The vast majority of IT systems are implemented using a traditional procedural paradigm approach using a suitable procedural language such as COBOL. However, with recent developme...
The purpose of this paper is to first showcase the concept of an operation schema--a precise form of system-level operation specification--and secondly show how operation schemas e...
Ontologies are set to play a key role in the "Semantic Web", extending syntactic interoperability to semantic interoperability by providing a source of shared and precise...
The integration of environmental models and Geographical Information Systems (GIS) usually takes two approaches: loose coupling and tight coupling. This paper, however, presents a...
Software synthesis for system level design languages becomes feasible because the current technology, pricing and application trends will most likely alleviate the industrial empha...