Herwig Mayr

Harmonizing the test support for object-oriented legacy systems using state-of-the-art test tools

Choosing the right tools to support a harmonic test work-flow is a crucial task. It strongly depends on the programming language and the current development environment, therefore often becoming quite difficult. This is especially true for legacy object-oriented programming languages like native C++. Tools supporting this language are rare; comprehensive test frameworks for native C++ code, which can be integrated into an existing software development environment, hardly exist. Particularly the limited integrability of commercially available test frameworks drives the need to combine freely available test tools. This paper offers a suggestion for tools which can be combined easily to form a comprehensive test framework, providing a harmonic test support for native C++ code.

IHE-Compliant Mobile Application for Integrated Home Healthcare of Elderly People

We present the current status and the interim results of our e-Care / e-Care Mobile project, which aims at better integration of home healthcare with institutional health-care (hospitals, nursing homes) through mobile devices. We develop a software system for such devices that enables access and update of healthcare records stored on an IHE-compliant server. We give details on the necessary adaptation of the healthcare workflow, usability aspects, and the generalization of our system through models. First results from pilot users are also presented.

Using self-adapting navigation data for intelligent, personalized vehicle guidance

Even though computer-based navigation systems, being developed since the late 1980s, are still among the key topics worked on in information technology and the road network changes circa 15% per year, there are no significant possibilities for individual update and adjustment of the digital map data. In this paper, we present the concepts of our software system under development, which aims at the automatic construction and extension of digital maps, thus enabling continuous improvement of their quality as well as allowing for advanced, intelligent, and personalizable navigation, depending on user behavior and preference. This approach comprises an appropriate processing of the raw data, reliable graph optimization and merging techniques, and finally, suitable data exchange interfaces.

SMART Simulation of Manufacturing and Robot Tasks

Wir prasentiercn eine detaillierte Ubersicht uber das SMART-Softwaresystem zur graphischen Simulation, Verifikation und Offline-Programmierung von Fertigungszellen. SMART (Simulation of Manufacturing And Robot Tasks) wurde von der Automationsund Informationssysteme Ges.m.b.H. in Linz/Osterreich unter Mitarbeit osterreichischer Universitatsinstitute unter der wissenschaftlichen Leitung des Research Institute for Symbolic Computation (RISC) der Johannes Kepler Universitat Linz entwickelt.

e-Care IHE-Compliant Exchange of Patient Data to Enable Home & Mobile Nursing Care of Elderly People within an e-Care Affinity Domain

So far there is no connection between mobile nursing documents, documentation of nursing homes and care documentation of hospitals. Inadequate communication processes affect the quality of nursing care due to time delay and risk of errors due to repeated data entries, and therefore the quality of life for elderly people. In order to enable standardized processes and uniform communication between different systems, we develop common standards for nursing care as well as for the necessary processes. Also, we create an IT-infrastructure that is applicable to a wide range of different IT-supported care documentation systems, basing our approach on the IHE guidelines. Our system shall make care-relevant data for nursing care electronically accessible and therefore readily available to those who need it – anywhere and anytime.

GEM - A Generic Engineering Framework for Mechanical Engineering Based Upon Meta Models

We present the concept and the implementation of an engineering framework that has been developed by us, aimed for modeling and configuration of modularly designed mechanical products. The enormous expansion of such products is implied by the modularization of modern manufacturing resulting in a more manageable and economic way of production: Prefabricated modules and flexibly adaptable module frames are specified, adapted, and assembled. Our system supports all these production steps by computer, enabling an ideal combination of mass production of modules composed to individually adapted products satisfying the customers specific needs.