Th. 3e cycle--Inform.--Nancy--I.N.P.L., 1980.

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This is an analysis in which we played the games “Journey” and “Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons” with the goal of identifying game design patterns that were used to convey the games’ narratives. Using the method known as formal analysis we examined different situations in the games. Having identified which design patters seemed significant we decided upon a template with which we would present our findings. We found three patterns that we deemed were important enough to be defined in this paper; “Player guidance through Non Player Characters”, “Manipulation of controller effects” and “Visual reminders of the Player’s Goal” and explain these thoroughly. In our discussion we examine the value of our findings and how effective we found our method to be.

A major flaw in the academic system, particularly pertaining to computer science, is that it rewards specialisation. The highly competitive quest for new scientific developments, or rather the quest for a better reputation and more funding, forces researchers to specialise in their own fields, leaving them little time to properly explore what others are doing, sometimes even within their own field of interest. Even the peer review process, which should provide the necessary balance, fails to achieve much diversity, since reviews are typically performed by persons who are again specialists in the particular field of the work. Further, software implementations are rarely reviewed, having as a consequence the publishing of untenable results. Unfortunately, these factors contribute to an environment which is not conducive to collaboration, a cornerstone of academia | building on the work of others. This work takes a step back and examines the general landscape of computational intelligence from a broad perspective, drawing on multiple disciplines to formulate a collaborative software platform, which is flexible enough to support the needs of this diverse research community. Interestingly, this project did not set out with these goals in mind, rather it evolved, over time, from something more specialised into the general framework described in this dissertation. Design patterns are studied as a means to manage the complexity of the computational intelligence paradigm in a flexible software implementation. Further, this dissertation demonstrates that releasing research software under an open source license eliminates some of the deficiencies of the academic process, while preserving, and even improving, the ability to build a reputation and pursue funding. Two software packages have been produced as products of this research: i) CILib, an open source library of computational intelligence algorithms; and ii) CiClops, which is a virtual laboratory for performing experiments that scale over multiple workstations. Together, these software packages are intended to improve the quality of research output and facilitate collaboration by sharing a repository of simulation data, statistical analysis tools and a single software implementation. / Dissertation (MSc)--University of Pretoria, 2006. / Computer Science / Unrestricted

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Mobile apps have emerged ever since the smartphone has been establishedinto most peoples everyday life. Almost half of those available apps in the appstores are mobile games. We study game design patterns speci cally for endlessmobile minigames, as they are one of the emerging categories. This genre hasbecome popular in the app stores with its unique characteristics which include veryshort play session iterations and its minimalist design. Game design patterns arefocused on the interaction with the player and provide knowledge and experiencewith regards to games in general. Not only are they bene cial for game designers,but also for developers, practitioners and possibly researchers, as patterns providea common terminology to share information between di erent professions.We conduct a case study including ve example games and analyze endlessmobile games to identify and create genre speci c game design patterns. We searchfor commonalities and major aspects of endless mobile minigames to facilitate theproduction of such games for developers. To con rm our results, we implementa prototype of an endless mobile minigame, which is then evaluated through asurvey.The result is a collection of game design patterns based on our cases. Thequestionnaire reveals which of those patterns are relevant and should be consideredwhen developing an endless mobile game. The result outlines that game designpatterns are considered supportive when designing a game, however requires ad-justments and revisions.

It is widely believed and empirically shown that component reuse improves both the quality and productivity of software development. This brings the necessity of a graphical editor to model the projects by using components. A graphical editor was implemented for the development of Component Oriented software development. The editor facilitates modeling efforts through application of the graphical modeling language COSEML. Both design patterns and software components have come to play important roles in software development. The correlation between software components and design patterns is apparent. In the design phase of the projects design patterns are used widely both in component and object oriented projects. Design patterns can be used as super components in component-based development . Software reuse, software components, design patterns, use of design patterns in component-based development, and component architectures are studied in details to address the need for the approach. COSE modeling activity starts with the decomposition of the target system into building blocks in a top-down order. Next, interfaces between these blocks are defined. If required design patterns can be added to model as super components.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-03-05T13:53:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 21 / Nenhuma / Após o advento da Internet, diversas estratégias de desenvolvimento de software foram modificadas para promover maior reuso e interoperabilidade. Design Patterns e Frameworks nos ajudam a criar software e design flexíveis. A idéia de compor aplicações para que trabalhem juntas é bastante atrativa. No entanto, no domínio da saúde, surgem diversos empecilhos para que se realize esta integração. O uso de tecnologias de Agentes em conjunto com Web Services nos permite pensar em uma solução que garanta interoperabilidade, reuso e flexibilidade entre ambientes heterogêneos. Este trabalho descreve a arquitetura de um Agente de Software, chamado WSAgent (que consiste de uma instância de um Framelet para o sub-domínio paciente, no domínio da saúde) e suas estratégias de colaboração e interoperabilidade. Este trabalho também apresenta um estudo de caso com implementação de um protótipo / After the Internet advent, several strategies about software development were changed to promote more reuse and interoperability. Design Patterns and Frameworks help us to create software and design flexible. The idea of glue applications to work together is very attractive. In the health domains, there are many drawbacks to address its goals. The use of agent technologies combined with Web Services allow us to think about the construction of a bind to grant interoperability, reuse and flexibility between heterogeneous environments. This work describes the architecture of a software agent called WSAgent – an instance of a Framelet of Patient subdomain in Health domain – and its strategies of collaborations and interoperability. This work also presents a case study with the implementation of a prototype

Gegenstand des Promotionsvorhabens ist die Anwendung der Mustertheorie als systemtheoretische Methode zur Beschreibung verbreiteter Lösungen für wiederkehrende Probleme bei der Gestaltung und Entwicklung videobasierter Lernumgebungen. Diese sogenannten Design Patterns beschreiben dabei abstrakte, generische Lösungen bezüglich des Wissensmanagements, der sozialen Interaktion und der Anreicherung von Inhalten in hypervideo-basierten Lernumgebungen. Um neben rezeptiven und selbstgesteuerten auch kollaborative Lernszenarien in solchen Lernumgebungen zu ermöglichen, werden Materialien, Aufgaben sowie Gruppenzusammensetzungen mit Hilfe von CSCL-Scripts strukturiert. Auf Grundlage der entwickelten Design Patterns und Scripts wurden ein Software-Framework sowie mehrere Lernumgebungen implementiert und in Feldstudien evaluiert.