Situational aspects are very helpful to decide relevance but they have often been left aside by Information Retrieval models. The standard logical approach to Information Retrieva...
This work presents a systematic approach to knowledge acquisition within the domain analysis context, which grants a well defined process for eliciting and representing domain info...
Transformational design integrates design and verification. It combines "correctness by construciion" and design creativity by the use ofpre-proven behaviour preserving ...
Object-oriented databases are a recent and important development and many studies of them have been performed. These consider aspects such as data modeling, query languages, perfo...
This paper describes the design and implementation of NAOS, an active rule component in the object-oriented database system 02. The contribution of this work is related to two mai...