In this paper we present a framework for the evaluation and (re)design of modeling languages. We focus here on the evaluation of the suitability of a language to model a set or rea...
Conversation is an essential component of social behavior, one of the primary means by which humans express intentions, beliefs, emotions, attitudes and personality. Thus the deve...
The increasing amount of available textual information makes necessary the use of Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools. These tools have to be used on large collections of docu...
The following article is motivated by the current efforts of the Object Management Group (OMG) to standardize object-oriented modelling languages. In the face of the great economi...
Access-control policies have grown from simple matrices to non-trivial specifications written in sophisticated languages. The increasing complexity of these policies demands corres...
Daniel J. Dougherty, Kathi Fisler, Shriram Krishna...