Vojtech Merunka

Czech Technical University in Prague | ČVUT · Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering (FJFI)

This paper is written by the president of the Slavic Union in the Czech Republic and describes methods and tools of the Slavic cultural diplomacy, which aim to improve the current status of Slavic nations in the context of today's globalized world. The first part is explaining the need for the Slavic cultural diplomacy, followed by the all-Slavic a...

This article discusses support for the UML standard in the Agile software development. There are described some of the weaknesses of the UML standard that software developers should know about to take full advantage of this otherwise very good and desirable standard. Specifically, it is a hierarchy of object classes, which belongs to the basic conc...

Usability and user experience (UX) are emerging concerns around not only application development but everything designed to be used by people. Evaluation of the UX is, by nature, intensely subjective and time-consuming. The article focuses mainly on Eye Tracking, Usability, and User Experience from a general point of view, with an emphasis on autom...

This paper deals with the use of business object relation modelling (BORM) methods in crisis management. Restoring the damage caused by natural disasters is not only expensive but in the case of cultural values, losses are incalculable. For this reason, it is crucial to have an accurate roadmap that is feasible and understandable to those who have...

Among many popular crowdsourcing platforms, the Question & Answer website Stack Overflow in Stack Exchange Network is used daily to share knowledge globally by millions of software professionals. Therefore, Stack Overflow data can reveal important patterns in global crowdsourcing beneficial for software industry. The aim of this study was to perfor...

Agile Software Development (ASD) is certainly the mostly used software development methodology now. ASD is lightweight and it provides faster development of software in an agile manner without unnecessary time-consuming activities. In contrast, Model Driven Development (MDD) is a heavyweight methodology which considers models as the basis of softwa...

This article discusses support for the Unified Modelling Language (UML) standard in Model Driven Architecture (MDA) style software development. There are described some of the weaknesses of the UML standard that software developers should know about, to take full advantage of this otherwise very good and desirable standard. Specifically, it is a hi...

It is apparent that certain news outlets occasionally report biased news. Forcefully planted biased viewpoints can cause harmful effects on society thus democracy. Since online news is gradually becoming the main source of news particularly for the new generation, new mechanisms to tackle online news bias will benefit the society as a whole in futu...

Agile software development is the most popular methodology used in today’s software engineering. Agility in software development does not mean the resignation to the accuracy and quality of meeting user requirements. However, it is apparent that the tasks of requirements engineering are taken lightly or often overlooked in agile projects due to pro...

Interslavic language is an artificially created zonal language designed to facilitate communication between the Slavic and also between Slavic and non-Slavic nations. This article describes the project itself, its further development, and selected outputs having the cultural potential to be a lingua-franca of the Central and Eastern Europe. A langu...

Software design patterns help software developers to design robust and easy to maintain systems as they could be used to solve already identified problems in less time. These software design patterns are mostly textual descriptions which are introduced from books as catalogues. While senior developers tend to know about these patterns by experience...

Software design patterns help software developers to design robust and easy to maintain systems as they could be used to solve already identified problems in less time. These software design patterns are mostly textual descriptions which are introduced from books as catalogues. While senior developers tend to know about these patterns by experience...

This paper looks at organization of micro-controllers in a Service Oriented Architecture in road vehicles. Research is being done on why SOA was originally considered by automotive manufacturers and compares the situation with the one of nowadays. Overview of a common implementation setup is provided as an example to showcase the resulting complexi...

Online news has become a major source of news especially for younger generation. However, it is evident that certain media outlets report biased news. This bias can cause harmful effects on society thus democracy. There have been various attempts to identify and mitigate bias in news. At the same time various successful crowdsourcing platforms have...

This paper looks at performance aspects of applying object-oriented design patterns to databases mainly on the level of computational complexity. Considering selected patterns that may be applied on both application and database layer, algorithm complexity is evaluated. The authors focus on purely theoretical computational complexity of given algor...

This article deals with an original view on the Ambler’s approach to the object-oriented class normalisation from the perspective of conceptual modelling. This idea gives the possibility of using the object-oriented class normalisation rules not only for the design of composition structure of classes but also for the inheritance and inheritance-lik...

One of the major issues of all analysis techniques in information engineering is to capture the intelligible description of processes in the modeled problem. This need is very significant for information systems supporting modern industries and also information systems related to the agriculture and hydrology. In this area, process modeling forms t...

The article deals with the influence of the invention of writing and information technology on the development of civilisation and the value of Freemasonry. This text is an English translation of the Czech article: MERUNKA, Vojtěch (2019) Zednářství a vývoj civilizace pohledem informatiky. Svobodný zednář: časopis českých svobodných zednářů. 23(1...

The quality of information systems to support democracy and public administration in the Slavic countries between Western Europe and Russia can be improved through the use of Interslavic, a zonal constructed language that can successfully replace English as a regional lingua franca, enhance participation and improve the overall quality of ICT used...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Enterprise and Organizational Modeling and Simulation, EOMAS 2019, held in Rome, Italy, in June 2019. The main focus of EOMAS is on the role, importance, and application of modeling and simulation within the extended organizational and enterprise context. The 12 f...

The development of business information systems has the communication gap that exists between business and software experts, because they live in their own well-defined and complex cultures. One place where this gap manifests itself is in the constant failure of software developers to fully capture the system requirements. Second example is the ina...

BORM (Business Object Relationship Modelling) is a methodology developed to capture the knowledge of process-based business systems. It has been in development since 1993 and has proved an effective method, which is popular with both users and analysts. This paper presents BORM, its tools, and methods via a case study of the agrarian information sy...

Interslavic zonal constructed language is an auxiliary language, which looks very similar to real spoken Slavic languages in Central and Eastern Europe and continues the tradition of the Old Church Slavonic language. Interslavic shares grammar and common vocabulary with modern spoken Slavic languages in order to build a universal language tool that...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Workshop on Enterprise and Organizational Modeling and Simulation, EOMAS 2018, held in Tallinn, Estonia, in June 2018. The main focus of EOMAS is on the role, importance, and application of modeling and simulation within the extended organizational and enterprise context. The...

This article brings the idea of improving the quality of information systems to support democracy and public administration in Slavic countries between Western Europe and Russia through the use of a zonal constructed language that can successfully replace English and improve the overall quality of ICT used for e-Democracy assignments. The connectio...

The paper addresses the problem of the soil and landscape suffers caused by an uncontrolled urban sprawl in the Central Bohemia and proposes an innovative ICT-based solution, which consists of the use of computer simulation tools to increase the level of process-based and law-based knowledge of the concerned local persons, which makes the effect of...

This paper describes methods and tools of the Slavic cultural diplomacy, which aim to improve the current status of Slavic nations in the context of today’s globalized world. The first part is explaining the need for Slavic cultural diplomacy followed by an all-Slavic analysis of internal and external factors that cause the present dangerous situat...

The article deals with the problem of asymmetry and redundancy of UML concepts that lead to overly complex modelling process without the possibility of efficient generalisation and decomposition of the modelled system to keep UML documentation to a manageable size, to improve user understanding, and simplify documentation and maintenance. The artic...

The paper addresses the problem of low participation of residents of small settlements in the territorial planning processes. Low participation causes dissatisfaction with democracy in local government and decreases the quality of life. The paper presents a solution, which consists of the use of computer simulation tools to increase the level of kn...

Neoslavonic is a dialect of Interslavic - the zonal constructed language. It is an auxiliary language, which looks to be very similar to real spoken Slavic languages and continues the tradition of the Old Church Slavonic language. Neoslavonic shares grammar and common vocabulary with modern spoken Slavic languages in order to build a universal lang...

The object-oriented approach usually does not follow any formal design process and is mostly ad hoc in real software development. This makes it more of an art than a science. The quality of the resultant design therefore depends to a large extent on the skills of the individual designer and cannot be evaluated easily. In this paper we present an ap...

This paper describes the idea of the ontology-based translation of the fusion free word order languages on the practical example of an artificial Neoslavonic zonal constructed language. This article proposes a new approach of the syntactical analysis of free-word-order languages and most accurate machine translation between fusion free-word-order l...

Tiu ĉi artikolo priskribas la konstru-projekton de artefarita zona lingvo kaj la unuajn spertojn kun ties uzado. Estas montrataj la principoj de ĝia ekesto kaj ĝiaj fontoj: La malnova (eklezia) Slava, la projekto Interslavic kaj la “falsaj amikoj” de la slava projekto. Poste oni pridiskutas la oportunojn por la praktika uzo de la lingvo kaj la konc...

Tiu ĉi artikolo priskribas la konstru-projekton de artefarita zona lingvo kaj la unuajn spertojn kun ties uzado. Estas montrataj la principoj de ĝia ekesto kaj ĝiaj fontoj: La Malnova Eklezia Slava, la projekto Interslavic kaj la “falsaj amikoj” de la slava projekto. Poste oni pridiskutas la oportunojn por la praktika uzo de la lingvo kaj la koncer...

The paper addresses the problem of low participation of residents of small settlements in the territorial planning processes. Low participation causes dissatisfaction with democracy in local government and decreases the quality of life. The paper presents a solution which consists in the use of computer simulation tools to increase the level of kno...

This paper describes the project of artificial zonal language construction and first experiences with its use. The paper presents the design principles of this language and the sources of it: Old (Church) Slavonic, Interslavic project, and the False Friend of the Slavic project. Finally, the opportunities for the language practical use and first ex...

This paper presents our own approach to modeling, visualization and simulation of biology-related processes. It presents the own BORM (Business and Object Relation Modeling) approach, which is an application of the object-oriented paradigm and finite-state machines. The first part of this paper discusses the motivation for the new approach and expl...

This paper presents two systems and knowledge modelling techniques that may be used as a tool to coordinate the communication between researchers and users from the agriculture problem domain. The paper is focused on th eusage of a general approach UML (Unified Modelling Language) and an innovative approach BORM-II (Bussiness Object Relation Modell...

One of the actual and specific problems in the Czech local government of small settlements is very low level of participation and technophobia of citizens in these small villages. This paper presents the original computer-aided process modeling and visualization as the vital preparative technique being performed before the subsequent business proce...

Neoslavonic is a dialect of Interslavic - the zonal constructed language. It is an auxiliary language, which looks to be very similar to real spoken Slavic languages and continues the tradition of the Old Church Slavonic language. Neoslavonic shares grammar and common vocabulary with modern spoken Slavic languages in order to build a universal lang...

Neoslavonic is a dialect of Interslavic - the zonal constructed language. It is an auxiliary language, which looks to be very similar to real spoken Slavic languages and continues the tradition of the Old Church Slavonic language. Neoslavonic shares grammar and common vocabulary with modern spoken Slavic languages in order to build a universal lang...

Neoslavonic is a dialect of Interslavic - the zonal constructed language. It is an auxiliary language, which looks to be very similar to real spoken Slavic languages and continues the tradition of the Old Church Slavonic language. Neoslavonic shares grammar and common vocabulary with modern spoken Slavic languages in order to build a universal lang...

Procesy globalizace a liberalizace nemají dostatečný respekt k identitě a kulturní a historické integritě našich národů a států. Globalizace a liberalizace také automaticky neznamená vyšší kvalitu života a vyšší úroveň demokracie. Evropa i svět se rychle destabilizuje a Česko se dostává do stále nebezpečnější situace. Musíme mít strategii budování...

Slověnskim narodam jest trěba iměti strategične instrumenty, ktorimi by mogli sebě pozitivno ovplyvati medžunarodnu situaciju. Trěba jest držeti kontakty na črezgranične ljudi, ktori by znali slověnsku kulturu, da by oni kako sovezniki Slověnov pomagali poddržeti naše interesy v globaliziranom světu. Procesy globalizacije i liberalizacije ne imaju...

Словѣнским народам ɪест трѣба ти стратегичне инструменты, кторими бы могли себѣ позитивно овплывати меджународну ситуацию. Трѣба ɪест държети контакты на чрезграничне люди, ктори бы знали словѣнску културу, да бы они како совезники Словѣнов помагали поддържети наше интересы в глобализираном свѣту. Процесы глобализациɪе и либерализациɪе не имают д...

The actual and specific problem in the Czech local government of small settlements is very low level of participation of citizens in these small villages caused by the complexity and also time varying form of law and statutory regulations. All this affects the passivity of local citizens. Our paper presents the original computer-aided organizationa...

We presents with this paper approach based on combination of the FSM and the Object-Oriented Approach, which is convergent. This convergent approach to modelling of business requirements and software development is main idea of this paper. The paper is divided into three parts, motivation and discussion is about needs connect two areas business req...

This paper presents BORM approach as the tool for business process analysis, design and simulation of local government processes and country planning. The first part of this paper discusses the motivation for the application of the finite-state- machines and object-oriented based paradigm to this area of business process modeling. We practically ex...

There are only very few approaches to normalizing object-oriented data. Approach to object-oriented database is called class normalization. In this paper we present an approach to normalization of the object-oriented conceptual model based on UML class diagrams. First part of the paper describes the current status in the area of formal methods used...

This paper presents the role of the OBA method as a preparative technique performed before the business process analysis, design and simulation. The first part of this paper discusses the motivation for the application of the object-oriented paradigm to the business process modelling and the need to perform set of specific formal steps before assem...

This paper presents the idea of the convergent approach to modeling and simulation of business requirements and software development based on the combination of the FSM and the Object-Oriented Approach. The first part of this paper discusses the motivation for the need to connect two areas of modeling and simulation: business requirements and softw...

The business intelligence system gradually became of vital importance for many organizations nowadays. But unfortunately, the traditional static modelling may not be able to deal with it. One solution is to use an agile modelling that is characterized with better flexibility and adaptability. The introduced BORM (Business and Object Relation Modell...

An overview of current status in the area of formal technique of object-oriented database design is described in the article. It is discussed here, why classical relational design techniques as normalization, decomposition and synthesis are not able to be easy used in modern databases. The article introduces various proposals of object normal forms...

This paper is an attempt to help in the area of regional management. The quality of life of people in cities and villages is dependent of quality of regional management, because the landscape and environment are, today, the main aspects of quality of life. The shortage of knowledge can be problem and the reasons of insufficiently care about landsca...

This paper deals with application of STRIPS planning in automated model transformations. Object oriented model is viewed as a state space containing possible models as states and elementary transformations as state transitions. A source model is represented by an initial state, a target model by a goal state. Automation of model transformation cons...

This paper presents the BORM approach in the organizational modeling and simulation. The first part of this paper presents the BORM analysis and design methodology, which has proved to be effective in the development of business systems. The second part of this paper shows an example from our regional management project concerning the analysis of t...

There are only very few approaches to normalizing object-oriented data. In this paper we present an approach to normalization of the object-oriented conceptual model based on UML class diagrams. First part of the paper describes the current status in the area of formal methods used for object-oriented data modeling. Second part presents four normal...

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An overview of the current status in the area of formal technique of object database design is described in the article. It is discussed here, why relational normalization is not able to be easy used in object databases. The article introduces various proposals of object normal forms and it brings own authors’ evaluation in this area.

This paper introduces the C.C programming language, which is designed for automated model transformations. The C.C language is outcome of our research and has been implemented in the CASE tool of a British software company. This technology started to be used by companies in the Central Europe and for business and software engineering courses at sev...

In the article there is described an overview of current status in the area of formal technique of object database design. It is discussed there, why relational design techniques as normalization, decomposition and synthesis are not able to be easy used in object databases. The article informs with various proposals of object normal forms and it br...

BORM (Business Object Relationship Modeling) is an object-oriented system development methodology, which has proven to be very effective in the development of business systems. The effectiveness gained is largely due to a unified and simple method for presenting all aspects of the relevant model. The BORM methodology makes extensive use of business...

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BORM (Business Object Relationship Modeling) is an object-oriented system development methodology, which has proven to be very effective in the development of business systems. The effectiveness gained is largely due to a unified and simple method for presenting all aspects of the relevant model. The BORM methodology makes extensive use of business...