Goal-oriented methods are increasingly popular for elaborating software requirements. They offer systematic support for incrementally building intentional, structural, and operati...
Emmanuel Letier, Jeff Kramer, Jeff Magee, Sebasti&...
Model-driven development (MDD) is an emerging paradigm that uses domain-specific modeling languages (DSMLs) and generative technologies to provide "correct-by-construction&quo...
Krishnakumar Balasubramanian, Arvind S. Krishna, E...
Providing efficient access to XML documents becomes crucial in XML database systems. More and more concurrency control protocols for XML database systems were proposed in the past...
Abstract. Peer-to-peer (P2P) networks integrate autonomous computing resources without requiring a central coordinating authority, which makes them a potentially robust and scalabl...
We describe a two-layer architecture for supporting semantic interpretation and domain reasoning in dialogue systems. Building systems that support both semantic interpretation an...
Myroslava Dzikovska, James F. Allen, Mary D. Swift