Deductive conceptualmodels(DCMs) aim at providing a complete specification of information systems,expressing only its logic component.It hasbeenshownthatDCMs have some advantagesw...
This paper presents a spoken dialogue framework that helps users in making decisions. Users often do not have a definite goal or criteria for selecting from a list of alternatives...
Data cloning method is a new computational tool for computing maximum likelihood estimates in complex statistical models such as mixed models. This method is synthesized with inte...
Ontology-Driven Software Development (ODSD) advocates using ontologies for capturing knowledge about a software system at development time. So far, ODSD approaches have mainly focu...