionalities. This article de-scribes the integration of both approaches. The resulting environment provides planners and developers with collaborative planning and enactment support and advanced process guidance via electronic process guides (EPGs). Additionally, experience with the integrated environment is described. We describe, in particular, the usage of this integrated environment in the context of a case study for the development of a learning system. Finally, an overview of related work is given and future research directions are sketched

Recording the Future: An Audiovisual Archive of Everyday Life in Indonesia in the 21st Century

This project aims at documenting aspects of everyday life in Indonesia during the 21st century by creating an audiovisual archive that consists of recordings made in eight different places throughout the Indonesian archipelago. They are not a statistical representation of ‘Indonesia’, but open different windows on everyday life in Indonesia: the city, the provincial and harbor town, and rural, uphill, coastal and river areas. The project started in 2003. Each year recordings are made in two places over a period of ten days, which results in 25-30 hours of recordings. In four years eight places are documented, after which the camera returns to the first place. The systematic repetition of recordings will open up the possibility of making comparisons in order to measure change and continuity. Recordings are made from a fixed spot, from the top of a car and during walks of 3-4 hours. During the walk the filmmakers stop to talk with people, usually beginning by asking them what they are doing. Every morning the headlines of available newspapers are filmed, to catch glimpses of national events, world news and local issues. In addition, a variety of themes and topics we are familiar with but tend to ignore in terms of documentation – a school class, Friday prayer at the mosque, a railway station etc. – is recorded. During the recordings a diary is kept in which decisions about locations, trajectories, themes, topics and persons are explained. The recordings are made without a prefabricated script. The archive will eventually consist of the original and unedited recordings, a catalogue, a diary and digital photos