In der Dissertation wird ein Spezifikationsrahmen dargestellt, mit dem sich die Au?ensicht von (Software-) Komponenten in einer normierten und vollst?ndigen Weise beschreiben l?sst. Dazu werden verschiedene methodische Vorgaben geschaffen, mit denen sich die f?r die betriebliche...

One important factor concerning economic models is that frequently large amounts of data are produced. There is the research issue of how end-users (who may not be researchers or model developers) can be presented with this data so that maximum benefits can be attained from the data production....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to theoretically develop the concept of perceived affordance based on the existing studies, and to construct a conceptual framework to show how perceived affordances can facilitate the interaction design of social media. Design/methodology/approach –...

Purpose – The aim of this article is to share ideas about, and examples of, visual representations of library collections. Design/methodology/approach – The article takes the form of a literature review and opinion. Findings – Although information visualization appears in the literature as...

Purpose – Mobile manipulators offer great capability, but their teleoperation is often an overwhelming task for humans due to the many degrees‐of‐freedom of control available from both the mobile platform and the associated manipulator. The purpose of this paper is to address the question...

Purpose – The purpose of this study was to compare the ease of use and the effectiveness of several interfaces for retrieving tagged images. Design/methodology/approach – A number of participants were randomly assigned to one of four retrieval interfaces: tag search in a search box; faceted...

Purpose – This paper seeks to describe the preliminary studies (on both users and data), the design and evaluation of the K‐Search system for searching legacy documents in aerospace engineering. Real‐world reports of jet engine maintenance challenge the current indexing practice, while...

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to investigate contextual information that has an impact on the process of selection and decision making in recommender systems (RSs) in digital libraries. Design/methodology/approach – Using a grounded theory method of qualitative research,...