One of the challenges raised by the construction of the semantic Web lies in the analysis and management of complex relationships (thematic, spatial and temporal) connecting severa...
The use of rules in business modeling is becoming more and more important, in applications requiring dynamic change of behavior. A number of rule languages and tools have been prop...
NLPsystem developers and corpus lexicographers would both bene t from a tool for nding and organizing the distinctive patterns of use of words in texts. Such a tool would be an ass...
An input to the conceptual database design phase contains a description of the target database. This description is usually given in some natural language, for instance in English...
The Unified Modeling Language (UML) currently proposes a mechanism to model recurrent design structures: the parameterized collaborations. The main goal of this mechanism is to mo...