When we model a phenomenon we apply a perspective on the phenomenon. The perspective decides which properties we include in the model. It also decides how we conceive a phenomenon ...
The application of conceptual models that assure both the consistency and usability of Electronic Product Catalogs (EPC's) is a main concern in the e-commerce community, mainl...
A number of recent developments in software engineering -- from agile methods to aspect-oriented programming to design patterns to good enough software -- share a number of common...
Although simulation is one of the most innovative and cost-effective tools for modeling and analyzing a system, simulation studies often fail to provide any useful results. One re...
This paper presents and evaluates several original techniques for the latent classification of biographic attributes such as gender, age and native language, in diverse genres (co...