Thesis (M.Sc.)--York University, 2007. Graduate Programme in Computer Science and Engineering. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 187-189). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:MR38770

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This dissertation proposes a comprehensive solution to the problem of building device-independent (or multi-channel) user interfaces promoting the separation of the interface from the application logic. It introduces an interface model (Meta-Interface Model, or MIM) for separating the user interface from the application logic and the presentation device. MIM divides the interface into three components, presentation, interface, and logic, that are connected with abstract vocabularies designed in terms of user chosen abstraction. The logic component provides a canonical way for the user interface to communicate with an application. The presentation component provides a canonical way for the user interface to render itself independently of the platform. The interface component describes the interaction between the user and the application using a set of abstract parts, events, and method calls that are device and application independent. MIM goes one step further than earlier models and subdivides the interface into four additional subcomponents: structure, style, content, and behavior. The structure describes the organization of the parts in the interface, the style describes the presentation specific properties of each part, the content describes the information that is presented to the user, and the behavior describes user interaction with the interface in a platform-independent manner. This dissertation also presents the second version of the User Interface Markup Language (UIML2), a declarative language that derives its syntax from XML and realizes the MIM model. It also gives the design rationale behind the language and discusses the implementation issues for mapping UIML2 to various devices (Java/JFC, PalmOS, WML, HTML, and VoiceXML). Finally, this dissertation evaluates UIML2 in terms of its goals, and among the major ones are to provide a canonical format for describing interfaces that map to multiple devices and to generate one description of a user interface connection to the application logic independent of target device. / Ph. D.

Recent trends show an increase in the availability and functionality of handheld devices, wireless network technology, and electronic display networks. We propose the novel integration of these technologies to provide wireless access to content delivered to large-screen display systems. Content adaptation is used as a method of reformatting web pages to display more appropriately on handheld devices, and to remove unwanted content. A framework is presented that facilitates content adaptation, implemented as an adaptation layer, which is extended to provide personalization of adaptation settings and response to network conditions. The framework is implemented as a proxy server for a wireless network, and handles HTML and XML documents. Once a document has been requested by a user, the HTML/XML is retrieved and parsed, creating a Document Object Model tree representation. It is then altered according to the user’s personal settings or predefined settings, based on current network usage and the network resources available. Three adaptation techniques were implemented; spatial representation, which generates an image map of the document, text summarization, which creates a tree view representation of a document, and tag extraction, which replaces specific tags with links. Three proof-of-concept systems were developed in order to test the robustness of the framework. A system for use with digital slide shows, a digital signage system, and a generalized system for use with the internet were implemented. Testing was performed by accessing sample web pages through the content adaptation proxy server. Tag extraction works correctly for all HTML and XML document structures, whereas spatial representation and text summarization are limited to a controlled subset. Results indicate that the adaptive system has the ability to reduce average bandwidth usage, by decreasing the amount of data on the network, thereby allowing a greater number of users access to content. This suggests that responsive content adaptation has a positive influence on network performance metrics.

This thesis describes the modeling of Martial Arts as a markup language. Up until now Martial Arts has already been documented in books, videos, tradition and other methods. Though to represent Martial Arts knowledge consistently and uniformly in a digital era, we introduce the Martial Arts Markup Language (MAML), which is based on XML. Because XML provides a standardized, serializable and portable format, MAML also enables sharing among students, teachers and their peers across different platforms, media and networks. MAML provides the ability, with appropriate XML tools, to document a Martial Arts style in a structured way. To achieve this, we first analyze the aspects that comprise Martial Arts; and how its states and processes relate to one another. We model in MAML describing the stances, transitions, punches, blocks, techniques, combinations, reactions and patterns used in Martial Arts. We discuss the implementation of MAML by observing and extracting the definable aspects in existing Martial Art Instructive Documents. The MAML Schema assures that the details of a Martial Arts Style’s elements are consistent. Current simulation efforts will be explained as well as areas for future development. We have described Martial Arts by observing what has already been done and creating a structured standard to document them. We hope to enable practitioners’ abilities to learn from and develop their arts by providing a resource in which they can interact with. / Includes bibliography. / Thesis (M.S.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2014. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection

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Submitted by Maike Costa (maiksebas@gmail.com) on 2017-06-29T13:16:35Z No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 5298255 bytes, checksum: 86813ce5eab1b4b77b7cc4359031e69c (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-06-29T13:16:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 5298255 bytes, checksum: 86813ce5eab1b4b77b7cc4359031e69c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-03-24 / The subject of this work is the use of a lightweight markup language (Markdown) to write dissertations and theses according to the ABNT rules. This document shows the devel- opment of Limarka, a tool that makes possible to write dissertations and theses with a lightweight markup language, and a experiment involving ten students writing a proposal of dissertations or theses. The methodology used was unstructured interviews with qual- itative analysis. The objectives of this research are: implement a tool to make possible write dissertations and theses according to the ABNT rules and evaluate its usage. The main outcomes of this research comes from two sources: 1) knowledge acquired from the de- velopment of the application. They are: a dissertation or a thesis cannot be produced from a tool that uses the DocBook format as a intermediary format. The abnTeX communite makes available templates according to the ABNT rules. The use of a Latex templates based from abnTeX text. And the generation of Latex Code from Markdown texts. 2) knowledge acquired from the analysis of experiments. They are: For the configuration of the template, the use of PDF form instead of making YAML code. There are evidences that Markdown and Latex are equivalent, in capabilities, and users will find the usage of a lightweight markup language easier to learn and use than Latex. The main conclusion of this work is that it is possible to write a dissertation or a thesis using a lightweight markup and produce documents according to the ABNT rules. / O tema deste trabalho é a utilização de uma linguagem de marcação leve (Markdown) para elaboração de trabalhos de conclusão de curso em conformidade com as Normas da ABNT. Nele relata-se o desenvolvimento da ferramenta Limarka, que possibilitá a es- crita de TCC através de uma linguagem de marcação leve, e um experimental, com dez alunos elaborando propostas de TCCs nela. A metodologia empregada foi experimento com entrevistas semi-estruturadas e análise qualitativa. Os objetivos da pesquisa são: im- plementar uma ferramenta que possibilite a escrita de TCCs em conformidade com as Normas da ABNT e avaliar sua utilização. Os principais resultados da pesquisa tiveram duas fontes: 1) Conhecimentos resultantes do desenvolvimento da aplicação. São eles: um TCC não deve ser produzido por ferramentas que utilizem o formato DocBook como in- termediário; a comunidade abnTeX oferta uma ótima alternativa em Latex para produzir TCCs nacionais em conformidade com as Normas da ABNT; a utilização de um template baseado no modelo de TCC do abnTeX e a geração de códigos Latex a partir de Mark- down possibilita a geração de trabalhos em conformidade com as Normas da ABNT; 2) Conhecimentos provenientes da análise do experimento. São eles: para a configuração do template, a utilização de um formulário PDF, em vez de código YAML, torna o processo de configuração mais fácil; A solução com escrita em Markdown apresentam equivalência de expressividade ao Latex, pois permite a inserção de seus códigos; existem indícios de que os usuários acharão mais fácil aprender e utilizar Markdown do que Latex. A princi- pal conclusão do trabalho indica que é possível utilizar uma linguagem de marcação leve (Markdown) para escrita de TCCs nacionais em conformidade com as Normas da ABNT. E sua utilização deve ser incentivada pois é expressivamente equivalente a Latex, porém mais simples e fácil de ser utilizado.

ITC/USA 2005 Conference Proceedings / The Forty-First Annual International Telemetering Conference and Technical Exhibition / October 24-27, 2005 / Riviera Hotel & Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada / The focus of this paper is to describe a unified methodology for developing both internal and external data display translators between an Instrumentation Support System (ISS) format and Data Display Markup Language (DDML), a neutral language for describing data displays. The methodology includes aspects common to both ISSs that have a well documented text-based save format and those that do not, as well as aspects that are unique to each type. We will also describe the means by which an external translator can be integrated into a translator framework. Finally, we will describe how an internal translator can be integrated directly into the ISS.

ITC/USA 2007 Conference Proceedings / The Forty-Third Annual International Telemetering Conference and Technical Exhibition / October 22-25, 2007 / Riviera Hotel & Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada / The Instrumentation Hardware Abstraction Language (IHAL) has been developed to be a neutral language that is focused on the description and control of instrumentation systems and networks. This paper describes the various instrumentation configuration management tools we have designed that make use of IHAL’s neutral specification of instrumentation networks. We discuss the features currently present in prototypes as well as future enhancements.