Modular design methodologies, which decompose large and complex systems into components that are relatively easy to develop and maintain, have been widely adopted in the software ...
Formal methods can be used in effective combination only if the semantic links between individual methods are clearly established. This paper discusses the semantic design of TCOZ,...
Enterprise design knowledge is currently descriptive, ad hoc, or pre-scientific. One reason for this state of affairs in enterprise design is that existing approaches lack an adeq...
We introduce in this paper an agent model based on coherence theory. We give a formalization of Thagard’s theory on coherence and use it to explain the reasoning process of an in...
Sindhu Joseph, Carles Sierra, W. Marco Schorlemmer
: Many industries are shifting from mass production to mass customization, which demands quick response to the needs of individual customers with high quality and low costs. The de...