Indicador de desenvolvimento econômico e social (IDES) dos estados brasileiros

Estudo realizado com base no período de 2001 a 2007, contemplando todas as unidades federativas do Brasil, classificadas a partir de uma análise comparativa da performance de cada uma delas. Na elaboração deste Indicador, mais de trinta variáveis socioeconômicas foram consideradas, segmentadas em cinco subindicadores como renda e desigualdade, moradia e saneamento básico, trabalho e desemprego, educação e saúde. Todas estas variáveis foram prospectadas a partir das principais fontes de dados brasileiras como o PNAD (IBGE), IETS e DATASUS (Ministério da Saúde). Um dos principais objetivos norteadores deste estudo foi criar um indicador que pudesse avaliar, de maneira abrangente e estatisticamente consistente, o desenvolvimento socioeconômico e o progresso recente dos estados brasileiros.

Supporting Task-oriented Navigation in IDEs with Configurable HeatMaps

Mainstream IDEs generally rely on the static structure of a software project to support browsing and navigation. We propose HeatMaps, a simple but highly configurable technique to enrich the way an IDE displays the static structure of a software system with additional kinds of information. A heatmap highlights software artifacts according to various metric values, such as bright red or pale blue, to indicate their potential degree of interest. We present a prototype system that implements heatmaps, and we describe an initial study that assesses the degree to which different heatmaps effectively guide developers in navigating software.

Augmenting Static Source Views in IDEs with Dynamic Metrics

Mainstream IDEs such as Eclipse support developers in managing software projects mainly by offering static views of the source code. Such a static perspective neglects any information about runtime behavior. However, object-oriented programs heavily rely on polymorphism and late-binding, which makes them difficult to understand just based on their static structure. Developers thus resort to debuggers or profilers to study the system's dynamics. However, the information provided by these tools is volatile and hence cannot be exploited to ease the navigation of the source space. In this paper we present an approach to augment the static source perspective with dynamic metrics such as precise runtime type information, or memory and object allocation statistics. Dynamic metrics can leverage the understanding for the behavior and structure of a system. We rely on dynamic data gathering based on aspects to analyze running Java systems. By solving concrete use cases we illustrate how dynamic metrics directly available in the IDE are useful. We also comprehensively report on the efficiency of our approach to gather dynamic metrics.

Autumn Leaves: Curing the Window Plague in IDEs

Navigating large software systems is difficult as the various artifacts are distributed in a huge space, while the relationships between different artifacts often remain hidden and obscure. As a consequence, developers using a modern interactive development environment (IDE) are forced to open views on numerous source artifacts to reveal these hidden relationships, leading to a crowded workspace with many opened windows or tabs. Developers often lose the overview in such a cluttered workspace as IDEs provide little support to get rid of unused windows. AutumnLeaves automatically selects windows unlikely for future use to be closed or grayed out while important ones are displayed more prominently. This reduces the number of windows opened at a time and adds structure to the developer's workspace. We validate AutumnLeaves with a benchmark evaluation using recorded navigation data of various developers to determine the prediction quality of the employed algorithms.

Embedding Moose Facilities Directly in IDEs

Moose is a powerful reverse engineering platform, but its facilities and means to analyze software are separated from the tools developers typically use to develop and maintain their software systems: development environments such as Eclipse, VisualWorks, or Squeak. In practice, this requires developers to work with two distinct environments, one to actually develop the software, and another one (e.g., Moose) to analyze it. We worked on several different techniques, using both dynamic and static analyzes to provide software analysis capabilities to developers directly in the IDE. The immediate availability of analysis tools in an IDE significantly increases the likelihood that developers integrate software analysis in their daily work, as we discovered by conducting user studies with developers. Finally, we identified several important aspect of integrating software analysis in IDEs that need to be addressed in the future to increase the adoption of these techniques by developers.

Extracting models from IDEs

Systems must co-evolve with their context. Reverse engineering tools are a great help in this process of required adaption. In order for these tools to be flexible, they work with models, abstract representations of the source code. The extraction of such information from source code can be done using a parser. However, it is fairly tedious to build new parsers. And this is made worse by the fact that it has to be done over and over again for every language we want to analyze. In this paper we propose a novel approach which minimizes the knowledge required of a certain language for the extraction of models implemented in that language by reflecting on the implementation of preparsed ASTs provided by an IDE. In a second phase we use a technique referred to as Model Mapping by Example to map platform dependent models onto domain specific model.

Evert Cornélis, Ganzfigurbildnis

Signatur des Originals: S 36/F00295

De boca en boca. El chisme en la trama social de la pobreza: Serie Etnográfica del Centro de Antropología Social del IDES. En: Avá, nº 10

El estudio del chisme constituye el tema central de este libro de Patricia Fasano, Magíster en Antropología Social de la Universidad Nacional de Misiones. Se trata de un género conversacional de la narrativa oral que, en nuestro medio académico ha sido escasamente tomado en consideración hasta ahora. Pero a través del exhaustivo análisis que la autora realiza, logra resaltar la riqueza de este género y las posibilidades que brinda para desentrañar aspectos fundamentales de la vida social de una comunidad.