Concurrent engineering (CE) design demands the consideration of product life-cycle issues in the early product design stage. Among various life-cycle issues, this work concentrate...
This paper studies the problem of modeling complex domains of actions and change within highlevel action description languages. We investigate two main issues of concern: (a) can ...
The mortality related to cervical cancer can be substantially reduced through early detection and treatment. However, current detection techniques, such as Pap smear and colposcop...
The agent paradigm can be seen as an extension of the notion of (active) objects by concepts like autonomy and cooperation. Mainstream object-oriented modeling techniques do not a...
: With the ever-increasing demands on server applications, reliability is of paramount importance. Often these services are implemented using a distributed server cluster architect...