A Method of Estimating Usability of a User Interface Based on its Model

The article presents a new method to estimating usability of a user interface based on its model. The principal features of the method are: creation of an expandable knowledge base of usability defects, detection defects based on the interface model, within the design phase, and information to the developer not only about existence of defects but also advice on their elimination

Dialog Based on Graphical Static Scenes Managed by an Ontology

A new method to implementation of dialog based on graphical static scenes using an ontology-based approach to user interface development is proposed. The main idea of the approach is to form necessary to the user interface development and implementation information using ontologies and then based on this high-level specification to generate the user interface

A Method of Context-sensitive Help Generation Using a Task Project

The article presents a new method to automatic generation of help in software. Help generation is realized in the framework of the tool for development and automatic generation of user interfaces based on ontologies. The principal features of the approach are: support for context-sensitive help, automatic generation of help using a task project and an expandable system of help generation

From an Ontology-Oriented Approach Conception to User Interface Development

* The presented work has discussed on the KDS-2003. It has corrected in compliance with remarks and requests of participants.The paper describes a new approach to user interface development which is an evolution of the model-based approach. The aim of the new, ontology-based approach is to eliminate the demerits of demerits of the model-based approach but to conserve its merits and, as a consequence, to lower more the cost of user interface development and maintenance. The main idea of our approach is to exchange models of different interface components for corresponding ontologies. The ontology models accessible by the Internet are used to form the models of there components

Ontology of anomalous processes diagnosis

The diagnosis is complex in domains where processes occur over time inside systems or objects, changing and affecting other processes and characteristics. A large number of knowledge-based systems have been developed to increase the efficiency of the diagnostic process. But the models of knowledge of such systems do not simultaneously take into account all types of temporal relationships: changes in the values of attributes over time, taking into account the time intervals that have passed from the moments when the process began to develop and external influences, and so forth. The article considers the universal ontology of knowledge about the diagnosis of processes in various domains as a generalization and the result of many years of experience of the authors in the creation of intelligent systems for the diagnosis of processes. The ontology allows us to formalize anomalies as developing internal processes that are not inherent in a normally functioning system. On its basis (in its terms) knowledge bases and software components for decision support systems are constructed. In the case of a need for a domain-oriented ontology, it will only be necessary to redefine some concepts and relations which are features of specific domains

HIGHLY EFFECTIVE CHEMICAL MODIFIERS FOR PRODUCTION OF CONCRETES WITH PRE-SET PROPERTIES

The paper demonstrates the application of industrial by-products and recycled materials. Waterproofing admixtures improve the structure and the properties of the cement stone. Development and preparation of highly effective waterproofing modifiers of durable effect, as well as development of the process procedure parameters, including mixing, activation, heat treatment, etc. are to be implemented. The composition of waterproofing modifiers is to be fine-tuned to synergize the behaviour of various ingredients of cement systems to assure the substantial improvement of their strength, freeze- and corrosion resistance. Multi-functional waterproofing admixtures were used to produce highly effective modified concretes. The key idea of the new method of modifying cement-based building materials is that the waterproofing admixture concentration is to exceed 10% of the weight of the binding agent within the per-unit weight of the cement stone, given that its strength does not deteriorate. GKM-type modifier coupled with organo-mineral waterproofing admixture concentration agent GT-M may be recommended for mass use in the manufacturing of hydraulic concrete and reinforced concrete products. Overview of their practical implementation has proven that waterproofing modifier GKM-S, if coupled with waterproofing admixture concentration agent GT-M, improves the corrosion control inside the cement stone and makes it possible to manufacture durable concrete and reinforced concrete products that demonstrate pre-set physical and processing behaviour. Comprehensive concrete modification by modifier GKM-S and waterproofing admixture concentration agent GT-M may be regarded as one of the most ambitious methods of production of highly effective waterproof concretes

METHODS FOR AUTOMATED DESIGN AND MAINTENANCE OF USER INTERFACES

IJ ITA is official publisher of the scientific papers of the members of the ITHEA ® International Scientific Society IJ ITA welcomes scientific papers connected with any information theory or its application. IJ ITA rules for preparing the manuscripts are compulsory. The rules for the papers for IJ ITA as well as the subscription fees are given on www.ithea.org . The camera-ready copy of the paper should be received by http://ij.ithea.org. Responsibility for papers published in IJ ITA belongs to authors. General Sponsor of IJ ITA is the Consortium FOI Bulgaria (www.foibg.com). METHODS FOR AUTOMATED DESIGN AND MAINTENANCE OF USER INTERFACES Valeriya Gribov