In this paper we describe a model of social and collaborative search based on the use of tags. First we will introduce the issues that drove us to the definition of this model, an...
Background: Biomedical ontologies are being widely used to annotate biological data in a computer-accessible, consistent and well-defined manner. However, due to their size and co...
Catherine Beauheim, Farrell Wymore, Michael Nitzbe...
We propose a mechanism for object access control which is based on the UML. Specifically, we propose use of ownership and immutability constraints on UML associations and verifica...
In this paper we describe the design, implementation, and analytical background of the DISCO Network Calculator. The DISCO Network Calculator is an open-source toolbox written in ...
In this paper we adopt a component model based on object-oriented systems, introducing the concepts of components and their structure. A component consists of a dynamically changi...