Software modularization activities remain without the guidance of formal theories and models. According to Baldwin and Clark's [1] design rule theory (DRT) , modular architec...
Matthew J. LaMantia, Yuanfang Cai, Alan MacCormack...
The ALLDIFFERENT constraint was one of the first global constraints [17] and it enforces the conjunction of one binary constraint, the not-equal constraint, for every pair of varia...
Christopher Jefferson, Karen E. Petrie, Meinolf Se...
Accurately and efficiently estimating the number of distinct values for some attribute(s) or sets of attributes in a data set is of critical importance to many database operation...
In this paper we apply a general account of practical reasoning to arguing about legal cases. In particular, we describe how the reasoning in one very well known property law case...
Katie Atkinson, Trevor J. M. Bench-Capon, Peter Mc...
As a program evolves, it becomes increasingly difficult to understand and reason about changes in the source code. Eventually, if enough changes are made, reverse engineering and ...