Abstract. This paper reports on our work on three complementary directions, aimed at developing: (i) a theoretical framework named UFO (Unified Foundational Ontology) for (re) desi...
Renata S. S. Guizzardi, Giancarlo Guizzardi, Jo&at...
XML applications are becoming increasingly popular to define structured or semi-structured constrained data in XML for special application areas. In pursuit there is a growing mom...
Programs use rules to dictate or constrain specific decisions or actions. These rules have typically been tested, revised, and updated continuously; therefore, they represent a su...
It is hard to develop and evolve software product-line architectures (PLAs) for large-scale distributed real-time and embedded (DRE) systems. Although certain challenges of PLAs ca...
One of the important activities in re-engineering process is detecting design flaws. Such design flaws prevent an efficient maintenance, and further development of a system. Th...