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2006
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A More Expressive Softgoal Conceptualization for Quality Requirements Analysis
Initial software quality requirements tend to be imprecise, subjective, idealistic, and context-specific. An extended characterization of the common Softgoal concept is proposed fo...
Ivan Jureta, Stéphane Faulkner, Pierre-Yves...
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2006
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Evaluating the Productivity and Reproducibility of a Measurement Procedure
This paper reports an empirical study that used computer science major students as experimental subjects to evaluate the productivity and the reproducibility of RmFFP. This is a fu...
Nelly Condori-Fernández, Oscar Pastor
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2006
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Spatio-temporal and Multi-representation Modeling: A Contribution to Active Conceptual Modeling
Worldwide globalization increases the complexity of problem solving and decision-making, whatever the endeavor is. This calls for a more accurate and complete understanding of unde...
Stefano Spaccapietra, Christine Parent, Esteban Zi...
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2006
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Understanding the Semantics of Data Provenance to Support Active Conceptual Modeling
: Data Provenance refers to the lineage of data including its origin, key events that occur over the course of its lifecycle, and other details associated with data creation, proce...
Sudha Ram, Jun Liu
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2006
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Ontology with Likeliness and Typicality of Objects in Concepts
Ontologies play an indispensable role in the Semantic Web by specifying the definitions of concepts and individual objects. However, most of the existing methods for constructing o...
Ching-man Au Yeung, Ho-fung Leung
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2006
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Combining Declarative and Procedural Knowledge to Automate and Represent Ontology Mapping
Ontologies on the Semantic Web are by nature decentralized. From the body of ontology mapping approaches, we can draw a conclusion that an effective approach to automate ontology m...
Li Xu, David W. Embley, Yihong Ding
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2006
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Automatic Creation of Web Services from Extraction Ontologies
Abstract. The Semantic Web promises to provide timely, targeted access to user-specified information online. Though standardized services exist for performing this work, specifying...
Cui Tao, Yihong Ding, Deryle W. Lonsdale
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2006
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Notes for the Conceptual Design of Interfaces
This paper presents a design method for user interfaces based on some ideas from conversation analysis. The method uses interaction diagram and it is conceived to design all flow ...
Simone Santini
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2006
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Representing Transitive Propagation in OWL
Transitive propagation along properties can be modelled in various ways in the OWL description logic. Doing so allows existing description logic reasoners based on the tableaux alg...
Julian Seidenberg, Alan L. Rector