This paper reports the results of a multi-agent simulation designed to study the emergence and evolution of symbolic communication. The novelty of this model is that it considers s...
A major application area of information systems technology and multimedia content management is that of support systems for engineering processes. This includes the particularly im...
Sebastian Bossung, Hans-Werner Sehring, Michael Sk...
Successive, formal refinement is a new approach for specification of embedded systems using a general-purpose programming language. Systems are formally modeled as Abstractable Sy...
James Shin Young, Josh MacDonald, Michael Shilman,...
In this paper we present a new technique to simulate polymer blends that overcomes the shortcomings in polymer system modeling. This method has an inherent advantage in that the v...
Conceptual-relational mappings between conceptual models and relational schemas have been used increasingly to achieve interoperability or overcome impedance mismatch in modern dat...