We describe a software-engineering strategy called the `View-Primitive Data Model framework' (or `VPDMf') derived from the design of leading commercial software engineer...
Gully A. P. C. Burns, Fang Bian, Wei-Cheng Cheng, ...
This paper presents an ontology-based approach for web querying, using semantic metadata. We propose a query language based on ontologies and emphasize its ability to express appro...
Olivier Corby, Rose Dieng-Kuntz, Catherine Faron-Z...
A Complex Adaptive System (CAS) is a network of communicating, intelligent agents where each agent adapts its behavior in order to collaborate with other agents to achieve overall...
Alloy specifications are used to define lightweight models of systems. We present Alchemy, which compiles Alloy specifications into implementations that execute against persistent...
Shriram Krishnamurthi, Kathi Fisler, Daniel J. Dou...
We present the systematic design and development of a distributed query scheduling service DQS in the context of DIOM, a distributed and interoperable query mediation system 26 ...