Abstract: The invention comprises a system and method for employing video in development processes. A new theory of operation for mapping video to formal models is disclosed. The present invention combines a runtime component and an object memory with an transformer component and offers several inputs and outputs. At least one capture device allows input of video. Video is structurally decomposed into shots and annotated following a semiology-based video model and stored in object memory. A runtime component determines the shots that are played back on one or more displays. A spectator may influence the runtime component by changing its state via at least one controller. One or more downstream development processes can access the object memory to extract customary models for requirements specification.

Abstract: The invention comprises a system and method for employing video in development processes. A new theory of operation for mapping video to formal models is disclosed. The present invention combines a runtime component and an object memory with an transformer component and offers several inputs and outputs. At least one capture device allows input of video. Video is structurally decomposed into shots and annotated following a semiology-based video model and stored in object memory. A runtime component determines the shots that are played back on one or more displays. A spectator may influence the runtime component by changing its state via at least one controller. One or more downstream development processes can access the object memory to extract customary models for requirements specification.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus are disclosed for processing a variability model of a product line, wherein a decision is derived on the basis of a predetermined negotiation model. In one embodiment, an instance of a variability meta-model which models a variability in domain requirements is identified on the basis of a QOC-rationale model. In a further embodiment, a decision for a question on an instantiation for a variation point of a variability meta-model instance is generated on the basis of a predetermined negotiation model. In a further embodiment, change requests to change a variability model of a product line are processed to derive a decision whether to accept one or more change requests on the basis of a predetermined negotiation model which is formed by a questions, options and criteria EasyWinWin model.

Abstract: A video capture tool includes a video camera for capturing a communication, a computer receiving a video feed of the video camera, wherein a logical structure of the communication is previously input to the computer as computer readable code, a display, displaying a graphical user interface for annotating the video feed using the computer, wherein the graphical user interface includes a first control embodied in computer readable code executed by the computer for splitting the video feed into at least two portions according to the logical structure of the communication and a second control embodied in computer readable code executed by the computer for annotating at least one of the two portions, and a database embodied in computer readable code for storing an annotated portion of the video feed.