Software

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Object-orientd matrix programming using OX

Abstract: This programming manual accompanies the PcGive Professional 9.0 software, an interactive modelling package for modelling statistical and economic data for forecasting or observing trends.

Triggers and barriers to customizing software

Abstract: One of the properties of a user interface is that it both guides and constrains the patterns of interaction between the user and the software application. Application software is increasingly designed to be “customizable” by the end user, providing specific mechanisms by which users may specify individual preferences about the software and how they will interact with it over multiple sessions. Users may thus encode and preserve their preferred patterns of use. These customizations, together with choices about which applications to use, make up the unique “softswue environment” for each individual. While it is theoretically possible for each user to carefully evaluate and optimize each possible customization option, this study suggests that most people do not. In facfi since time spent customizing is time spent not working, many people do not take advantage of the customization features at all. I studied the customization behaviorof51 users of a Unix software environment, over a period of four months. This paper describes the process by which users decide to customize and examines the factors that irdluence when and how users make those decisions. These findings have implications for both the design of software and the integration of new software into an organization.

Multi-player computer game system and method

Abstract: A multi-player computer game, system and development method that facilitate multi-player game play between and among various hardware platforms employing various operating systems and communication protocols. Special purpose software operable in connection with a processor of a client computing device provides a multi-player computer game. The special purpose software provides an interface between an application module, which provides the functionality for a specific multi-player computer game, and the operating system and hardware devices and protocols of the client computing device. A multi-player game system facilitates multi-player game play between and among a plurality of players regardless of the different hardware platforms (i.e., different client computing devices) used by the various players.

The current status and portability of our sequence handling software

Abstract: I describe the current status of our sequence analysis software. The package contains a comprehensive suite of programs for managing large shotgun sequencing projects, a program containing 61 functions for analysing single sequences and a program for comparing pairs of sequences for similarity. The programs that have been described before have been improved by the addition of new functions and by being made very much easier to use. The major interactive programs have 125 pages of online help available from within them. Several new programs are described including screen editing of aligned gel readings for shotgun sequencing projects; a method to highlight errors in aligned gel readings, new methods for searching for putative signals in sequences. We use the programs on a VAX computer but the whole package has been rewritten to make it easy to transport it to other machines. I believe the programs will now run on any machine with a FORTRAN77 compiler and sufficient memory. We are currently putting the programs onto an IBM PC XT/AT and another micro running under UNIX.

Computer Programs for Qualitative Data Analysis: A Software Sourcebook

Abstract: PART ONE: THE BASICS Introduction How to Choose Software Key Questions Software Types and Functions PART TWO: SOFTWARE REVIEWS Text Retrievers Textbase Managers Code-and-Retrieve Programs Code-Based Theory-Builders Conceptual Network-Builders Program Features A Guide to the Ratings PART THREE: REFLECTIONS AND RESOURCES Reflections and Hopes