This paper adopts the premise that the ‘semantic gap' is an incompletely surveyed feature in the landscape of visual image retrieval, and proposes a framework within which t...
Systems requirements errors are numerous, persistent, and expensive. To detect such errors, and focus on critical ones during the development of a requirements document, we have d...
Statically analyzing requirements specifications to assure that they possess desirable properties is an important activity in any rigorous software development project. The analys...
Conceptual design involves requirements analysis, functional specification, and architectural design. It remains informal and poorly understood. We studied the conceptual design a...
Abstract-- A network of nodes communicate via noisy channels. Each node has some real-valued initial measurement or message. The goal of each of the nodes is to acquire an estimate...