An ontology is a speci...cation of a conceptualization, a shared understanding of some domain of interest. The paper develops an algorithm that hierarchically groups words together...
Task partition is a critical problem of collaborative conceptual design. Aiming at the shortage that current task partition methods don't accord to innovative functional reas...
Ontological metamodeling or multilevel-modeling refers to ng complex domains at multiple levels of abstraction, especially in domains where the borderline between individuals and c...
In this paper, two concepts from different research areas are addressed together, namely functional dependency (FD) and multidimensional association rule (MAR). FD is a class of i...
A large number of metrics have been proposed for measuring properties of object-oriented software such as size, inheritance, cohesion and coupling. We have been investigating whic...